Data Engineering Jobs in the North West

Data Engineering
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 93 115 182
Rank change year-on-year +22 +67 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 262 224 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.46% 3.03% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 3.18% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 118 44 76
10th Percentile £35,000 £39,544 £37,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,625 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,313 £87,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £78,439 -
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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,616 7,048 9,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 80.75% 95.36% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,399 3,818 5,301
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,947
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 £80,000 £81,500 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +20 169 £60,000 +9.09% 34
Lancashire +20 56 £54,887 -3.89% 9
Cheshire -10 18 £35,000 -30.00% 3
Merseyside +1 10 £40,000 -37.25% 1
Cumbria - 8 £55,000 - 1
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 19 (7.25%) Confluence
2 15 (5.73%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.05%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 88 (33.59%) Azure
2 60 (22.90%) GCP
3 51 (19.47%) Power Platform
4 33 (12.60%) Snowflake
5 32 (12.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (10.31%) AWS
7 22 (8.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 22 (8.40%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (7.25%) dbt
9 17 (6.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 15 (5.73%) Matillion
11 10 (3.82%) Amazon S3
12 6 (2.29%) Fivetran
13 5 (1.91%) Azure AKS
13 5 (1.91%) Cloud Composer
13 5 (1.91%) GitHub
13 5 (1.91%) Google Analytics
13 5 (1.91%) IaaS
13 5 (1.91%) PaaS
14 4 (1.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.91%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (24.43%) Data Warehouse
2 51 (19.47%) Power BI
3 49 (18.70%) BigQuery
4 47 (17.94%) Looker
5 43 (16.41%) Data Lake
6 37 (14.12%) SQL Server
7 26 (9.92%) Tableau
8 15 (5.73%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (5.73%) Star Schema
9 11 (4.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (4.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (3.05%) Data Mining
12 7 (2.67%) Big Data
13 6 (2.29%) Hadoop
13 6 (2.29%) Metadata
14 5 (1.91%) Airbyte
14 5 (1.91%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.91%) NoSQL
14 5 (1.91%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 20 (7.63%) GitLab
1 20 (7.63%) JIRA
2 8 (3.05%) Git
3 2 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.76%) Spinnaker
General
1 95 (36.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 59 (22.52%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (7.63%) Finance
4 18 (6.87%) Social Skills
5 6 (2.29%) Law
6 5 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.15%) Banking
7 3 (1.15%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.76%) Back Office
8 2 (0.76%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.38%) Legal
9 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Retail
9 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 107 (40.84%) Data Engineer
2 50 (19.08%) Architect
3 42 (16.03%) Lead
4 34 (12.98%) Platform Engineer
5 33 (12.60%) Software Engineer
6 31 (11.83%) Principal Data Engineer
6 31 (11.83%) Principal Engineer
6 31 (11.83%) Software Architect
7 30 (11.45%) Programmer
7 30 (11.45%) Software Programmer
8 29 (11.07%) Senior
9 28 (10.69%) Lead Software Engineer
10 20 (7.63%) Senior Data Engineer
11 15 (5.73%) Data Architect
12 14 (5.34%) Azure Engineer
12 14 (5.34%) Developer
13 11 (4.20%) Lead Data Engineer
14 9 (3.44%) Cloud Engineer
14 9 (3.44%) SQL Developer
15 7 (2.67%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.44%) PySpark
2 6 (2.29%) PyTorch
2 6 (2.29%) TensorFlow
3 5 (1.91%) .NET
3 5 (1.91%) Apache Beam
3 5 (1.91%) Kafka
4 4 (1.53%) React
5 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.76%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (0.76%) Pandas
7 1 (0.38%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 91 (34.73%) Cyberattack
2 50 (19.08%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (7.25%) Data Structures
4 14 (5.34%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.82%) Mainframe
6 9 (3.44%) Product Ownership
7 6 (2.29%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.91%) Data Centre
8 5 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.53%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.76%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.76%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.38%) FMCG
12 1 (0.38%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.91%) Windows
1 5 (1.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (62.60%) Agile
2 162 (61.83%) Problem-Solving
3 144 (54.96%) Mentoring
4 131 (50.00%) Machine Learning
5 97 (37.02%) Software Engineering
6 94 (35.88%) User Experience
7 91 (34.73%) Creative Thinking
7 91 (34.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 88 (33.59%) Data Pipeline
9 70 (26.72%) Analytics
10 69 (26.34%) ETL
11 61 (23.28%) DevOps
12 58 (22.14%) Data Science
13 52 (19.85%) Data Modelling
14 48 (18.32%) Visualisation
15 44 (16.79%) Business Intelligence
15 44 (16.79%) Platform Engineering
16 40 (15.27%) DataOps
17 37 (14.12%) CI/CD
18 36 (13.74%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 81 (30.92%) SQL
2 58 (22.14%) Python
3 16 (6.11%) T-SQL
4 13 (4.96%) Java
5 11 (4.20%) Scala
6 5 (1.91%) Perl
6 5 (1.91%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.38%) C#
8 1 (0.38%) C++
8 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (3.05%) Azure Certification
1 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (2.67%) Degree
3 5 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.53%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.38%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (14.89%) Data Quality
2 38 (14.50%) GDPR
3 2 (0.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (0.76%) IAG
Systems Management
1 9 (3.44%) Terraform
2 5 (1.91%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.15%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 53 (20.23%) Google
2 35 (13.36%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.63%) Databricks
4 10 (3.82%) Teradata
5 6 (2.29%) Dataiku
5 6 (2.29%) F5
5 6 (2.29%) Informatica
6 4 (1.53%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.15%) Snow
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle