Data Engineer Jobs in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer salary in England is £65,000 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 165 172 155
Rank change year-on-year +7 -17 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,561 1,851 3,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.72% 2.20% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 2.41% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 1,468 1,870
10th Percentile £33,981 £47,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £127,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,182 76,808 135,607
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.28% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,611 49,955 75,079
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,082 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the England 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
London -31 591 £75,000 -11.76% 225
North of England +119 392 £55,000 -15.38% 97
North West +104 255 £60,000 +9.09% 65
South East -39 168 £47,500 -24.00% 30
Midlands +24 162 £55,000 +4.76% 34
South West -20 152 £62,500 -7.41% 34
West Midlands -2 118 £57,500 +9.52% 26
Yorkshire +67 84 £51,000 -23.96% 20
East of England +57 72 £55,000 -12.00% 8
North East +17 53 £71,500 +10.00% 12
East Midlands +10 42 £47,500 -13.64% 8
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

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 England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 771 (49.39%) SQL
2 731 (46.83%) Python
3 667 (42.73%) Data Engineering
4 618 (39.59%) Azure
5 590 (37.80%) Data Pipeline
6 585 (37.48%) ETL
7 440 (28.19%) Data Modelling
7 440 (28.19%) Data Science
8 431 (27.61%) Analytics
9 419 (26.84%) Data Warehouse
10 406 (26.01%) Agile
11 372 (23.83%) AWS
12 370 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
13 361 (23.13%) GCP
14 343 (21.97%) DevOps
15 315 (20.18%) Databricks
15 315 (20.18%) Data Quality
16 309 (19.80%) Business Intelligence
17 302 (19.35%) Mentoring
17 302 (19.35%) Social Skills
18 286 (18.32%) Power Platform
19 282 (18.07%) Power BI
20 280 (17.94%) Data Lake
21 251 (16.08%) SQL Server
22 248 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
23 239 (15.31%) Finance
24 238 (15.25%) BigQuery
25 237 (15.18%) Google
26 227 (14.54%) CI/CD
27 213 (13.65%) Platform Engineering

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 136 (8.71%) Apache Spark
2 103 (6.60%) Apache Airflow
3 100 (6.41%) Apache
4 17 (1.09%) nginx
5 16 (1.02%) Jupyter
6 13 (0.83%) Confluence
7 6 (0.38%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.32%) Luigi
9 4 (0.26%) SAS
10 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.064%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.064%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 24 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.064%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.064%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.064%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.064%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 618 (39.59%) Azure
2 372 (23.83%) AWS
3 361 (23.13%) GCP
4 286 (18.32%) Power Platform
5 186 (11.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 149 (9.55%) Snowflake
7 143 (9.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 104 (6.66%) dbt
9 103 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
10 99 (6.34%) Amazon S3
11 69 (4.42%) Serverless
12 49 (3.14%) GitHub
13 44 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 41 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (2.63%) SaaS
15 36 (2.31%) Matillion
16 34 (2.18%) Amazon EMR
17 30 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
18 21 (1.35%) Fivetran
19 19 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 50 (3.20%) Structured Cabling
2 17 (1.09%) Network Security
3 14 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (0.70%) Wireless
5 6 (0.38%) Firewall
6 5 (0.32%) LAN
7 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.26%) FTP
7 4 (0.26%) WAN
8 2 (0.13%) 5G
8 2 (0.13%) PPP
8 2 (0.13%) WebEx
9 1 (0.064%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.064%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.064%) DMZ
9 1 (0.064%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.064%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.064%) snoop
9 1 (0.064%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 419 (26.84%) Data Warehouse
2 282 (18.07%) Power BI
3 280 (17.94%) Data Lake
4 251 (16.08%) SQL Server
5 238 (15.25%) BigQuery
6 171 (10.95%) Looker
7 132 (8.46%) Big Data
8 100 (6.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 96 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 79 (5.06%) Hadoop
11 75 (4.80%) NoSQL
12 74 (4.74%) Relational Database
12 74 (4.74%) Tableau
13 65 (4.16%) Azure SQL Database
14 63 (4.04%) Data Vault
15 62 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
16 44 (2.82%) Delta Lake
17 41 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 40 (2.56%) Star Schema
19 39 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 72 (4.61%) Git
2 63 (4.04%) JIRA
3 52 (3.33%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.82%) GitLab
5 16 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 10 (0.64%) CircleCI
7 9 (0.58%) Spinnaker
8 7 (0.45%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.38%) RStudio
10 4 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.19%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.13%) MLflow
12 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.064%) GoCD
13 1 (0.064%) Gradle
13 1 (0.064%) Mockito
13 1 (0.064%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.064%) TeamCity
General
1 302 (19.35%) Social Skills
2 248 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
3 239 (15.31%) Finance
4 114 (7.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (4.36%) Retail
6 61 (3.91%) Banking
7 40 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 39 (2.50%) Games
8 39 (2.50%) Public Sector
9 37 (2.37%) Legal
10 31 (1.99%) Marketing
11 26 (1.67%) Law
12 17 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.09%) Manufacturing
13 12 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (0.70%) Aerospace
14 11 (0.70%) Publishing
15 9 (0.58%) Front Office
15 9 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
16 8 (0.51%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (9.87%) PySpark
2 67 (4.29%) Kafka
3 40 (2.56%) Pandas
4 20 (1.28%) Apache Beam
4 20 (1.28%) Apache NiFi
4 20 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
5 19 (1.22%) ActiveMQ
6 17 (1.09%) RabbitMQ
7 16 (1.02%) YAML
8 15 (0.96%) RESTful
9 12 (0.77%) AWS CDK
9 12 (0.77%) HTML
9 12 (0.77%) JSON
9 12 (0.77%) PyTorch
9 12 (0.77%) TensorFlow
9 12 (0.77%) XML
10 11 (0.70%) .NET
10 11 (0.70%) NumPy
11 10 (0.64%) REST
12 9 (0.58%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 196 (12.56%) Self-Motivation
2 133 (8.52%) Data Structures
3 51 (3.27%) Public Cloud
4 48 (3.07%) Reinsurance
5 42 (2.69%) Algorithms
6 34 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
7 33 (2.11%) Cloud Native
8 29 (1.86%) Driving Licence
9 25 (1.60%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.54%) Onboarding
11 21 (1.35%) Client/Server
11 21 (1.35%) Product Ownership
12 20 (1.28%) IoT
13 19 (1.22%) CCTV
14 17 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (1.09%) SCADA
15 16 (1.02%) Fibre Optics
15 16 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
15 16 (1.02%) NHS
15 16 (1.02%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 63 (4.04%) Linux
2 32 (2.05%) Windows
3 24 (1.54%) Unix
3 24 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.26%) Android
4 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.26%) CentOS
4 4 (0.26%) Solaris
4 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (42.73%) Data Engineering
2 590 (37.80%) Data Pipeline
3 585 (37.48%) ETL
4 440 (28.19%) Data Modelling
4 440 (28.19%) Data Science
5 431 (27.61%) Analytics
6 406 (26.01%) Agile
7 370 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
8 343 (21.97%) DevOps
9 309 (19.80%) Business Intelligence
10 302 (19.35%) Mentoring
11 227 (14.54%) CI/CD
12 213 (13.65%) Platform Engineering
13 210 (13.45%) Data Integration
14 187 (11.98%) Machine Learning
15 183 (11.72%) DataOps
16 148 (9.48%) Change Management
17 139 (8.90%) Visualisation
18 127 (8.14%) Data Management
19 126 (8.07%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 771 (49.39%) SQL
2 731 (46.83%) Python
3 110 (7.05%) Java
4 79 (5.06%) T-SQL
5 73 (4.68%) Scala
6 39 (2.50%) C#
7 30 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 28 (1.79%) R
9 20 (1.28%) Bash
9 20 (1.28%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.28%) Shell Script
10 14 (0.90%) PowerShell
11 12 (0.77%) VBA
12 11 (0.70%) PL/SQL
12 11 (0.70%) U-SQL
13 8 (0.51%) C
13 8 (0.51%) Go
14 6 (0.38%) PHP
15 5 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 181 (11.60%) Degree
2 57 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 52 (3.33%) Security Cleared
4 33 (2.11%) Master's Degree
4 33 (2.11%) SC Cleared
5 31 (1.99%) DBS Check
6 27 (1.73%) DV Cleared
7 21 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.45%) CISSP
11 4 (0.26%) CCNA
11 4 (0.26%) CISM
11 4 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.19%) CCSK
12 3 (0.19%) CCSP
12 3 (0.19%) PhD
13 2 (0.13%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 315 (20.18%) Data Quality
2 159 (10.19%) GDPR
3 18 (1.15%) QA
4 15 (0.96%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.26%) NIST
5 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.064%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.064%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.064%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.064%) NCSC
6 1 (0.064%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 78 (5.00%) Docker
2 16 (1.02%) Hyper-V
2 16 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.58%) HDFS
4 3 (0.19%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.064%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.064%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.064%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 123 (7.88%) Terraform
2 83 (5.32%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.86%) Ansible
4 17 (1.09%) Grafana
5 16 (1.02%) HAProxy
5 16 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.38%) logstash
7 3 (0.19%) CASB
8 2 (0.13%) Argo
8 2 (0.13%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.13%) Marathon
8 2 (0.13%) Mesos
9 1 (0.064%) Kibana
9 1 (0.064%) Oozie
9 1 (0.064%) Podman
Vendors
1 315 (20.18%) Databricks
2 237 (15.18%) Google
3 175 (11.21%) Microsoft
4 83 (5.32%) Informatica
5 73 (4.68%) Oracle
6 17 (1.09%) Alteryx
6 17 (1.09%) VMware
7 16 (1.02%) YouTube
8 15 (0.96%) Cloudera
9 11 (0.70%) Dataiku
9 11 (0.70%) Teradata
10 10 (0.64%) MuleSoft
11 8 (0.51%) Splunk
12 7 (0.45%) SAP
13 6 (0.38%) F5
13 6 (0.38%) Talend
14 4 (0.26%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.26%) Qualys
14 4 (0.26%) SnapLogic
15 3 (0.19%) Siemens