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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 111 139
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 -30
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 64 61 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.83% 1.43% 1.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 1.79% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 59 34 43
10th Percentile £53,500 - £47,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £42,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £51,250 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.59% -31.67% +21.95%
75th Percentile £72,750 £67,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £83,500 £75,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -4.11% +0.69% -6.45%

All Process and 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 3,032 3,415 3,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.85% 80.18% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,487 1,452 2,388
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,250 £29,442
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £38,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 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 +31 56 £70,000 +18.87% 19
South Yorkshire +7 5 £57,500 -23.33% 5
East Yorkshire -15 3 £62,500 +38.89%
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 4 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.13%) Apache
2 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 29 (45.31%) AWS
2 23 (35.94%) Azure
3 7 (10.94%) SaaS
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (7.81%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (7.81%) Serverless
5 4 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
5 4 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.69%) GCP
6 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.13%) Datadog
7 2 (3.13%) dbt
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.56%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.19%) Data Lake
2 9 (14.06%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.25%) Metadata
4 2 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.13%) MySQL
4 2 (3.13%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.56%) Big Data
5 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.38%) Finance
2 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.69%) Law
5 2 (3.13%) Retail
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
Job Titles
1 22 (34.38%) Data Manager
1 22 (34.38%) Engineering Manager
2 21 (32.81%) Data Engineer
3 12 (18.75%) Senior
4 10 (15.63%) Lead
5 9 (14.06%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Lead Data Engineer
6 5 (7.81%) Product Owner
7 3 (4.69%) Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Data Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Principal Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Principal Data Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Principal Data Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) User Researcher
9 1 (1.56%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) PySpark
2 3 (4.69%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.56%) Dask
3 1 (1.56%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.56%) JSON
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) Next.js
3 1 (1.56%) NumPy
3 1 (1.56%) Pandas
3 1 (1.56%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.56%) SciPy
3 1 (1.56%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.81%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (48.44%) Mentoring
2 27 (42.19%) Data Pipeline
3 25 (39.06%) CI/CD
4 21 (32.81%) Roadmaps
5 18 (28.13%) Agile
5 18 (28.13%) Data Governance
5 18 (28.13%) Data Modelling
5 18 (28.13%) ETL
6 17 (26.56%) Coaching
6 17 (26.56%) Technical Leadership
7 16 (25.00%) Analytics
8 14 (21.88%) Logistics
9 13 (20.31%) Cost Optimisation
10 12 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (17.19%) Data Strategy
11 11 (17.19%) DevOps
11 11 (17.19%) SQL Optimisation
12 9 (14.06%) Data Science
13 8 (12.50%) People Management
13 8 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 40 (62.50%) SQL
2 38 (59.38%) Python
3 3 (4.69%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.13%) Java
4 2 (3.13%) Scala
5 1 (1.56%) Bash
5 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) Degree
2 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.69%) QA
3 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Terraform
2 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (62.50%) Databricks
2 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.13%) Informatica
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle
3 2 (3.13%) Palantir
4 1 (1.56%) Google
4 1 (1.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.56%) Talend