Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £57,500 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 165 219 214
Rank change year-on-year +54 -5 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,251 951 1,252
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.75% 1.61% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.81% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 672 577 693
10th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £38,947
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,828 52,627 68,668
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.17% 95.75%
Number of salaries quoted 47,933 30,028 42,497
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £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 £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +89 386 £55,000 -8.33% 59
Scotland +79 307 £65,000 +8.33% 14
North West +85 251 £60,000 +15.38% 36
South East -56 159 £48,000 -23.20% 86
Midlands 0 157 £55,000 +3.29% 32
South West -29 147 £62,500 -5.24% 33
West Midlands +10 113 £57,500 +9.52% 26
Yorkshire +58 83 £51,000 -23.88% 15
East of England +29 69 £57,500 -8.00% 19
North East +4 52 £72,000 +10.77% 8
East Midlands +4 42 £47,500 -13.64% 6
Wales +7 14 £46,131 +3.28% 9
Northern Ireland +35 13 £60,000 - 15
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 573 (45.80%) Python
2 570 (45.56%) Agile
3 513 (41.01%) SQL
4 498 (39.81%) Data Engineering
5 422 (33.73%) Data Pipeline
6 393 (31.41%) ETL
7 387 (30.94%) CI/CD
8 383 (30.62%) Azure
9 375 (29.98%) AWS
10 365 (29.18%) Data Modelling
11 352 (28.14%) Finance
12 336 (26.86%) Data Science
13 310 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
14 306 (24.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 302 (24.14%) Mentoring
16 293 (23.42%) Analytics
17 288 (23.02%) GCP
18 286 (22.86%) DevOps
18 286 (22.86%) Big Data
19 269 (21.50%) Data Warehouse
20 268 (21.42%) Software Engineering
21 265 (21.18%) Machine Learning
22 257 (20.54%) Law
23 255 (20.38%) Apache Spark
24 244 (19.50%) Databricks
25 233 (18.63%) Data Quality
26 232 (18.55%) Data Lake
27 215 (17.19%) SDLC
28 214 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
29 209 (16.71%) Artificial Intelligence

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 255 (20.38%) Apache Spark
2 113 (9.03%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (4.40%) Apache
4 18 (1.44%) nginx
5 17 (1.36%) Jupyter
6 12 (0.96%) Confluence
7 2 (0.16%) SAS
8 1 (0.080%) Apache Synapse
8 1 (0.080%) Luigi
Applications
1 9 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.080%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.080%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.080%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.080%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 383 (30.62%) Azure
2 375 (29.98%) AWS
3 288 (23.02%) GCP
4 168 (13.43%) Power Platform
5 104 (8.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 92 (7.35%) Snowflake
7 78 (6.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 69 (5.52%) Azure DevOps
9 62 (4.96%) Amazon S3
10 41 (3.28%) dbt
11 37 (2.96%) Serverless
12 34 (2.72%) SaaS
13 32 (2.56%) Matillion
14 30 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 28 (2.24%) GitHub
16 24 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
17 22 (1.76%) Amazon Kinesis
18 21 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
19 17 (1.36%) MinIO
19 17 (1.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.64%) Structured Cabling
2 18 (1.44%) DSL
3 11 (0.88%) Wireless
4 10 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.40%) LAN
6 4 (0.32%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.32%) Firewall
6 4 (0.32%) FTP
6 4 (0.32%) WAN
7 2 (0.16%) 5G
7 2 (0.16%) WebEx
8 1 (0.080%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.080%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.080%) DMZ
8 1 (0.080%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.080%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.080%) snoop
8 1 (0.080%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 286 (22.86%) Big Data
2 269 (21.50%) Data Warehouse
3 232 (18.55%) Data Lake
4 206 (16.47%) BigQuery
5 194 (15.51%) SQL Server
6 170 (13.59%) Looker
7 166 (13.27%) Power BI
8 94 (7.51%) Hadoop
9 71 (5.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 64 (5.12%) Amazon Redshift
11 59 (4.72%) Tableau
12 56 (4.48%) NoSQL
13 49 (3.92%) Apache Hive
14 48 (3.84%) Relational Database
15 45 (3.60%) Data Vault
16 42 (3.36%) Qlik Sense
17 39 (3.12%) Delta Lake
18 37 (2.96%) Star Schema
19 34 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
20 31 (2.48%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 65 (5.20%) Jenkins
2 63 (5.04%) Git
3 53 (4.24%) JIRA
4 40 (3.20%) GitLab
5 30 (2.40%) Bitbucket Server
6 17 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 9 (0.72%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.48%) RStudio
8 6 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (0.40%) Spinnaker
10 4 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
13 1 (0.080%) ERwin
13 1 (0.080%) Subversion
13 1 (0.080%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.080%) Toad
13 1 (0.080%) Zephyr
General
1 352 (28.14%) Finance
2 306 (24.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 257 (20.54%) Law
4 214 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
5 194 (15.51%) Legal
6 190 (15.19%) Social Skills
7 99 (7.91%) Marketing
8 43 (3.44%) Retail
9 40 (3.20%) Banking
10 35 (2.80%) Public Sector
11 31 (2.48%) Games
12 26 (2.08%) Telecoms
13 18 (1.44%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.44%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.12%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.80%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.40%) Electronics
17 5 (0.40%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (13.75%) PySpark
2 81 (6.47%) Kafka
3 43 (3.44%) Spring
3 43 (3.44%) Spring Boot
4 20 (1.60%) ActiveMQ
4 20 (1.60%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (1.52%) Apache NiFi
6 17 (1.36%) RabbitMQ
6 17 (1.36%) RESTful
6 17 (1.36%) YAML
7 12 (0.96%) Pandas
8 11 (0.88%) GraphQL
9 9 (0.72%) Apache Beam
10 8 (0.64%) JSON
10 8 (0.64%) PyTorch
10 8 (0.64%) XML
11 7 (0.56%) REST
11 7 (0.56%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.40%) AWS CDK
12 5 (0.40%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 197 (15.75%) Self-Motivation
2 161 (12.87%) Algorithms
3 131 (10.47%) Cloud Native
4 115 (9.19%) Data Structures
5 78 (6.24%) Public Cloud
6 63 (5.04%) Onboarding
7 44 (3.52%) Product Ownership
8 43 (3.44%) Legacy Code
9 42 (3.36%) Reinsurance
10 37 (2.96%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.52%) Client/Server
12 18 (1.44%) CCTV
12 18 (1.44%) Driving Licence
13 17 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
13 17 (1.36%) SCADA
14 16 (1.28%) Fibre Optics
14 16 (1.28%) Operational Technology
15 14 (1.12%) IoT
16 13 (1.04%) Online Games
17 12 (0.96%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 39 (3.12%) Linux
2 36 (2.88%) Unix
3 22 (1.76%) Windows
4 21 (1.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (45.56%) Agile
2 498 (39.81%) Data Engineering
3 422 (33.73%) Data Pipeline
4 393 (31.41%) ETL
5 387 (30.94%) CI/CD
6 365 (29.18%) Data Modelling
7 336 (26.86%) Data Science
8 310 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
9 302 (24.14%) Mentoring
10 293 (23.42%) Analytics
11 286 (22.86%) DevOps
12 268 (21.42%) Software Engineering
13 265 (21.18%) Machine Learning
14 215 (17.19%) SDLC
15 209 (16.71%) Artificial Intelligence
16 206 (16.47%) Business Intelligence
17 198 (15.83%) Operational Stability
17 198 (15.83%) Visualisation
18 180 (14.39%) Platform Engineering
19 178 (14.23%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 573 (45.80%) Python
2 513 (41.01%) SQL
3 161 (12.87%) Java
4 75 (6.00%) Scala
5 61 (4.88%) PL/SQL
6 53 (4.24%) T-SQL
7 23 (1.84%) C#
8 19 (1.52%) Bash
9 17 (1.36%) Shell Script
10 16 (1.28%) R
11 13 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 13 (1.04%) JavaScript
12 8 (0.64%) PowerShell
13 6 (0.48%) C
13 6 (0.48%) PHP
14 5 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (0.32%) Go
15 4 (0.32%) SPARQL
16 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.16%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 125 (9.99%) Degree
2 43 (3.44%) Security Cleared
3 28 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
4 26 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 22 (1.76%) SC Cleared
6 21 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.36%) Azure Certification
8 15 (1.20%) DBS Check
9 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.32%) CCNA
11 4 (0.32%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.16%) HNC
12 2 (0.16%) PhD
13 1 (0.080%) CCNP
13 1 (0.080%) HND
13 1 (0.080%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.080%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (18.63%) Data Quality
2 163 (13.03%) GDPR
3 35 (2.80%) SLA
4 10 (0.80%) QA
5 9 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.080%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.080%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.080%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.080%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (3.20%) Docker
2 32 (2.56%) HDFS
3 16 (1.28%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.080%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.080%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 97 (7.75%) Kubernetes
2 84 (6.71%) Terraform
3 21 (1.68%) Ansible
4 17 (1.36%) Grafana
4 17 (1.36%) HAProxy
4 17 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.080%) Oozie
Vendors
1 244 (19.50%) Databricks
2 206 (16.47%) Google
3 124 (9.91%) Microsoft
4 103 (8.23%) Informatica
5 75 (6.00%) Oracle
6 65 (5.20%) Alteryx
7 18 (1.44%) Cognos
7 18 (1.44%) Sybase
8 16 (1.28%) VMware
9 10 (0.80%) Teradata
10 9 (0.72%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.64%) SAP
12 7 (0.56%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.56%) YouTube
13 6 (0.48%) F5
14 5 (0.40%) Talend
15 4 (0.32%) Splunk
16 3 (0.24%) Cloudera
16 3 (0.24%) Siemens
16 3 (0.24%) SnapLogic