Data Engineering Jobs in the North of England

Data Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 107 236
Rank change year-on-year -33 +129 +12
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 314 545 253
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.78% 3.23% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 3.33% 1.47%
Number of salaries quoted 192 128 140
10th Percentile £35,250 £39,544 £40,749
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,375 £51,833
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -12.50% +21.74%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,715 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,671 16,349 17,218
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.99% 96.81% 94.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,247 7,908 10,703
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,317
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,650 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the North of England.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 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 West -35 174 £55,000 +4.76% 27
Yorkshire -35 86 £65,066 -0.44% 10
North East +24 54 £75,000 +15.38% 5
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 21 (6.69%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (6.37%) Confluence
3 13 (4.14%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.55%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 147 (46.82%) Azure
2 146 (46.50%) GCP
3 79 (25.16%) AWS
4 56 (17.83%) Power Platform
5 46 (14.65%) Snowflake
6 37 (11.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 33 (10.51%) dbt
8 25 (7.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 24 (7.64%) Amazon S3
10 23 (7.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 21 (6.69%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (5.73%) Matillion
13 13 (4.14%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (4.14%) Serverless
14 9 (2.87%) Cloud Composer
14 9 (2.87%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (2.87%) SaaS
15 8 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (2.23%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.27%) Firewall
2 1 (0.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (37.90%) BigQuery
2 111 (35.35%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (32.80%) Looker
4 56 (17.83%) Data Lake
4 56 (17.83%) Power BI
5 44 (14.01%) SQL Server
6 30 (9.55%) Tableau
7 23 (7.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 19 (6.05%) Star Schema
9 18 (5.73%) Elasticsearch
10 17 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 16 (5.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 14 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
13 7 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (2.23%) Big Data
13 7 (2.23%) Hadoop
13 7 (2.23%) Metadata
14 6 (1.91%) Data Mining
15 5 (1.59%) Qlik Sense
15 5 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 24 (7.64%) GitLab
2 21 (6.69%) JIRA
3 15 (4.78%) Git
4 12 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.59%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 123 (39.17%) Analytical Skills
2 52 (16.56%) Social Skills
3 44 (14.01%) Finance
4 19 (6.05%) Banking
5 11 (3.50%) Retail
6 10 (3.18%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.87%) Games
8 8 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.23%) Law
10 5 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.96%) Marketing
12 2 (0.64%) Back Office
12 2 (0.64%) Legal
12 2 (0.64%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.64%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.32%) Billing
13 1 (0.32%) Electronics
13 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 192 (61.15%) Data Engineer
2 64 (20.38%) Platform Engineer
3 59 (18.79%) Principal Data Engineer
3 59 (18.79%) Principal Engineer
4 51 (16.24%) Lead
5 45 (14.33%) Architect
6 43 (13.69%) Senior
7 41 (13.06%) Lead Data Engineer
8 40 (12.74%) Data Architect
9 25 (7.96%) Senior Data Engineer
10 20 (6.37%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (5.41%) Data Manager
12 15 (4.78%) Developer
13 12 (3.82%) AWS Data Engineer
13 12 (3.82%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (3.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 11 (3.50%) Azure Data Engineer
14 11 (3.50%) Python Data Engineer
14 11 (3.50%) Python Engineer
15 9 (2.87%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.82%) PySpark
2 7 (2.23%) Kafka
2 7 (2.23%) Microsoft Graph
3 6 (1.91%) PyTorch
3 6 (1.91%) TensorFlow
4 5 (1.59%) .NET
4 5 (1.59%) Apache Beam
5 4 (1.27%) React
6 2 (0.64%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (0.64%) Pandas
7 1 (0.32%) Apache NiFi
7 1 (0.32%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.32%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 107 (34.08%) Self-Motivation
2 23 (7.32%) Cloud Native
3 20 (6.37%) Data Structures
4 19 (6.05%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.18%) Mainframe
6 9 (2.87%) Client/Server
6 9 (2.87%) Online Games
7 6 (1.91%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.27%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.96%) IoT
10 3 (0.96%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.64%) Taxonomies
12 1 (0.32%) Distributed Computing
12 1 (0.32%) FMCG
12 1 (0.32%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.27%) Windows
1 4 (1.27%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.32%) Linux
2 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (44.90%) ETL
2 138 (43.95%) Problem-Solving
3 136 (43.31%) Mentoring
4 132 (42.04%) Agile
4 132 (42.04%) Data Pipeline
5 113 (35.99%) Analytics
6 111 (35.35%) Data Science
6 111 (35.35%) DevOps
7 106 (33.76%) Data Modelling
8 103 (32.80%) Platform Engineering
9 78 (24.84%) Data Governance
10 71 (22.61%) Data Integration
10 71 (22.61%) DataOps
11 70 (22.29%) Data Architecture
12 67 (21.34%) Change Management
13 59 (18.79%) Business Intelligence
14 57 (18.15%) Visualisation
15 52 (16.56%) CI/CD
16 46 (14.65%) Machine Learning
17 45 (14.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 125 (39.81%) SQL
2 87 (27.71%) Python
3 21 (6.69%) T-SQL
4 12 (3.82%) Java
5 11 (3.50%) Scala
6 5 (1.59%) Perl
6 5 (1.59%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.96%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.64%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.32%) C#
9 1 (0.32%) C++
9 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.32%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (3.18%) Degree
2 9 (2.87%) Azure Certification
3 8 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.91%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.59%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.27%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.64%) OCP
8 2 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.32%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (29.62%) Data Quality
2 92 (29.30%) GDPR
3 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 7 (2.23%) IAG
2 2 (0.64%) Docker
3 1 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 17 (5.41%) Terraform
2 13 (4.14%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.23%) SysTrack
4 1 (0.32%) Ansible
4 1 (0.32%) Oozie
4 1 (0.32%) Podman
Vendors
1 120 (38.22%) Google
2 48 (15.29%) Microsoft
3 35 (11.15%) Databricks
4 10 (3.18%) Teradata
5 7 (2.23%) Informatica
5 7 (2.23%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.23%) Snow
6 6 (1.91%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.91%) Dataiku
6 6 (1.91%) F5
7 1 (0.32%) ESRI
7 1 (0.32%) Oracle
7 1 (0.32%) SAP