Data Engineering Jobs in the North West

Data Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 121 180
Rank change year-on-year +56 +59 +43
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 362 215 174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.21% 2.95% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 3.09% 1.85%
Number of salaries quoted 121 40 74
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,544 £36,150
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,625 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £77,818 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,012 6,962 9,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 79.84% 95.57% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,577 3,849 5,316
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.20%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Manchester +38 224 £58,750 +6.82% 28
Lancashire +42 99 £68,000 +19.08% 8
Cheshire -12 18 £35,000 -36.36% 3
Merseyside -2 10 £40,000 -37.25% 1
Cumbria - 10 £55,000 - 1
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 20 (5.52%) Confluence
2 17 (4.70%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.21%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 91 (25.14%) Azure
2 60 (16.57%) GCP
3 55 (15.19%) Power Platform
4 36 (9.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 33 (9.12%) Snowflake
6 28 (7.73%) AWS
7 25 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (6.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 19 (5.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 19 (5.25%) dbt
10 15 (4.14%) Matillion
11 11 (3.04%) Amazon S3
12 6 (1.66%) Fivetran
12 6 (1.66%) GitHub
13 5 (1.38%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.38%) Cloud Composer
13 5 (1.38%) Google Analytics
13 5 (1.38%) IaaS
13 5 (1.38%) PaaS
14 4 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.66%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (18.51%) Data Warehouse
2 55 (15.19%) Power BI
3 49 (13.54%) BigQuery
4 47 (12.98%) Looker
5 46 (12.71%) Data Lake
6 38 (10.50%) SQL Server
7 26 (7.18%) Tableau
8 15 (4.14%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (4.14%) Star Schema
9 12 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (3.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (2.76%) Data Mining
12 7 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.93%) Big Data
12 7 (1.93%) Metadata
12 7 (1.93%) NoSQL
13 6 (1.66%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.38%) MySQL
14 5 (1.38%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 21 (5.80%) JIRA
2 20 (5.52%) GitLab
3 8 (2.21%) Git
4 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.28%) Spinnaker
General
1 190 (52.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 59 (16.30%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (5.80%) Finance
4 17 (4.70%) Social Skills
5 7 (1.93%) Law
6 5 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (0.83%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.55%) Back Office
8 2 (0.55%) Banking
8 2 (0.55%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.28%) Legal
9 1 (0.28%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.28%) Retail
9 1 (0.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 112 (30.94%) Data Engineer
2 81 (22.38%) Architect
3 71 (19.61%) Lead
4 65 (17.96%) Software Engineer
5 62 (17.13%) Programmer
5 62 (17.13%) Software Architect
5 62 (17.13%) Software Programmer
6 58 (16.02%) Lead Software Engineer
7 35 (9.67%) Platform Engineer
8 32 (8.84%) Principal Data Engineer
8 32 (8.84%) Principal Engineer
8 32 (8.84%) Senior
9 23 (6.35%) Senior Data Engineer
10 15 (4.14%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (4.14%) Data Architect
11 14 (3.87%) Developer
12 10 (2.76%) Lead Data Engineer
13 9 (2.49%) Cloud Engineer
13 9 (2.49%) SQL Developer
14 8 (2.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.04%) PySpark
2 6 (1.66%) PyTorch
2 6 (1.66%) TensorFlow
3 5 (1.38%) .NET
3 5 (1.38%) Apache Beam
3 5 (1.38%) Kafka
4 4 (1.10%) React
5 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.55%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (0.55%) Pandas
7 1 (0.28%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 186 (51.38%) Cyberattack
2 50 (13.81%) Self-Motivation
3 22 (6.08%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.59%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.76%) Mainframe
6 8 (2.21%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.66%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.66%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.10%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.55%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.55%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.28%) FMCG
12 1 (0.28%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.66%) Windows
1 6 (1.66%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (72.10%) Agile
2 257 (70.99%) Problem-Solving
3 239 (66.02%) Mentoring
4 229 (63.26%) Machine Learning
5 192 (53.04%) Software Engineering
6 189 (52.21%) User Experience
7 186 (51.38%) Creative Thinking
7 186 (51.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 92 (25.41%) Data Pipeline
9 75 (20.72%) ETL
10 73 (20.17%) Analytics
11 63 (17.40%) DevOps
12 58 (16.02%) Data Science
13 53 (14.64%) Data Modelling
14 50 (13.81%) Visualisation
15 44 (12.15%) Business Intelligence
15 44 (12.15%) Platform Engineering
16 41 (11.33%) DataOps
17 40 (11.05%) CI/CD
18 39 (10.77%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 85 (23.48%) SQL
2 63 (17.40%) Python
3 16 (4.42%) T-SQL
4 14 (3.87%) Java
5 12 (3.31%) Scala
6 5 (1.38%) Perl
6 5 (1.38%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.28%) C#
8 1 (0.28%) C++
8 1 (0.28%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (2.21%) Azure Certification
1 8 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (1.93%) Degree
3 5 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.38%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.83%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.05%) Data Quality
2 38 (10.50%) GDPR
3 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (0.55%) IAG
Systems Management
1 9 (2.49%) Terraform
2 5 (1.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.83%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 53 (14.64%) Google
2 37 (10.22%) Microsoft
3 23 (6.35%) Databricks
4 10 (2.76%) Teradata
5 9 (2.49%) Informatica
6 6 (1.66%) Dataiku
6 6 (1.66%) F5
7 4 (1.10%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.83%) Snow
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle