Data Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Data Engineer salary in the North West is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 September 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 176 93
Rank change year-on-year +106 -83 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 245 60 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.96% 1.17% 2.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 1.31% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 184 52 141
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,313 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,225 £87,500 £92,500
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 11,802 4,577 7,440
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 88.89% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 8,791 2,335 4,689
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 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,500
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% - -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 9 September 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 9 September 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 +47 148 £65,000 -3.70% 53
Merseyside +15 35 £75,000 +25.00% 5
Cheshire +37 32 £80,000 +88.24% 6
Lancashire +27 30 £60,000 +1.27% 18
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 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 95 (38.78%) SQL
2 83 (33.88%) Python
3 81 (33.06%) Analytics
4 72 (29.39%) Data Engineering
5 71 (28.98%) AWS
6 63 (25.71%) Data Pipeline
7 57 (23.27%) Azure
8 50 (20.41%) Data Quality
9 49 (20.00%) Decision-Making
10 47 (19.18%) ETL
11 41 (16.73%) AI
12 38 (15.51%) Agile
13 37 (15.10%) GCP
14 35 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
15 33 (13.47%) Data Modelling
16 32 (13.06%) CI/CD
17 27 (11.02%) Databricks
18 26 (10.61%) Machine Learning
19 25 (10.20%) Terraform
20 24 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
20 24 (9.80%) Security Cleared
21 23 (9.39%) Data Transformation
22 22 (8.98%) Platform Engineering
23 21 (8.57%) Mentoring
23 21 (8.57%) SQL Server
24 20 (8.16%) Data Governance
25 19 (7.76%) Microsoft
25 19 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
26 18 (7.35%) Amazon Redshift
26 18 (7.35%) Business Strategy

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 16 (6.53%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.49%) Apache
2 11 (4.49%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 71 (28.98%) AWS
2 57 (23.27%) Azure
3 37 (15.10%) GCP
4 18 (7.35%) dbt
5 17 (6.94%) Snowflake
6 14 (5.71%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (5.71%) GitHub
6 14 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.71%) Serverless
7 13 (5.31%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.04%) SaaS
10 4 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.63%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (1.63%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.22%) Fivetran
11 3 (1.22%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (8.57%) SQL Server
3 18 (7.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (6.53%) BigQuery
5 14 (5.71%) Power BI
6 11 (4.49%) Data Lake
7 8 (3.27%) Big Data
7 8 (3.27%) Metadata
8 6 (2.45%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (2.04%) DynamoDB
9 5 (2.04%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (2.04%) Spark SQL
10 4 (1.63%) Delta Lake
10 4 (1.63%) Flink
10 4 (1.63%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.41%) Looker
Development Applications
1 12 (4.90%) Git
2 3 (1.22%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.22%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (16.33%) Social Skills
2 20 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (7.35%) Finance
4 14 (5.71%) Law
5 12 (4.90%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.90%) Retail
6 10 (4.08%) Health Technology
7 7 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.63%) Marketing
9 3 (1.22%) Advertising
10 2 (0.82%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.82%) Games
11 1 (0.41%) Banking
11 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) iGaming
11 1 (0.41%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.20%) Terraform
2 15 (6.12%) PySpark
3 13 (5.31%) Kafka
4 4 (1.63%) .NET
4 4 (1.63%) Great Expectations
4 4 (1.63%) Pandas
5 3 (1.22%) AWS CDK
6 2 (0.82%) JSON
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.41%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.31%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.67%) Greenfield Project
2 9 (3.67%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.45%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.22%) Replication
5 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.22%) Sports Betting
6 2 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.82%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.41%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.41%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.41%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.41%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (33.06%) Analytics
2 72 (29.39%) Data Engineering
3 63 (25.71%) Data Pipeline
4 49 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 47 (19.18%) ETL
6 41 (16.73%) AI
7 38 (15.51%) Agile
8 33 (13.47%) Data Modelling
9 32 (13.06%) CI/CD
10 26 (10.61%) Machine Learning
11 24 (9.80%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (9.39%) Data Transformation
13 22 (8.98%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (8.57%) Mentoring
15 20 (8.16%) Data Governance
16 19 (7.76%) Problem-Solving
17 18 (7.35%) Business Strategy
17 18 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
17 18 (7.35%) Data Architecture
18 17 (6.94%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 95 (38.78%) SQL
2 83 (33.88%) Python
3 9 (3.67%) Bash
3 9 (3.67%) Java
4 8 (3.27%) Scala
5 4 (1.63%) C#
5 4 (1.63%) C++
5 4 (1.63%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 24 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.53%) DV Cleared
3 6 (2.45%) Degree
3 6 (2.45%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.82%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (20.41%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.63%) QA
4 2 (0.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (4.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.82%) Grafana
1 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (11.02%) Databricks
2 19 (7.76%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.27%) Google
4 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.22%) SAP
5 2 (0.82%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.41%) Informatica