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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 99 118
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 +31
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 94 61 58
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.22% 1.81% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.08% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 76 58 25
10th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,938 £59,375 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +40.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £88,125 £72,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,375 £75,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% -3.45% -3.33%

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 5,192 2,939 3,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.55% 87.44% 79.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3,832 1,367 1,752
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,010 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,992 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -2.44%

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 September 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 September 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 -34 47 £78,750 +12.50% 45
South Yorkshire -12 31 £77,500 +34.78% 13
North Yorkshire - 12 £40,000 - 9
East Yorkshire -12 2 £52,500 -8.70%
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 6 (6.38%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.26%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (3.19%) Palantir Foundry
4 2 (2.13%) Apache
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (7.45%) Spreadsheet
2 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.04%) Azure
2 29 (30.85%) AWS
3 18 (19.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 18 (19.15%) GCP
4 17 (18.09%) Power Platform
5 13 (13.83%) Serverless
6 10 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (9.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (7.45%) Azure Functions
8 7 (7.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (7.45%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (6.38%) dbt
10 5 (5.32%) Snowflake
11 4 (4.26%) Alation
11 4 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (4.26%) Azure Databricks
12 3 (3.19%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (2.13%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.06%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.66%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (18.09%) Power BI
2 17 (18.09%) Spark SQL
3 10 (10.64%) BigQuery
4 9 (9.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (7.45%) Metadata
5 7 (7.45%) Semantic Layer
6 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.26%) Big Data
7 4 (4.26%) Tableau
8 3 (3.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.13%) Star Schema
10 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.06%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.06%) GIS
10 1 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.06%) Power Query
10 1 (1.06%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Git
1 3 (3.19%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) GitLab
2 1 (1.06%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (28.72%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (26.60%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.15%) Finance
4 13 (13.83%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.38%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Retail
8 3 (3.19%) Legal
9 1 (1.06%) Banking
9 1 (1.06%) Games
9 1 (1.06%) Publishing
9 1 (1.06%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 50 (53.19%) Data Engineer
2 29 (30.85%) Lead
3 27 (28.72%) Senior
4 20 (21.28%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (13.83%) Lead Data Engineer
6 10 (10.64%) Architect
7 9 (9.57%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 8 (8.51%) Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Data Architect
9 7 (7.45%) Databricks Data Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Databricks Engineer
9 7 (7.45%) Transformation Manager
10 5 (5.32%) Analyst
10 5 (5.32%) Data Analyst
10 5 (5.32%) Information Architect
11 4 (4.26%) Senior Architect
11 4 (4.26%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.28%) PySpark
2 10 (10.64%) Terraform
3 8 (8.51%) REST
4 7 (7.45%) ARM Templates
5 6 (6.38%) .NET
6 4 (4.26%) Oracle Fusion
7 2 (2.13%) Kafka
8 1 (1.06%) Celery
8 1 (1.06%) FHIR
8 1 (1.06%) GeoPandas
8 1 (1.06%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (1.06%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (1.06%) Open3D
8 1 (1.06%) Pandas
8 1 (1.06%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (5.32%) Operational Technology
3 4 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.06%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.06%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.06%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.06%) NHS
5 1 (1.06%) PMI
5 1 (1.06%) Replication
5 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.06%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (53.19%) Analytics
2 40 (42.55%) Data Pipeline
3 39 (41.49%) ETL
4 34 (36.17%) Business Intelligence
5 33 (35.11%) Data Modelling
6 32 (34.04%) Decision-Making
7 24 (25.53%) CI/CD
8 23 (24.47%) Data Governance
9 20 (21.28%) Mentoring
10 19 (20.21%) Lakehouse
11 18 (19.15%) DevOps
12 17 (18.09%) Agile
12 17 (18.09%) AI
13 15 (15.96%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (14.89%) Data Transformation
15 13 (13.83%) Coaching
15 13 (13.83%) Computer Science
15 13 (13.83%) Data Integration
15 13 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
16 12 (12.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (50.00%) SQL
2 37 (39.36%) Python
3 13 (13.83%) Java
4 7 (7.45%) Scala
5 6 (6.38%) C#
5 6 (6.38%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.32%) C++
7 3 (3.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.13%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.77%) Degree
2 11 (11.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (9.57%) Security Cleared
4 7 (7.45%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.06%) CBAP
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (31.91%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.45%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) SLA
4 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 1 (1.06%) Docker
Vendors
1 19 (20.21%) Databricks
1 19 (20.21%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.38%) Google
3 4 (4.26%) Oracle
4 3 (3.19%) Foundry
4 3 (3.19%) Palantir
5 2 (2.13%) Dataiku
5 2 (2.13%) Informatica
6 1 (1.06%) Teradata