Data Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Data Engineer salary in the North West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 103 109
Rank change year-on-year -73 +6 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 62 157 112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.21% 2.03% 2.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.37% 2.13% 2.61%
Number of salaries quoted 53 137 56
10th Percentile £45,250 £40,000 £43,125
25th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -12.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +6.38%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 4,528 7,359 4,297
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.33% 95.26% 92.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,279 4,541 3,277
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 -3 44 £67,500 +12.50% 24
Lancashire -29 10 £59,250 -12.87% 17
Merseyside -26 5 £60,000 -27.27% 8
Cheshire -17 2 £42,500 +37.10% 8
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (66.13%) SQL
2 40 (64.52%) Python
3 31 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 31 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 24 (38.71%) ETL
5 23 (37.10%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (33.87%) Azure
7 20 (32.26%) Data Modelling
8 19 (30.65%) Retail
8 19 (30.65%) Analytics
9 15 (24.19%) CI/CD
10 13 (20.97%) Big Data
10 13 (20.97%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (19.35%) SQL Server
11 12 (19.35%) AWS
11 12 (19.35%) Data Science
12 10 (16.13%) Data Lake
12 10 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence
12 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (16.13%) Social Skills
13 9 (14.52%) Java
14 8 (12.90%) Power BI
14 8 (12.90%) Power Platform
14 8 (12.90%) Requirements Gathering
15 7 (11.29%) Legacy Systems
15 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
15 7 (11.29%) Databricks
15 7 (11.29%) Data Analytics
16 6 (9.68%) Data Quality
16 6 (9.68%) Apache

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (9.68%) Apache
2 5 (8.06%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) Azure
2 12 (19.35%) AWS
3 8 (12.90%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (6.45%) Serverless
4 4 (6.45%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.84%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.23%) SaaS
7 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.61%) dbt
7 1 (1.61%) GCP
7 1 (1.61%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.61%) Stitch
7 1 (1.61%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) DAB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (37.10%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (20.97%) Big Data
3 12 (19.35%) SQL Server
4 10 (16.13%) Data Lake
5 8 (12.90%) Power BI
6 5 (8.06%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (4.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.84%) DynamoDB
7 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
7 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.84%) Tableau
8 2 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.23%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.23%) Neo4j
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.61%) Looker
9 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 19 (30.65%) Retail
2 10 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.68%) Finance
3 6 (9.68%) Law
4 4 (6.45%) Legal
4 4 (6.45%) Marketing
5 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Electronics
5 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) PySpark
2 1 (1.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.84%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.61%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 31 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 24 (38.71%) ETL
3 20 (32.26%) Data Modelling
4 19 (30.65%) Analytics
5 15 (24.19%) CI/CD
6 13 (20.97%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (19.35%) Data Science
8 10 (16.13%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (12.90%) Requirements Gathering
10 7 (11.29%) Data Analytics
10 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (9.68%) Agile
11 6 (9.68%) Decision-Making
11 6 (9.68%) Software Engineering
12 5 (8.06%) Computer Science
12 5 (8.06%) Data Architecture
12 5 (8.06%) Migration
12 5 (8.06%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 41 (66.13%) SQL
2 40 (64.52%) Python
3 9 (14.52%) Java
4 4 (6.45%) Scala
5 3 (4.84%) C#
6 1 (1.61%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (6.45%) Degree
1 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
1 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.23%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.61%) HNC
3 1 (1.61%) HND
3 1 (1.61%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.06%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (11.29%) Databricks
2 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (1.61%) Google
4 1 (1.61%) PayPal
4 1 (1.61%) Talend