Data Engineer
UK

The median Data Engineer salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 162 160
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +33
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,924 2,319 4,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.94% 2.30% 2.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 2.51% 2.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,218 1,633 2,030
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,000 £42,950
25th Percentile £48,000 £56,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.51%
75th Percentile £83,000 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,827 £120,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% +4.55%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 93,878 92,381 151,160
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,248 58,258 84,340
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the UK

Data Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the UK

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the UK

Data Engineer
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England -6 1,539 £65,000 -7.14% 393
UK excluding London +51 1,254 £57,500 -4.17% 212
Work from Home -53 642 £65,000 -6.40% 205
London -23 589 £75,000 -11.76% 212
North of England +93 386 £55,000 -8.33% 51
Scotland +85 308 £65,000 +8.33% 19
North West +85 249 £60,000 +15.38% 34
South East -50 160 £49,000 -21.60% 32
Midlands -11 153 £56,500 +2.73% 35
South West -27 152 £63,750 -4.46% 29
West Midlands -8 111 £57,500 +7.98% 27
Yorkshire +69 83 £51,000 -21.54% 12
East of England +35 69 £57,500 -8.00% 22
North East +4 54 £67,750 +4.23% 5
East Midlands -2 41 £47,500 -13.64% 8
Wales 0 15 £46,096 +3.20% 13
Northern Ireland +33 12 £60,000 - 13

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1,001 (52.03%) Python
2 957 (49.74%) SQL
3 727 (37.79%) Data Engineering
4 697 (36.23%) Azure
5 692 (35.97%) Agile
6 676 (35.14%) Data Pipeline
7 664 (34.51%) ETL
8 614 (31.91%) AWS
9 545 (28.33%) Data Modelling
10 490 (25.47%) CI/CD
11 487 (25.31%) Finance
12 485 (25.21%) Data Science
13 483 (25.10%) Analytics
14 468 (24.32%) Data Warehouse
15 437 (22.71%) GCP
16 410 (21.31%) Databricks
17 401 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
18 399 (20.74%) DevOps
19 372 (19.33%) Mentoring
20 360 (18.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 355 (18.45%) Big Data
22 352 (18.30%) Data Lake
23 348 (18.09%) Machine Learning
24 337 (17.52%) Apache Spark
25 327 (17.00%) Business Intelligence
26 326 (16.94%) Social Skills
27 317 (16.48%) Data Quality
28 316 (16.42%) Software Engineering
29 282 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
30 280 (14.55%) Power Platform

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 337 (17.52%) Apache Spark
2 191 (9.93%) Apache Airflow
3 111 (5.77%) Apache
4 18 (0.94%) nginx
5 17 (0.88%) Jupyter
6 14 (0.73%) Confluence
7 5 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.21%) Luigi
8 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.052%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.052%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.052%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 26 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.10%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.10%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.10%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.052%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.052%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.052%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.052%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.052%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 697 (36.23%) Azure
2 614 (31.91%) AWS
3 437 (22.71%) GCP
4 280 (14.55%) Power Platform
5 199 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 156 (8.11%) Snowflake
7 138 (7.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 117 (6.08%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (5.93%) Amazon S3
10 106 (5.51%) dbt
11 83 (4.31%) Serverless
12 57 (2.96%) GitHub
13 54 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
13 54 (2.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 47 (2.44%) SaaS
15 34 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
16 33 (1.72%) Matillion
17 32 (1.66%) Amazon Kinesis
18 26 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
19 21 (1.09%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.39%) Structured Cabling
2 18 (0.94%) DSL
3 14 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (0.57%) Wireless
5 10 (0.52%) Network Security
6 5 (0.26%) Firewall
6 5 (0.26%) LAN
7 4 (0.21%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.21%) FTP
7 4 (0.21%) WAN
8 2 (0.10%) WebEx
9 1 (0.052%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.052%) 5G
9 1 (0.052%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.052%) DMZ
9 1 (0.052%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.052%) PPP
9 1 (0.052%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.052%) snoop
9 1 (0.052%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 468 (24.32%) Data Warehouse
2 355 (18.45%) Big Data
3 352 (18.30%) Data Lake
4 276 (14.35%) Power BI
5 269 (13.98%) SQL Server
6 268 (13.93%) BigQuery
7 192 (9.98%) Looker
8 145 (7.54%) Hadoop
9 121 (6.29%) NoSQL
10 107 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
11 100 (5.20%) Tableau
12 97 (5.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 82 (4.26%) Relational Database
14 73 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
15 71 (3.69%) Data Vault
16 68 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
17 65 (3.38%) Apache Hive
18 62 (3.22%) Delta Lake
19 46 (2.39%) Metadata
20 44 (2.29%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 107 (5.56%) Git
2 95 (4.94%) Jenkins
3 68 (3.53%) JIRA
4 48 (2.49%) GitLab
5 30 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
6 17 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 13 (0.68%) CircleCI
7 13 (0.68%) Spinnaker
8 12 (0.62%) MLflow
9 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.31%) RStudio
11 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 4 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (0.16%) Deequ
13 3 (0.16%) JUnit
13 3 (0.16%) TeamCity
14 2 (0.10%) MSTest
General
1 487 (25.31%) Finance
2 360 (18.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 326 (16.94%) Social Skills
4 282 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
5 278 (14.45%) Law
6 217 (11.28%) Legal
7 109 (5.67%) Marketing
8 83 (4.31%) Banking
9 71 (3.69%) Retail
10 47 (2.44%) Public Sector
11 46 (2.39%) Games
12 41 (2.13%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.14%) Investment Banking
13 22 (1.14%) Manufacturing
14 19 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.62%) Aerospace
17 11 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.57%) Retail Banking
18 10 (0.52%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 277 (14.40%) PySpark
2 131 (6.81%) Kafka
3 46 (2.39%) Spring
4 45 (2.34%) Spring Boot
5 43 (2.23%) Pandas
6 24 (1.25%) Apache Beam
6 24 (1.25%) JSON
7 21 (1.09%) Apache NiFi
7 21 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (1.09%) RESTful
8 20 (1.04%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (0.99%) .NET
10 18 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
11 17 (0.88%) YAML
12 16 (0.83%) XML
13 15 (0.78%) REST
14 13 (0.68%) PyTorch
15 12 (0.62%) AWS CDK
15 12 (0.62%) TensorFlow
16 11 (0.57%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 214 (11.12%) Self-Motivation
2 176 (9.15%) Algorithms
3 157 (8.16%) Cloud Native
4 138 (7.17%) Data Structures
5 93 (4.83%) Public Cloud
6 73 (3.79%) Onboarding
7 55 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 49 (2.55%) Management Information System
9 48 (2.49%) Reinsurance
10 43 (2.23%) Legacy Code
11 37 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
12 27 (1.40%) Driving Licence
13 26 (1.35%) IoT
14 21 (1.09%) Client/Server
15 19 (0.99%) CCTV
16 18 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
17 17 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
17 17 (0.88%) SCADA
18 16 (0.83%) NHS
18 16 (0.83%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 67 (3.48%) Linux
2 53 (2.75%) Unix
3 30 (1.56%) Windows
4 23 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.21%) Android
5 4 (0.21%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.21%) CentOS
5 4 (0.21%) Solaris
5 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.21%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 727 (37.79%) Data Engineering
2 692 (35.97%) Agile
3 676 (35.14%) Data Pipeline
4 664 (34.51%) ETL
5 545 (28.33%) Data Modelling
6 490 (25.47%) CI/CD
7 485 (25.21%) Data Science
8 483 (25.10%) Analytics
9 401 (20.84%) Problem-Solving
10 399 (20.74%) DevOps
11 372 (19.33%) Mentoring
12 348 (18.09%) Machine Learning
13 327 (17.00%) Business Intelligence
14 316 (16.42%) Software Engineering
15 273 (14.19%) Visualisation
16 248 (12.89%) Artificial Intelligence
17 237 (12.32%) Platform Engineering
18 229 (11.90%) Data Integration
19 227 (11.80%) SDLC
20 201 (10.45%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 1,001 (52.03%) Python
2 957 (49.74%) SQL
3 221 (11.49%) Java
4 115 (5.98%) Scala
5 88 (4.57%) T-SQL
6 64 (3.33%) PL/SQL
7 51 (2.65%) C#
8 31 (1.61%) R
9 28 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (1.09%) Bash
10 21 (1.09%) PowerShell
11 20 (1.04%) JavaScript
11 20 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.52%) U-SQL
13 9 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.42%) C
15 7 (0.36%) Go
15 7 (0.36%) VB
16 6 (0.31%) PHP
16 6 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 195 (10.14%) Degree
2 62 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 58 (3.01%) Security Cleared
4 36 (1.87%) SC Cleared
5 34 (1.77%) Master's Degree
6 28 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.40%) DBS Check
8 21 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 21 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.36%) CISSP
11 5 (0.26%) PhD
12 4 (0.21%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.21%) CCNA
12 4 (0.21%) CISM
12 4 (0.21%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.16%) CCSK
13 3 (0.16%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (16.48%) Data Quality
2 177 (9.20%) GDPR
3 35 (1.82%) SLA
4 23 (1.20%) QA
5 15 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 4 (0.21%) NIST
6 4 (0.21%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.052%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.052%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.052%) GMP
7 1 (0.052%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.052%) NCSC
System Software
1 89 (4.63%) Docker
2 40 (2.08%) HDFS
3 16 (0.83%) Hyper-V
3 16 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.16%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.052%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.052%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.052%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 163 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 161 (8.37%) Terraform
3 30 (1.56%) Ansible
4 19 (0.99%) Grafana
5 18 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.88%) HAProxy
7 6 (0.31%) logstash
8 3 (0.16%) Argo
8 3 (0.16%) CASB
8 3 (0.16%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.10%) Marathon
9 2 (0.10%) Mesos
10 1 (0.052%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
10 1 (0.052%) Kibana
10 1 (0.052%) Oozie
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.052%) Podman
Vendors
1 410 (21.31%) Databricks
2 271 (14.09%) Google
3 186 (9.67%) Microsoft
4 116 (6.03%) Informatica
5 101 (5.25%) Oracle
6 75 (3.90%) Alteryx
7 18 (0.94%) Cognos
7 18 (0.94%) Sybase
7 18 (0.94%) YouTube
8 17 (0.88%) Cloudera
8 17 (0.88%) VMware
9 13 (0.68%) Teradata
10 12 (0.62%) Dataiku
11 11 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.57%) SAP
12 9 (0.47%) Splunk
13 7 (0.36%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.31%) F5
14 6 (0.31%) Talend
15 5 (0.26%) SnapLogic