Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 253 228
Rank change year-on-year +91 -25 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,328 736 1,259
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.66% 1.33% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 1.49% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 763 573 678
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,600 £38,947
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 75,674 49,280 72,604
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.86% 88.84% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 52,932 29,318 42,781
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.37% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
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 Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
North of England +140 439 £57,500 -11.54% 94
Scotland +90 291 £66,500 +10.83% 23
North West +111 283 £60,000 +9.09% 61
South East -49 176 £52,500 -16.00% 26
Midlands +13 168 £56,500 +7.62% 31
South West -16 156 £60,000 -11.11% 28
West Midlands +4 125 £57,500 +9.52% 21
Yorkshire +79 96 £51,000 -25.90% 22
East of England +49 71 £55,000 -12.00% 7
North East +15 60 £72,000 +10.77% 11
East Midlands -8 41 £47,500 -13.64% 8
Northern Ireland - 15 £55,000 - 5
Wales +6 13 £46,131 +3.28% 5
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 563 (42.39%) Python
2 542 (40.81%) Agile
3 503 (37.88%) SQL
4 501 (37.73%) Data Engineering
5 421 (31.70%) Data Pipeline
6 395 (29.74%) Azure
7 392 (29.52%) ETL
8 369 (27.79%) CI/CD
9 360 (27.11%) Data Modelling
10 349 (26.28%) AWS
11 335 (25.23%) Data Science
12 325 (24.47%) Finance
13 308 (23.19%) Analytics
14 305 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
15 299 (22.52%) Mentoring
16 288 (21.69%) DevOps
17 284 (21.39%) GCP
18 279 (21.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 272 (20.48%) Data Warehouse
20 259 (19.50%) Software Engineering
21 256 (19.28%) Big Data
22 249 (18.75%) Machine Learning
22 249 (18.75%) Data Quality
23 240 (18.07%) Databricks
24 239 (18.00%) Apache Spark
25 232 (17.47%) Data Lake
26 227 (17.09%) Law
27 211 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
28 205 (15.44%) Google
29 204 (15.36%) Visualisation

Data Engineer Skill Set
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
1 239 (18.00%) Apache Spark
2 113 (8.51%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (4.22%) Apache
4 17 (1.28%) nginx
5 16 (1.20%) Jupyter
6 10 (0.75%) Confluence
7 2 (0.15%) Luigi
7 2 (0.15%) SAS
8 1 (0.075%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.075%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.075%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 395 (29.74%) Azure
2 349 (26.28%) AWS
3 284 (21.39%) GCP
4 182 (13.70%) Power Platform
5 114 (8.58%) Azure Data Factory
6 92 (6.93%) Snowflake
7 83 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 80 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (4.22%) Amazon S3
10 42 (3.16%) dbt
11 37 (2.79%) SaaS
12 34 (2.56%) Serverless
13 32 (2.41%) Matillion
14 30 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 27 (2.03%) GitHub
16 20 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
17 19 (1.43%) Amazon Kinesis
18 16 (1.20%) MinIO
18 16 (1.20%) OpenShift
19 15 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.86%) Structured Cabling
2 20 (1.51%) Network Security
3 11 (0.83%) DSL
3 11 (0.83%) Wireless
4 10 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (0.45%) Firewall
6 5 (0.38%) LAN
7 4 (0.30%) Ethernet
7 4 (0.30%) FTP
7 4 (0.30%) WAN
8 2 (0.15%) 5G
8 2 (0.15%) WebEx
9 1 (0.075%) 3GPP
9 1 (0.075%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.075%) DMZ
9 1 (0.075%) NX-OS
9 1 (0.075%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.075%) snoop
9 1 (0.075%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (20.48%) Data Warehouse
2 256 (19.28%) Big Data
3 232 (17.47%) Data Lake
4 202 (15.21%) BigQuery
5 196 (14.76%) SQL Server
6 180 (13.55%) Power BI
7 171 (12.88%) Looker
8 84 (6.33%) Hadoop
9 73 (5.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 61 (4.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 53 (3.99%) NoSQL
11 53 (3.99%) Tableau
12 47 (3.54%) Data Vault
13 46 (3.46%) Apache Hive
14 42 (3.16%) Qlik Sense
15 41 (3.09%) Relational Database
16 37 (2.79%) Delta Lake
17 36 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
18 35 (2.64%) Data Mining
19 34 (2.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (4.89%) Git
2 57 (4.29%) Jenkins
3 54 (4.07%) JIRA
4 39 (2.94%) GitLab
5 30 (2.26%) Bitbucket Server
6 16 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (0.45%) RStudio
8 3 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.075%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.075%) ERwin
10 1 (0.075%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.075%) Subversion
10 1 (0.075%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.075%) Toad
10 1 (0.075%) Zephyr
General
1 325 (24.47%) Finance
2 279 (21.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 227 (17.09%) Law
4 211 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
5 194 (14.61%) Social Skills
6 175 (13.18%) Legal
7 88 (6.63%) Marketing
8 43 (3.24%) Retail
9 31 (2.33%) Games
9 31 (2.33%) Public Sector
10 26 (1.96%) Banking
11 25 (1.88%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 11 (0.83%) Aerospace
13 11 (0.83%) Financial Institution
13 11 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 11 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.38%) Automotive
15 5 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (13.48%) PySpark
2 71 (5.35%) Kafka
3 35 (2.64%) Spring
3 35 (2.64%) Spring Boot
4 19 (1.43%) ActiveMQ
4 19 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
5 18 (1.36%) Apache NiFi
6 16 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
6 16 (1.20%) RESTful
6 16 (1.20%) YAML
7 13 (0.98%) Pandas
8 10 (0.75%) GraphQL
9 8 (0.60%) Apache Beam
9 8 (0.60%) HTML
10 7 (0.53%) REST
10 7 (0.53%) TensorFlow
11 6 (0.45%) JSON
11 6 (0.45%) PyTorch
11 6 (0.45%) XML
12 5 (0.38%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 198 (14.91%) Self-Motivation
2 147 (11.07%) Algorithms
3 122 (9.19%) Data Structures
4 109 (8.21%) Cloud Native
5 69 (5.20%) Public Cloud
6 54 (4.07%) Onboarding
7 49 (3.69%) Reinsurance
8 35 (2.64%) Legacy Code
9 30 (2.26%) Management Information System
9 30 (2.26%) Product Ownership
10 19 (1.43%) Client/Server
11 18 (1.36%) CCTV
11 18 (1.36%) Driving Licence
12 17 (1.28%) SCADA
13 16 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
13 16 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
13 16 (1.20%) Operational Technology
14 15 (1.13%) Data Centre
15 13 (0.98%) IoT
15 13 (0.98%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.09%) Linux
2 36 (2.71%) Unix
3 24 (1.81%) Windows
4 23 (1.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (40.81%) Agile
2 501 (37.73%) Data Engineering
3 421 (31.70%) Data Pipeline
4 392 (29.52%) ETL
5 369 (27.79%) CI/CD
6 360 (27.11%) Data Modelling
7 335 (25.23%) Data Science
8 308 (23.19%) Analytics
9 305 (22.97%) Problem-Solving
10 299 (22.52%) Mentoring
11 288 (21.69%) DevOps
12 259 (19.50%) Software Engineering
13 249 (18.75%) Machine Learning
14 204 (15.36%) Visualisation
15 202 (15.21%) Business Intelligence
16 194 (14.61%) Artificial Intelligence
16 194 (14.61%) SDLC
17 180 (13.55%) DataOps
17 180 (13.55%) Platform Engineering
18 177 (13.33%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 563 (42.39%) Python
2 503 (37.88%) SQL
3 146 (10.99%) Java
4 65 (4.89%) Scala
5 50 (3.77%) PL/SQL
5 50 (3.77%) T-SQL
6 21 (1.58%) C#
7 18 (1.36%) Bash
7 18 (1.36%) JavaScript
8 16 (1.20%) R
8 16 (1.20%) Shell Script
9 15 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.45%) C
10 6 (0.45%) PHP
11 4 (0.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.30%) SPARQL
12 3 (0.23%) Go
13 2 (0.15%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.15%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.075%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 130 (9.79%) Degree
2 42 (3.16%) Security Cleared
3 33 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (1.88%) DV Cleared
5 22 (1.66%) SC Cleared
6 19 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.36%) DBS Check
8 14 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 10 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (0.30%) CCNA
11 4 (0.30%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.15%) HNC
13 1 (0.075%) CCNP
13 1 (0.075%) HND
13 1 (0.075%) ICAEW
13 1 (0.075%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 164 (12.35%) GDPR
3 25 (1.88%) SLA
4 13 (0.98%) QA
5 8 (0.60%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.075%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.075%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.075%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.075%) NCSC
6 1 (0.075%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 36 (2.71%) Docker
2 32 (2.41%) HDFS
3 16 (1.20%) Hyper-V
3 16 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.075%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.075%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 85 (6.40%) Kubernetes
2 82 (6.17%) Terraform
3 20 (1.51%) Ansible
4 16 (1.20%) Grafana
4 16 (1.20%) HAProxy
4 16 (1.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.075%) Oozie
Vendors
1 240 (18.07%) Databricks
2 205 (15.44%) Google
3 131 (9.86%) Microsoft
4 115 (8.66%) Informatica
5 68 (5.12%) Oracle
6 58 (4.37%) Alteryx
7 16 (1.20%) VMware
8 11 (0.83%) Cognos
8 11 (0.83%) Sybase
9 10 (0.75%) MuleSoft
10 9 (0.68%) Teradata
11 7 (0.53%) Dataiku
11 7 (0.53%) SAP
11 7 (0.53%) Splunk
11 7 (0.53%) YouTube
12 6 (0.45%) F5
12 6 (0.45%) Talend
13 5 (0.38%) TIBCO
14 3 (0.23%) Cloudera
14 3 (0.23%) Siemens