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 23 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 177 84
Rank change year-on-year +82 -93 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 162 53 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.50% 1.17% 2.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 1.32% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 134 45 193
10th Percentile £42,725 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,876 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +6.46% +14.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £89,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -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 9,972 4,007 9,033
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 88.61% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6,926 1,973 7,211
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,457 £57,560 £53,250
% change year-on-year -3.65% +8.09% -12.42%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +52 110 £68,750 -5.17% 19
Merseyside +1 22 £75,000 +36.36% 7
Cheshire - 17 £77,500 - 2
Lancashire +24 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 23 May 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 65 (40.12%) SQL
2 53 (32.72%) Python
3 37 (22.84%) Analytics
4 36 (22.22%) AWS
5 34 (20.99%) Data Engineering
6 32 (19.75%) Azure
7 31 (19.14%) Data Pipeline
8 30 (18.52%) ETL
9 26 (16.05%) Agile
10 21 (12.96%) Data Modelling
10 21 (12.96%) Databricks
11 19 (11.73%) AI
11 19 (11.73%) GCP
11 19 (11.73%) SQL Server
12 18 (11.11%) Data Quality
12 18 (11.11%) Data Science
13 17 (10.49%) Apache Airflow
13 17 (10.49%) Terraform
14 15 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (9.26%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (8.64%) Data Lake
15 14 (8.64%) Machine Learning
15 14 (8.64%) Microsoft
16 13 (8.02%) BigQuery
16 13 (8.02%) CI/CD
16 13 (8.02%) Mentoring
16 13 (8.02%) Security Cleared
17 11 (6.79%) Business Strategy
17 11 (6.79%) Decision-Making
17 11 (6.79%) Kafka

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 17 (10.49%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.85%) Apache
3 2 (1.23%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.62%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.62%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.22%) AWS
2 32 (19.75%) Azure
3 19 (11.73%) GCP
4 10 (6.17%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.94%) Amazon S3
5 8 (4.94%) dbt
5 8 (4.94%) SaaS
6 7 (4.32%) Snowflake
7 6 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (3.70%) Serverless
8 5 (3.09%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.09%) GitHub
8 5 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.62%) Dagster
11 1 (0.62%) Google Tag Manager
11 1 (0.62%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.62%) Broadband
2 1 (0.62%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.73%) SQL Server
2 15 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (8.64%) Data Lake
4 13 (8.02%) BigQuery
5 10 (6.17%) Power BI
6 9 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (3.70%) Metadata
7 6 (3.70%) MongoDB
8 5 (3.09%) Relational Database
8 5 (3.09%) Semantic Layer
9 4 (2.47%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.47%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.47%) Flink
10 3 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.23%) Big Data
11 2 (1.23%) DynamoDB
11 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.62%) Looker
Development Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (0.62%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (8.64%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.79%) Retail
3 10 (6.17%) Health Technology
4 7 (4.32%) Finance
4 7 (4.32%) Law
4 7 (4.32%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.85%) Advertising
6 3 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.23%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.62%) Automotive
8 1 (0.62%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.79%) Kafka
2 6 (3.70%) PySpark
3 4 (2.47%) Great Expectations
3 4 (2.47%) Pandas
4 3 (1.85%) JSON
5 1 (0.62%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.09%) Legacy Applications
2 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.85%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.85%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (1.23%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.62%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.62%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.62%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (0.62%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.62%) Replication
5 1 (0.62%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (22.84%) Analytics
2 34 (20.99%) Data Engineering
3 31 (19.14%) Data Pipeline
4 30 (18.52%) ETL
5 26 (16.05%) Agile
6 21 (12.96%) Data Modelling
7 19 (11.73%) AI
8 18 (11.11%) Data Science
9 15 (9.26%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (8.64%) Machine Learning
11 13 (8.02%) CI/CD
11 13 (8.02%) Mentoring
12 11 (6.79%) Business Strategy
12 11 (6.79%) Decision-Making
13 10 (6.17%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (6.17%) Data Ingestion
13 10 (6.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (5.56%) Data Governance
15 8 (4.94%) Data Architecture
15 8 (4.94%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 65 (40.12%) SQL
2 53 (32.72%) Python
3 5 (3.09%) Bash
3 5 (3.09%) Java
4 2 (1.23%) Scala
5 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.62%) Go
5 1 (0.62%) Groovy
5 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (8.02%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 7 (4.32%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.23%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.70%) QA
3 2 (1.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.49%) Terraform
2 2 (1.23%) Grafana
2 2 (1.23%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (12.96%) Databricks
2 14 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.94%) Google
4 3 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.85%) SAP
5 1 (0.62%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.62%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.62%) BT