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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 99 122
Rank change year-on-year -2 +23 +20
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 99 60 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.32% 1.79% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.04% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 80 56 28
10th Percentile £42,250 £53,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £60,625 £44,178
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +36.59% -31.67%
75th Percentile £88,125 £72,750 £68,623
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -4.11% -2.67%

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.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,098 2,936 3,515
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.74% 87.67% 79.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3,794 1,402 1,538
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,425
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -9.52% -0.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,425 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 55 £76,250 +8.93% 34
South Yorkshire -12 32 £75,000 +30.43% 20
North Yorkshire - 9 £40,000 - 4
East Yorkshire -4 2 £52,500 -12.50% 1
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Analytics55.6%55
2Data Pipeline46.5%46
3ETL40.4%40
4Decision-Making36.4%36
5Business Intelligence33.3%33
6Data Modelling30.3%30
7CI/CD24.2%24
7Mentoring24.2%24
9AI23.2%23
10Data Governance20.2%20
11Problem-Solving19.2%19
12Lakehouse18.2%18
13Data Transformation17.2%17
14Agile16.2%16
14DevOps16.2%16
14Stakeholder Management16.2%16
14Technical Leadership16.2%16
18Data Science14.1%14
18Software Engineering14.1%14
20Coaching13.1%13