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 22 July 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 188 95
Rank change year-on-year +114 -93 +85
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 217 53 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.91% 1.04% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.15% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 175 47 178
10th Percentile £41,750 £42,200 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.88% +15.91%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,500 £90,750
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 10,811 4,617 9,066
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.96% 90.18% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8,115 2,407 6,690
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,250 £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 22 July 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 22 July 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 +63 142 £66,750 -1.11% 22
Merseyside +7 31 £75,000 +50.00% 10
Cheshire +32 29 £80,000 +88.24% 4
Lancashire +20 14 £75,000 +29.31% 9
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 July 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 83 (38.25%) SQL
2 75 (34.56%) Python
3 61 (28.11%) Analytics
4 55 (25.35%) Data Engineering
5 54 (24.88%) Azure
6 50 (23.04%) AWS
6 50 (23.04%) Data Pipeline
7 37 (17.05%) Data Quality
8 34 (15.67%) ETL
9 33 (15.21%) Data Modelling
10 32 (14.75%) Databricks
11 31 (14.29%) AI
11 31 (14.29%) GCP
12 29 (13.36%) Agile
13 26 (11.98%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (11.06%) Decision-Making
15 23 (10.60%) Security Cleared
16 22 (10.14%) Machine Learning
17 21 (9.68%) Microsoft
17 21 (9.68%) SQL Server
17 21 (9.68%) Terraform
18 19 (8.76%) Platform Engineering
19 18 (8.29%) CI/CD
20 17 (7.83%) Business Intelligence
20 17 (7.83%) Data Governance
20 17 (7.83%) Power BI
20 17 (7.83%) Power Platform
21 16 (7.37%) Apache Airflow
22 15 (6.91%) Data Architecture
22 15 (6.91%) DV Cleared

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 (7.37%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (5.07%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.69%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 54 (24.88%) Azure
2 50 (23.04%) AWS
3 31 (14.29%) GCP
4 17 (7.83%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.99%) dbt
6 9 (4.15%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.15%) Snowflake
7 7 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (3.23%) Serverless
8 6 (2.76%) GitHub
9 5 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.30%) SaaS
10 4 (1.84%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.84%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.92%) Amazon MSK
12 2 (0.92%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.92%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.46%) Broadband
1 1 (0.46%) DSLAM
1 1 (0.46%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.98%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 17 (7.83%) Power BI
4 13 (5.99%) BigQuery
5 12 (5.53%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (4.61%) Data Lake
7 8 (3.69%) Big Data
8 7 (3.23%) Metadata
9 6 (2.76%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.76%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.84%) Flink
10 4 (1.84%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.38%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.92%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 1 (0.46%) Looker
13 1 (0.46%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 8 (3.69%) Git
2 1 (0.46%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 26 (11.98%) Social Skills
2 14 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (6.45%) Finance
2 14 (6.45%) Law
3 12 (5.53%) Retail
4 11 (5.07%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.61%) Health Technology
6 5 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.38%) Advertising
7 3 (1.38%) Marketing
8 2 (0.92%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.46%) Banking
9 1 (0.46%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.46%) Games
9 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.46%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.99%) Kafka
2 9 (4.15%) PySpark
3 4 (1.84%) Great Expectations
3 4 (1.84%) Pandas
4 3 (1.38%) JSON
5 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.15%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (2.76%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.30%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.30%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (2.30%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.38%) Sports Betting
5 2 (0.92%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (0.92%) Online Gambling
5 2 (0.92%) Replication
6 1 (0.46%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.46%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.46%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (28.11%) Analytics
2 55 (25.35%) Data Engineering
3 50 (23.04%) Data Pipeline
4 34 (15.67%) ETL
5 33 (15.21%) Data Modelling
6 31 (14.29%) AI
7 29 (13.36%) Agile
8 24 (11.06%) Decision-Making
9 22 (10.14%) Machine Learning
10 19 (8.76%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (8.29%) CI/CD
12 17 (7.83%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (7.83%) Data Governance
13 15 (6.91%) Data Architecture
13 15 (6.91%) Mentoring
14 14 (6.45%) Business Strategy
14 14 (6.45%) Data Transformation
14 14 (6.45%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (5.99%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 83 (38.25%) SQL
2 75 (34.56%) Python
3 8 (3.69%) Scala
4 5 (2.30%) Bash
5 4 (1.84%) Java
6 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.46%) Go
6 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (10.60%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.91%) DV Cleared
3 6 (2.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.38%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.92%) Degree
7 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (17.05%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.76%) QA
3 2 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (4.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (9.68%) Terraform
2 2 (0.92%) Grafana
2 2 (0.92%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (14.75%) Databricks
2 21 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.30%) Google
4 3 (1.38%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.38%) SAP
5 1 (0.46%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.46%) BT
5 1 (0.46%) Informatica