Data Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Data Engineer salary in the North West is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 189 81
Rank change year-on-year +106 -108 +108
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 188 54 276
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.77% 1.15% 2.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 1.29% 2.67%
Number of salaries quoted 155 46 217
10th Percentile £40,500 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,876 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +6.46% +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -10.96%

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 9,972 4,173 10,326
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.08% 88.86% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7,493 2,064 7,976
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,419
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,645 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.74% +9.52% -12.87%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 +59 127 £66,750 -4.64% 31
Merseyside +5 27 £75,000 +36.36% 4
Cheshire - 21 £77,500 - 3
Lancashire +38 12 £55,000 -4.35% 8
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 June 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 79 (42.02%) SQL
2 67 (35.64%) Python
3 47 (25.00%) Analytics
4 42 (22.34%) AWS
4 42 (22.34%) Data Engineering
4 42 (22.34%) Data Pipeline
5 40 (21.28%) Azure
6 34 (18.09%) ETL
7 29 (15.43%) Agile
7 29 (15.43%) Data Modelling
8 27 (14.36%) Data Quality
8 27 (14.36%) Databricks
9 25 (13.30%) AI
10 23 (12.23%) GCP
11 22 (11.70%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (10.64%) SQL Server
13 19 (10.11%) Apache Airflow
13 19 (10.11%) Machine Learning
14 18 (9.57%) Data Science
14 18 (9.57%) Security Cleared
14 18 (9.57%) Terraform
15 16 (8.51%) Decision-Making
16 15 (7.98%) Platform Engineering
17 14 (7.45%) BigQuery
17 14 (7.45%) Data Lake
17 14 (7.45%) Mentoring
17 14 (7.45%) Microsoft
18 13 (6.91%) CI/CD
19 12 (6.38%) Business Strategy
19 12 (6.38%) Data Governance

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 19 (10.11%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.66%) Apache
2 5 (2.66%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.53%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 42 (22.34%) AWS
2 40 (21.28%) Azure
3 23 (12.23%) GCP
4 11 (5.85%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.79%) dbt
6 8 (4.26%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.26%) SaaS
6 8 (4.26%) Snowflake
7 6 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.19%) Serverless
8 5 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.66%) GitHub
8 5 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.06%) Dagster
12 1 (0.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.53%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.53%) Broadband
2 1 (0.53%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.70%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (10.64%) SQL Server
3 14 (7.45%) BigQuery
3 14 (7.45%) Data Lake
4 11 (5.85%) Power BI
5 10 (5.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.19%) Metadata
6 6 (3.19%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.66%) Big Data
7 5 (2.66%) Delta Lake
7 5 (2.66%) Relational Database
7 5 (2.66%) Semantic Layer
8 4 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.13%) Flink
9 3 (1.60%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.06%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.19%) Git
2 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 17 (9.04%) Social Skills
2 11 (5.85%) Finance
2 11 (5.85%) Retail
3 10 (5.32%) Health Technology
3 10 (5.32%) Law
4 9 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.60%) Advertising
6 3 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.53%) Automotive
8 1 (0.53%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Games
8 1 (0.53%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.38%) Kafka
2 6 (3.19%) PySpark
3 4 (2.13%) Great Expectations
3 4 (2.13%) Pandas
4 3 (1.60%) JSON
5 1 (0.53%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.66%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (2.66%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.60%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.60%) Fibre Optics
3 3 (1.60%) Sports Betting
4 2 (1.06%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.06%) Online Gambling
4 2 (1.06%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.53%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.53%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.53%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.53%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.53%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.53%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (25.00%) Analytics
2 42 (22.34%) Data Engineering
2 42 (22.34%) Data Pipeline
3 34 (18.09%) ETL
4 29 (15.43%) Agile
4 29 (15.43%) Data Modelling
5 25 (13.30%) AI
6 19 (10.11%) Machine Learning
7 18 (9.57%) Data Science
8 16 (8.51%) Decision-Making
9 15 (7.98%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (7.45%) Mentoring
11 13 (6.91%) CI/CD
12 12 (6.38%) Business Strategy
12 12 (6.38%) Data Governance
12 12 (6.38%) Data Ingestion
13 11 (5.85%) Data Transformation
14 10 (5.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (5.32%) Data Architecture
14 10 (5.32%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 79 (42.02%) SQL
2 67 (35.64%) Python
3 5 (2.66%) Bash
3 5 (2.66%) Java
4 4 (2.13%) Scala
5 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.53%) Go
5 1 (0.53%) Groovy
5 1 (0.53%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (6.38%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.26%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.06%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.36%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.19%) QA
3 2 (1.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (3.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.57%) Terraform
2 2 (1.06%) Grafana
2 2 (1.06%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (14.36%) Databricks
2 14 (7.45%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.26%) Google
4 3 (1.60%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.60%) SAP
5 1 (0.53%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.53%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.53%) BT