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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 106 121
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 89 59 83
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.27% 1.70% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 1.89% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 74 56 32
10th Percentile £40,000 £53,750 £41,139
25th Percentile £50,313 £62,188 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +19.15% -12.41%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,784 £83,116
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £87,246
England median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £71,991
% change year-on-year +6.67% +4.18% -4.01%

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 4,717 3,125 4,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 67.40% 89.85% 78.84%
Number of salaries quoted 3,381 1,505 3,036
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £28,781
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £37,500
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 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 24 July 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 24 July 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 -43 41 £75,000 +7.14% 26
South Yorkshire -4 30 £82,500 - 8
North Yorkshire - 13 £40,000 - 2
East Yorkshire -23 2 £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 (7.87%) Apache Spark
2 4 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.49%) Moodle
3 3 (3.37%) Apache
4 1 (1.12%) Confluence
4 1 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (10.11%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 42 (47.19%) Azure
2 25 (28.09%) Azure Data Factory
3 23 (25.84%) AWS
4 19 (21.35%) Power Platform
5 17 (19.10%) GCP
6 13 (14.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (12.36%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (11.24%) Serverless
9 9 (10.11%) Azure Functions
9 9 (10.11%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (10.11%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (8.99%) dbt
11 5 (5.62%) Snowflake
12 3 (3.37%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (2.25%) Alation
14 1 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
14 1 (1.12%) Dagster
14 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
14 1 (1.12%) Prefect
14 1 (1.12%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (32.58%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (21.35%) Power BI
3 16 (17.98%) Spark SQL
4 13 (14.61%) BigQuery
5 11 (12.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (7.87%) Semantic Layer
7 6 (6.74%) Data Lake
8 5 (5.62%) Big Data
9 4 (4.49%) Star Schema
9 4 (4.49%) Tableau
10 3 (3.37%) Metadata
11 2 (2.25%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (1.12%) Data Vault
12 1 (1.12%) DynamoDB
12 1 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (1.12%) Looker
12 1 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
12 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
12 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) Git
2 1 (1.12%) MLflow
2 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.22%) Finance
4 6 (6.74%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.62%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Retail
6 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.12%) Games
7 1 (1.12%) Legal
Job Titles
1 51 (57.30%) Data Engineer
2 40 (44.94%) Lead
3 22 (24.72%) Lead Data Engineer
4 21 (23.60%) Senior
5 16 (17.98%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (14.61%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (12.36%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 9 (10.11%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (10.11%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 9 (10.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Architect
10 5 (5.62%) Transformation Manager
11 4 (4.49%) Technical Support
11 4 (4.49%) Technical Trainer
11 4 (4.49%) Trainer
12 3 (3.37%) Data Architect
12 3 (3.37%) Lead Architect
12 3 (3.37%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 3 (3.37%) Senior Data Architect
12 3 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (22.47%) PySpark
2 9 (10.11%) ARM Templates
2 9 (10.11%) REST
3 3 (3.37%) Kafka
4 1 (1.12%) FHIR
4 1 (1.12%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.12%) LangChain
4 1 (1.12%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (1.12%) Pandas
4 1 (1.12%) pgvector
4 1 (1.12%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.12%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.99%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (5.62%) NHS
2 5 (5.62%) Operational Technology
3 4 (4.49%) e-Learning
4 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.25%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.12%) Clustering
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.12%) PMI
5 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.07%) Data Pipeline
2 36 (40.45%) Analytics
3 33 (37.08%) Data Modelling
4 32 (35.96%) ETL
5 30 (33.71%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (29.21%) Data Governance
6 26 (29.21%) DevOps
7 24 (26.97%) CI/CD
8 21 (23.60%) Decision-Making
9 17 (19.10%) AI
9 17 (19.10%) Mentoring
10 15 (16.85%) Computer Science
10 15 (16.85%) Data Transformation
11 14 (15.73%) Test Automation
12 13 (14.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (14.61%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (13.48%) Data Integration
13 12 (13.48%) Software Engineering
14 11 (12.36%) Agile
14 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (49.44%) SQL
2 36 (40.45%) Python
3 9 (10.11%) Java
4 7 (7.87%) Scala
5 3 (3.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (14.61%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (14.61%) Degree
2 4 (4.49%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.12%) CBAP
4 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (28.09%) Data Quality
2 11 (12.36%) GDPR
3 2 (2.25%) SLA
4 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.12%) PMO
Systems Management
1 11 (12.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (33.71%) Databricks
2 18 (20.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.62%) Google
4 2 (2.25%) Informatica
5 1 (1.12%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.12%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.12%) Dell
5 1 (1.12%) Foundry
5 1 (1.12%) Palantir