Data Engineer Jobs in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer salary in England is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 169 159
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,632 1,807 3,875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.71% 2.20% 2.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 2.41% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,211 1,466 1,884
10th Percentile £35,000 £47,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £86,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £126,250 £96,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
London -39 591 £75,000 -11.76% 206
North of England +137 443 £57,500 -11.54% 93
North West +113 283 £60,000 +9.09% 61
South East -49 177 £51,250 -18.00% 25
Midlands +5 169 £56,500 +7.62% 30
South West -20 157 £60,000 -11.11% 27
West Midlands +9 126 £57,500 +9.52% 21
Yorkshire +91 100 £51,000 -23.96% 22
East of England +48 72 £55,000 -12.00% 6
North East +16 60 £72,000 +10.77% 10
East Midlands -1 41 £47,500 -13.64% 7
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 across the England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 781 (47.86%) SQL
2 739 (45.28%) Python
3 686 (42.03%) Data Engineering
4 637 (39.03%) Azure
5 595 (36.46%) Data Pipeline
6 587 (35.97%) ETL
7 448 (27.45%) Data Modelling
8 437 (26.78%) Analytics
9 435 (26.65%) Data Science
10 422 (25.86%) Data Warehouse
11 414 (25.37%) Agile
12 369 (22.61%) AWS
12 369 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
13 360 (22.06%) GCP
14 343 (21.02%) DevOps
15 327 (20.04%) Databricks
16 319 (19.55%) Data Quality
17 315 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
18 304 (18.63%) Mentoring
18 304 (18.63%) Social Skills
19 291 (17.83%) Data Lake
19 291 (17.83%) Power Platform
20 287 (17.59%) Power BI
21 253 (15.50%) SQL Server
22 247 (15.13%) Finance
23 243 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
24 235 (14.40%) Google
25 232 (14.22%) BigQuery
26 229 (14.03%) CI/CD
27 215 (13.17%) Data Integration

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 131 (8.03%) Apache Spark
2 103 (6.31%) Apache Airflow
3 97 (5.94%) Apache
4 17 (1.04%) nginx
5 16 (0.98%) Jupyter
6 13 (0.80%) Confluence
7 6 (0.37%) SharePoint
8 5 (0.31%) Luigi
8 5 (0.31%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.061%) Apache Pig
10 1 (0.061%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 25 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.12%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.12%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (0.12%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.061%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.061%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.061%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.061%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 637 (39.03%) Azure
2 369 (22.61%) AWS
3 360 (22.06%) GCP
4 291 (17.83%) Power Platform
5 195 (11.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 155 (9.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 148 (9.07%) Snowflake
8 108 (6.62%) dbt
9 107 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
10 95 (5.82%) Amazon S3
11 65 (3.98%) Serverless
12 48 (2.94%) GitHub
13 44 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 41 (2.51%) SaaS
15 36 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
15 36 (2.21%) Matillion
16 30 (1.84%) Amazon EMR
17 27 (1.65%) Amazon Kinesis
18 21 (1.29%) Dagster
18 21 (1.29%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.37%) Structured Cabling
2 23 (1.41%) Network Security
3 14 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (0.67%) Wireless
5 7 (0.43%) Firewall
6 5 (0.31%) LAN
7 4 (0.25%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.25%) FTP
7 4 (0.25%) WAN
8 2 (0.12%) 5G
8 2 (0.12%) PPP
8 2 (0.12%) WebEx
9 1 (0.061%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.061%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.061%) DMZ
9 1 (0.061%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.061%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.061%) snoop
9 1 (0.061%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 422 (25.86%) Data Warehouse
2 291 (17.83%) Data Lake
3 287 (17.59%) Power BI
4 253 (15.50%) SQL Server
5 232 (14.22%) BigQuery
6 171 (10.48%) Looker
7 127 (7.78%) Big Data
8 100 (6.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 96 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 74 (4.53%) Hadoop
11 72 (4.41%) NoSQL
12 70 (4.29%) Relational Database
13 69 (4.23%) Tableau
14 67 (4.11%) Azure SQL Database
15 64 (3.92%) Data Vault
16 61 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
17 43 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 41 (2.51%) Delta Lake
18 41 (2.51%) Star Schema
19 40 (2.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 69 (4.23%) Git
2 63 (3.86%) JIRA
3 49 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 44 (2.70%) GitLab
5 16 (0.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 8 (0.49%) CircleCI
6 8 (0.49%) Spinnaker
7 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.37%) RStudio
8 4 (0.25%) Octopus Deploy
9 3 (0.18%) MLflow
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Forms
9 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.12%) Subversion
10 2 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.061%) Mockito
11 1 (0.061%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.061%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.061%) Zephyr
General
1 304 (18.63%) Social Skills
2 247 (15.13%) Finance
3 243 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (7.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 67 (4.11%) Retail
6 61 (3.74%) Banking
7 42 (2.57%) Telecoms
8 39 (2.39%) Games
9 38 (2.33%) Legal
9 38 (2.33%) Public Sector
10 31 (1.90%) Marketing
11 27 (1.65%) Law
12 19 (1.16%) Manufacturing
13 17 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (0.92%) Front Office
15 12 (0.74%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (0.74%) Publishing
16 10 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
17 8 (0.49%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (10.42%) PySpark
2 64 (3.92%) Kafka
3 43 (2.63%) Pandas
4 20 (1.23%) Apache NiFi
5 19 (1.16%) ActiveMQ
5 19 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
6 17 (1.04%) Apache Beam
6 17 (1.04%) NumPy
6 17 (1.04%) RabbitMQ
6 17 (1.04%) RESTful
7 16 (0.98%) YAML
8 14 (0.86%) SciPy
9 12 (0.74%) AWS CDK
9 12 (0.74%) HTML
9 12 (0.74%) JSON
9 12 (0.74%) XML
10 11 (0.67%) TensorFlow
11 10 (0.61%) .NET
11 10 (0.61%) PyTorch
12 9 (0.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 199 (12.19%) Self-Motivation
2 135 (8.27%) Data Structures
3 51 (3.13%) Public Cloud
3 51 (3.13%) Reinsurance
4 43 (2.63%) Algorithms
5 32 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 30 (1.84%) Driving Licence
7 29 (1.78%) Cloud Native
8 24 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.29%) Client/Server
9 21 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 20 (1.23%) IoT
10 20 (1.23%) Product Ownership
11 19 (1.16%) CCTV
12 18 (1.10%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.04%) SCADA
14 16 (0.98%) Fibre Optics
14 16 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (0.98%) NHS
14 16 (0.98%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 60 (3.68%) Linux
2 33 (2.02%) Windows
3 25 (1.53%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.41%) Unix
5 4 (0.25%) CentOS
5 4 (0.25%) Solaris
5 4 (0.25%) Ubuntu
5 4 (0.25%) zOS
6 3 (0.18%) Android
6 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (42.03%) Data Engineering
2 595 (36.46%) Data Pipeline
3 587 (35.97%) ETL
4 448 (27.45%) Data Modelling
5 437 (26.78%) Analytics
6 435 (26.65%) Data Science
7 414 (25.37%) Agile
8 369 (22.61%) Problem-Solving
9 343 (21.02%) DevOps
10 315 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
11 304 (18.63%) Mentoring
12 229 (14.03%) CI/CD
13 215 (13.17%) Data Integration
14 214 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
15 183 (11.21%) Machine Learning
16 181 (11.09%) DataOps
17 148 (9.07%) Change Management
18 147 (9.01%) Visualisation
19 130 (7.97%) Data Management
20 129 (7.90%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 781 (47.86%) SQL
2 739 (45.28%) Python
3 114 (6.99%) Java
4 76 (4.66%) T-SQL
5 70 (4.29%) Scala
6 38 (2.33%) C#
7 31 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 27 (1.65%) R
9 22 (1.35%) JavaScript
10 20 (1.23%) Bash
11 19 (1.16%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.86%) PowerShell
12 14 (0.86%) VBA
13 11 (0.67%) PL/SQL
13 11 (0.67%) U-SQL
14 7 (0.43%) C
14 7 (0.43%) Go
15 6 (0.37%) PHP
16 5 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.31%) Rust
Qualifications
1 180 (11.03%) Degree
2 57 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (3.13%) Security Cleared
4 33 (2.02%) DBS Check
5 32 (1.96%) Master's Degree
6 31 (1.90%) SC Cleared
7 27 (1.65%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (0.92%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.43%) CISSP
12 4 (0.25%) CCNA
12 4 (0.25%) CISM
12 4 (0.25%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (0.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.18%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (0.18%) CCSK
13 3 (0.18%) CCSP
14 2 (0.12%) HNC
14 2 (0.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 319 (19.55%) Data Quality
2 159 (9.74%) GDPR
3 17 (1.04%) QA
4 15 (0.92%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.25%) NIST
5 4 (0.25%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.061%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.061%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.061%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.061%) NCSC
6 1 (0.061%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (4.47%) Docker
2 16 (0.98%) Hyper-V
2 16 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.43%) HDFS
4 3 (0.18%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.061%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.061%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.061%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 119 (7.29%) Terraform
2 80 (4.90%) Kubernetes
3 29 (1.78%) Ansible
4 17 (1.04%) Grafana
5 16 (0.98%) HAProxy
5 16 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.31%) logstash
7 3 (0.18%) CASB
8 2 (0.12%) Argo
8 2 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.12%) Marathon
8 2 (0.12%) Mesos
9 1 (0.061%) Oozie
9 1 (0.061%) Podman
Vendors
1 327 (20.04%) Databricks
2 235 (14.40%) Google
3 179 (10.97%) Microsoft
4 91 (5.58%) Informatica
5 70 (4.29%) Oracle
6 18 (1.10%) Alteryx
7 17 (1.04%) VMware
8 16 (0.98%) YouTube
9 13 (0.80%) Cloudera
10 11 (0.67%) MuleSoft
11 10 (0.61%) Dataiku
11 10 (0.61%) Teradata
12 9 (0.55%) SAP
13 8 (0.49%) Splunk
14 7 (0.43%) Talend
15 6 (0.37%) F5
16 5 (0.31%) TIBCO
17 4 (0.25%) Qualys
17 4 (0.25%) SnapLogic
18 3 (0.18%) Netskope