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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 253 229
Rank change year-on-year +85 -24 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,312 735 1,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.66% 1.32% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 1.49% 1.74%
Number of salaries quoted 743 569 681
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,500 £38,947
25th Percentile £40,250 £47,500 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,250 £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 74,927 49,444 72,458
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 88.83% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 52,326 29,284 42,904
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 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 9 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 9 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 +130 423 £55,000 -15.38% 97
Scotland +90 296 £65,750 +9.58% 24
North West +113 274 £60,000 +9.09% 60
South East -33 175 £51,250 -18.00% 30
Midlands +6 165 £55,000 +4.76% 31
South West -15 155 £62,500 -7.41% 32
West Midlands +2 122 £57,500 +9.52% 22
Yorkshire +81 92 £51,000 -25.90% 24
East of England +45 71 £55,000 -12.00% 6
North East +15 57 £71,500 +10.00% 13
East Midlands -5 41 £47,500 -13.64% 7
Northern Ireland - 15 £55,000 - 5
Wales +7 13 £46,131 +3.28% 4
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 563 (42.91%) Python
2 548 (41.77%) Agile
3 503 (38.34%) SQL
4 495 (37.73%) Data Engineering
5 423 (32.24%) Data Pipeline
6 392 (29.88%) Azure
7 391 (29.80%) ETL
8 375 (28.58%) CI/CD
9 360 (27.44%) Data Modelling
10 353 (26.91%) AWS
11 334 (25.46%) Data Science
12 330 (25.15%) Finance
13 307 (23.40%) Analytics
13 307 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
14 299 (22.79%) Mentoring
15 287 (21.88%) DevOps
16 286 (21.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 284 (21.65%) GCP
18 271 (20.66%) Data Warehouse
19 264 (20.12%) Software Engineering
20 263 (20.05%) Big Data
21 255 (19.44%) Machine Learning
22 246 (18.75%) Data Quality
23 244 (18.60%) Apache Spark
24 241 (18.37%) Databricks
25 233 (17.76%) Law
26 231 (17.61%) Data Lake
27 213 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
28 204 (15.55%) Google
28 204 (15.55%) Visualisation

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
1 244 (18.60%) Apache Spark
2 112 (8.54%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (4.27%) Apache
4 17 (1.30%) nginx
5 16 (1.22%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.76%) Confluence
7 2 (0.15%) Luigi
7 2 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.076%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.076%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.076%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.076%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 392 (29.88%) Azure
2 353 (26.91%) AWS
3 284 (21.65%) GCP
4 181 (13.80%) Power Platform
5 112 (8.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 92 (7.01%) Snowflake
7 82 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 79 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (4.27%) Amazon S3
10 42 (3.20%) dbt
11 36 (2.74%) SaaS
12 33 (2.52%) Serverless
13 32 (2.44%) Matillion
14 30 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 27 (2.06%) GitHub
16 20 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (1.45%) Amazon Kinesis
18 17 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
19 16 (1.22%) MinIO
19 16 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 37 (2.82%) Structured Cabling
2 18 (1.37%) Network Security
3 13 (0.99%) DSL
4 11 (0.84%) Wireless
5 10 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.46%) Firewall
7 5 (0.38%) LAN
8 4 (0.30%) Ethernet
8 4 (0.30%) FTP
8 4 (0.30%) WAN
9 2 (0.15%) 5G
9 2 (0.15%) WebEx
10 1 (0.076%) 3GPP
10 1 (0.076%) Cisco IOS
10 1 (0.076%) DMZ
10 1 (0.076%) NX-OS
10 1 (0.076%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.076%) snoop
10 1 (0.076%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (20.66%) Data Warehouse
2 263 (20.05%) Big Data
3 231 (17.61%) Data Lake
4 202 (15.40%) BigQuery
5 197 (15.02%) SQL Server
6 179 (13.64%) Power BI
7 170 (12.96%) Looker
8 87 (6.63%) Hadoop
9 73 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 61 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 56 (4.27%) NoSQL
12 55 (4.19%) Tableau
13 47 (3.58%) Data Vault
14 46 (3.51%) Apache Hive
15 43 (3.28%) Relational Database
16 42 (3.20%) Qlik Sense
17 37 (2.82%) Delta Lake
18 36 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
19 35 (2.67%) Data Mining
20 34 (2.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 64 (4.88%) Git
2 57 (4.34%) Jenkins
3 54 (4.12%) JIRA
4 39 (2.97%) GitLab
5 30 (2.29%) Bitbucket Server
6 16 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (0.46%) RStudio
8 4 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.076%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.076%) ERwin
11 1 (0.076%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.076%) Subversion
11 1 (0.076%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.076%) Toad
11 1 (0.076%) Zephyr
General
1 330 (25.15%) Finance
2 286 (21.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 233 (17.76%) Law
4 213 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
5 193 (14.71%) Social Skills
6 180 (13.72%) Legal
7 90 (6.86%) Marketing
8 43 (3.28%) Retail
9 31 (2.36%) Games
9 31 (2.36%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.21%) Banking
11 25 (1.91%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.07%) Manufacturing
13 13 (0.99%) Financial Institution
13 13 (0.99%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.76%) Aerospace
16 7 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.38%) Automotive
17 5 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (13.57%) PySpark
2 74 (5.64%) Kafka
3 37 (2.82%) Spring
3 37 (2.82%) Spring Boot
4 19 (1.45%) ActiveMQ
4 19 (1.45%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (1.37%) Apache NiFi
6 16 (1.22%) RabbitMQ
6 16 (1.22%) RESTful
6 16 (1.22%) YAML
7 13 (0.99%) Pandas
8 10 (0.76%) GraphQL
9 9 (0.69%) Apache Beam
10 8 (0.61%) HTML
11 7 (0.53%) REST
11 7 (0.53%) TensorFlow
12 6 (0.46%) JSON
12 6 (0.46%) PyTorch
12 6 (0.46%) XML
13 5 (0.38%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 197 (15.02%) Self-Motivation
2 151 (11.51%) Algorithms
3 123 (9.38%) Data Structures
4 113 (8.61%) Cloud Native
5 71 (5.41%) Public Cloud
6 56 (4.27%) Onboarding
7 48 (3.66%) Reinsurance
8 37 (2.82%) Legacy Code
9 32 (2.44%) Management Information System
9 32 (2.44%) Product Ownership
10 19 (1.45%) Client/Server
11 18 (1.37%) CCTV
11 18 (1.37%) Driving Licence
12 17 (1.30%) SCADA
13 16 (1.22%) Fibre Optics
13 16 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (1.22%) Operational Technology
14 15 (1.14%) Data Centre
15 14 (1.07%) IoT
16 13 (0.99%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.13%) Linux
2 36 (2.74%) Unix
3 24 (1.83%) Windows
4 23 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (41.77%) Agile
2 495 (37.73%) Data Engineering
3 423 (32.24%) Data Pipeline
4 391 (29.80%) ETL
5 375 (28.58%) CI/CD
6 360 (27.44%) Data Modelling
7 334 (25.46%) Data Science
8 307 (23.40%) Analytics
8 307 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
9 299 (22.79%) Mentoring
10 287 (21.88%) DevOps
11 264 (20.12%) Software Engineering
12 255 (19.44%) Machine Learning
13 204 (15.55%) Visualisation
14 203 (15.47%) Business Intelligence
15 199 (15.17%) Artificial Intelligence
16 198 (15.09%) SDLC
17 182 (13.87%) Operational Stability
18 180 (13.72%) DataOps
19 179 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 563 (42.91%) Python
2 503 (38.34%) SQL
3 149 (11.36%) Java
4 67 (5.11%) Scala
5 53 (4.04%) PL/SQL
6 50 (3.81%) T-SQL
7 21 (1.60%) C#
8 18 (1.37%) Bash
9 17 (1.30%) JavaScript
10 16 (1.22%) R
10 16 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 14 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.46%) C
12 6 (0.46%) PHP
13 4 (0.30%) Go
13 4 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.30%) SPARQL
14 2 (0.15%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.15%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.076%) C++
Qualifications
1 129 (9.83%) Degree
2 41 (3.13%) Security Cleared
3 32 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (1.91%) DV Cleared
5 22 (1.68%) SC Cleared
6 19 (1.45%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.37%) DBS Check
8 14 (1.07%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.30%) CCNA
11 4 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.15%) HNC
13 1 (0.076%) CCNP
13 1 (0.076%) HND
13 1 (0.076%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.076%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 164 (12.50%) GDPR
3 28 (2.13%) SLA
4 12 (0.91%) QA
5 8 (0.61%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.076%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.076%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.076%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.076%) NCSC
6 1 (0.076%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (2.82%) Docker
2 32 (2.44%) HDFS
3 16 (1.22%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.076%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.076%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 88 (6.71%) Kubernetes
2 82 (6.25%) Terraform
3 20 (1.52%) Ansible
4 16 (1.22%) Grafana
4 16 (1.22%) HAProxy
4 16 (1.22%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.076%) Oozie
Vendors
1 241 (18.37%) Databricks
2 204 (15.55%) Google
3 129 (9.83%) Microsoft
4 115 (8.77%) Informatica
5 71 (5.41%) Oracle
6 60 (4.57%) Alteryx
7 16 (1.22%) VMware
8 13 (0.99%) Cognos
8 13 (0.99%) Sybase
9 10 (0.76%) MuleSoft
9 10 (0.76%) Teradata
10 7 (0.53%) Dataiku
10 7 (0.53%) SAP
10 7 (0.53%) Splunk
10 7 (0.53%) YouTube
11 6 (0.46%) F5
11 6 (0.46%) Talend
12 4 (0.30%) TIBCO
13 3 (0.23%) Cloudera
13 3 (0.23%) Siemens