Data Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Data Engineer salary in the North of England is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 239 226
Rank change year-on-year +119 -13 -33
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 392 199 278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.08% 1.23% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% 1.38% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 293 162 126
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,947
25th Percentile £43,750 £47,500 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £85,000 £74,688 £82,125
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,125 £85,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 17,953 14,401 17,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.20% 89.25% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,711 7,947 10,940
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,627 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
North West +104 255 £60,000 +9.09% 67
Yorkshire +67 84 £51,000 -23.96% 20
North East +17 53 £71,500 +10.00% 10
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 190 (48.47%) Data Engineering
2 185 (47.19%) ETL
3 173 (44.13%) SQL
4 156 (39.80%) Python
5 152 (38.78%) Data Pipeline
6 148 (37.76%) Agile
6 148 (37.76%) Azure
7 133 (33.93%) Data Modelling
8 115 (29.34%) Data Quality
8 115 (29.34%) Data Science
9 114 (29.08%) DevOps
10 106 (27.04%) Analytics
11 104 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
12 101 (25.77%) Data Warehouse
13 93 (23.72%) SQL Server
14 92 (23.47%) Mentoring
15 90 (22.96%) GCP
16 86 (21.94%) Analytical Skills
16 86 (21.94%) Databricks
17 83 (21.17%) Data Integration
18 82 (20.92%) DataOps
19 80 (20.41%) BigQuery
20 77 (19.64%) Self-Motivation
21 74 (18.88%) Google
22 68 (17.35%) Data Lake
23 67 (17.09%) Platform Engineering
24 65 (16.58%) Social Skills
24 65 (16.58%) Looker
25 64 (16.33%) Data Structures
26 62 (15.82%) Informatica

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 18 (4.59%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.34%) Apache Spark
3 16 (4.08%) Apache
4 9 (2.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 148 (37.76%) Azure
2 90 (22.96%) GCP
3 61 (15.56%) AWS
4 57 (14.54%) Power Platform
5 56 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 38 (9.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 38 (9.69%) Snowflake
7 31 (7.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (6.89%) dbt
9 25 (6.38%) Amazon S3
10 18 (4.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 18 (4.59%) Matillion
11 15 (3.83%) Amazon Kinesis
12 14 (3.57%) SaaS
12 14 (3.57%) Serverless
13 10 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
15 6 (1.53%) Fivetran
16 5 (1.28%) GitHub
16 5 (1.28%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.55%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (1.28%) Firewall
3 4 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.51%) WebEx
5 1 (0.26%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.26%) DMZ
5 1 (0.26%) LAN
5 1 (0.26%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.26%) WAN
5 1 (0.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (25.77%) Data Warehouse
2 93 (23.72%) SQL Server
3 80 (20.41%) BigQuery
4 68 (17.35%) Data Lake
5 65 (16.58%) Looker
6 55 (14.03%) Power BI
7 44 (11.22%) Data Vault
8 32 (8.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 28 (7.14%) Delta Lake
10 21 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (5.10%) Tableau
12 19 (4.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (4.59%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (4.59%) Star Schema
14 17 (4.34%) Data Mining
15 12 (3.06%) Big Data
15 12 (3.06%) Relational Database
16 10 (2.55%) Azure SQL Database
17 8 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
17 8 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (13.01%) JIRA
2 19 (4.85%) GitLab
3 12 (3.06%) Git
4 7 (1.79%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.51%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (21.94%) Analytical Skills
2 65 (16.58%) Social Skills
3 39 (9.95%) Finance
4 17 (4.34%) Marketing
4 17 (4.34%) Retail
5 13 (3.32%) Games
6 11 (2.81%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.79%) Banking
9 6 (1.53%) Law
9 6 (1.53%) Telecoms
10 2 (0.51%) Aviation
10 2 (0.51%) Back Office
10 2 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.51%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.26%) Legal
11 1 (0.26%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (9.69%) PySpark
2 7 (1.79%) Kafka
2 7 (1.79%) TensorFlow
3 6 (1.53%) PyTorch
4 5 (1.28%) Apache Beam
5 3 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.77%) RESTful
6 2 (0.51%) .NET
6 2 (0.51%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (0.51%) Handlebars
6 2 (0.51%) JSON
6 2 (0.51%) Pandas
6 2 (0.51%) XML
7 1 (0.26%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.26%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 77 (19.64%) Self-Motivation
2 64 (16.33%) Data Structures
3 43 (10.97%) Public Cloud
4 42 (10.71%) Reinsurance
5 17 (4.34%) SCADA
6 16 (4.08%) Operational Technology
7 13 (3.32%) Client/Server
7 13 (3.32%) Online Games
8 10 (2.55%) CCTV
9 8 (2.04%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.04%) Management Information System
10 7 (1.79%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.53%) Data Centre
11 6 (1.53%) Onboarding
12 5 (1.28%) Blog
12 5 (1.28%) Mainframe
13 4 (1.02%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.02%) Fibre Optics
14 3 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
14 3 (0.77%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 21 (5.36%) Windows
1 21 (5.36%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (48.47%) Data Engineering
2 185 (47.19%) ETL
3 152 (38.78%) Data Pipeline
4 148 (37.76%) Agile
5 133 (33.93%) Data Modelling
6 115 (29.34%) Data Science
7 114 (29.08%) DevOps
8 106 (27.04%) Analytics
9 104 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
10 92 (23.47%) Mentoring
11 83 (21.17%) Data Integration
12 82 (20.92%) DataOps
13 67 (17.09%) Platform Engineering
14 60 (15.31%) Change Management
15 58 (14.80%) Business Intelligence
15 58 (14.80%) Data Analysis
16 55 (14.03%) CI/CD
16 55 (14.03%) Machine Learning
17 54 (13.78%) Data Management
18 49 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 173 (44.13%) SQL
2 156 (39.80%) Python
3 21 (5.36%) T-SQL
4 13 (3.32%) Java
5 12 (3.06%) Scala
6 8 (2.04%) C#
7 6 (1.53%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.51%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.51%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.51%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.26%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (7.65%) Degree
2 7 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.53%) DBS Check
4 5 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (1.02%) CCNA
5 4 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (0.77%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.26%) CCNP
7 1 (0.26%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (29.34%) Data Quality
2 59 (15.05%) GDPR
3 5 (1.28%) QA
4 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.26%) Def Stans
System Software
1 16 (4.08%) Hyper-V
1 16 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.02%) Docker
3 1 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 13 (3.32%) Terraform
2 6 (1.53%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.26%) Oozie
Vendors
1 86 (21.94%) Databricks
2 74 (18.88%) Google
3 62 (15.82%) Informatica
4 45 (11.48%) Microsoft
5 43 (10.97%) Oracle
6 16 (4.08%) VMware
7 6 (1.53%) Dataiku
7 6 (1.53%) F5
8 5 (1.28%) Teradata
8 5 (1.28%) YouTube
9 2 (0.51%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.51%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.26%) Arista
10 1 (0.26%) Cisco
10 1 (0.26%) Facebook
10 1 (0.26%) Sage
10 1 (0.26%) Sun
10 1 (0.26%) Workday