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 29 September 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 174 113
Rank change year-on-year +110 -61 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 270 62 140
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.09% 1.20% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.23% 1.36% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 201 55 124
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
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 12,117 4,565 7,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 88.14% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 8,944 2,244 4,226
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,808 £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 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 29 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 29 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 +40 160 £65,000 +1.96% 88
Lancashire +39 37 £64,653 +10.52% 15
Merseyside +18 37 £75,000 +25.00% 15
Cheshire +35 35 £77,500 +82.35% 12
Cumbria - 1 - -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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.

1 103 (38.15%) SQL
2 96 (35.56%) Analytics
3 86 (31.85%) Python
4 78 (28.89%) Data Engineering
5 73 (27.04%) AWS
6 71 (26.30%) Data Pipeline
7 61 (22.59%) Azure
8 54 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 54 (20.00%) ETL
9 53 (19.63%) Data Quality
10 47 (17.41%) AI
11 42 (15.56%) Agile
11 42 (15.56%) Data Warehouse
12 39 (14.44%) Data Modelling
13 37 (13.70%) GCP
14 34 (12.59%) CI/CD
15 31 (11.48%) Security Cleared
16 30 (11.11%) Machine Learning
17 29 (10.74%) Databricks
18 27 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
19 26 (9.63%) Data Transformation
19 26 (9.63%) Terraform
20 25 (9.26%) Microsoft
21 24 (8.89%) Mentoring
21 24 (8.89%) Platform Engineering
21 24 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
22 22 (8.15%) Data Architecture
23 21 (7.78%) Data Governance
24 20 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
24 20 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement

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 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.44%) Apache
2 12 (4.44%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Cloud Services
1 73 (27.04%) AWS
2 61 (22.59%) Azure
3 37 (13.70%) GCP
4 19 (7.04%) dbt
4 19 (7.04%) Snowflake
5 17 (6.30%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (6.30%) Serverless
6 16 (5.93%) Amazon S3
6 16 (5.93%) Power Platform
7 15 (5.56%) GitHub
8 9 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.22%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (1.85%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (1.85%) SaaS
12 4 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
13 3 (1.11%) Google Analytics
13 3 (1.11%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.56%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 20 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 16 (5.93%) BigQuery
3 16 (5.93%) Power BI
4 13 (4.81%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.96%) Big Data
5 8 (2.96%) Metadata
6 7 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (2.22%) Delta Lake
7 6 (2.22%) NoSQL
8 5 (1.85%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.85%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.85%) Spark SQL
9 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.11%) Flink
10 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 14 (5.19%) Git
2 3 (1.11%) Bitbucket
2 3 (1.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 41 (15.19%) Social Skills
2 23 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (7.41%) Finance
4 15 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 14 (5.19%) Law
6 12 (4.44%) Retail
7 10 (3.70%) Health Technology
8 8 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.48%) Marketing
10 3 (1.11%) Advertising
11 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.74%) Games
12 1 (0.37%) Banking
12 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) iGaming
12 1 (0.37%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (9.63%) Terraform
2 19 (7.04%) PySpark
3 13 (4.81%) Kafka
4 4 (1.48%) .NET
4 4 (1.48%) Pandas
5 3 (1.11%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.11%) Great Expectations
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.74%) JSON
7 1 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.37%) Pulumi
7 1 (0.37%) REST
7 1 (0.37%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.56%) Cloud Native
2 12 (4.44%) Greenfield Project
3 9 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.22%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 3 (1.11%) Replication
5 3 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.11%) Sports Betting
6 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.74%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.37%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.37%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.37%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.37%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.37%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.37%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (35.56%) Analytics
2 78 (28.89%) Data Engineering
3 71 (26.30%) Data Pipeline
4 54 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 54 (20.00%) ETL
5 47 (17.41%) AI
6 42 (15.56%) Agile
7 39 (14.44%) Data Modelling
8 34 (12.59%) CI/CD
9 30 (11.11%) Machine Learning
10 27 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (9.63%) Data Transformation
12 24 (8.89%) Mentoring
12 24 (8.89%) Platform Engineering
12 24 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (8.15%) Data Architecture
14 21 (7.78%) Data Governance
15 20 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 20 (7.41%) Lakehouse
16 18 (6.67%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 103 (38.15%) SQL
2 86 (31.85%) Python
3 9 (3.33%) Bash
3 9 (3.33%) Java
4 8 (2.96%) Scala
5 5 (1.85%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.48%) C#
6 4 (1.48%) C++
7 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 31 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.19%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.33%) Degree
5 4 (1.48%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (19.63%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.48%) QA
4 2 (0.74%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.74%) Grafana
1 2 (0.74%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 29 (10.74%) Databricks
2 25 (9.26%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.96%) Google
4 3 (1.11%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.11%) SAP
5 2 (0.74%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.37%) Informatica
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle
6 1 (0.37%) YouTube