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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 91 114
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 -30
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 59 60 66
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.73% 1.92% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.12% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 49 45 50
10th Percentile £39,859 - £40,625
25th Percentile £53,750 £42,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,000 £48,507 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +40.19% -25.45% +6.35%
75th Percentile £83,500 £63,750 £90,826
90th Percentile £90,500 £75,900 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,661 2,836 2,939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 78.15% 90.69% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,549 1,096 2,302
10th Percentile £27,750 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -3 50 £70,000 +14.75% 18
South Yorkshire +6 4 £57,500 - 7
North Yorkshire - 2 £65,000 - 7
East Yorkshire -24 1 £77,500 +72.22% 7
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 9 (15.25%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.78%) Apache
3 3 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.08%) Moodle
4 2 (3.39%) Confluence
4 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (47.46%) Azure
2 19 (32.20%) AWS
3 10 (16.95%) SaaS
4 7 (11.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (11.86%) GCP
4 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.08%) Azure App Service
6 3 (5.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (5.08%) dbt
6 3 (5.08%) GitHub
6 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.39%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.39%) IaaS
7 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (3.39%) PaaS
7 2 (3.39%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) Data Lake
1 11 (18.64%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (15.25%) Metadata
3 5 (8.47%) MongoDB
3 5 (8.47%) MySQL
3 5 (8.47%) Power BI
4 3 (5.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.08%) Spark SQL
4 3 (5.08%) SQL Server
4 3 (5.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.39%) Power Query
5 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.39%) Tableau
6 1 (1.69%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.69%) Big Data
6 1 (1.69%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.39%) JIRA
General
1 14 (23.73%) Finance
2 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.17%) Retail
5 2 (3.39%) Law
5 2 (3.39%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (52.54%) Data Engineer
2 16 (27.12%) Senior
3 12 (20.34%) Data Manager
3 12 (20.34%) Senior Data Engineer
4 10 (16.95%) Engineering Manager
5 7 (11.86%) Lead
5 7 (11.86%) Lead Data Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Principal Data Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Principal Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Principal Data Architect
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Support
7 3 (5.08%) Technical Trainer
7 3 (5.08%) Trainer
8 2 (3.39%) Insight Manager
8 2 (3.39%) Junior
8 2 (3.39%) Junior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (23.73%) PySpark
2 1 (1.69%) Dask
2 1 (1.69%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.69%) JSON
2 1 (1.69%) Kafka
2 1 (1.69%) Next.js
2 1 (1.69%) NumPy
2 1 (1.69%) Pandas
2 1 (1.69%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.69%) SciPy
2 1 (1.69%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) Low-Code
1 4 (6.78%) NHS
1 4 (6.78%) Virtual Team
2 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.08%) e-Learning
2 3 (5.08%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.69%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (47.46%) Data Pipeline
2 27 (45.76%) Analytics
3 24 (40.68%) Mentoring
4 20 (33.90%) Data Modelling
4 20 (33.90%) ETL
5 19 (32.20%) CI/CD
5 19 (32.20%) Data Governance
6 17 (28.81%) Agile
7 15 (25.42%) AI
8 14 (23.73%) DevOps
8 14 (23.73%) Machine Learning
8 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (22.03%) Coaching
9 13 (22.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (20.34%) Data Science
10 12 (20.34%) Roadmaps
11 11 (18.64%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (18.64%) Decision-Making
11 11 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (16.95%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 44 (74.58%) SQL
2 38 (64.41%) Python
3 6 (10.17%) T-SQL
4 5 (8.47%) Scala
5 3 (5.08%) Java
6 2 (3.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.78%) Degree
3 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.69%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.08%) QA
3 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (59.32%) Databricks
2 13 (22.03%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) Oracle
3 5 (8.47%) Palantir
4 2 (3.39%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.69%) Talend