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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 185 100
Rank change year-on-year +112 -85 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 238 60 179
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.95% 1.15% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% 1.27% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 179 54 149
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,563 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £80,625 £70,938 £85,000
90th Percentile £92,400 £87,500 £93,000
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 11,567 4,711 8,053
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.01% 90.02% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,641 2,442 5,492
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 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,482
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +54 147 £66,750 -1.11% 13
Merseyside +13 35 £75,000 +25.00% 1
Cheshire +38 32 £80,000 +88.24% 2
Lancashire +25 24 £75,000 +28.21% 2
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 89 (37.39%) SQL
2 84 (35.29%) Python
3 70 (29.41%) Analytics
3 70 (29.41%) Data Engineering
4 62 (26.05%) Data Pipeline
5 61 (25.63%) AWS
6 59 (24.79%) Azure
7 46 (19.33%) Data Quality
8 41 (17.23%) AI
9 40 (16.81%) ETL
10 39 (16.39%) Decision-Making
11 38 (15.97%) GCP
12 35 (14.71%) Agile
12 35 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
13 33 (13.87%) Data Modelling
14 29 (12.18%) CI/CD
14 29 (12.18%) Databricks
15 26 (10.92%) Machine Learning
15 26 (10.92%) Terraform
16 24 (10.08%) Security Cleared
17 23 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
18 22 (9.24%) Data Governance
18 22 (9.24%) SQL Server
19 21 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
20 19 (7.98%) Apache Airflow
20 19 (7.98%) dbt
20 19 (7.98%) Microsoft
21 18 (7.56%) Business Strategy
21 18 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
21 18 (7.56%) Data Architecture

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 (7.98%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.62%) Apache
2 11 (4.62%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 61 (25.63%) AWS
2 59 (24.79%) Azure
3 38 (15.97%) GCP
4 19 (7.98%) dbt
5 17 (7.14%) Snowflake
6 14 (5.88%) GitHub
6 14 (5.88%) Power Platform
7 12 (5.04%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.20%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (4.20%) Serverless
9 9 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (3.78%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.10%) SaaS
11 4 (1.68%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.26%) Cloud Functions
12 3 (1.26%) Fivetran
12 3 (1.26%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (9.24%) SQL Server
3 17 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
3 17 (7.14%) BigQuery
4 14 (5.88%) Power BI
5 10 (4.20%) Data Lake
5 10 (4.20%) Metadata
6 8 (3.36%) Big Data
6 8 (3.36%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.52%) Delta Lake
8 5 (2.10%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.10%) NoSQL
8 5 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.68%) Flink
9 4 (1.68%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.84%) Spark SQL
12 1 (0.42%) Looker
Development Applications
1 12 (5.04%) Git
2 3 (1.26%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.26%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (17.23%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (7.56%) Finance
3 14 (5.88%) Law
4 12 (5.04%) Retail
5 11 (4.62%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.20%) Health Technology
7 7 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.68%) Marketing
9 3 (1.26%) Advertising
10 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.84%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) iGaming
11 1 (0.42%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.92%) Terraform
2 13 (5.46%) Kafka
3 11 (4.62%) PySpark
4 4 (1.68%) Great Expectations
4 4 (1.68%) Pandas
5 3 (1.26%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.26%) JSON
6 1 (0.42%) .NET
6 1 (0.42%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.04%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.78%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (3.78%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.52%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.10%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.26%) Replication
5 3 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.26%) Sports Betting
6 2 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.84%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.42%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.42%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.42%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.42%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.41%) Analytics
1 70 (29.41%) Data Engineering
2 62 (26.05%) Data Pipeline
3 41 (17.23%) AI
4 40 (16.81%) ETL
5 39 (16.39%) Decision-Making
6 35 (14.71%) Agile
7 33 (13.87%) Data Modelling
8 29 (12.18%) CI/CD
9 26 (10.92%) Machine Learning
10 23 (9.66%) Platform Engineering
11 22 (9.24%) Data Governance
12 21 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
13 18 (7.56%) Business Strategy
13 18 (7.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (7.56%) Data Architecture
13 18 (7.56%) Mentoring
13 18 (7.56%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (6.72%) Data Transformation
14 16 (6.72%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 89 (37.39%) SQL
2 84 (35.29%) Python
3 9 (3.78%) Bash
4 8 (3.36%) Scala
5 5 (2.10%) Java
6 1 (0.42%) C#
6 1 (0.42%) C++
6 1 (0.42%) Go
6 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 24 (10.08%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.56%) DV Cleared
3 6 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (2.52%) Degree
4 4 (1.68%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.84%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (19.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.10%) QA
3 4 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (5.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.84%) Grafana
1 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (12.18%) Databricks
2 19 (7.98%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.36%) Google
4 3 (1.26%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.26%) SAP
5 2 (0.84%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.42%) Informatica