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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 109 134
Rank change year-on-year -12 +25 -25
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 79 43 83
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.20% 1.62% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 1.72% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 59 41 39
10th Percentile £35,000 £47,000 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £60,000 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year - +3.74% -2.99%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £84,964
90th Percentile £93,000 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -9.68%

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 4,542 2,493 4,776
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 68.77% 93.79% 81.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,059 1,208 3,769
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% +8.00% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -29 38 £80,000 +13.48% 14
South Yorkshire -17 19 £82,500 - 5
North Yorkshire - 16 £40,000 -
East Yorkshire -31 1 £52,500 -8.70% 1
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 7 (8.86%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.59%) Moodle
3 5 (6.33%) Apache
3 5 (6.33%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.80%) Confluence
5 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (11.39%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 41 (51.90%) Azure
2 22 (27.85%) Azure Data Factory
3 20 (25.32%) AWS
3 20 (25.32%) Power Platform
4 12 (15.19%) GCP
5 11 (13.92%) Azure Logic Apps
5 11 (13.92%) Serverless
6 10 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (12.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (11.39%) Azure Functions
7 9 (11.39%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (8.86%) dbt
9 2 (2.53%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.53%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (29.11%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (25.32%) Power BI
3 17 (21.52%) Spark SQL
4 10 (12.66%) BigQuery
5 8 (10.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (8.86%) Data Lake
7 6 (7.59%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (5.06%) Metadata
8 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (5.06%) Tableau
9 3 (3.80%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (3.80%) Big Data
9 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
9 3 (3.80%) Star Schema
10 2 (2.53%) Power Query
10 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
11 1 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (5.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.27%) MLflow
2 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (25.32%) Finance
1 20 (25.32%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.05%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.86%) Retail
4 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Games
5 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 45 (56.96%) Data Engineer
2 37 (46.84%) Lead
3 23 (29.11%) Lead Data Engineer
4 13 (16.46%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (13.92%) Senior
6 10 (12.66%) Business Intelligence Lead
7 9 (11.39%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (11.39%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 9 (11.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (8.86%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (7.59%) Technical Support
9 6 (7.59%) Technical Trainer
9 6 (7.59%) Trainer
10 4 (5.06%) Architect
11 3 (3.80%) AWS Data Engineer
11 3 (3.80%) AWS Engineer
12 2 (2.53%) Data Analytics Architect
12 2 (2.53%) Head of Business Intelligence
12 2 (2.53%) Senior Architect
12 2 (2.53%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.11%) PySpark
2 9 (11.39%) ARM Templates
2 9 (11.39%) REST
3 1 (1.27%) FHIR
3 1 (1.27%) Kafka
3 1 (1.27%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (1.27%) LangChain
3 1 (1.27%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (1.27%) pgvector
3 1 (1.27%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.27%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.27%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) NHS
2 6 (7.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (7.59%) e-Learning
3 5 (6.33%) Low-Code
4 4 (5.06%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.27%) Clustering
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.27%) PMI
6 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (48.10%) Data Pipeline
2 33 (41.77%) Data Modelling
2 33 (41.77%) ETL
3 32 (40.51%) Analytics
4 30 (37.97%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (36.71%) DevOps
6 28 (35.44%) Data Governance
7 25 (31.65%) CI/CD
8 20 (25.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (25.32%) Decision-Making
9 18 (22.78%) Mentoring
10 17 (21.52%) Computer Science
11 15 (18.99%) Observability
12 14 (17.72%) AI
13 13 (16.46%) Data Transformation
13 13 (16.46%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (16.46%) Test Automation
14 12 (15.19%) Agile
14 12 (15.19%) Data Integration
14 12 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 47 (59.49%) SQL
2 37 (46.84%) Python
3 7 (8.86%) Java
4 4 (5.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (5.06%) Scala
5 3 (3.80%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (18.99%) Degree
2 13 (16.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.27%) CBAP
5 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (31.65%) Data Quality
2 11 (13.92%) GDPR
3 2 (2.53%) SLA
4 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) PMO
Systems Management
1 10 (12.66%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (40.51%) Databricks
2 18 (22.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.80%) Google
4 1 (1.27%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.27%) Dell
4 1 (1.27%) Foundry
4 1 (1.27%) Palantir