Data Engineer Jobs 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 26 September 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 121 158
Rank change year-on-year +4 +37 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 144 117 190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.74% 2.36% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 2.49% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 127 60 112
10th Percentile £40,750 £43,625 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,306 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -12.70% +5.00%
75th Percentile £79,375 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £72,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +0.69% +10.77%

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 7,900 4,704 8,619
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.28% 94.97% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 4,491 3,213 5,492
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,439 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Data Engineer 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 September 2024.

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 September 2024. 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 +14 73 £60,000 +2.13% 22
Lancashire -35 32 £69,000 +48.23% 6
Merseyside +28 24 £82,500 +93.55% 2
Cumbria -22 9 £55,500 - 1
Cheshire -26 5 £31,000 -40.95% 5
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 2024, 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 72 (50.00%) ETL
2 71 (49.31%) SQL
3 64 (44.44%) Azure
4 57 (39.58%) Python
5 53 (36.81%) Data Engineering
6 52 (36.11%) Data Modelling
6 52 (36.11%) Data Quality
7 43 (29.86%) Agile
7 43 (29.86%) Analytics
8 42 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
9 39 (27.08%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (25.69%) Informatica
11 35 (24.31%) DevOps
12 34 (23.61%) Power BI
12 34 (23.61%) Power Platform
12 34 (23.61%) Databricks
13 33 (22.92%) Data Lake
14 31 (21.53%) Scrum
14 31 (21.53%) Finance
15 29 (20.14%) SQL Server
15 29 (20.14%) Social Skills
16 28 (19.44%) Azure Data Factory
17 27 (18.75%) Data Management
18 26 (18.06%) Business Intelligence
18 26 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
19 25 (17.36%) CI/CD
19 25 (17.36%) Data Structures
19 25 (17.36%) Data Governance
19 25 (17.36%) JIRA
20 24 (16.67%) Data Strategy

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 15 (10.42%) Apache Spark
2 11 (7.64%) Confluence
3 7 (4.86%) Apache
4 6 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.08%) SAS
6 1 (0.69%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.69%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.69%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 64 (44.44%) Azure
2 34 (23.61%) Power Platform
3 28 (19.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 26 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (13.89%) AWS
6 17 (11.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (9.03%) GCP
8 9 (6.25%) GitHub
9 7 (4.86%) Amazon S3
10 5 (3.47%) dbt
10 5 (3.47%) Snowflake
11 4 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.39%) Amazon EMR
12 2 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.39%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.39%) Power Automate
12 2 (1.39%) Serverless
13 1 (0.69%) Amazon Kinesis
13 1 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.78%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.39%) Firewall
2 2 (1.39%) WebEx
3 1 (0.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (27.08%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (23.61%) Power BI
3 33 (22.92%) Data Lake
4 29 (20.14%) SQL Server
5 15 (10.42%) Data Vault
5 15 (10.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (9.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (5.56%) NoSQL
8 7 (4.86%) Metadata
8 7 (4.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (4.17%) BigQuery
9 6 (4.17%) Data Mining
9 6 (4.17%) Looker
10 4 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (2.78%) Delta Lake
10 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 4 (2.78%) MongoDB
10 4 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (2.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.78%) TIBCO EBX
Development Applications
1 25 (17.36%) JIRA
2 7 (4.86%) Git
3 2 (1.39%) GitLab
3 2 (1.39%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.39%) RStudio
General
1 31 (21.53%) Finance
2 29 (20.14%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.17%) Law
5 4 (2.78%) Retail
6 1 (0.69%) Back Office
6 1 (0.69%) Legal
6 1 (0.69%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (13.19%) PySpark
2 8 (5.56%) Kafka
3 2 (1.39%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.69%) NumPy
4 1 (0.69%) Pandas
4 1 (0.69%) RESTful
4 1 (0.69%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.69%) SOAP
4 1 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (17.36%) Data Structures
2 10 (6.94%) Reinsurance
3 6 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.08%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.39%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.39%) FMCG
6 2 (1.39%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.39%) PropTech
6 2 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.69%) Blog
7 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.39%) Linux
1 2 (1.39%) Windows
1 2 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (50.00%) ETL
2 53 (36.81%) Data Engineering
3 52 (36.11%) Data Modelling
4 43 (29.86%) Agile
4 43 (29.86%) Analytics
5 42 (29.17%) Data Pipeline
6 35 (24.31%) DevOps
7 31 (21.53%) Scrum
8 27 (18.75%) Data Management
9 26 (18.06%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (17.36%) CI/CD
10 25 (17.36%) Data Governance
11 24 (16.67%) Data Strategy
12 21 (14.58%) Data Integration
13 18 (12.50%) Data Analysis
13 18 (12.50%) Master Data Management
13 18 (12.50%) Visualisation
14 17 (11.81%) Machine Learning
15 16 (11.11%) Computer Science
16 15 (10.42%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 71 (49.31%) SQL
2 57 (39.58%) Python
3 10 (6.94%) Java
3 10 (6.94%) T-SQL
4 7 (4.86%) R
4 7 (4.86%) Scala
5 2 (1.39%) Bash
5 2 (1.39%) C#
6 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (13.19%) Degree
2 14 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (4.17%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.47%) DBS Check
5 4 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.78%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.08%) CCNA
6 3 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (36.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.69%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.47%) Terraform
2 2 (1.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 37 (25.69%) Informatica
2 34 (23.61%) Databricks
3 23 (15.97%) Microsoft
4 10 (6.94%) Google
4 10 (6.94%) Oracle
5 4 (2.78%) TIBCO
6 2 (1.39%) Talend
6 2 (1.39%) Teradata
7 1 (0.69%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.69%) SAP
7 1 (0.69%) webMethods