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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 133 152
Rank change year-on-year +36 +19 -11
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 61 52 50
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.84% 1.05% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 1.33% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 58 23 41
10th Percentile £52,500 £42,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £59,375 £44,738 £59,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £50,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -33.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72,750 £73,495 £92,500
90th Percentile £73,825 £80,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -3.33% -6.25%

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 2,877 3,913 3,586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.74% 79.16% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,419 1,972 2,557
10th Percentile £26,010 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £65,603 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,250 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,400
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.85% +4.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +50 53 £70,000 +36.59% 17
South Yorkshire +11 5 £57,500 -23.33% 3
East Yorkshire -3 3 £57,500 +27.78%
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (4.92%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 34 (55.74%) AWS
2 24 (39.34%) Azure
3 7 (11.48%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (11.48%) Serverless
4 6 (9.84%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (8.20%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.56%) GCP
6 4 (6.56%) SaaS
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.92%) Datadog
7 3 (4.92%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.64%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.64%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) Data Lake
2 5 (8.20%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.92%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.92%) MySQL
4 1 (1.64%) Big Data
4 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Power BI
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (9.84%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (6.56%) Finance
1 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
1 4 (6.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (4.92%) Law
3 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (39.34%) Data Manager
1 24 (39.34%) Engineering Manager
2 15 (24.59%) Data Engineer
3 12 (19.67%) Lead
4 11 (18.03%) Senior
5 8 (13.11%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Lead Data Engineer
6 5 (8.20%) Product Owner
7 2 (3.28%) Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Business Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Python Data Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) User Researcher
8 1 (1.64%) Product Manager
8 1 (1.64%) Programme Manager
8 1 (1.64%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) Software Engineer
8 1 (1.64%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.64%) Dask
2 1 (1.64%) FastAPI
2 1 (1.64%) Kafka
2 1 (1.64%) Next.js
2 1 (1.64%) NumPy
2 1 (1.64%) Pandas
2 1 (1.64%) PySpark
2 1 (1.64%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.64%) SciPy
2 1 (1.64%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.20%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.64%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (47.54%) Mentoring
2 26 (42.62%) CI/CD
3 24 (39.34%) Data Pipeline
4 23 (37.70%) Roadmaps
5 20 (32.79%) Data Governance
6 18 (29.51%) Data Modelling
7 16 (26.23%) ETL
7 16 (26.23%) Logistics
8 15 (24.59%) Coaching
8 15 (24.59%) Cost Optimisation
9 13 (21.31%) SQL Optimisation
9 13 (21.31%) Technical Leadership
10 12 (19.67%) Agile
11 11 (18.03%) Analytics
11 11 (18.03%) Data Strategy
11 11 (18.03%) DevOps
12 10 (16.39%) People Management
13 8 (13.11%) Data Science
13 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (59.02%) Python
1 36 (59.02%) SQL
2 3 (4.92%) Scala
3 2 (3.28%) R
4 1 (1.64%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (9.84%) Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.92%) Master's Degree
2 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.92%) NIST
2 3 (4.92%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (63.93%) Databricks
2 3 (4.92%) Oracle
2 3 (4.92%) Palantir
3 2 (3.28%) Informatica
4 1 (1.64%) Google
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.64%) OpenAI