Data Engineer Jobs in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 155 154
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,531 2,124 3,742
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.77% 2.40% 2.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 2.62% 2.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,115 1,503 1,894
10th Percentile £33,600 £46,250 £44,900
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £127,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 81,786 81,001 131,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 91.55% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 60,839 51,644 75,317
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 -32 586 £75,000 -11.76% 323
North of England +81 384 £55,000 -9.84% 60
North West +79 249 £60,000 +15.38% 39
South East -42 160 £49,000 -21.60% 100
Midlands -3 157 £55,000 +3.29% 32
South West -43 148 £63,750 -5.56% 40
West Midlands +11 113 £57,500 +9.52% 26
Yorkshire +67 83 £51,000 -23.88% 13
East of England +23 69 £57,500 -8.00% 19
North East +7 52 £72,000 +10.77% 8
East Midlands -4 42 £47,500 -13.64% 6
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 776 (50.69%) SQL
2 740 (48.33%) Python
3 659 (43.04%) Data Engineering
4 607 (39.65%) Azure
5 602 (39.32%) ETL
6 585 (38.21%) Data Pipeline
7 448 (29.26%) Data Modelling
8 444 (29.00%) Data Science
9 424 (27.69%) Data Warehouse
10 423 (27.63%) Analytics
11 406 (26.52%) Agile
12 378 (24.69%) AWS
13 369 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
14 365 (23.84%) GCP
15 358 (23.38%) DevOps
16 313 (20.44%) Databricks
17 306 (19.99%) Data Quality
18 305 (19.92%) Business Intelligence
19 300 (19.60%) Social Skills
20 297 (19.40%) Mentoring
21 279 (18.22%) Power Platform
22 275 (17.96%) Power BI
23 266 (17.37%) Data Lake
24 250 (16.33%) SQL Server
25 247 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
26 245 (16.00%) BigQuery
27 241 (15.74%) Finance
28 240 (15.68%) Google
29 225 (14.70%) CI/CD
30 218 (14.24%) Platform Engineering

Data Engineer Skill Set
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
1 141 (9.21%) Apache Spark
2 101 (6.60%) Apache
2 101 (6.60%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (1.24%) nginx
4 18 (1.18%) Jupyter
5 14 (0.91%) Confluence
6 5 (0.33%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.26%) Luigi
7 4 (0.26%) SAS
8 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.065%) Apache Pig
9 1 (0.065%) Apache Synapse
9 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 24 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.20%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.13%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.065%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.065%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.065%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.065%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.065%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 607 (39.65%) Azure
2 378 (24.69%) AWS
3 365 (23.84%) GCP
4 279 (18.22%) Power Platform
5 183 (11.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 145 (9.47%) Snowflake
7 131 (8.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 107 (6.99%) Amazon S3
9 105 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
10 98 (6.40%) dbt
11 73 (4.77%) Serverless
12 53 (3.46%) GitHub
13 45 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (2.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 39 (2.55%) SaaS
16 35 (2.29%) Matillion
17 34 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
18 32 (2.09%) Amazon Kinesis
19 20 (1.31%) OpenShift
20 19 (1.24%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.07%) Structured Cabling
2 14 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
3 11 (0.72%) Network Security
3 11 (0.72%) Wireless
4 5 (0.33%) Firewall
4 5 (0.33%) LAN
5 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
5 4 (0.26%) FTP
5 4 (0.26%) WAN
6 2 (0.13%) 5G
6 2 (0.13%) PPP
6 2 (0.13%) WebEx
7 1 (0.065%) 3GPP
7 1 (0.065%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.065%) DMZ
7 1 (0.065%) NX-OS
7 1 (0.065%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.065%) snoop
7 1 (0.065%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 424 (27.69%) Data Warehouse
2 275 (17.96%) Power BI
3 266 (17.37%) Data Lake
4 250 (16.33%) SQL Server
5 245 (16.00%) BigQuery
6 170 (11.10%) Looker
7 135 (8.82%) Big Data
8 102 (6.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 98 (6.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 84 (5.49%) Hadoop
11 77 (5.03%) NoSQL
12 76 (4.96%) Relational Database
13 74 (4.83%) Tableau
14 63 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
15 62 (4.05%) Data Vault
16 59 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
17 48 (3.14%) Delta Lake
18 43 (2.81%) Star Schema
19 42 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 41 (2.68%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 73 (4.77%) Git
2 65 (4.25%) JIRA
3 60 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 46 (3.00%) GitLab
5 18 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.78%) Spinnaker
7 11 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 7 (0.46%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.46%) Visual Studio
9 6 (0.39%) RStudio
9 6 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 4 (0.26%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.26%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.065%) ERwin
12 1 (0.065%) Mockito
12 1 (0.065%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.065%) Subversion
12 1 (0.065%) Toad
12 1 (0.065%) Zephyr
General
1 300 (19.60%) Social Skills
2 247 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 241 (15.74%) Finance
4 108 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 68 (4.44%) Retail
6 63 (4.11%) Banking
7 42 (2.74%) Public Sector
8 41 (2.68%) Games
8 41 (2.68%) Telecoms
9 34 (2.22%) Legal
10 32 (2.09%) Marketing
11 28 (1.83%) Law
12 19 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (0.72%) Aerospace
14 11 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (0.65%) Retail Banking
16 9 (0.59%) Electronics
16 9 (0.59%) Health Technology
16 9 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (9.21%) PySpark
2 72 (4.70%) Kafka
3 38 (2.48%) Pandas
4 22 (1.44%) Apache NiFi
4 22 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (1.37%) ActiveMQ
5 21 (1.37%) Apache Beam
6 19 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
7 18 (1.18%) RESTful
7 18 (1.18%) YAML
8 16 (1.05%) .NET
8 16 (1.05%) JSON
9 15 (0.98%) XML
10 14 (0.91%) REST
11 12 (0.78%) AWS CDK
11 12 (0.78%) PyTorch
12 11 (0.72%) TensorFlow
13 10 (0.65%) Spark Streaming
14 9 (0.59%) Flask
14 9 (0.59%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 196 (12.80%) Self-Motivation
2 131 (8.56%) Data Structures
3 55 (3.59%) Public Cloud
4 48 (3.14%) Reinsurance
5 40 (2.61%) Algorithms
6 37 (2.42%) Cloud Native
6 37 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
7 28 (1.83%) Driving Licence
8 27 (1.76%) Product Ownership
9 26 (1.70%) Onboarding
10 24 (1.57%) Management Information System
11 21 (1.37%) Client/Server
12 20 (1.31%) IoT
13 19 (1.24%) CCTV
13 19 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
14 18 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
15 17 (1.11%) SCADA
16 16 (1.05%) Fibre Optics
16 16 (1.05%) Operational Technology
17 15 (0.98%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 65 (4.25%) Linux
2 31 (2.02%) Windows
3 23 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.44%) Unix
5 4 (0.26%) Android
5 4 (0.26%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.26%) CentOS
5 4 (0.26%) Solaris
5 4 (0.26%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 659 (43.04%) Data Engineering
2 602 (39.32%) ETL
3 585 (38.21%) Data Pipeline
4 448 (29.26%) Data Modelling
5 444 (29.00%) Data Science
6 423 (27.63%) Analytics
7 406 (26.52%) Agile
8 369 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
9 358 (23.38%) DevOps
10 305 (19.92%) Business Intelligence
11 297 (19.40%) Mentoring
12 225 (14.70%) CI/CD
13 218 (14.24%) Platform Engineering
14 208 (13.59%) Data Integration
15 183 (11.95%) Machine Learning
16 179 (11.69%) DataOps
17 147 (9.60%) Change Management
18 137 (8.95%) Visualisation
19 129 (8.43%) Data Management
20 126 (8.23%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 776 (50.69%) SQL
2 740 (48.33%) Python
3 105 (6.86%) Java
4 82 (5.36%) T-SQL
5 74 (4.83%) Scala
6 45 (2.94%) C#
7 30 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 28 (1.83%) R
9 22 (1.44%) Bash
10 21 (1.37%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.31%) PowerShell
12 18 (1.18%) JavaScript
13 14 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 11 (0.72%) U-SQL
15 9 (0.59%) VBA
16 8 (0.52%) C
16 8 (0.52%) Go
17 6 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.39%) PHP
17 6 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 185 (12.08%) Degree
2 56 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 52 (3.40%) Security Cleared
4 35 (2.29%) Master's Degree
5 31 (2.02%) SC Cleared
6 29 (1.89%) DV Cleared
7 28 (1.83%) DBS Check
8 22 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.46%) CISSP
12 5 (0.33%) PhD
13 4 (0.26%) CCNA
13 4 (0.26%) CISM
13 4 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (0.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.20%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.20%) CCSK
14 3 (0.20%) CCSP
15 2 (0.13%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 306 (19.99%) Data Quality
2 158 (10.32%) GDPR
3 18 (1.18%) QA
4 15 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.26%) NIST
5 4 (0.26%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.065%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.065%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.065%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.065%) NCSC
System Software
1 84 (5.49%) Docker
2 16 (1.05%) Hyper-V
2 16 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (0.65%) HDFS
4 3 (0.20%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.065%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.065%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.065%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 128 (8.36%) Terraform
2 89 (5.81%) Kubernetes
3 30 (1.96%) Ansible
4 19 (1.24%) Grafana
5 18 (1.18%) HAProxy
5 18 (1.18%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.39%) logstash
7 3 (0.20%) Argo
7 3 (0.20%) CASB
7 3 (0.20%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.13%) Marathon
8 2 (0.13%) Mesos
9 1 (0.065%) Kibana
9 1 (0.065%) Oozie
9 1 (0.065%) Podman
Vendors
1 313 (20.44%) Databricks
2 240 (15.68%) Google
3 175 (11.43%) Microsoft
4 83 (5.42%) Informatica
5 76 (4.96%) Oracle
6 18 (1.18%) YouTube
7 17 (1.11%) Alteryx
7 17 (1.11%) VMware
8 16 (1.05%) Cloudera
9 11 (0.72%) Dataiku
9 11 (0.72%) MuleSoft
9 11 (0.72%) Teradata
10 9 (0.59%) SAP
11 8 (0.52%) Splunk
12 6 (0.39%) Atlassian
12 6 (0.39%) F5
12 6 (0.39%) Talend
13 5 (0.33%) SnapLogic
14 4 (0.26%) Qualys
15 3 (0.20%) Symantec