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 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 164 265 226
Rank change year-on-year +101 -39 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,273 750 1,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.68% 1.33% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 1.49% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 700 572 678
10th Percentile £31,000 £41,550 £38,947
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,647 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £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 72,166 50,263 70,760
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.90% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,782 29,433 42,686
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 1 June 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 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 of England +119 392 £55,000 -15.38% 97
Scotland +82 300 £65,000 +8.33% 24
North West +104 255 £60,000 +9.09% 67
South East -39 168 £47,500 -24.00% 29
Midlands +24 162 £55,000 +4.76% 33
South West -20 152 £62,500 -7.41% 31
West Midlands -2 118 £57,500 +9.52% 25
Yorkshire +67 84 £51,000 -23.96% 20
East of England +57 72 £55,000 -12.00% 7
North East +17 53 £71,500 +10.00% 10
East Midlands +10 42 £47,500 -13.64% 8
Northern Ireland - 15 £55,000 - 6
Wales +3 13 £46,131 +3.28% 5
Data Engineer
UK

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

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

1 562 (44.15%) Python
2 554 (43.52%) Agile
3 504 (39.59%) SQL
4 489 (38.41%) Data Engineering
5 422 (33.15%) Data Pipeline
6 384 (30.16%) ETL
7 381 (29.93%) Azure
8 379 (29.77%) CI/CD
9 360 (28.28%) AWS
9 360 (28.28%) Data Modelling
10 335 (26.32%) Finance
10 335 (26.32%) Data Science
11 311 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
12 302 (23.72%) Analytics
13 299 (23.49%) Mentoring
14 295 (23.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 284 (22.31%) GCP
16 280 (22.00%) DevOps
17 275 (21.60%) Big Data
18 267 (20.97%) Software Engineering
19 265 (20.82%) Data Warehouse
20 264 (20.74%) Machine Learning
21 249 (19.56%) Apache Spark
22 243 (19.09%) Law
23 241 (18.93%) Databricks
23 241 (18.93%) Data Quality
24 232 (18.22%) Data Lake
25 215 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
26 206 (16.18%) Artificial Intelligence
27 205 (16.10%) Business 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
1 249 (19.56%) Apache Spark
2 112 (8.80%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (4.40%) Apache
4 17 (1.34%) nginx
5 16 (1.26%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.79%) Confluence
7 2 (0.16%) Luigi
7 2 (0.16%) SAS
8 1 (0.079%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.079%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.079%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 381 (29.93%) Azure
2 360 (28.28%) AWS
3 284 (22.31%) GCP
4 175 (13.75%) Power Platform
5 106 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 93 (7.31%) Snowflake
7 80 (6.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 72 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
9 57 (4.48%) Amazon S3
10 42 (3.30%) dbt
11 36 (2.83%) SaaS
12 34 (2.67%) Serverless
13 32 (2.51%) Matillion
14 30 (2.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 26 (2.04%) GitHub
16 21 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (1.57%) Amazon Kinesis
18 18 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
19 16 (1.26%) MinIO
19 16 (1.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.75%) Structured Cabling
2 16 (1.26%) DSL
3 11 (0.86%) Wireless
4 10 (0.79%) Network Security
4 10 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.39%) Firewall
5 5 (0.39%) LAN
6 4 (0.31%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.31%) FTP
6 4 (0.31%) WAN
7 2 (0.16%) 5G
7 2 (0.16%) WebEx
8 1 (0.079%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.079%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.079%) DMZ
8 1 (0.079%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.079%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.079%) snoop
8 1 (0.079%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 275 (21.60%) Big Data
2 265 (20.82%) Data Warehouse
3 232 (18.22%) Data Lake
4 202 (15.87%) BigQuery
5 197 (15.48%) SQL Server
6 173 (13.59%) Power BI
7 170 (13.35%) Looker
8 91 (7.15%) Hadoop
9 71 (5.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 61 (4.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 58 (4.56%) Tableau
12 57 (4.48%) NoSQL
13 47 (3.69%) Apache Hive
14 46 (3.61%) Data Vault
15 45 (3.53%) Relational Database
16 42 (3.30%) Qlik Sense
17 38 (2.99%) Delta Lake
18 36 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
19 34 (2.67%) Star Schema
20 33 (2.59%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 65 (5.11%) Git
2 58 (4.56%) Jenkins
3 53 (4.16%) JIRA
4 39 (3.06%) GitLab
5 30 (2.36%) Bitbucket Server
6 16 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (0.47%) RStudio
8 4 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.16%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.079%) ERwin
11 1 (0.079%) Subversion
11 1 (0.079%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.079%) Toad
11 1 (0.079%) Zephyr
General
1 335 (26.32%) Finance
2 295 (23.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 243 (19.09%) Law
4 215 (16.89%) Analytical Skills
5 191 (15.00%) Social Skills
6 187 (14.69%) Legal
7 93 (7.31%) Marketing
8 43 (3.38%) Retail
9 33 (2.59%) Banking
10 31 (2.44%) Games
10 31 (2.44%) Public Sector
11 25 (1.96%) Telecoms
12 16 (1.26%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.26%) Investment Banking
13 13 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.79%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.39%) Automotive
17 5 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (13.75%) PySpark
2 77 (6.05%) Kafka
3 41 (3.22%) Spring
3 41 (3.22%) Spring Boot
4 19 (1.49%) ActiveMQ
4 19 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (1.41%) Apache NiFi
6 16 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
6 16 (1.26%) YAML
7 15 (1.18%) RESTful
8 13 (1.02%) Pandas
9 10 (0.79%) GraphQL
10 9 (0.71%) Apache Beam
11 7 (0.55%) HTML
11 7 (0.55%) JSON
11 7 (0.55%) PyTorch
11 7 (0.55%) REST
11 7 (0.55%) TensorFlow
11 7 (0.55%) XML
12 5 (0.39%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 197 (15.48%) Self-Motivation
2 158 (12.41%) Algorithms
3 122 (9.58%) Cloud Native
4 119 (9.35%) Data Structures
5 73 (5.73%) Public Cloud
6 60 (4.71%) Onboarding
7 45 (3.53%) Reinsurance
8 41 (3.22%) Legacy Code
9 36 (2.83%) Product Ownership
10 35 (2.75%) Management Information System
11 19 (1.49%) Client/Server
12 18 (1.41%) CCTV
12 18 (1.41%) Driving Licence
13 17 (1.34%) SCADA
14 16 (1.26%) Fibre Optics
14 16 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (1.26%) Operational Technology
15 14 (1.10%) IoT
16 13 (1.02%) Data Centre
16 13 (1.02%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 40 (3.14%) Linux
2 36 (2.83%) Unix
3 23 (1.81%) Windows
4 22 (1.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 554 (43.52%) Agile
2 489 (38.41%) Data Engineering
3 422 (33.15%) Data Pipeline
4 384 (30.16%) ETL
5 379 (29.77%) CI/CD
6 360 (28.28%) Data Modelling
7 335 (26.32%) Data Science
8 311 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
9 302 (23.72%) Analytics
10 299 (23.49%) Mentoring
11 280 (22.00%) DevOps
12 267 (20.97%) Software Engineering
13 264 (20.74%) Machine Learning
14 206 (16.18%) Artificial Intelligence
15 205 (16.10%) Business Intelligence
15 205 (16.10%) SDLC
16 201 (15.79%) Visualisation
17 188 (14.77%) Operational Stability
18 179 (14.06%) DataOps
18 179 (14.06%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 562 (44.15%) Python
2 504 (39.59%) SQL
3 156 (12.25%) Java
4 70 (5.50%) Scala
5 56 (4.40%) PL/SQL
6 51 (4.01%) T-SQL
7 21 (1.65%) C#
8 18 (1.41%) Bash
9 16 (1.26%) JavaScript
9 16 (1.26%) R
9 16 (1.26%) Shell Script
10 13 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.47%) C
11 6 (0.47%) PHP
12 4 (0.31%) Go
12 4 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (0.31%) SPARQL
13 3 (0.24%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.16%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.079%) C++
Qualifications
1 128 (10.05%) Degree
2 41 (3.22%) Security Cleared
3 30 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (1.96%) DV Cleared
5 22 (1.73%) SC Cleared
6 20 (1.57%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.34%) DBS Check
8 14 (1.10%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.31%) CCNA
11 4 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.16%) HNC
13 1 (0.079%) CCNP
13 1 (0.079%) HND
13 1 (0.079%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.079%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.079%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (18.93%) Data Quality
2 164 (12.88%) GDPR
3 31 (2.44%) SLA
4 10 (0.79%) QA
5 8 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.079%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.079%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.079%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.079%) NCSC
6 1 (0.079%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (2.99%) Docker
2 32 (2.51%) HDFS
3 16 (1.26%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.079%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 91 (7.15%) Kubernetes
2 82 (6.44%) Terraform
3 20 (1.57%) Ansible
4 16 (1.26%) Grafana
4 16 (1.26%) HAProxy
4 16 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.079%) Oozie
Vendors
1 241 (18.93%) Databricks
2 204 (16.03%) Google
3 125 (9.82%) Microsoft
4 107 (8.41%) Informatica
5 74 (5.81%) Oracle
6 63 (4.95%) Alteryx
7 16 (1.26%) Cognos
7 16 (1.26%) Sybase
7 16 (1.26%) VMware
8 10 (0.79%) Teradata
9 9 (0.71%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.55%) Dataiku
10 7 (0.55%) SAP
10 7 (0.55%) YouTube
11 6 (0.47%) F5
11 6 (0.47%) Splunk
12 5 (0.39%) Talend
13 3 (0.24%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.24%) Siemens
13 3 (0.24%) SnapLogic