Data Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 158 248
Rank change year-on-year -38 +90 +50
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 1,033 1,305 1,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.42% 2.23% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.33% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 493 416 511
10th Percentile £38,750 £39,544 £39,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,500 £60,249 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.40% -7.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,412 55,927 68,618
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.88% 95.59% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 41,658 28,858 41,200
10th Percentile £27,300 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 May 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
North of England -39 307 £60,000 -5.88% 38
South East +44 200 £67,500 -3.57% 143
Midlands -34 189 £57,500 +4.55% 35
North West -42 170 £55,000 - 24
South West -18 149 £75,000 +17.65% 21
West Midlands -35 120 £59,300 +7.82% 24
Scotland -31 118 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Yorkshire -37 83 £65,066 -2.99% 9
East Midlands +6 67 £45,000 -18.18% 11
North East +18 54 £75,000 +15.38% 5
East of England -38 43 £70,000 +21.74% 10
Wales +2 18 £97,500 +118.29% 4
Northern Ireland +25 9 £55,000 - 3
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 88 (8.52%) Apache Spark
2 33 (3.19%) Apache
3 30 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 19 (1.84%) Confluence
5 17 (1.65%) Jupyter
5 17 (1.65%) nginx
6 4 (0.39%) SAS
7 1 (0.097%) Luigi
7 1 (0.097%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 460 (44.53%) Azure
2 439 (42.50%) GCP
3 348 (33.69%) AWS
4 166 (16.07%) Power Platform
5 111 (10.75%) Azure DevOps
6 96 (9.29%) Snowflake
7 93 (9.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 62 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 47 (4.55%) Amazon S3
10 41 (3.97%) dbt
11 37 (3.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 32 (3.10%) Matillion
13 24 (2.32%) Serverless
14 17 (1.65%) MinIO
14 17 (1.65%) OpenShift
15 16 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (1.45%) SaaS
17 14 (1.36%) Amazon Kinesis
17 14 (1.36%) Microsoft 365
18 12 (1.16%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.39%) Firewall
2 3 (0.29%) VoIP
2 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.19%) Broadband
3 2 (0.19%) LAN
3 2 (0.19%) WAN
3 2 (0.19%) Wireless
4 1 (0.097%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.097%) 5G
4 1 (0.097%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (38.33%) Data Warehouse
2 369 (35.72%) BigQuery
3 337 (32.62%) Looker
4 166 (16.07%) Power BI
5 152 (14.71%) Data Lake
6 114 (11.04%) SQL Server
7 58 (5.61%) Big Data
7 58 (5.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 56 (5.42%) Tableau
9 43 (4.16%) Relational Database
10 42 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 38 (3.68%) Hadoop
11 38 (3.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 34 (3.29%) Metadata
12 34 (3.29%) Star Schema
13 31 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
14 25 (2.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 22 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
16 20 (1.94%) MySQL
17 18 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (3.97%) GitLab
2 37 (3.58%) Jenkins
3 25 (2.42%) Git
4 23 (2.23%) JIRA
5 17 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.39%) ERwin
7 4 (0.39%) Spinnaker
8 3 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.19%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.097%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.097%) Subversion
10 1 (0.097%) Toad
General
1 400 (38.72%) Analytical Skills
2 190 (18.39%) Finance
3 142 (13.75%) Social Skills
4 106 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 72 (6.97%) Billing
6 65 (6.29%) Law
7 56 (5.42%) Marketing
8 41 (3.97%) Banking
9 39 (3.78%) Retail
10 30 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
11 24 (2.32%) Games
12 21 (2.03%) Public Sector
13 17 (1.65%) Legal
14 13 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.97%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.48%) Electronics
17 5 (0.48%) Manufacturing
18 4 (0.39%) Agriculture
18 4 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 491 (47.53%) Data Engineer
2 159 (15.39%) Platform Engineer
3 158 (15.30%) Principal Data Engineer
3 158 (15.30%) Principal Engineer
4 140 (13.55%) Data Manager
5 137 (13.26%) Architect
6 129 (12.49%) Lead
7 127 (12.29%) Data Architect
8 120 (11.62%) Senior
9 116 (11.23%) Engineering Manager
10 65 (6.29%) Lead Data Engineer
11 61 (5.91%) Software Engineer
12 48 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
13 43 (4.16%) Azure Engineer
14 37 (3.58%) Senior Software Engineer
15 35 (3.39%) Developer
16 34 (3.29%) Lead Software Engineer
17 29 (2.81%) Azure Data Engineer
18 27 (2.61%) Security Engineer
19 25 (2.42%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (5.23%) PySpark
2 33 (3.19%) React
3 28 (2.71%) Kafka
4 24 (2.32%) AngularJS
4 24 (2.32%) Spring
5 22 (2.13%) TensorFlow
6 19 (1.84%) ActiveMQ
7 18 (1.74%) Apache NiFi
8 17 (1.65%) Elastic Stack
8 17 (1.65%) RabbitMQ
8 17 (1.65%) YAML
9 16 (1.55%) Keras
9 16 (1.55%) NumPy
10 13 (1.26%) JPA
10 13 (1.26%) REST
11 12 (1.16%) Apache Beam
11 12 (1.16%) RESTful
12 11 (1.06%) Hibernate
12 11 (1.06%) SOAP
12 11 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 284 (27.49%) Self-Motivation
2 96 (9.29%) Product Ownership
3 60 (5.81%) Algorithms
4 57 (5.52%) Data Structures
5 49 (4.74%) Cloud Native
6 25 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 22 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
8 16 (1.55%) Reference Data
9 14 (1.36%) Taxonomies
10 13 (1.26%) Client/Server
11 11 (1.06%) Public Cloud
12 10 (0.97%) Mainframe
12 10 (0.97%) Onboarding
13 9 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.87%) NHS
13 9 (0.87%) Online Games
14 8 (0.77%) IoT
14 8 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
15 4 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (0.39%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 32 (3.10%) Linux
2 9 (0.87%) Windows
3 4 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.097%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 490 (47.43%) Problem-Solving
2 466 (45.11%) Agile
3 442 (42.79%) ETL
4 431 (41.72%) Data Modelling
5 369 (35.72%) Mentoring
6 359 (34.75%) Platform Engineering
7 347 (33.59%) Data Pipeline
7 347 (33.59%) DevOps
8 343 (33.20%) Analytics
9 340 (32.91%) Data Science
10 220 (21.30%) CI/CD
10 220 (21.30%) Data Governance
11 213 (20.62%) Business Intelligence
12 192 (18.59%) Data Architecture
13 177 (17.13%) DataOps
14 173 (16.75%) Data Integration
14 173 (16.75%) Machine Learning
15 168 (16.26%) Change Management
16 146 (14.13%) Visualisation
17 114 (11.04%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 343 (33.20%) SQL
2 304 (29.43%) Python
3 109 (10.55%) Java
4 46 (4.45%) T-SQL
5 37 (3.58%) Scala
6 22 (2.13%) Shell Script
7 19 (1.84%) C#
8 18 (1.74%) Bash
9 16 (1.55%) MATLAB
10 13 (1.26%) Go
11 11 (1.06%) R
12 8 (0.77%) Perl
12 8 (0.77%) PowerShell
12 8 (0.77%) Ruby
13 7 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.68%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.58%) C
14 6 (0.58%) VBA
15 5 (0.48%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (9.78%) Degree
2 57 (5.52%) Security Cleared
3 41 (3.97%) DV Cleared
4 36 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 34 (3.29%) DBS Check
6 19 (1.84%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.65%) Azure Certification
7 17 (1.65%) SC Cleared
8 13 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.58%) MBA
9 6 (0.58%) PhD
10 5 (0.48%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.29%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.19%) OCP
13 2 (0.19%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 305 (29.53%) Data Quality
2 268 (25.94%) GDPR
3 89 (8.62%) QA
4 16 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.19%) COBIT
7 2 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.097%) NCSC
System Software
1 42 (4.07%) Docker
2 7 (0.68%) IAG
3 2 (0.19%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.097%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.097%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.097%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 53 (5.13%) Terraform
2 52 (5.03%) Kubernetes
3 22 (2.13%) Ansible
4 17 (1.65%) Grafana
4 17 (1.65%) HAProxy
4 17 (1.65%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.68%) SysTrack
6 1 (0.097%) Oozie
6 1 (0.097%) Podman
6 1 (0.097%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.097%) Puppet
Vendors
1 377 (36.50%) Google
2 126 (12.20%) Microsoft
3 109 (10.55%) Databricks
4 44 (4.26%) Oracle
5 18 (1.74%) Informatica
6 17 (1.65%) Teradata
7 7 (0.68%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.68%) Snow
8 6 (0.58%) Alteryx
8 6 (0.58%) Dataiku
8 6 (0.58%) F5
9 5 (0.48%) SAP
10 4 (0.39%) Talend
11 3 (0.29%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.29%) SnapLogic
12 1 (0.097%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.097%) Cognos
12 1 (0.097%) ESRI