Data Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Data Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 115 130 243
Rank change year-on-year +15 +113 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 411 448 251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.18% 2.78% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 2.87% 1.45%
Number of salaries quoted 187 115 139
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,226 £40,599
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,833 £51,542
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £90,500 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,325 15,604 17,355
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 81.27% 96.70% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,565 7,763 10,660
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £79,840 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West +22 262 £55,000 - 47
Yorkshire -20 89 £65,066 -2.99% 16
North East +39 60 £75,000 +15.38% 6
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 20 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (4.62%) Confluence
3 15 (3.65%) Apache Spark
4 9 (2.19%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 144 (35.04%) Azure
2 142 (34.55%) GCP
3 74 (18.00%) AWS
4 57 (13.87%) Power Platform
5 45 (10.95%) Snowflake
6 39 (9.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (7.79%) dbt
8 25 (6.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 24 (5.84%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (5.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (5.11%) Amazon S3
12 18 (4.38%) Matillion
13 12 (2.92%) Serverless
14 11 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
15 10 (2.43%) SaaS
16 9 (2.19%) Cloud Composer
16 9 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
17 7 (1.70%) Azure Monitor
17 7 (1.70%) Azure Sentinel
17 7 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.22%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (28.71%) BigQuery
2 111 (27.01%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (25.06%) Looker
4 59 (14.36%) Data Lake
5 57 (13.87%) Power BI
6 44 (10.71%) SQL Server
7 30 (7.30%) Tableau
8 22 (5.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
9 18 (4.38%) Star Schema
10 16 (3.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 15 (3.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
13 8 (1.95%) Data Mining
14 7 (1.70%) Apache Cassandra
14 7 (1.70%) Big Data
14 7 (1.70%) Hadoop
15 6 (1.46%) Metadata
15 6 (1.46%) NoSQL
16 5 (1.22%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 24 (5.84%) GitLab
2 20 (4.87%) JIRA
3 14 (3.41%) Git
4 9 (2.19%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.49%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.24%) Artifactory
General
1 122 (29.68%) Analytical Skills
2 107 (26.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 47 (11.44%) Social Skills
4 38 (9.25%) Finance
5 14 (3.41%) Banking
6 11 (2.68%) Retail
7 9 (2.19%) Games
8 8 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.95%) Public Sector
9 6 (1.46%) Law
10 5 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.49%) Back Office
11 2 (0.49%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.24%) Billing
12 1 (0.24%) Legal
12 1 (0.24%) Marketing
12 1 (0.24%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 190 (46.23%) Data Engineer
2 80 (19.46%) Architect
3 79 (19.22%) Lead
4 65 (15.82%) Platform Engineer
5 61 (14.84%) Principal Data Engineer
5 61 (14.84%) Principal Engineer
6 42 (10.22%) Senior
7 40 (9.73%) Data Architect
8 38 (9.25%) Lead Data Engineer
9 37 (9.00%) Software Engineer
10 35 (8.52%) Software Architect
11 34 (8.27%) Programmer
11 34 (8.27%) Software Programmer
12 32 (7.79%) Lead Software Engineer
13 24 (5.84%) Senior Data Engineer
14 21 (5.11%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (3.89%) Data Manager
16 15 (3.65%) Developer
17 11 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
17 11 (2.68%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.41%) PySpark
2 7 (1.70%) Kafka
2 7 (1.70%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (1.46%) PyTorch
3 6 (1.46%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.22%) .NET
4 5 (1.22%) Apache Beam
5 4 (0.97%) React
6 2 (0.49%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (0.49%) Pandas
7 1 (0.24%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.24%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 107 (26.03%) Self-Motivation
2 103 (25.06%) Cyberattack
3 22 (5.35%) Data Structures
4 20 (4.87%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.89%) Product Ownership
6 10 (2.43%) Mainframe
7 9 (2.19%) Client/Server
7 9 (2.19%) Online Games
8 6 (1.46%) Public Cloud
9 5 (1.22%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.97%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.73%) IoT
12 2 (0.49%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.49%) Taxonomies
13 1 (0.24%) FMCG
13 1 (0.24%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.22%) Windows
1 5 (1.22%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.24%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (58.39%) Problem-Solving
2 238 (57.91%) Mentoring
3 231 (56.20%) Agile
4 153 (37.23%) Machine Learning
5 139 (33.82%) ETL
6 136 (33.09%) Data Pipeline
7 120 (29.20%) Software Engineering
8 112 (27.25%) Analytics
9 109 (26.52%) Data Science
9 109 (26.52%) DevOps
10 106 (25.79%) User Experience
11 103 (25.06%) Creative Thinking
11 103 (25.06%) Data Modelling
11 103 (25.06%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 101 (24.57%) Platform Engineering
13 82 (19.95%) Data Governance
14 71 (17.27%) Data Integration
14 71 (17.27%) DataOps
15 70 (17.03%) Data Architecture
16 67 (16.30%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (30.41%) SQL
2 89 (21.65%) Python
3 20 (4.87%) T-SQL
4 14 (3.41%) Java
5 13 (3.16%) Scala
6 5 (1.22%) Perl
6 5 (1.22%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.24%) C#
8 1 (0.24%) C++
8 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.24%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (2.19%) Degree
2 8 (1.95%) Azure Certification
2 8 (1.95%) DBS Check
2 8 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.22%) ISTQB
5 3 (0.73%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (22.38%) Data Quality
1 92 (22.38%) GDPR
2 2 (0.49%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.24%) QA
System Software
1 7 (1.70%) IAG
2 2 (0.49%) Docker
3 1 (0.24%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 16 (3.89%) Terraform
2 13 (3.16%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.70%) SysTrack
4 1 (0.24%) Ansible
4 1 (0.24%) Oozie
4 1 (0.24%) Podman
Vendors
1 119 (28.95%) Google
2 48 (11.68%) Microsoft
3 37 (9.00%) Databricks
4 10 (2.43%) Teradata
5 8 (1.95%) Informatica
6 7 (1.70%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.70%) Snow
7 6 (1.46%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.46%) Dataiku
7 6 (1.46%) F5
8 1 (0.24%) ESRI
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle