Data Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 February 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 105 132
Rank change year-on-year -25 +27 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 46 37 68
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.20% 1.49% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.30% 1.56% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 38 29 55
10th Percentile £51,725 £45,700 £43,000
25th Percentile £60,313 £52,500 £47,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% -20.08%
75th Percentile £82,625 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,750 £80,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 3,542 2,375 4,302
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 95.50% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,149 1,094 3,476
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,330 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £66,778
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 10 February 2026.

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 10 February 2026. 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 -23 37 £70,000 +12.00% 21
North Yorkshire 0 4 £65,000 +7.44% 2
South Yorkshire -13 2 £58,750 -9.62% 8
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 10 February 2026, 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 33 (71.74%) SQL
2 31 (67.39%) Python
3 30 (65.22%) Data Engineering
4 27 (58.70%) Data Pipeline
5 23 (50.00%) Databricks
6 20 (43.48%) Analytics
6 20 (43.48%) Azure
7 17 (36.96%) AWS
7 17 (36.96%) ETL
8 16 (34.78%) Data Modelling
9 15 (32.61%) CI/CD
10 14 (30.43%) Data Security
10 14 (30.43%) Mentoring
10 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (30.43%) PySpark
11 13 (28.26%) Agile
11 13 (28.26%) Apache Spark
12 12 (26.09%) Data Lake
12 12 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
12 12 (26.09%) Machine Learning
12 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
12 12 (26.09%) Migration
13 11 (23.91%) Data Quality
13 11 (23.91%) Data Science
14 9 (19.57%) Apache
14 9 (19.57%) Data Governance
14 9 (19.57%) Decision-Making
14 9 (19.57%) DevOps
14 9 (19.57%) Metadata
15 8 (17.39%) AI

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 13 (28.26%) Apache Spark
2 9 (19.57%) Apache
3 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (43.48%) Azure
2 17 (36.96%) AWS
3 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Purview
4 6 (13.04%) Amazon S3
4 6 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (13.04%) dbt
4 6 (13.04%) Serverless
5 5 (10.87%) GCP
5 5 (10.87%) GitHub
6 3 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.52%) Azure App Service
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (6.52%) SaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (4.35%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.09%) Data Lake
1 12 (26.09%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (19.57%) Metadata
3 8 (17.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
4 4 (8.70%) MySQL
4 4 (8.70%) Spark SQL
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (4.35%) Data Vault
5 2 (4.35%) Power BI
5 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.17%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.17%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.17%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 14 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Public Sector
3 6 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Finance
4 4 (8.70%) Tech for Good
5 3 (6.52%) Retail
6 1 (2.17%) Digital Health
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (30.43%) PySpark
2 2 (4.35%) Pandas
3 1 (2.17%) JSON
3 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.52%) Enterprise Cloud
1 3 (6.52%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.17%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (65.22%) Data Engineering
2 27 (58.70%) Data Pipeline
3 20 (43.48%) Analytics
4 17 (36.96%) ETL
5 16 (34.78%) Data Modelling
6 15 (32.61%) CI/CD
7 14 (30.43%) Data Security
7 14 (30.43%) Mentoring
7 14 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (28.26%) Agile
9 12 (26.09%) Machine Learning
9 12 (26.09%) Migration
10 11 (23.91%) Data Science
11 9 (19.57%) Data Governance
11 9 (19.57%) Decision-Making
11 9 (19.57%) DevOps
12 8 (17.39%) AI
12 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (15.22%) Observability
13 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (71.74%) SQL
2 31 (67.39%) Python
3 4 (8.70%) Scala
3 4 (8.70%) T-SQL
4 3 (6.52%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.91%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (50.00%) Databricks
2 12 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.70%) Oracle
3 4 (8.70%) Palantir
4 1 (2.17%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Talend