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 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 193 86
Rank change year-on-year +126 -107 +58
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 237 54 205
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.04% 1.04% 2.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.14% 1.16% 2.56%
Number of salaries quoted 182 49 158
10th Percentile £41,750 £42,350 £40,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,232
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.48% +18.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,000 £93,250
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.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 11,089 4,672 7,994
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.27% 90.28% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 8,306 2,446 5,693
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,926 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +70 154 £66,750 -2.91% 24
Merseyside +11 33 £75,000 +11.11% 14
Cheshire +41 30 £80,000 +88.24% 4
Lancashire +20 19 £70,903 +21.20% 7
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 92 (38.82%) SQL
2 84 (35.44%) Python
3 66 (27.85%) Analytics
3 66 (27.85%) Data Engineering
4 58 (24.47%) AWS
4 58 (24.47%) Data Pipeline
5 57 (24.05%) Azure
6 44 (18.57%) Data Quality
7 42 (17.72%) ETL
8 40 (16.88%) AI
9 36 (15.19%) Agile
9 36 (15.19%) Data Modelling
9 36 (15.19%) GCP
10 34 (14.35%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (14.35%) Decision-Making
11 31 (13.08%) Databricks
12 26 (10.97%) CI/CD
13 25 (10.55%) Machine Learning
13 25 (10.55%) SQL Server
14 24 (10.13%) Security Cleared
15 23 (9.70%) Terraform
16 22 (9.28%) Data Governance
17 21 (8.86%) Apache Airflow
17 21 (8.86%) Business Intelligence
17 21 (8.86%) Microsoft
17 21 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
18 18 (7.59%) BigQuery
18 18 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
18 18 (7.59%) dbt
18 18 (7.59%) Problem-Solving

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 21 (8.86%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.64%) Apache Spark
3 10 (4.22%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 58 (24.47%) AWS
2 57 (24.05%) Azure
3 36 (15.19%) GCP
4 18 (7.59%) dbt
5 17 (7.17%) Power Platform
6 13 (5.49%) Snowflake
7 11 (4.64%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.80%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (3.80%) GitHub
8 9 (3.80%) Serverless
9 6 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.11%) SaaS
11 4 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
11 4 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 3 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.27%) Fivetran
13 2 (0.84%) Amazon MSK
13 2 (0.84%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) Broadband
1 1 (0.42%) DSLAM
1 1 (0.42%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.35%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (10.55%) SQL Server
3 18 (7.59%) BigQuery
4 17 (7.17%) Power BI
5 16 (6.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (4.22%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.80%) Metadata
8 8 (3.38%) Big Data
8 8 (3.38%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.53%) Delta Lake
10 5 (2.11%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.69%) DynamoDB
11 4 (1.69%) Flink
11 4 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.42%) Data Vault
13 1 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (5.91%) Git
2 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (15.19%) Social Skills
2 18 (7.59%) Finance
3 17 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.91%) Law
5 12 (5.06%) Retail
6 10 (4.22%) Health Technology
6 10 (4.22%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.27%) Advertising
8 3 (1.27%) Marketing
9 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.42%) Banking
10 1 (0.42%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.42%) Games
10 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.42%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.49%) Kafka
2 11 (4.64%) PySpark
3 4 (1.69%) Great Expectations
3 4 (1.69%) Pandas
4 3 (1.27%) AWS CDK
4 3 (1.27%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.64%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (2.53%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.53%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.11%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (1.69%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.69%) Replication
6 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.27%) Sports Betting
7 2 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.84%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.84%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.42%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.42%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.42%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.42%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.42%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (27.85%) Analytics
1 66 (27.85%) Data Engineering
2 58 (24.47%) Data Pipeline
3 42 (17.72%) ETL
4 40 (16.88%) AI
5 36 (15.19%) Agile
5 36 (15.19%) Data Modelling
6 34 (14.35%) Decision-Making
7 26 (10.97%) CI/CD
8 25 (10.55%) Machine Learning
9 22 (9.28%) Data Governance
10 21 (8.86%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (8.86%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (7.17%) Data Architecture
12 17 (7.17%) Mentoring
13 16 (6.75%) Data Transformation
14 15 (6.33%) Business Strategy
14 15 (6.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 92 (38.82%) SQL
2 84 (35.44%) Python
3 8 (3.38%) Scala
4 6 (2.53%) Bash
5 4 (1.69%) Java
6 1 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.42%) Go
6 1 (0.42%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (10.13%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.75%) DV Cleared
3 6 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (2.53%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.69%) Degree
5 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.57%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.53%) QA
3 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (5.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (9.70%) Terraform
2 2 (0.84%) Grafana
2 2 (0.84%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.42%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 31 (13.08%) Databricks
2 21 (8.86%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.38%) Google
4 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.27%) SAP
5 2 (0.84%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.42%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.42%) BT
6 1 (0.42%) Informatica