Data Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 158 246
Rank change year-on-year -34 +88 +39
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 1,041 1,342 1,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.45% 2.28% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 2.38% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 499 433 508
10th Percentile £38,500 £39,544 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,249 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.40% -7.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile £79,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £86,250 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,837 56,365 67,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.55% 95.59% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 41,306 29,082 41,028
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
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% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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 -33 317 £60,000 -0.97% 35
South East +32 199 £67,500 -3.57% 73
Midlands -35 186 £58,400 +6.18% 31
North West -32 176 £54,500 +3.81% 21
South West -26 149 £75,000 +20.00% 29
Scotland -36 119 £70,000 +16.67% 7
West Midlands -39 118 £60,733 +10.42% 23
Yorkshire -32 87 £65,066 -0.44% 8
East Midlands +8 66 £45,000 -18.18% 8
North East +19 54 £75,000 +15.38% 6
East of England -49 43 £70,000 +21.74% 7
Wales -4 19 £97,500 +118.29% 5
Northern Ireland +22 9 £55,000 - 5
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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 89 (8.55%) Apache Spark
2 32 (3.07%) Apache
3 30 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.92%) Confluence
5 17 (1.63%) Jupyter
5 17 (1.63%) nginx
6 4 (0.38%) SAS
7 1 (0.096%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 466 (44.76%) Azure
2 444 (42.65%) GCP
3 353 (33.91%) AWS
4 165 (15.85%) Power Platform
5 112 (10.76%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (9.13%) Snowflake
7 92 (8.84%) Azure Data Factory
8 63 (6.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 48 (4.61%) Amazon S3
10 41 (3.94%) dbt
11 37 (3.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 32 (3.07%) Matillion
13 24 (2.31%) Serverless
14 17 (1.63%) MinIO
14 17 (1.63%) OpenShift
15 16 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (1.44%) SaaS
17 14 (1.34%) Amazon Kinesis
17 14 (1.34%) Microsoft 365
18 13 (1.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.38%) Firewall
2 3 (0.29%) VoIP
2 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.19%) Broadband
3 2 (0.19%) LAN
3 2 (0.19%) WAN
3 2 (0.19%) Wireless
4 1 (0.096%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.096%) 5G
4 1 (0.096%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (38.42%) Data Warehouse
2 371 (35.64%) BigQuery
3 337 (32.37%) Looker
4 165 (15.85%) Power BI
5 154 (14.79%) Data Lake
6 111 (10.66%) SQL Server
7 57 (5.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 56 (5.38%) Big Data
9 55 (5.28%) Tableau
10 43 (4.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 43 (4.13%) Relational Database
11 39 (3.75%) Hadoop
12 37 (3.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 36 (3.46%) Star Schema
14 34 (3.27%) Metadata
15 30 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
16 24 (2.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 21 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
18 20 (1.92%) MySQL
19 17 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (3.94%) GitLab
2 39 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 24 (2.31%) Git
3 24 (2.31%) JIRA
4 17 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (0.48%) Spinnaker
6 4 (0.38%) ERwin
7 3 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.19%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.096%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.096%) Toad
General
1 400 (38.42%) Analytical Skills
2 194 (18.64%) Finance
3 146 (14.02%) Social Skills
4 107 (10.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (6.92%) Billing
6 66 (6.34%) Law
7 57 (5.48%) Marketing
8 46 (4.42%) Banking
9 40 (3.84%) Retail
10 30 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (2.31%) Games
11 24 (2.31%) Public Sector
12 18 (1.73%) Legal
13 13 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.96%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (0.48%) Electronics
16 5 (0.48%) Manufacturing
16 5 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.38%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 498 (47.84%) Data Engineer
2 159 (15.27%) Platform Engineer
3 158 (15.18%) Principal Data Engineer
3 158 (15.18%) Principal Engineer
4 143 (13.74%) Data Manager
5 137 (13.16%) Architect
6 129 (12.39%) Lead
7 127 (12.20%) Data Architect
8 121 (11.62%) Senior
9 118 (11.34%) Engineering Manager
10 66 (6.34%) Lead Data Engineer
11 61 (5.86%) Software Engineer
12 48 (4.61%) Senior Data Engineer
13 42 (4.03%) Azure Engineer
14 37 (3.55%) Senior Software Engineer
15 34 (3.27%) Lead Software Engineer
16 33 (3.17%) Developer
17 28 (2.69%) Azure Data Engineer
18 27 (2.59%) Security Engineer
19 25 (2.40%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (5.09%) PySpark
2 33 (3.17%) React
3 28 (2.69%) Kafka
4 24 (2.31%) AngularJS
4 24 (2.31%) Spring
5 21 (2.02%) TensorFlow
6 19 (1.83%) ActiveMQ
7 18 (1.73%) Apache NiFi
8 17 (1.63%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
8 17 (1.63%) YAML
9 15 (1.44%) Keras
9 15 (1.44%) NumPy
10 13 (1.25%) Apache Beam
10 13 (1.25%) JPA
10 13 (1.25%) REST
11 12 (1.15%) RESTful
12 11 (1.06%) Hibernate
12 11 (1.06%) SOAP
12 11 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 284 (27.28%) Self-Motivation
2 98 (9.41%) Product Ownership
3 58 (5.57%) Algorithms
4 56 (5.38%) Data Structures
5 50 (4.80%) Cloud Native
6 25 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.54%) Reference Data
9 15 (1.44%) Taxonomies
10 13 (1.25%) Client/Server
11 12 (1.15%) Public Cloud
12 11 (1.06%) Onboarding
13 10 (0.96%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.86%) Online Games
14 9 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
15 8 (0.77%) IoT
15 8 (0.77%) NHS
16 5 (0.48%) e-Learning
16 5 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.07%) Linux
2 9 (0.86%) Windows
3 4 (0.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.096%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.096%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (46.97%) Problem-Solving
2 474 (45.53%) Agile
3 447 (42.94%) ETL
4 435 (41.79%) Data Modelling
5 370 (35.54%) Mentoring
6 360 (34.58%) Platform Engineering
7 352 (33.81%) DevOps
8 350 (33.62%) Data Pipeline
9 346 (33.24%) Analytics
10 341 (32.76%) Data Science
11 221 (21.23%) Data Governance
12 219 (21.04%) CI/CD
13 212 (20.37%) Business Intelligence
14 193 (18.54%) Data Architecture
15 175 (16.81%) DataOps
16 174 (16.71%) Data Integration
17 172 (16.52%) Machine Learning
18 168 (16.14%) Change Management
19 149 (14.31%) Visualisation
20 116 (11.14%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 346 (33.24%) SQL
2 305 (29.30%) Python
3 110 (10.57%) Java
4 46 (4.42%) T-SQL
5 38 (3.65%) Scala
6 22 (2.11%) Shell Script
7 19 (1.83%) C#
8 18 (1.73%) Bash
9 15 (1.44%) MATLAB
10 13 (1.25%) Go
11 10 (0.96%) R
12 8 (0.77%) Perl
12 8 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.77%) Ruby
13 7 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.58%) C
14 6 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.58%) VBA
15 3 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 103 (9.89%) Degree
2 58 (5.57%) Security Cleared
3 41 (3.94%) DV Cleared
4 36 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (3.27%) DBS Check
6 20 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.73%) Azure Certification
8 17 (1.63%) SC Cleared
9 13 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.58%) MBA
10 6 (0.58%) PhD
11 5 (0.48%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.38%) OCP
12 4 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
12 4 (0.38%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.29%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 304 (29.20%) Data Quality
2 267 (25.65%) GDPR
3 89 (8.55%) QA
4 16 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.19%) COBIT
7 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.096%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (4.03%) Docker
2 7 (0.67%) IAG
3 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.096%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.096%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 53 (5.09%) Kubernetes
1 53 (5.09%) Terraform
2 22 (2.11%) Ansible
3 17 (1.63%) Grafana
3 17 (1.63%) HAProxy
3 17 (1.63%) Prometheus
4 7 (0.67%) SysTrack
5 1 (0.096%) Oozie
5 1 (0.096%) Podman
5 1 (0.096%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.096%) Puppet
Vendors
1 379 (36.41%) Google
2 128 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 108 (10.37%) Databricks
4 44 (4.23%) Oracle
5 19 (1.83%) Informatica
6 17 (1.63%) Teradata
7 7 (0.67%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.67%) Snow
8 6 (0.58%) Alteryx
8 6 (0.58%) Dataiku
8 6 (0.58%) F5
9 5 (0.48%) SAP
10 4 (0.38%) Talend
11 3 (0.29%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.29%) SnapLogic
12 1 (0.096%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.096%) Cognos
12 1 (0.096%) ESRI