Data Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Data Engineer salary in the North West is £66,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 October 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 164 111
Rank change year-on-year +93 -53 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 262 60 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.02% 1.25% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% 1.41% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 195 55 108
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £80,938
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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.

6 months to
17 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 12,002 4,268 6,776
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 88.97% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,796 2,291 3,825
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,000 £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 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,000 £54,793 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.68% -4.71% -4.17%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 +28 153 £65,000 +6.12% 89
Lancashire +35 41 £66,805 +12.75% 19
Cheshire +43 37 £65,000 +52.94% 13
Merseyside +7 30 £75,000 +25.00% 8
Cumbria - 1 - -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 October 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1SQL38.9%102
2Analytics37.0%97
3Python31.3%82
4Data Engineering30.9%81
5Data Pipeline27.5%72
6AWS27.1%71
7Azure22.5%59
7Data Quality22.5%59
9Decision-Making21.0%55
10ETL20.6%54
11AI19.1%50
12Data Modelling17.2%45
13Data Warehouse16.4%43
14Agile16.0%42
15CI/CD14.9%39
16Business Intelligence14.1%37
17Security Cleared13.0%34
18Databricks11.8%31
18GCP11.8%31
18Machine Learning11.8%31
21Data Transformation11.1%29
21Problem-Solving11.1%29
23Mentoring10.3%27
23Terraform10.3%27
25Microsoft9.9%26
26Lakehouse8.8%23
26Platform Engineering8.8%23
26Power BI8.8%23
26Power Platform8.8%23
30Data Governance8.4%22

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Data Engineer42.0%110
2AWS Data Engineer6.9%18
3GCP Data Engineer5.3%14
4Artificial Intelligence Engineer4.2%11
4Machine Learning Engineer4.2%11
6Senior Platform Engineer3.4%9
7Principal Data Engineer3.1%8
7Snowflake Engineer3.1%8
9Lead Data Engineer2.7%7
9Senior Data Architect2.7%7
11Data Manager2.3%6
11Databricks Data Engineer2.3%6
11Senior Manager2.3%6
14Microsoft Engineer1.5%4
14Test Engineer1.5%4
16Azure Data Engineer1.1%3
16Power BI Engineer1.1%3
18Kafka Engineer0.8%2
19Business Intelligence Developer0.4%1
19Junior Data Engineer0.4%1
125 Data Engineer jobs in the North West