Data Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 125 129
Rank change year-on-year +13 +4 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 54 41 40
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.54% 1.15% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 1.19% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 51 31 34
10th Percentile £47,000 £44,738 £42,250
25th Percentile £58,125 £48,107 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +13.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £75,938
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 3,113 3,447 2,765
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.51% 96.42% 96.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,789 1,473 2,156
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,550 £80,000 £84,028
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 December 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 14 December 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 +8 45 £67,500 +8.00% 11
South Yorkshire -1 6 £67,500 +3.85% 4
North Yorkshire -8 2 £70,000 +15.70% 2
East Yorkshire - 1 £77,500 - 1
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (72.22%) SQL
2 35 (64.81%) Python
3 30 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
4 27 (50.00%) Data Engineering
5 23 (42.59%) Azure
5 23 (42.59%) Data Modelling
6 22 (40.74%) Data Warehouse
7 21 (38.89%) Databricks
8 20 (37.04%) Analytics
8 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
8 20 (37.04%) Data Security
8 20 (37.04%) ETL
9 19 (35.19%) AWS
9 19 (35.19%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (33.33%) Mentoring
11 16 (29.63%) Apache Spark
11 16 (29.63%) Data Lake
11 16 (29.63%) Migration
12 14 (25.93%) Agile
12 14 (25.93%) Data Science
13 12 (22.22%) Machine Learning
13 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
14 11 (20.37%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (20.37%) Apache
15 10 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (18.52%) Data Governance
15 10 (18.52%) PySpark
16 9 (16.67%) Data Integration
16 9 (16.67%) Decision-Making
16 9 (16.67%) DevOps

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 16 (29.63%) Apache Spark
2 11 (20.37%) Apache
3 3 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 23 (42.59%) Azure
2 19 (35.19%) AWS
3 8 (14.81%) Amazon S3
3 8 (14.81%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (14.81%) Serverless
4 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (11.11%) dbt
5 6 (11.11%) GCP
5 6 (11.11%) GitHub
6 5 (9.26%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (7.41%) SaaS
8 3 (5.56%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (5.56%) Azure App Service
8 3 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (40.74%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (29.63%) Data Lake
3 11 (20.37%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (14.81%) Metadata
5 5 (9.26%) MongoDB
5 5 (9.26%) MySQL
6 3 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (5.56%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (5.56%) Data Vault
7 2 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (3.70%) Spark SQL
7 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.85%) Power BI
8 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.85%) Tableau
General
1 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.96%) Retail
5 6 (11.11%) Tech for Good
6 3 (5.56%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) PySpark
2 3 (5.56%) Pandas
3 1 (1.85%) JSON
3 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.41%) Virtual Team
2 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
2 27 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 23 (42.59%) Data Modelling
4 20 (37.04%) Analytics
4 20 (37.04%) CI/CD
4 20 (37.04%) Data Security
4 20 (37.04%) ETL
5 19 (35.19%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 16 (29.63%) Migration
8 14 (25.93%) Agile
8 14 (25.93%) Data Science
9 12 (22.22%) Machine Learning
10 10 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (18.52%) Data Governance
11 9 (16.67%) Data Integration
11 9 (16.67%) Decision-Making
11 9 (16.67%) DevOps
11 9 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (14.81%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 39 (72.22%) SQL
2 35 (64.81%) Python
3 5 (9.26%) Scala
4 4 (7.41%) T-SQL
5 3 (5.56%) Java
6 1 (1.85%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (38.89%) Databricks
2 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) Oracle
3 5 (9.26%) Palantir
4 1 (1.85%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) Talend