Data Engineering Job Trends in Yorkshire

Data Engineering
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire citing Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 101 106
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +31
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 106 63 60
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.40% 1.83% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 2.10% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 89 58 33
10th Percentile £42,500 £53,375 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +40.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £90,000 £72,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,750
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.78% +0.34%

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 citing process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

6 months to
29 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing process or methodology skills 5,157 2,998 3,427
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 68.15% 87.18% 80.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,792 1,465 1,463
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,614 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £69,125
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% -

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 29 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 29 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -19 59 £75,664 +8.09% 11
South Yorkshire -2 35 £75,000 +30.43% 5
North Yorkshire - 7 £40,000 - 1
East Yorkshire -6 2 £52,500 -16.00%
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
1Analytics54.7%58
2Data Pipeline46.2%49
3Decision-Making34.9%37
4ETL33.0%35
5Business Intelligence29.2%31
6AI27.4%29
7Data Modelling24.5%26
8Mentoring23.6%25
9CI/CD22.6%24
10Data Governance17.0%18
10Problem-Solving17.0%18
12Data Transformation15.1%16
12Lakehouse15.1%16
12Software Engineering15.1%16
12Technical Leadership15.1%16
16Agile14.2%15
17Coaching13.2%14
17Stakeholder Management13.2%14
19Data Science12.3%13
19DevOps12.3%13