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 4 June 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 186 87
Rank change year-on-year +99 -99 +96
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 181 54 256
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.66% 1.17% 2.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 1.31% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 149 46 199
10th Percentile £41,650 £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 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £93,000 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -10.34%

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 10,190 4,112 9,819
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 88.97% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,301 2,025 7,664
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,600 £27,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £36,250
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 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%

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 4 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 4 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 +51 122 £67,500 -3.57% 30
Merseyside +8 26 £75,000 +36.36% 9
Cheshire - 20 £77,500 - 4
Lancashire +22 12 £55,000 -4.35% 9
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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 75 (41.44%) SQL
2 63 (34.81%) Python
3 45 (24.86%) Analytics
4 42 (23.20%) AWS
5 41 (22.65%) Data Engineering
6 40 (22.10%) Data Pipeline
7 39 (21.55%) Azure
8 33 (18.23%) ETL
9 28 (15.47%) Data Modelling
10 27 (14.92%) Agile
11 26 (14.36%) Databricks
12 25 (13.81%) Data Quality
13 24 (13.26%) AI
14 23 (12.71%) GCP
15 20 (11.05%) Data Warehouse
15 20 (11.05%) SQL Server
16 19 (10.50%) Apache Airflow
17 18 (9.94%) Data Science
17 18 (9.94%) Machine Learning
17 18 (9.94%) Terraform
18 16 (8.84%) Decision-Making
18 16 (8.84%) Security Cleared
19 15 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
20 14 (7.73%) BigQuery
20 14 (7.73%) Data Lake
20 14 (7.73%) Mentoring
20 14 (7.73%) Microsoft
21 13 (7.18%) CI/CD
22 12 (6.63%) Business Strategy
22 12 (6.63%) Data Ingestion

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 (10.50%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.76%) Apache
2 5 (2.76%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.55%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 42 (23.20%) AWS
2 39 (21.55%) Azure
3 23 (12.71%) GCP
4 11 (6.08%) Power Platform
5 9 (4.97%) dbt
6 8 (4.42%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.42%) SaaS
6 8 (4.42%) Snowflake
7 6 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.31%) Serverless
8 5 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.76%) GitHub
8 5 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.21%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.21%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (1.10%) Dagster
12 1 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.55%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.55%) Broadband
2 1 (0.55%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.05%) Data Warehouse
1 20 (11.05%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.73%) BigQuery
2 14 (7.73%) Data Lake
3 11 (6.08%) Power BI
4 10 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.31%) Metadata
5 6 (3.31%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.76%) Delta Lake
6 5 (2.76%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.76%) Semantic Layer
7 4 (2.21%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (2.21%) Big Data
7 4 (2.21%) Flink
8 3 (1.66%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.10%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.31%) Git
2 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 17 (9.39%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.08%) Retail
3 10 (5.52%) Health Technology
3 10 (5.52%) Law
4 8 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (4.42%) Finance
5 7 (3.87%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.66%) Advertising
6 3 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.66%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.10%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.55%) Automotive
8 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.55%) Games
8 1 (0.55%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.63%) Kafka
2 6 (3.31%) PySpark
3 4 (2.21%) Great Expectations
3 4 (2.21%) Pandas
4 3 (1.66%) JSON
5 1 (0.55%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.97%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (2.76%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (2.76%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.66%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.66%) Data Structures
3 3 (1.66%) Fibre Optics
3 3 (1.66%) Sports Betting
4 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.10%) Online Gambling
4 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.55%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.55%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.55%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (24.86%) Analytics
2 41 (22.65%) Data Engineering
3 40 (22.10%) Data Pipeline
4 33 (18.23%) ETL
5 28 (15.47%) Data Modelling
6 27 (14.92%) Agile
7 24 (13.26%) AI
8 18 (9.94%) Data Science
8 18 (9.94%) Machine Learning
9 16 (8.84%) Decision-Making
10 15 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (7.73%) Mentoring
12 13 (7.18%) CI/CD
13 12 (6.63%) Business Strategy
13 12 (6.63%) Data Ingestion
14 11 (6.08%) Data Governance
15 10 (5.52%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (5.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (5.52%) Data Architecture
15 10 (5.52%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 75 (41.44%) SQL
2 63 (34.81%) Python
3 5 (2.76%) Bash
3 5 (2.76%) Java
4 4 (2.21%) Scala
5 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.55%) Go
5 1 (0.55%) Groovy
5 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (8.84%) Security Cleared
2 11 (6.08%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.10%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.81%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.31%) QA
3 2 (1.10%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (3.31%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (9.94%) Terraform
2 2 (1.10%) Grafana
2 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (14.36%) Databricks
2 14 (7.73%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.42%) Google
4 3 (1.66%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.66%) SAP
5 1 (0.55%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.55%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.55%) BT