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 25 June 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 192 85
Rank change year-on-year +110 -107 +98
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 200 47 282
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.82% 0.99% 2.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 1.11% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 165 40 222
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £39,550
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £61,188 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% -2.10% +19.62%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,500 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% -10.96%

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 10,336 4,230 10,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 88.90% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7,794 2,105 8,009
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +63 132 £66,750 -7.93% 24
Merseyside +5 30 £75,000 +36.36% 4
Cheshire - 25 £80,000 - 4
Lancashire +22 12 £55,000 -4.35% 14
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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 84 (42.00%) SQL
2 73 (36.50%) Python
3 52 (26.00%) Analytics
4 49 (24.50%) AWS
4 49 (24.50%) Azure
4 49 (24.50%) Data Pipeline
5 46 (23.00%) Data Engineering
6 34 (17.00%) ETL
7 33 (16.50%) Databricks
8 32 (16.00%) Data Quality
9 30 (15.00%) Agile
9 30 (15.00%) Data Modelling
10 28 (14.00%) GCP
11 27 (13.50%) AI
12 23 (11.50%) Data Warehouse
13 21 (10.50%) Decision-Making
13 21 (10.50%) Machine Learning
14 20 (10.00%) Security Cleared
14 20 (10.00%) SQL Server
14 20 (10.00%) Terraform
15 18 (9.00%) Apache Airflow
15 18 (9.00%) Data Science
16 17 (8.50%) Microsoft
16 17 (8.50%) Platform Engineering
17 16 (8.00%) CI/CD
18 15 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
18 15 (7.50%) Mentoring
18 15 (7.50%) Power BI
18 15 (7.50%) Power Platform
19 14 (7.00%) 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 18 (9.00%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.50%) Apache
2 9 (4.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 49 (24.50%) AWS
1 49 (24.50%) Azure
2 28 (14.00%) GCP
3 15 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 11 (5.50%) dbt
5 9 (4.50%) Amazon S3
6 8 (4.00%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.50%) SaaS
7 7 (3.50%) Serverless
8 5 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (2.50%) GitHub
8 5 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.00%) Dagster
12 1 (0.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.50%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.00%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.50%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.50%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 15 (7.50%) Power BI
4 13 (6.50%) BigQuery
4 13 (6.50%) Data Lake
5 11 (5.50%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (3.00%) Big Data
6 6 (3.00%) Delta Lake
6 6 (3.00%) Metadata
6 6 (3.00%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.00%) Flink
9 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.50%) Semantic Layer
9 3 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.00%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (3.50%) Git
2 1 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 23 (11.50%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.00%) Law
3 12 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.00%) Finance
4 11 (5.50%) Retail
5 10 (5.00%) Health Technology
6 9 (4.50%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.50%) Advertising
7 3 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.50%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.00%) Marketing
9 1 (0.50%) Automotive
9 1 (0.50%) Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.00%) Kafka
2 8 (4.00%) PySpark
3 4 (2.00%) Great Expectations
3 4 (2.00%) Pandas
4 3 (1.50%) JSON
5 1 (0.50%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.50%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (3.00%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.50%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (1.50%) Sports Betting
6 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.00%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.50%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.50%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.50%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.50%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.50%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (26.00%) Analytics
2 49 (24.50%) Data Pipeline
3 46 (23.00%) Data Engineering
4 34 (17.00%) ETL
5 30 (15.00%) Agile
5 30 (15.00%) Data Modelling
6 27 (13.50%) AI
7 21 (10.50%) Decision-Making
7 21 (10.50%) Machine Learning
8 18 (9.00%) Data Science
9 17 (8.50%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (8.00%) CI/CD
11 15 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
11 15 (7.50%) Mentoring
12 14 (7.00%) Business Strategy
12 14 (7.00%) Data Architecture
12 14 (7.00%) Data Governance
12 14 (7.00%) Data Ingestion
12 14 (7.00%) Validation
13 13 (6.50%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 84 (42.00%) SQL
2 73 (36.50%) Python
3 8 (4.00%) Scala
4 5 (2.50%) Bash
4 5 (2.50%) Java
5 1 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.50%) Go
5 1 (0.50%) Groovy
5 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (6.50%) DV Cleared
3 8 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.50%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) Degree
6 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.00%) QA
3 2 (1.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (10.00%) Terraform
2 2 (1.00%) Grafana
2 2 (1.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (16.50%) Databricks
2 17 (8.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.50%) Google
4 3 (1.50%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.50%) SAP
5 1 (0.50%) Alteryx
5 1 (0.50%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.50%) BT