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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 105 136
Rank change year-on-year +13 +31 -28
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 72 66 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.98% 1.57% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.94% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 67 38 40
10th Percentile £50,300 - £46,875
25th Percentile £61,250 £42,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £51,250 £72,788
Median % change year-on-year +36.59% -29.59% +17.72%
75th Percentile £73,250 £67,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,250 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.33% +3.45% -6.45%

All Process and 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 3,135 3,395 3,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.24% 80.81% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,582 1,431 2,246
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,625 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £83,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 +25 63 £70,000 +18.40% 18
South Yorkshire +10 6 £57,500 -23.33% 4
East Yorkshire -17 3 £62,500 +38.89%
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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.78%) Apache
2 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 31 (43.06%) AWS
2 29 (40.28%) Azure
3 8 (11.11%) SaaS
4 6 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (6.94%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (6.94%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (6.94%) GCP
5 5 (6.94%) Serverless
6 4 (5.56%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.17%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.78%) Datadog
8 2 (2.78%) dbt
8 2 (2.78%) GitHub
8 2 (2.78%) IaaS
8 2 (2.78%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 10 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (9.72%) Metadata
4 4 (5.56%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.56%) MySQL
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.78%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.39%) Big Data
6 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.39%) Power BI
6 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 9 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.33%) Finance
3 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Law
4 2 (2.78%) Legal
4 2 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (37.50%) Data Engineer
2 22 (30.56%) Data Manager
2 22 (30.56%) Engineering Manager
3 14 (19.44%) Senior
4 12 (16.67%) Lead
5 11 (15.28%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (9.72%) Lead Data Engineer
7 5 (6.94%) Product Owner
8 4 (5.56%) Principal Data Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Architect
9 3 (4.17%) Data Architect
9 3 (4.17%) Principal Architect
9 3 (4.17%) Principal Data Architect
10 2 (2.78%) Analyst
10 2 (2.78%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.78%) Consultant
10 2 (2.78%) Data Analyst
10 2 (2.78%) Data Consultant
10 2 (2.78%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.50%) PySpark
2 3 (4.17%) AWS CDK
3 1 (1.39%) Dask
3 1 (1.39%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.39%) JSON
3 1 (1.39%) Kafka
3 1 (1.39%) Next.js
3 1 (1.39%) NumPy
3 1 (1.39%) Pandas
3 1 (1.39%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.39%) SciPy
3 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.94%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.78%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (44.44%) Mentoring
2 30 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
3 27 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 24 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 21 (29.17%) Analytics
6 20 (27.78%) Data Governance
7 19 (26.39%) Agile
7 19 (26.39%) ETL
8 18 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 18 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
9 17 (23.61%) Coaching
10 15 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (19.44%) Logistics
12 13 (18.06%) Cost Optimisation
12 13 (18.06%) DevOps
13 12 (16.67%) Machine Learning
14 11 (15.28%) AI
14 11 (15.28%) Data Science
14 11 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (15.28%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (63.89%) SQL
2 44 (61.11%) Python
3 4 (5.56%) Scala
3 4 (5.56%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.78%) Java
5 1 (1.39%) Bash
5 1 (1.39%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (5.56%) Degree
2 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.39%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) QA
3 1 (1.39%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 4 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (63.89%) Databricks
2 8 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.56%) Oracle
3 4 (5.56%) Palantir
4 2 (2.78%) Informatica
5 1 (1.39%) Google
5 1 (1.39%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.39%) Talend