Data Engineer Jobs in the North West

Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Data Engineer salary in the North West is £60,000 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 95 199 170
Rank change year-on-year +104 -29 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 255 95 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.39% 1.29% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 1.44% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 198 76 70
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,947
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,700 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £86,875 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £74,000 £87,050
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 10,124 6,596 9,240
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.24% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 7,670 3,972 5,398
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,138 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £40,791 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,525 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the North West 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
Manchester +74 140 £60,000 - 38
Merseyside +61 59 £85,000 +21.43% 10
Cheshire +1 23 £35,000 -31.71% 4
Lancashire -13 17 £49,000 +5.27% 12
Cumbria - 15 £55,000 - 1
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

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 North West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 126 (49.41%) ETL
2 121 (47.45%) SQL
3 115 (45.10%) Azure
4 112 (43.92%) Python
5 107 (41.96%) Data Engineering
6 103 (40.39%) Agile
7 100 (39.22%) Data Modelling
8 99 (38.82%) Data Pipeline
9 84 (32.94%) SQL Server
10 83 (32.55%) Data Quality
10 83 (32.55%) Analytics
11 76 (29.80%) Data Warehouse
12 74 (29.02%) DevOps
13 69 (27.06%) Data Science
14 66 (25.88%) Databricks
15 61 (23.92%) Data Structures
16 60 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
16 60 (23.53%) Informatica
17 55 (21.57%) Data Analysis
17 55 (21.57%) Azure DevOps
18 52 (20.39%) Data Integration
18 52 (20.39%) DataOps
19 51 (20.00%) JIRA
20 49 (19.22%) Data Management
20 49 (19.22%) Scrum
21 48 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
22 47 (18.43%) Data Lake
23 46 (18.04%) GCP
24 44 (17.25%) Mentoring
24 44 (17.25%) Power BI

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 15 (5.88%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.10%) Apache
3 9 (3.53%) Confluence
4 5 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 115 (45.10%) Azure
2 55 (21.57%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (18.04%) GCP
4 44 (17.25%) Power Platform
5 36 (14.12%) AWS
6 30 (11.76%) Snowflake
7 24 (9.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (8.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 15 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 15 (5.88%) Matillion
10 14 (5.49%) Amazon S3
10 14 (5.49%) dbt
11 6 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.35%) Fivetran
11 6 (2.35%) Serverless
12 5 (1.96%) GitHub
12 5 (1.96%) Google Analytics
13 4 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.18%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 3 (1.18%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.14%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (1.96%) Firewall
3 4 (1.57%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.78%) WebEx
5 1 (0.39%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.39%) DMZ
5 1 (0.39%) LAN
5 1 (0.39%) NX-OS
5 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.39%) WAN
5 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (32.94%) SQL Server
2 76 (29.80%) Data Warehouse
3 47 (18.43%) Data Lake
4 44 (17.25%) Power BI
5 42 (16.47%) Data Vault
6 38 (14.90%) BigQuery
7 33 (12.94%) Looker
8 26 (10.20%) Delta Lake
9 18 (7.06%) Tableau
10 17 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
11 15 (5.88%) Star Schema
12 14 (5.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (5.10%) Data Mining
14 11 (4.31%) Relational Database
15 10 (3.92%) Big Data
16 8 (3.14%) Azure SQL Database
16 8 (3.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 5 (1.96%) Airbyte
17 5 (1.96%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 51 (20.00%) JIRA
2 15 (5.88%) GitLab
3 7 (2.75%) Git
4 2 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.78%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
2 29 (11.37%) Social Skills
3 27 (10.59%) Finance
4 8 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (2.75%) Public Sector
6 6 (2.35%) Law
7 5 (1.96%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.57%) Retail
9 2 (0.78%) Back Office
9 2 (0.78%) Banking
9 2 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Legal
10 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.94%) PySpark
2 6 (2.35%) Kafka
2 6 (2.35%) PyTorch
2 6 (2.35%) TensorFlow
3 5 (1.96%) Apache Beam
4 3 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.18%) RESTful
5 2 (0.78%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (0.78%) Pandas
6 1 (0.39%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 61 (23.92%) Data Structures
2 43 (16.86%) Public Cloud
2 43 (16.86%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (16.47%) Reinsurance
4 9 (3.53%) CCTV
5 6 (2.35%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.96%) Blog
6 5 (1.96%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.57%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.57%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.18%) NHS
9 2 (0.78%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.39%) FMCG
10 1 (0.39%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.96%) Windows
1 5 (1.96%) Windows Server
2 2 (0.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (49.41%) ETL
2 107 (41.96%) Data Engineering
3 103 (40.39%) Agile
4 100 (39.22%) Data Modelling
5 99 (38.82%) Data Pipeline
6 83 (32.55%) Analytics
7 74 (29.02%) DevOps
8 69 (27.06%) Data Science
9 60 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (21.57%) Data Analysis
11 52 (20.39%) Data Integration
11 52 (20.39%) DataOps
12 49 (19.22%) Data Management
12 49 (19.22%) Scrum
13 44 (17.25%) Mentoring
13 44 (17.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 42 (16.47%) Machine Learning
14 42 (16.47%) Visualisation
15 41 (16.08%) CI/CD
16 39 (15.29%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 121 (47.45%) SQL
2 112 (43.92%) Python
3 19 (7.45%) T-SQL
4 13 (5.10%) Java
5 10 (3.92%) Scala
6 6 (2.35%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.39%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (5.10%) Degree
2 6 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (1.57%) CCNA
4 4 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.18%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.39%) CCNP
7 1 (0.39%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (32.55%) Data Quality
2 29 (11.37%) GDPR
3 5 (1.96%) QA
4 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.39%) Def Stans
System Software
1 3 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.75%) Terraform
2 1 (0.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 66 (25.88%) Databricks
2 60 (23.53%) Informatica
3 43 (16.86%) Oracle
4 38 (14.90%) Google
5 32 (12.55%) Microsoft
6 6 (2.35%) Dataiku
6 6 (2.35%) F5
7 5 (1.96%) Teradata
7 5 (1.96%) YouTube
8 2 (0.78%) TIBCO
9 1 (0.39%) Arista
9 1 (0.39%) Cisco
9 1 (0.39%) Sun
9 1 (0.39%) Workday