Data Engineering Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Engineering
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 71 121
Rank change year-on-year -64 +50 -40
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 56 62 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.15% 2.89% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 3.01% 2.18%
Number of salaries quoted 45 57 55
10th Percentile £28,750 £42,500 £37,395
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £47,852
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.79% +4.10%
75th Percentile £83,750 £75,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,597 2,059 4,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 73.74% 96.04% 84.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,232 1,187 3,562
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Yorkshire

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 March 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 -42 40 £68,750 +5.77% 23
South Yorkshire -24 6 £82,500 - 8
North Yorkshire - 6 £51,500 - 4
East Yorkshire -34 1 £77,500 +72.22% 2
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 9 (16.07%) Apache Spark
2 7 (12.50%) Moodle
3 4 (7.14%) Apache
3 4 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (3.57%) Confluence
4 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 32 (57.14%) Azure
2 12 (21.43%) AWS
3 11 (19.64%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (17.86%) Power Platform
5 8 (14.29%) GCP
6 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (10.71%) SaaS
8 5 (8.93%) dbt
9 4 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (5.36%) Azure App Service
10 3 (5.36%) GitHub
10 3 (5.36%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (5.36%) Serverless
11 2 (3.57%) Azure Functions
11 2 (3.57%) IaaS
11 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (3.57%) PaaS
11 2 (3.57%) Power Automate
11 2 (3.57%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (17.86%) Data Lake
2 10 (17.86%) Power BI
3 8 (14.29%) Metadata
3 8 (14.29%) Spark SQL
4 4 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 4 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 4 (7.14%) MySQL
5 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
5 3 (5.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (5.36%) Tableau
6 2 (3.57%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (3.57%) Power Query
6 2 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.57%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.79%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) MLflow
General
1 17 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.57%) Finance
3 10 (17.86%) Retail
4 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.57%) Law
6 2 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (64.29%) Data Engineer
2 13 (23.21%) Lead
3 12 (21.43%) Senior
4 11 (19.64%) Lead Data Engineer
5 10 (17.86%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (12.50%) Technical Support
6 7 (12.50%) Technical Trainer
6 7 (12.50%) Trainer
7 4 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Principal Data Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Lead
9 2 (3.57%) Data Architect
9 2 (3.57%) Data Manager
9 2 (3.57%) Graduate
9 2 (3.57%) Insight Manager
9 2 (3.57%) Junior
9 2 (3.57%) Principal Architect
9 2 (3.57%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (32.14%) PySpark
2 2 (3.57%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.57%) REST
3 1 (1.79%) JSON
3 1 (1.79%) Kafka
3 1 (1.79%) LangChain
3 1 (1.79%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (1.79%) pgvector
3 1 (1.79%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.79%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.79%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) NHS
2 7 (12.50%) e-Learning
3 5 (8.93%) Low-Code
4 4 (7.14%) Cloud Native
5 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.57%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.79%) Clustering
7 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) Analytics
1 28 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 19 (33.93%) ETL
4 18 (32.14%) AI
4 18 (32.14%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (32.14%) DevOps
5 15 (26.79%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (26.79%) Data Governance
5 15 (26.79%) Data Modelling
6 14 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 13 (23.21%) Decision-Making
7 13 (23.21%) Machine Learning
7 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (19.64%) Agile
9 9 (16.07%) Observability
9 9 (16.07%) Software Testing
10 8 (14.29%) Data Science
10 8 (14.29%) Data Security
10 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (66.07%) SQL
2 30 (53.57%) Python
3 6 (10.71%) T-SQL
4 4 (7.14%) Scala
5 3 (5.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (5.36%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.36%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.79%) PMO
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (53.57%) Databricks
2 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.14%) Oracle
3 4 (7.14%) Palantir
4 2 (3.57%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.79%) Dell
5 1 (1.79%) Talend