Data Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Data Engineer salary in the North West is £67,153 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 175 95
Rank change year-on-year +106 -80 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 249 61 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.98% 1.18% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.10% 1.33% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 186 52 142
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,153 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.92% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,875 £87,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 11,851 4,584 7,456
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 88.68% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 8,828 2,336 4,689
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,356
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -8.33%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies 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 11 September 2026.

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 11 September 2026. 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 +46 152 £65,000 -3.70% 34
Merseyside +18 35 £75,000 +25.00% 6
Cheshire +35 32 £80,000 +88.24% 5
Lancashire +29 30 £55,000 -7.17% 17
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 11 September 2026, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 97 (38.96%) SQL
2 84 (33.73%) Analytics
2 84 (33.73%) Python
3 73 (29.32%) AWS
3 73 (29.32%) Data Engineering
4 65 (26.10%) Data Pipeline
5 58 (23.29%) Azure
6 52 (20.88%) Data Quality
7 50 (20.08%) Decision-Making
7 50 (20.08%) ETL
8 42 (16.87%) AI
9 40 (16.06%) Agile
10 37 (14.86%) GCP
11 36 (14.46%) Data Warehouse
12 33 (13.25%) CI/CD
12 33 (13.25%) Data Modelling
13 27 (10.84%) Databricks
13 27 (10.84%) Machine Learning
13 27 (10.84%) Security Cleared
14 26 (10.44%) Terraform
15 24 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (9.64%) Data Transformation
16 22 (8.84%) Mentoring
16 22 (8.84%) Platform Engineering
17 21 (8.43%) SQL Server
18 20 (8.03%) Data Governance
18 20 (8.03%) Problem-Solving
19 19 (7.63%) Amazon Redshift
19 19 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
19 19 (7.63%) Microsoft

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 15 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.42%) Apache
2 11 (4.42%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 73 (29.32%) AWS
2 58 (23.29%) Azure
3 37 (14.86%) GCP
4 18 (7.23%) dbt
5 17 (6.83%) Snowflake
6 16 (6.43%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (6.43%) Serverless
7 15 (6.02%) Amazon S3
8 14 (5.62%) GitHub
8 14 (5.62%) Power Platform
9 9 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (2.01%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.01%) SaaS
11 4 (1.61%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.20%) Fivetran
12 3 (1.20%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (14.46%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (8.43%) SQL Server
3 19 (7.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (6.43%) BigQuery
5 14 (5.62%) Power BI
6 13 (5.22%) Data Lake
7 8 (3.21%) Big Data
8 7 (2.81%) Metadata
9 6 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (2.41%) NoSQL
10 5 (2.01%) DynamoDB
10 5 (2.01%) MongoDB
10 5 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.01%) Spark SQL
11 4 (1.61%) Flink
11 4 (1.61%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.20%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (0.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.80%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 13 (5.22%) Git
2 3 (1.20%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.20%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (16.06%) Social Skills
2 21 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (7.23%) Finance
4 14 (5.62%) Law
5 13 (5.22%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.82%) Retail
7 10 (4.02%) Health Technology
8 7 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.61%) Marketing
10 3 (1.20%) Advertising
11 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.80%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.40%) iGaming
12 1 (0.40%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.44%) Terraform
2 16 (6.43%) PySpark
3 13 (5.22%) Kafka
4 4 (1.61%) .NET
4 4 (1.61%) Great Expectations
4 4 (1.61%) Pandas
5 3 (1.20%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.80%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.80%) JSON
7 1 (0.40%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.02%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.61%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.41%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.01%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.20%) Replication
5 3 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.20%) Sports Betting
6 2 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.80%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.40%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.40%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.40%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.40%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.40%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (33.73%) Analytics
2 73 (29.32%) Data Engineering
3 65 (26.10%) Data Pipeline
4 50 (20.08%) Decision-Making
4 50 (20.08%) ETL
5 42 (16.87%) AI
6 40 (16.06%) Agile
7 33 (13.25%) CI/CD
7 33 (13.25%) Data Modelling
8 27 (10.84%) Machine Learning
9 24 (9.64%) Business Intelligence
9 24 (9.64%) Data Transformation
10 22 (8.84%) Mentoring
10 22 (8.84%) Platform Engineering
11 20 (8.03%) Data Governance
11 20 (8.03%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (7.23%) Business Strategy
13 18 (7.23%) Data Architecture
14 17 (6.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 97 (38.96%) SQL
2 84 (33.73%) Python
3 10 (4.02%) Java
4 9 (3.61%) Bash
5 8 (3.21%) Scala
6 4 (1.61%) C#
6 4 (1.61%) C++
6 4 (1.61%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 27 (10.84%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.43%) DV Cleared
3 9 (3.61%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.41%) Degree
5 3 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.20%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.80%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (20.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.61%) QA
4 2 (0.80%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (4.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.80%) Grafana
1 2 (0.80%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (10.84%) Databricks
2 19 (7.63%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.21%) Google
4 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.20%) SAP
5 2 (0.80%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.40%) Informatica
6 1 (0.40%) YouTube