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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 181 127 158
Rank change year-on-year -54 +31 +94
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 1,407 2,449 3,738
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.60% 2.81% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.94% 2.82%
Number of salaries quoted 832 1,034 1,403
10th Percentile £41,492 £47,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £76,942 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% -3.82% +18.52%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £91,875
90th Percentile £107,496 £130,000 £108,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +11.11%

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 74,286 83,164 132,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.41% 95.59% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 54,336 49,441 73,222
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,452 £33,384
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £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 £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 25 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 25 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 -66 492 £82,500 -2.94% 317
North of England -39 308 £60,000 -7.69% 40
South East +22 200 £67,500 -3.57% 144
Midlands -33 189 £57,500 +4.55% 37
North West -38 171 £55,000 - 25
South West -24 149 £75,000 +20.00% 21
West Midlands -41 120 £59,300 +7.82% 25
Yorkshire -44 83 £65,066 -2.99% 10
East Midlands 0 67 £45,000 -18.18% 12
North East +19 54 £75,000 +15.38% 5
East of England -38 43 £70,000 +21.74% 10
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
1 134 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 95 (6.75%) Apache
3 85 (6.04%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.99%) Confluence
5 22 (1.56%) SAS
6 20 (1.42%) Jupyter
7 17 (1.21%) nginx
8 4 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
9 3 (0.21%) Luigi
10 2 (0.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.36%) 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
1 681 (48.40%) Azure
2 515 (36.60%) GCP
3 491 (34.90%) AWS
4 253 (17.98%) Power Platform
5 166 (11.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 131 (9.31%) Azure DevOps
7 126 (8.96%) Snowflake
8 121 (8.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 97 (6.89%) Amazon S3
10 77 (5.47%) dbt
11 49 (3.48%) Serverless
12 46 (3.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 40 (2.84%) GitHub
14 35 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
15 33 (2.35%) Matillion
16 31 (2.20%) SaaS
17 27 (1.92%) Amazon Kinesis
18 26 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
19 18 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
20 17 (1.21%) 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 (38.24%) Data Warehouse
2 392 (27.86%) BigQuery
3 348 (24.73%) Looker
4 251 (17.84%) Power BI
5 224 (15.92%) Data Lake
6 146 (10.38%) SQL Server
7 121 (8.60%) Big Data
8 106 (7.53%) Tableau
9 85 (6.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 73 (5.19%) Hadoop
11 68 (4.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 59 (4.19%) NoSQL
13 51 (3.62%) Metadata
13 51 (3.62%) Relational Database
14 45 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
15 42 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 40 (2.84%) Star Schema
17 39 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
18 38 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
19 34 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 74 (5.26%) Git
2 59 (4.19%) Jenkins
3 47 (3.34%) GitLab
4 33 (2.35%) JIRA
5 17 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 12 (0.85%) 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%) MLflow
11 4 (0.28%) Snakemake
12 3 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.071%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.071%) Mockito
13 1 (0.071%) Selenium
13 1 (0.071%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.071%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.071%) Toad
General
1 489 (34.75%) Analytical Skills
2 250 (17.77%) Social Skills
3 207 (14.71%) Finance
4 77 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 71 (5.05%) Banking
6 65 (4.62%) Billing
7 63 (4.48%) Retail
8 44 (3.13%) Legal
9 36 (2.56%) Law
10 34 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (2.13%) Games
12 27 (1.92%) Public Sector
13 25 (1.78%) Marketing
14 22 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
15 15 (1.07%) Front Office
16 12 (0.85%) Investment Banking
16 12 (0.85%) Telecoms
17 11 (0.78%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 661 (46.98%) Data Engineer
2 211 (15.00%) Senior
3 174 (12.37%) Data Manager
3 174 (12.37%) Principal Engineer
4 167 (11.87%) Architect
5 164 (11.66%) Principal Data Engineer
6 156 (11.09%) Platform Engineer
7 150 (10.66%) Data Architect
8 137 (9.74%) Engineering Manager
9 129 (9.17%) Lead
10 126 (8.96%) Senior Data Engineer
11 73 (5.19%) Lead Data Engineer
12 68 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
13 59 (4.19%) Developer
14 53 (3.77%) Azure Data Engineer
15 48 (3.41%) Analyst
16 43 (3.06%) Python Engineer
17 34 (2.42%) AWS Engineer
17 34 (2.42%) Head of Engineering
18 32 (2.27%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (6.40%) PySpark
2 48 (3.41%) Kafka
3 31 (2.20%) Pandas
4 30 (2.13%) NumPy
5 29 (2.06%) Apache Beam
6 28 (1.99%) TensorFlow
7 23 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
8 22 (1.56%) .NET
9 21 (1.49%) ActiveMQ
9 21 (1.49%) YAML
10 19 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
11 18 (1.28%) PyTorch
12 17 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
13 16 (1.14%) Keras
14 13 (0.92%) React
15 11 (0.78%) AngularJS
15 11 (0.78%) RESTful
15 11 (0.78%) Spark Streaming
16 10 (0.71%) SciPy
17 8 (0.57%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 296 (21.04%) Self-Motivation
2 101 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 85 (6.04%) Data Structures
4 60 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 54 (3.84%) Algorithms
6 45 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 24 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
9 21 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
10 16 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.07%) Client/Server
12 14 (1.00%) NHS
12 14 (1.00%) Taxonomies
13 13 (0.92%) IoT
13 13 (0.92%) Public Cloud
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 (2.84%) Linux
2 10 (0.71%) Windows
3 5 (0.36%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.28%) Unix
5 1 (0.071%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 589 (41.86%) Data Modelling
2 567 (40.30%) ETL
3 549 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
4 497 (35.32%) Agile
5 491 (34.90%) Analytics
6 478 (33.97%) Data Pipeline
7 443 (31.49%) Data Science
8 420 (29.85%) Mentoring
9 398 (28.29%) DevOps
10 369 (26.23%) Platform Engineering
11 335 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
12 278 (19.76%) CI/CD
13 276 (19.62%) Data Governance
14 255 (18.12%) Data Architecture
15 247 (17.56%) Data Integration
16 224 (15.92%) Visualisation
17 221 (15.71%) Machine Learning
18 179 (12.72%) DataOps
19 166 (11.80%) Change Management
20 161 (11.44%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 622 (44.21%) SQL
2 562 (39.94%) Python
3 121 (8.60%) Java
4 74 (5.26%) Scala
5 56 (3.98%) T-SQL
6 48 (3.41%) R
7 36 (2.56%) C#
8 30 (2.13%) MATLAB
9 24 (1.71%) Go
10 23 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 22 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 21 (1.49%) Bash
13 18 (1.28%) PowerShell
14 11 (0.78%) C
15 10 (0.71%) JavaScript
15 10 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.71%) TypeScript
15 10 (0.71%) VBA
16 9 (0.64%) C++
16 9 (0.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 168 (11.94%) Degree
2 68 (4.83%) Security Cleared
3 63 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 43 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.91%) DBS Check
6 37 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 30 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.99%) SC Cleared
9 22 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.07%) 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
17 1 (0.071%) MCSE
17 1 (0.071%) OCP
17 1 (0.071%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 326 (23.17%) Data Quality
2 280 (19.90%) GDPR
3 98 (6.97%) QA
4 25 (1.78%) 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 (4.12%) 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 (6.33%) Terraform
2 80 (5.69%) Kubernetes
3 34 (2.42%) Ansible
4 17 (1.21%) Grafana
4 17 (1.21%) HAProxy
4 17 (1.21%) 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 (28.86%) Google
2 216 (15.35%) Databricks
3 165 (11.73%) Microsoft
4 43 (3.06%) Oracle
5 26 (1.85%) Informatica
6 22 (1.56%) Teradata
7 19 (1.35%) Cloudera
8 10 (0.71%) Alteryx
8 10 (0.71%) SAP
9 8 (0.57%) Samsung
10 7 (0.50%) Dataiku
10 7 (0.50%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.50%) Snow
11 6 (0.43%) F5
11 6 (0.43%) SnapLogic
12 5 (0.36%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.28%) Salesforce
13 4 (0.28%) Talend
14 3 (0.21%) Cognos
14 3 (0.21%) Embarcadero