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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 71 117
Rank change year-on-year -69 +46 -37
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 48 68 96
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.05% 2.96% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.40% 3.08% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 38 59 52
10th Percentile £29,625 £42,500 £35,599
25th Percentile £43,625 £45,000 £48,204
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £60,000 £69,038
Median % change year-on-year +22.92% -13.09% +10.46%
75th Percentile £84,625 £73,886 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £80,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +14.29% -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 3,440 2,206 4,321
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 74.98% 95.87% 85.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,096 1,134 3,444
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,438 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -32 39 £79,000 +21.54% 28
North Yorkshire - 4 £52,500 - 3
South Yorkshire -25 2 £62,500 - 15
East Yorkshire -33 1 £77,500 +72.22% 2
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 (18.75%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.42%) Apache
2 5 (10.42%) Moodle
3 4 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.17%) Confluence
4 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 25 (52.08%) Azure
2 12 (25.00%) AWS
3 10 (20.83%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (16.67%) Power Platform
5 7 (14.58%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (12.50%) GCP
6 6 (12.50%) SaaS
7 5 (10.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (8.33%) dbt
9 3 (6.25%) Azure App Service
9 3 (6.25%) GitHub
9 3 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (4.17%) IaaS
10 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (4.17%) PaaS
10 2 (4.17%) Power Automate
10 2 (4.17%) PowerApps
11 1 (2.08%) Amazon Bedrock
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.83%) Data Lake
1 10 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (18.75%) Metadata
3 8 (16.67%) Power BI
4 6 (12.50%) Spark SQL
5 4 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 4 (8.33%) MySQL
6 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (6.25%) Tableau
7 2 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (4.17%) BigQuery
7 2 (4.17%) Power Query
7 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
7 2 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (4.17%) Star Schema
8 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.08%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (29.17%) Finance
3 8 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 8 (16.67%) Retail
4 7 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Law
5 2 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (64.58%) Data Engineer
2 13 (27.08%) Senior
3 11 (22.92%) Senior Data Engineer
4 8 (16.67%) Lead
5 7 (14.58%) Lead Data Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Technical Support
6 5 (10.42%) Technical Trainer
6 5 (10.42%) Trainer
7 4 (8.33%) Principal Data Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Data Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Principal Architect
8 3 (6.25%) Principal Data Architect
9 2 (4.17%) Data Manager
9 2 (4.17%) Graduate
9 2 (4.17%) Insight Manager
9 2 (4.17%) Junior
9 2 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (2.08%) FastAPI
2 1 (2.08%) JSON
2 1 (2.08%) Next.js
2 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.50%) NHS
2 5 (10.42%) e-Learning
3 4 (8.33%) Low-Code
4 3 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Cloud
5 2 (4.17%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) Analytics
2 26 (54.17%) Data Pipeline
3 19 (39.58%) Mentoring
4 17 (35.42%) AI
4 17 (35.42%) ETL
5 16 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (27.08%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (27.08%) DevOps
7 13 (27.08%) Machine Learning
8 12 (25.00%) Agile
8 12 (25.00%) CI/CD
8 12 (25.00%) Data Modelling
9 11 (22.92%) Decision-Making
10 10 (20.83%) Data Governance
11 9 (18.75%) Data Security
11 9 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (14.58%) Migration
12 7 (14.58%) Software Engineering
12 7 (14.58%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 36 (75.00%) SQL
2 29 (60.42%) Python
3 6 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 4 (8.33%) Java
4 4 (8.33%) Scala
5 3 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.08%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (50.00%) Databricks
2 15 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.33%) Oracle
3 4 (8.33%) Palantir
4 2 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (2.08%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.08%) Talend