Data Engineering Jobs in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 143 156
Rank change year-on-year -26 +13 +98
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 1,532 2,172 3,850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.68% 2.58% 2.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.70% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 841 1,023 1,401
10th Percentile £41,492 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £59,375 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +18.52%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £130,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 76,066 80,344 135,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.60% 95.49% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,107 48,707 73,448
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,294
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
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 Engineering 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 -61 506 £82,500 -2.94% 241
North of England +15 411 £60,000 -7.69% 69
North West +22 262 £55,000 - 47
South East +46 201 £67,500 -3.57% 41
Midlands -27 189 £57,500 +4.55% 30
South West -5 152 £75,288 +12.79% 18
West Midlands -48 120 £59,300 +7.82% 19
Yorkshire -20 89 £65,066 -2.99% 16
East Midlands +10 67 £45,000 -21.74% 11
North East +39 60 £75,000 +15.38% 6
East of England -18 43 £75,000 +30.43% 7
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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
1 135 (8.81%) Apache Spark
2 96 (6.27%) Apache
3 86 (5.61%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.83%) Confluence
5 22 (1.44%) SAS
6 19 (1.24%) Jupyter
7 16 (1.04%) nginx
8 5 (0.33%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.20%) Luigi
10 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.20%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.20%) SPSS
5 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.065%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.065%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 689 (44.97%) Azure
2 515 (33.62%) GCP
3 488 (31.85%) AWS
4 255 (16.64%) Power Platform
5 167 (10.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 135 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
7 129 (8.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 127 (8.29%) Snowflake
9 94 (6.14%) Amazon S3
10 81 (5.29%) dbt
11 49 (3.20%) Serverless
12 46 (3.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 38 (2.48%) GitHub
14 34 (2.22%) Matillion
15 33 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
16 32 (2.09%) SaaS
17 26 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
17 26 (1.70%) Amazon Kinesis
18 18 (1.17%) Fivetran
19 16 (1.04%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.39%) Firewall
2 4 (0.26%) Network Security
3 3 (0.20%) VoIP
3 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.13%) Broadband
4 2 (0.13%) LAN
4 2 (0.13%) WAN
4 2 (0.13%) Wireless
5 1 (0.065%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.065%) 5G
5 1 (0.065%) PPP
5 1 (0.065%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 540 (35.25%) Data Warehouse
2 392 (25.59%) BigQuery
3 350 (22.85%) Looker
4 253 (16.51%) Power BI
5 234 (15.27%) Data Lake
6 146 (9.53%) SQL Server
7 121 (7.90%) Big Data
8 106 (6.92%) Tableau
9 86 (5.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 70 (4.57%) Hadoop
11 64 (4.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 61 (3.98%) NoSQL
13 50 (3.26%) Metadata
13 50 (3.26%) Relational Database
14 49 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
15 39 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
15 39 (2.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 39 (2.55%) Star Schema
16 38 (2.48%) Amazon Athena
16 38 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 76 (4.96%) Git
2 54 (3.52%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.00%) GitLab
4 35 (2.28%) JIRA
5 16 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (0.72%) Spinnaker
7 9 (0.59%) CircleCI
8 8 (0.52%) ERwin
9 6 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.33%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.26%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.26%) MLflow
11 4 (0.26%) Snakemake
12 3 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.065%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.065%) Mockito
13 1 (0.065%) Selenium
13 1 (0.065%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.065%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.065%) Toad
General
1 487 (31.79%) Analytical Skills
2 246 (16.06%) Social Skills
3 206 (13.45%) Finance
4 194 (12.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (4.44%) Banking
6 65 (4.24%) Billing
7 64 (4.18%) Retail
8 48 (3.13%) Legal
9 38 (2.48%) Law
10 32 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (1.96%) Games
12 24 (1.57%) Public Sector
13 23 (1.50%) Marketing
14 22 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
15 18 (1.17%) Front Office
16 12 (0.78%) Investment Banking
17 10 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (0.59%) Manufacturing
18 9 (0.59%) Publishing
18 9 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 667 (43.54%) Data Engineer
2 211 (13.77%) Senior
3 207 (13.51%) Architect
4 177 (11.55%) Principal Engineer
5 173 (11.29%) Data Manager
6 165 (10.77%) Principal Data Engineer
7 164 (10.70%) Lead
8 158 (10.31%) Platform Engineer
9 151 (9.86%) Data Architect
10 136 (8.88%) Engineering Manager
11 128 (8.36%) Senior Data Engineer
12 73 (4.77%) Lead Data Engineer
13 70 (4.57%) Azure Engineer
14 64 (4.18%) Software Engineer
15 59 (3.85%) Developer
16 51 (3.33%) Analyst
16 51 (3.33%) Azure Data Engineer
17 45 (2.94%) Python Engineer
18 39 (2.55%) Lead Software Engineer
18 39 (2.55%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (6.40%) PySpark
2 51 (3.33%) Kafka
3 33 (2.15%) Pandas
4 32 (2.09%) NumPy
5 28 (1.83%) TensorFlow
6 27 (1.76%) Apache Beam
7 23 (1.50%) RabbitMQ
8 22 (1.44%) .NET
9 20 (1.31%) ActiveMQ
9 20 (1.31%) YAML
10 18 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
10 18 (1.17%) PyTorch
11 16 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
11 16 (1.04%) Keras
12 13 (0.85%) React
12 13 (0.85%) SciPy
13 11 (0.72%) AngularJS
13 11 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (0.59%) HTML
14 9 (0.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 296 (19.32%) Self-Motivation
2 116 (7.57%) Cyberattack
3 99 (6.46%) Product Ownership
4 88 (5.74%) Data Structures
5 58 (3.79%) Cloud Native
6 55 (3.59%) Algorithms
7 46 (3.00%) Management Information System
8 37 (2.42%) Onboarding
9 23 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
10 21 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
11 16 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (0.98%) Client/Server
13 14 (0.91%) NHS
14 13 (0.85%) IoT
14 13 (0.85%) Taxonomies
15 12 (0.78%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.65%) Mainframe
16 10 (0.65%) Reference Data
17 9 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
17 9 (0.59%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 41 (2.68%) Linux
2 11 (0.72%) Windows
3 6 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.26%) Unix
5 1 (0.065%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (43.60%) Problem-Solving
2 619 (40.40%) Agile
3 589 (38.45%) Data Modelling
4 566 (36.95%) ETL
5 543 (35.44%) Mentoring
6 494 (32.25%) Analytics
7 488 (31.85%) Data Pipeline
8 443 (28.92%) Data Science
9 396 (25.85%) DevOps
10 371 (24.22%) Platform Engineering
11 341 (22.26%) Machine Learning
12 333 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
13 284 (18.54%) Data Governance
14 283 (18.47%) CI/CD
15 257 (16.78%) Data Architecture
16 250 (16.32%) Data Integration
17 221 (14.43%) Visualisation
18 209 (13.64%) Software Engineering
19 182 (11.88%) DataOps
20 166 (10.84%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 630 (41.12%) SQL
2 568 (37.08%) Python
3 124 (8.09%) Java
4 76 (4.96%) Scala
5 56 (3.66%) T-SQL
6 48 (3.13%) R
7 35 (2.28%) C#
8 30 (1.96%) MATLAB
9 22 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 22 (1.44%) Go
9 22 (1.44%) Shell Script
10 20 (1.31%) Bash
11 15 (0.98%) PowerShell
12 11 (0.72%) C
13 10 (0.65%) JavaScript
13 10 (0.65%) VBA
14 8 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.52%) Perl
14 8 (0.52%) Ruby
14 8 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 165 (10.77%) Degree
2 65 (4.24%) Security Cleared
3 61 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (2.81%) DBS Check
5 42 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 37 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 28 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 27 (1.76%) SC Cleared
9 22 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (0.98%) PhD
11 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.46%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.39%) MBA
14 4 (0.26%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.20%) PMP
16 2 (0.13%) MCP
17 1 (0.065%) MCSE
17 1 (0.065%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (21.61%) Data Quality
2 280 (18.28%) GDPR
3 98 (6.40%) QA
4 26 (1.70%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.13%) COBIT
8 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.13%) SLA
9 1 (0.065%) NCSC
9 1 (0.065%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 60 (3.92%) Docker
2 8 (0.52%) HDFS
3 7 (0.46%) IAG
4 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 92 (6.01%) Terraform
2 83 (5.42%) Kubernetes
3 34 (2.22%) Ansible
4 16 (1.04%) Grafana
4 16 (1.04%) HAProxy
4 16 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.46%) SysTrack
6 5 (0.33%) logstash
7 3 (0.20%) Argo
7 3 (0.20%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.13%) Oozie
9 1 (0.065%) Podman
Vendors
1 406 (26.50%) Google
2 219 (14.30%) Databricks
3 165 (10.77%) Microsoft
4 43 (2.81%) Oracle
5 28 (1.83%) Informatica
6 22 (1.44%) Teradata
7 18 (1.17%) Cloudera
8 10 (0.65%) Alteryx
9 8 (0.52%) Samsung
9 8 (0.52%) SAP
10 7 (0.46%) Dataiku
10 7 (0.46%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.46%) Snow
11 6 (0.39%) F5
11 6 (0.39%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.33%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.33%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.26%) Hortonworks
13 4 (0.26%) Talend
14 3 (0.20%) Embarcadero