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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 98 124
Rank change year-on-year -29 +26 -31
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 73 50 88
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.16% 2.02% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.14% 1.89%
Number of salaries quoted 55 49 44
10th Percentile £32,000 £45,000 £35,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £65,066
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.94% -0.44%
75th Percentile £83,750 £76,250 £84,964
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +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 4,359 2,332 4,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 69.37% 94.15% 82.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,854 1,263 3,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -50 37 £55,000 -18.52% 16
South Yorkshire - 17 £82,500 - 4
North Yorkshire - 15 £40,000 - 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 8 (10.96%) Apache Spark
2 7 (9.59%) Moodle
3 5 (6.85%) Apache
4 4 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (4.11%) Confluence
6 2 (2.74%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.37%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (10.96%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 40 (54.79%) Azure
2 21 (28.77%) Azure Data Factory
3 19 (26.03%) AWS
4 17 (23.29%) Power Platform
5 12 (16.44%) GCP
6 11 (15.07%) Azure Logic Apps
6 11 (15.07%) Serverless
7 10 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (12.33%) Azure Functions
8 9 (12.33%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (12.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (8.22%) dbt
10 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
10 2 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (2.74%) Power Automate
10 2 (2.74%) PowerApps
10 2 (2.74%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (30.14%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (23.29%) Power BI
2 17 (23.29%) Spark SQL
3 8 (10.96%) BigQuery
4 7 (9.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (9.59%) Data Lake
5 4 (5.48%) Metadata
5 4 (5.48%) Semantic Layer
5 4 (5.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (5.48%) Tableau
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.11%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.74%) Big Data
7 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.74%) MySQL
7 2 (2.74%) Power Query
7 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 4 (5.48%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) MLflow
2 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (26.03%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.66%) Finance
3 15 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.96%) Retail
5 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (57.53%) Data Engineer
2 32 (43.84%) Lead
3 22 (30.14%) Lead Data Engineer
4 13 (17.81%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (15.07%) Senior
6 9 (12.33%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (12.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 9 (12.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (10.96%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 7 (9.59%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (9.59%) Technical Support
8 7 (9.59%) Technical Trainer
8 7 (9.59%) Trainer
9 3 (4.11%) Architect
10 2 (2.74%) Data Architect
10 2 (2.74%) Data Manager
10 2 (2.74%) Graduate
10 2 (2.74%) Head of Business Intelligence
10 2 (2.74%) Senior Architect
10 2 (2.74%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (31.51%) PySpark
2 9 (12.33%) ARM Templates
2 9 (12.33%) REST
3 1 (1.37%) FHIR
3 1 (1.37%) Kafka
3 1 (1.37%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (1.37%) LangChain
3 1 (1.37%) LlamaIndex
3 1 (1.37%) pgvector
3 1 (1.37%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.37%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.37%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) NHS
2 7 (9.59%) e-Learning
3 5 (6.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (6.85%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.37%) Clustering
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) PMI
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (46.58%) Data Pipeline
2 30 (41.10%) ETL
3 29 (39.73%) DevOps
4 28 (38.36%) Analytics
4 28 (38.36%) Data Modelling
5 27 (36.99%) Data Governance
6 25 (34.25%) Business Intelligence
6 25 (34.25%) CI/CD
7 19 (26.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (23.29%) Decision-Making
9 16 (21.92%) Computer Science
9 16 (21.92%) Mentoring
10 15 (20.55%) Observability
10 15 (20.55%) Test Automation
11 13 (17.81%) AI
11 13 (17.81%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (16.44%) Data Integration
13 11 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (13.70%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 44 (60.27%) SQL
2 35 (47.95%) Python
3 6 (8.22%) Java
4 5 (6.85%) Scala
5 3 (4.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (4.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (19.18%) Degree
2 12 (16.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (6.85%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.37%) CBAP
5 1 (1.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (28.77%) Data Quality
2 11 (15.07%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) SLA
4 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.37%) PMO
Systems Management
1 10 (13.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (42.47%) Databricks
2 15 (20.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.11%) Google
3 3 (4.11%) Palantir
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle
5 1 (1.37%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.37%) Dell
5 1 (1.37%) Foundry