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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 180 125 157
Rank change year-on-year -55 +32 +90
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 1,404 2,497 3,649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.62% 2.82% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.95% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 828 1,067 1,395
10th Percentile £41,492 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £53,438 £58,750 £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 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,737 £130,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

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 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £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 £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 May 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 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 -69 486 £82,500 -5.71% 263
North of England -33 314 £60,000 -2.04% 43
South East +37 200 £67,500 -3.57% 75
Midlands -35 186 £58,400 +6.18% 34
North West -35 174 £55,000 +4.76% 28
South West -28 149 £75,000 +20.00% 27
West Midlands -39 118 £60,733 +10.42% 25
Yorkshire -35 86 £65,066 -0.44% 10
East Midlands -1 66 £45,000 -18.18% 9
North East +24 54 £75,000 +15.38% 5
East of England -49 43 £70,000 +21.74% 9
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
1 133 (9.47%) Apache Spark
2 94 (6.70%) Apache
3 80 (5.70%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.99%) Confluence
5 22 (1.57%) SAS
6 21 (1.50%) Jupyter
7 18 (1.28%) nginx
8 3 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
9 2 (0.14%) Luigi
9 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.21%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.071%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.071%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 675 (48.08%) Azure
2 514 (36.61%) GCP
3 491 (34.97%) AWS
4 251 (17.88%) Power Platform
5 165 (11.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 131 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (8.90%) Snowflake
8 119 (8.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 99 (7.05%) Amazon S3
10 75 (5.34%) dbt
11 50 (3.56%) Serverless
12 46 (3.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 41 (2.92%) GitHub
14 35 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (2.35%) Matillion
16 31 (2.21%) SaaS
17 27 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
18 26 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
19 18 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
19 18 (1.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.36%) Firewall
2 4 (0.28%) Network Security
3 3 (0.21%) VoIP
3 3 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.14%) Broadband
4 2 (0.14%) LAN
4 2 (0.14%) WAN
4 2 (0.14%) Wireless
5 1 (0.071%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.071%) 5G
5 1 (0.071%) PPP
5 1 (0.071%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 538 (38.32%) Data Warehouse
2 394 (28.06%) BigQuery
3 348 (24.79%) Looker
4 249 (17.74%) Power BI
5 220 (15.67%) Data Lake
6 144 (10.26%) SQL Server
7 119 (8.48%) Big Data
8 104 (7.41%) Tableau
9 86 (6.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 73 (5.20%) Hadoop
11 68 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 56 (3.99%) NoSQL
13 52 (3.70%) Metadata
14 50 (3.56%) Relational Database
15 44 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
16 42 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 42 (2.99%) Star Schema
17 38 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
18 37 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
19 31 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 73 (5.20%) Git
2 61 (4.34%) Jenkins
3 46 (3.28%) GitLab
4 34 (2.42%) JIRA
5 18 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 13 (0.93%) Spinnaker
7 10 (0.71%) CircleCI
8 8 (0.57%) ERwin
9 6 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.36%) ER Studio
11 4 (0.28%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.28%) Snakemake
12 3 (0.21%) MLflow
12 3 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.071%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.071%) Mockito
13 1 (0.071%) Postman
13 1 (0.071%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.071%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.071%) Toad
General
1 485 (34.54%) Analytical Skills
2 252 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 205 (14.60%) Finance
4 77 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 71 (5.06%) Banking
6 65 (4.63%) Billing
7 64 (4.56%) Retail
8 44 (3.13%) Legal
9 37 (2.64%) Law
10 34 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (2.14%) Games
12 29 (2.07%) Public Sector
13 26 (1.85%) Marketing
14 22 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.85%) Investment Banking
15 12 (0.85%) Telecoms
16 11 (0.78%) Front Office
16 11 (0.78%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.78%) Retail Banking
17 10 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 659 (46.94%) Data Engineer
2 207 (14.74%) Senior
3 176 (12.54%) Data Manager
4 174 (12.39%) Principal Engineer
5 168 (11.97%) Architect
6 163 (11.61%) Principal Data Engineer
7 156 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
8 151 (10.75%) Data Architect
9 138 (9.83%) Engineering Manager
10 129 (9.19%) Lead
11 123 (8.76%) Senior Data Engineer
12 74 (5.27%) Lead Data Engineer
13 65 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
14 54 (3.85%) Developer
15 50 (3.56%) Azure Data Engineer
16 47 (3.35%) Analyst
17 40 (2.85%) Python Engineer
18 35 (2.49%) AWS Engineer
18 35 (2.49%) Head of Engineering
19 32 (2.28%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (5.98%) PySpark
2 46 (3.28%) Kafka
3 29 (2.07%) Apache Beam
4 27 (1.92%) NumPy
4 27 (1.92%) TensorFlow
5 26 (1.85%) Pandas
6 23 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
7 22 (1.57%) .NET
7 22 (1.57%) ActiveMQ
7 22 (1.57%) YAML
8 20 (1.42%) Apache NiFi
9 18 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
9 18 (1.28%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.07%) Keras
11 12 (0.85%) React
12 11 (0.78%) AngularJS
12 11 (0.78%) Spark Streaming
13 10 (0.71%) RESTful
14 8 (0.57%) Apache Avro
14 8 (0.57%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 296 (21.08%) Self-Motivation
2 103 (7.34%) Product Ownership
3 84 (5.98%) Data Structures
4 60 (4.27%) Cloud Native
5 51 (3.63%) Algorithms
6 45 (3.21%) Management Information System
7 37 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 25 (1.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 23 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.07%) Client/Server
11 15 (1.07%) Taxonomies
12 14 (1.00%) Public Cloud
13 13 (0.93%) IoT
13 13 (0.93%) NHS
14 10 (0.71%) Mainframe
15 9 (0.64%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (0.64%) Online Games
15 9 (0.64%) Reference Data
16 8 (0.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 40 (2.85%) Linux
2 10 (0.71%) Windows
3 5 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.21%) Unix
5 1 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 592 (42.17%) Data Modelling
2 571 (40.67%) ETL
3 546 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
4 497 (35.40%) Agile
5 491 (34.97%) Analytics
6 477 (33.97%) Data Pipeline
7 438 (31.20%) Data Science
8 418 (29.77%) Mentoring
9 400 (28.49%) DevOps
10 370 (26.35%) Platform Engineering
11 333 (23.72%) Business Intelligence
12 277 (19.73%) CI/CD
13 275 (19.59%) Data Governance
14 257 (18.30%) Data Architecture
15 248 (17.66%) Data Integration
16 223 (15.88%) Visualisation
17 219 (15.60%) Machine Learning
18 178 (12.68%) DataOps
19 165 (11.75%) Change Management
20 159 (11.32%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 619 (44.09%) SQL
2 559 (39.81%) Python
3 117 (8.33%) Java
4 73 (5.20%) Scala
5 56 (3.99%) T-SQL
6 47 (3.35%) R
7 36 (2.56%) C#
8 29 (2.07%) MATLAB
9 23 (1.64%) Go
9 23 (1.64%) Shell Script
10 22 (1.57%) Bash
11 21 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 18 (1.28%) PowerShell
13 11 (0.78%) C
14 10 (0.71%) TypeScript
14 10 (0.71%) VBA
15 9 (0.64%) C++
15 9 (0.64%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.64%) Ruby
16 8 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 167 (11.89%) Degree
2 69 (4.91%) Security Cleared
3 60 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 44 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.92%) DBS Check
6 37 (2.64%) Master's Degree
7 32 (2.28%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.99%) SC Cleared
9 22 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 16 (1.14%) PhD
11 8 (0.57%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.50%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.43%) MBA
14 4 (0.28%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.21%) PMP
16 2 (0.14%) MCP
16 2 (0.14%) OCP
16 2 (0.14%) Oracle Certification
17 1 (0.071%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 322 (22.93%) Data Quality
2 279 (19.87%) GDPR
3 98 (6.98%) QA
4 24 (1.71%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.28%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.21%) SLA
8 2 (0.14%) COBIT
8 2 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.14%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.071%) NCSC
9 1 (0.071%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 58 (4.13%) Docker
2 9 (0.64%) HDFS
3 7 (0.50%) IAG
4 2 (0.14%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 2 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.071%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 89 (6.34%) Terraform
2 81 (5.77%) Kubernetes
3 34 (2.42%) Ansible
4 18 (1.28%) Grafana
4 18 (1.28%) HAProxy
4 18 (1.28%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.50%) SysTrack
6 5 (0.36%) logstash
7 3 (0.21%) Argo
7 3 (0.21%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.14%) Oozie
9 1 (0.071%) Podman
Vendors
1 406 (28.92%) Google
2 212 (15.10%) Databricks
3 166 (11.82%) Microsoft
4 44 (3.13%) Oracle
5 28 (1.99%) Informatica
6 22 (1.57%) Teradata
7 19 (1.35%) Cloudera
8 10 (0.71%) SAP
9 9 (0.64%) Alteryx
10 8 (0.57%) Samsung
11 7 (0.50%) Dataiku
11 7 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 7 (0.50%) SnapLogic
11 7 (0.50%) Snow
12 6 (0.43%) F5
13 5 (0.36%) OpenAI
14 4 (0.28%) Salesforce
14 4 (0.28%) Talend
15 3 (0.21%) Cognos
15 3 (0.21%) Embarcadero