Data Engineer Jobs in the North West

Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Data Engineer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 181 171
Rank change year-on-year +85 -10 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 251 117 177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.52% 1.52% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.66% 1.70% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 194 74 69
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,544 £38,947
25th Percentile £42,500 £44,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £72,850 £87,100
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 West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,423 6,901 9,036
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 89.46% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 7,243 4,025 5,366
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Manchester +76 139 £60,000 +12.15% 28
Merseyside +51 56 £85,000 +21.43% 4
Cheshire -2 23 £35,000 -28.21% 2
Lancashire -8 19 £42,500 -9.57% 1
Cumbria +5 13 £40,000 -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 127 (50.60%) ETL
2 121 (48.21%) SQL
3 114 (45.42%) Azure
4 110 (43.82%) Data Engineering
5 109 (43.43%) Python
6 104 (41.43%) Agile
7 96 (38.25%) Data Modelling
8 95 (37.85%) Data Pipeline
9 81 (32.27%) SQL Server
10 79 (31.47%) Data Quality
11 77 (30.68%) Data Warehouse
12 76 (30.28%) Analytics
13 74 (29.48%) DevOps
14 69 (27.49%) Data Science
15 61 (24.30%) Databricks
16 60 (23.90%) Problem-Solving
17 57 (22.71%) Data Structures
18 55 (21.91%) Informatica
19 53 (21.12%) Data Analysis
20 51 (20.32%) DataOps
21 50 (19.92%) JIRA
21 50 (19.92%) Data Integration
21 50 (19.92%) Azure DevOps
22 49 (19.52%) Analytical Skills
23 48 (19.12%) Data Management
24 47 (18.73%) GCP
25 45 (17.93%) Mentoring
25 45 (17.93%) Scaled Agile Framework
26 44 (17.53%) Data Lake
26 44 (17.53%) Visualisation

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (5.18%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.78%) Apache
3 10 (3.98%) Confluence
4 5 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Synapse
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 114 (45.42%) Azure
2 50 (19.92%) Azure DevOps
3 47 (18.73%) GCP
4 40 (15.94%) Power Platform
5 37 (14.74%) AWS
6 30 (11.95%) Snowflake
7 22 (8.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (8.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 16 (6.37%) Amazon S3
10 15 (5.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 15 (5.98%) Matillion
11 14 (5.58%) dbt
12 9 (3.59%) Serverless
13 8 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (2.39%) Collibra
14 6 (2.39%) Fivetran
14 6 (2.39%) GitHub
15 5 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
15 5 (1.99%) Google Analytics
15 5 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.19%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.59%) Firewall
2 4 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.80%) WebEx
4 1 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.40%) DMZ
4 1 (0.40%) LAN
4 1 (0.40%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.40%) WAN
4 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (32.27%) SQL Server
2 77 (30.68%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (17.53%) Data Lake
4 41 (16.33%) Data Vault
5 40 (15.94%) Power BI
6 38 (15.14%) BigQuery
7 33 (13.15%) Looker
8 27 (10.76%) Delta Lake
9 18 (7.17%) Tableau
10 17 (6.77%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (5.98%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (5.98%) Star Schema
12 13 (5.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (4.78%) Relational Database
14 11 (4.38%) Data Mining
15 10 (3.98%) Big Data
16 7 (2.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 6 (2.39%) Metadata
18 5 (1.99%) Airbyte
18 5 (1.99%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 50 (19.92%) JIRA
2 15 (5.98%) GitLab
3 6 (2.39%) Git
4 5 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.99%) Spinnaker
4 5 (1.99%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 49 (19.52%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (12.35%) Finance
3 30 (11.95%) Social Skills
4 11 (4.38%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.39%) Law
6 6 (2.39%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.99%) Banking
8 4 (1.59%) Retail
9 2 (0.80%) Back Office
9 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Electronics
10 1 (0.40%) Legal
10 1 (0.40%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.95%) PySpark
2 7 (2.79%) Kafka
3 6 (2.39%) PyTorch
3 6 (2.39%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.99%) Apache Beam
5 4 (1.59%) RESTful
6 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (0.80%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (0.80%) Pandas
8 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.40%) JSON
8 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (22.71%) Data Structures
2 43 (17.13%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (16.73%) Public Cloud
4 41 (16.33%) Reinsurance
5 9 (3.59%) CCTV
6 7 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.99%) Blog
8 5 (1.99%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.99%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.99%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.99%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.59%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.59%) Fibre Optics
10 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.20%) NHS
11 1 (0.40%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.59%) Windows
1 4 (1.59%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.80%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (50.60%) ETL
2 110 (43.82%) Data Engineering
3 104 (41.43%) Agile
4 96 (38.25%) Data Modelling
5 95 (37.85%) Data Pipeline
6 76 (30.28%) Analytics
7 74 (29.48%) DevOps
8 69 (27.49%) Data Science
9 60 (23.90%) Problem-Solving
10 53 (21.12%) Data Analysis
11 51 (20.32%) DataOps
12 50 (19.92%) Data Integration
13 48 (19.12%) Data Management
14 45 (17.93%) Mentoring
14 45 (17.93%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 44 (17.53%) Scrum
15 44 (17.53%) Visualisation
16 39 (15.54%) Business Intelligence
17 38 (15.14%) Platform Engineering
18 37 (14.74%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 121 (48.21%) SQL
2 109 (43.43%) Python
3 19 (7.57%) T-SQL
4 11 (4.38%) Java
5 8 (3.19%) PL/SQL
5 8 (3.19%) Scala
6 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.80%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.40%) C#
7 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (5.18%) Degree
2 7 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (1.59%) Azure Certification
4 4 (1.59%) CCNA
4 4 (1.59%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.40%) CCNP
6 1 (0.40%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (31.47%) Data Quality
2 29 (11.55%) GDPR
3 5 (1.99%) QA
4 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) Def Stans
System Software
1 3 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.79%) Terraform
2 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 61 (24.30%) Databricks
2 55 (21.91%) Informatica
3 42 (16.73%) Oracle
4 39 (15.54%) Google
5 30 (11.95%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.39%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.39%) F5
7 5 (1.99%) Teradata
7 5 (1.99%) YouTube
8 2 (0.80%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.40%) Arista
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco
9 1 (0.40%) SAP
9 1 (0.40%) Sun
9 1 (0.40%) Workday