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 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 94 200 179
Rank change year-on-year +106 -21 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 253 96 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.40% 1.29% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.53% 1.44% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 197 76 70
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,947
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,537 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% +0.87%
75th Percentile £87,500 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,000 £87,050
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 9,996 6,664 9,234
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 89.33% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,607 3,989 5,410
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,110 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,804 £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 £78,750 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +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 31 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 31 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 +83 139 £60,000 - 36
Merseyside +59 59 £85,000 +21.43% 10
Cheshire +1 23 £35,000 -30.00% 4
Lancashire -10 17 £49,000 +5.27% 13
Cumbria - 14 £47,500 - 1
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 124 (49.01%) ETL
2 120 (47.43%) SQL
3 113 (44.66%) Azure
4 110 (43.48%) Python
5 105 (41.50%) Data Engineering
6 102 (40.32%) Agile
7 100 (39.53%) Data Modelling
8 98 (38.74%) Data Pipeline
9 84 (33.20%) SQL Server
10 82 (32.41%) Data Quality
11 81 (32.02%) Analytics
12 75 (29.64%) Data Warehouse
13 72 (28.46%) DevOps
14 69 (27.27%) Data Science
15 64 (25.30%) Databricks
16 60 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
16 60 (23.72%) Data Structures
17 59 (23.32%) Informatica
18 55 (21.74%) Data Analysis
19 53 (20.95%) Azure DevOps
20 52 (20.55%) Data Integration
21 51 (20.16%) DataOps
22 50 (19.76%) JIRA
23 48 (18.97%) Data Management
23 48 (18.97%) Scrum
23 48 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
24 46 (18.18%) GCP
24 46 (18.18%) Data Lake
25 44 (17.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
25 44 (17.39%) Mentoring

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 14 (5.53%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.14%) Apache
3 8 (3.16%) Confluence
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 113 (44.66%) Azure
2 53 (20.95%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (18.18%) GCP
4 42 (16.60%) Power Platform
5 36 (14.23%) AWS
6 30 (11.86%) Snowflake
7 22 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (7.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (5.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 15 (5.93%) Matillion
10 14 (5.53%) Amazon S3
10 14 (5.53%) dbt
11 6 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.37%) Fivetran
11 6 (2.37%) Serverless
12 5 (1.98%) Google Analytics
13 4 (1.58%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.58%) GitHub
14 3 (1.19%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 3 (1.19%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.16%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (1.58%) Firewall
2 4 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.79%) 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 84 (33.20%) SQL Server
2 75 (29.64%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (18.18%) Data Lake
4 42 (16.60%) Data Vault
4 42 (16.60%) Power BI
5 38 (15.02%) BigQuery
6 33 (13.04%) Looker
7 26 (10.28%) Delta Lake
8 18 (7.11%) Tableau
9 17 (6.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (5.93%) Elasticsearch
10 15 (5.93%) Star Schema
11 14 (5.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (4.74%) Data Mining
13 11 (4.35%) Relational Database
14 10 (3.95%) Big Data
15 8 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (2.77%) Azure SQL Database
17 5 (1.98%) Airbyte
17 5 (1.98%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 50 (19.76%) JIRA
2 15 (5.93%) GitLab
3 7 (2.77%) Git
4 2 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.79%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (11.46%) Social Skills
3 26 (10.28%) Finance
4 8 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (2.77%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.37%) Law
7 5 (1.98%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.58%) Retail
9 2 (0.79%) Back Office
9 2 (0.79%) Banking
9 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Legal
10 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.65%) PySpark
2 6 (2.37%) Kafka
2 6 (2.37%) PyTorch
2 6 (2.37%) TensorFlow
3 5 (1.98%) Apache Beam
4 3 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.19%) RESTful
5 2 (0.79%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (0.79%) Pandas
6 1 (0.40%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 60 (23.72%) Data Structures
2 43 (17.00%) Public Cloud
2 43 (17.00%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (16.60%) Reinsurance
4 9 (3.56%) CCTV
5 6 (2.37%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.37%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.98%) Blog
6 5 (1.98%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.98%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.58%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.58%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.19%) NHS
9 2 (0.79%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.40%) FMCG
10 1 (0.40%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.58%) Windows
1 4 (1.58%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (49.01%) ETL
2 105 (41.50%) Data Engineering
3 102 (40.32%) Agile
4 100 (39.53%) Data Modelling
5 98 (38.74%) Data Pipeline
6 81 (32.02%) Analytics
7 72 (28.46%) DevOps
8 69 (27.27%) Data Science
9 60 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (21.74%) Data Analysis
11 52 (20.55%) Data Integration
12 51 (20.16%) DataOps
13 48 (18.97%) Data Management
13 48 (18.97%) Scrum
14 44 (17.39%) Mentoring
14 44 (17.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 41 (16.21%) Visualisation
16 40 (15.81%) Machine Learning
17 39 (15.42%) Business Intelligence
17 39 (15.42%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 120 (47.43%) SQL
2 110 (43.48%) Python
3 19 (7.51%) T-SQL
4 13 (5.14%) Java
5 10 (3.95%) Scala
6 6 (2.37%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (5.14%) Degree
2 6 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (1.58%) CCNA
4 4 (1.58%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.19%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.40%) CCNP
7 1 (0.40%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (32.41%) Data Quality
2 29 (11.46%) GDPR
3 5 (1.98%) QA
4 4 (1.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) Def Stans
System Software
1 3 (1.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.77%) Terraform
2 1 (0.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 64 (25.30%) Databricks
2 59 (23.32%) Informatica
3 43 (17.00%) Oracle
4 38 (15.02%) Google
5 31 (12.25%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.37%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.37%) F5
7 5 (1.98%) Teradata
7 5 (1.98%) YouTube
8 2 (0.79%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.40%) Arista
9 1 (0.40%) Cisco
9 1 (0.40%) Sun
9 1 (0.40%) Workday