Data Engineer Jobs in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 April 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 135 198
Rank change year-on-year +35 +63 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 47 86 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.76% 1.49% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 1.57% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 47 59 67
10th Percentile £44,450 £39,500 £38,442
25th Percentile £52,114 £46,875 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -21.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £58,125 £77,715
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £86,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,510 5,491 7,526
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 95.30% 91.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,348 4,235 3,552
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £49,500 £54,882
Median % change year-on-year - -9.81% +9.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £83,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +7.48% -11.67% +0.95%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Yorkshire.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire +41 38 £60,000 +17.65% 20
South Yorkshire +44 8 £63,750 +50.00%
East Yorkshire +1 1 £57,500 - 1
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 31 (65.96%) ETL
2 30 (63.83%) SQL
3 26 (55.32%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (55.32%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (53.19%) Azure
5 24 (51.06%) AWS
6 23 (48.94%) Python
7 22 (46.81%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (46.81%) Social Skills
8 21 (44.68%) Analytics
8 21 (44.68%) Data Engineering
9 20 (42.55%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (40.43%) Data Strategy
11 17 (36.17%) Azure Data Factory
12 16 (34.04%) Databricks
13 13 (27.66%) Power Platform
13 13 (27.66%) Data Architecture
13 13 (27.66%) Data Quality
14 12 (25.53%) Agile
14 12 (25.53%) Data Lake
14 12 (25.53%) Power BI
15 11 (23.40%) GCP
15 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
15 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
16 10 (21.28%) Data Security
16 10 (21.28%) Data Extraction
16 10 (21.28%) Mentoring
17 9 (19.15%) Amazon Redshift
17 9 (19.15%) Serverless
17 9 (19.15%) Data Modelling

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (17.02%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.64%) Apache
3 1 (2.13%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 25 (53.19%) Azure
2 24 (51.06%) AWS
3 17 (36.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (27.66%) Power Platform
5 11 (23.40%) GCP
6 9 (19.15%) Serverless
7 8 (17.02%) Amazon S3
8 7 (14.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (12.77%) Snowflake
10 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (10.64%) Power Automate
11 4 (8.51%) Azure Functions
11 4 (8.51%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (8.51%) dbt
12 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
13 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (2.13%) Azure Storage
13 1 (2.13%) Datadog
13 1 (2.13%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (46.81%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (25.53%) Data Lake
2 12 (25.53%) Power BI
3 9 (19.15%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (17.02%) SQL Server
5 7 (14.89%) BigQuery
6 5 (10.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
7 4 (8.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 4 (8.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (6.38%) Looker
8 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
8 3 (6.38%) MySQL
8 3 (6.38%) Power Query
9 2 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (4.26%) Star Schema
10 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (2.13%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) JIRA
3 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.38%) Advertising
4 3 (6.38%) Banking
4 3 (6.38%) Finance
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Kafka
1 4 (8.51%) REST
2 1 (2.13%) Node.js
2 1 (2.13%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.13%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
1 1 (2.13%) Clustering
1 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
1 1 (2.13%) Educational Technology
1 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
1 1 (2.13%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (65.96%) ETL
2 26 (55.32%) Business Intelligence
2 26 (55.32%) Data Pipeline
3 21 (44.68%) Analytics
3 21 (44.68%) Data Engineering
4 20 (42.55%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (40.43%) Data Strategy
6 13 (27.66%) Data Architecture
7 12 (25.53%) Agile
8 10 (21.28%) Data Extraction
8 10 (21.28%) Data Security
8 10 (21.28%) Mentoring
9 9 (19.15%) Data Modelling
10 7 (14.89%) Actionable Insight
10 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
10 7 (14.89%) Data Science
11 6 (12.77%) DataOps
11 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
11 6 (12.77%) OO
11 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 30 (63.83%) SQL
2 23 (48.94%) Python
3 8 (17.02%) R
4 7 (14.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (10.64%) T-SQL
6 3 (6.38%) Scala
7 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.66%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 16 (34.04%) Databricks
2 11 (23.40%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.51%) Oracle
4 3 (6.38%) Google
4 3 (6.38%) Palantir