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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 91 127
Rank change year-on-year -10 +36 +33
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 98 64 57
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.31% 1.88% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.15% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 80 61 25
10th Percentile £40,000 £52,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £50,938 £58,750 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +40.00% -33.33%
75th Percentile £86,563 £72,750 £71,991
90th Percentile £95,000 £73,886 £78,750
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% -6.45%

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 4,988 2,971 4,109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 66.58% 87.43% 78.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3,671 1,535 2,334
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,445 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.41% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £78,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -8.80%

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 August 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 August 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 -44 46 £80,000 +14.29% 21
South Yorkshire -2 33 £82,500 +43.48% 2
North Yorkshire - 14 £40,000 - 3
East Yorkshire -16 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 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.06%) Moodle
3 2 (2.04%) Apache
4 1 (1.02%) Confluence
4 1 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 9 (9.18%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.82%) Azure
2 24 (24.49%) AWS
2 24 (24.49%) Azure Data Factory
3 18 (18.37%) Power Platform
4 17 (17.35%) GCP
5 12 (12.24%) Serverless
6 11 (11.22%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (11.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (9.18%) Azure Functions
7 9 (9.18%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (9.18%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (8.16%) dbt
9 6 (6.12%) Snowflake
10 4 (4.08%) Alation
11 3 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (3.06%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (2.04%) Amazon EMR
13 1 (1.02%) Amazon S3
13 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.02%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.59%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (18.37%) Power BI
3 17 (17.35%) Spark SQL
4 12 (12.24%) BigQuery
5 10 (10.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (6.12%) Semantic Layer
7 5 (5.10%) Big Data
7 5 (5.10%) Metadata
8 4 (4.08%) Data Lake
8 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.08%) Tableau
9 2 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (2.04%) Star Schema
10 1 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.02%) Data Vault
10 1 (1.02%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.02%) Looker
10 1 (1.02%) Power Query
10 1 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (2.04%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) Git
2 1 (1.02%) MLflow
2 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (23.47%) Social Skills
3 19 (19.39%) Finance
4 6 (6.12%) Manufacturing
4 6 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.10%) Retail
6 2 (2.04%) Legal
7 1 (1.02%) Banking
7 1 (1.02%) Games
Job Titles
1 52 (53.06%) Data Engineer
2 39 (39.80%) Lead
3 23 (23.47%) Senior
4 21 (21.43%) Lead Data Engineer
5 16 (16.33%) Senior Data Engineer
6 13 (13.27%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (11.22%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 10 (10.20%) Architect
9 9 (9.18%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (9.18%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 9 (9.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (7.14%) Data Architect
10 7 (7.14%) Transformation Manager
11 5 (5.10%) Information Architect
12 4 (4.08%) Senior Architect
12 4 (4.08%) Senior Data Architect
13 3 (3.06%) Analyst
13 3 (3.06%) Data Analytics Architect
13 3 (3.06%) Lead Solutions Architect
13 3 (3.06%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.45%) PySpark
2 11 (11.22%) Terraform
3 9 (9.18%) ARM Templates
3 9 (9.18%) REST
4 3 (3.06%) Kafka
5 2 (2.04%) .NET
6 1 (1.02%) FHIR
6 1 (1.02%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.02%) LangChain
6 1 (1.02%) LlamaIndex
6 1 (1.02%) Pandas
6 1 (1.02%) pgvector
6 1 (1.02%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.02%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.16%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (5.10%) Operational Technology
3 4 (4.08%) NHS
4 3 (3.06%) e-Learning
4 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.04%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) Clustering
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.02%) PMI
6 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (41.84%) Analytics
2 39 (39.80%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (35.71%) Data Modelling
4 33 (33.67%) ETL
5 31 (31.63%) Business Intelligence
6 27 (27.55%) Data Governance
7 24 (24.49%) CI/CD
7 24 (24.49%) DevOps
8 23 (23.47%) Decision-Making
9 18 (18.37%) AI
9 18 (18.37%) Mentoring
10 15 (15.31%) Computer Science
10 15 (15.31%) Data Transformation
11 14 (14.29%) Test Automation
12 13 (13.27%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (12.24%) Agile
13 12 (12.24%) Data Integration
13 12 (12.24%) Software Engineering
14 11 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (44.90%) SQL
2 34 (34.69%) Python
3 10 (10.20%) Java
4 7 (7.14%) Scala
5 3 (3.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.04%) C#
6 2 (2.04%) C++
6 2 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (13.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 13 (13.27%) Degree
2 4 (4.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.02%) CBAP
4 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.55%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.20%) GDPR
3 2 (2.04%) SLA
4 1 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.02%) PMO
Vendors
1 30 (30.61%) Databricks
2 19 (19.39%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.10%) Google
4 2 (2.04%) Dataiku
4 2 (2.04%) Informatica
5 1 (1.02%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.02%) Dell
5 1 (1.02%) Foundry
5 1 (1.02%) Palantir