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 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 160 163
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,917 2,323 4,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.93% 2.29% 2.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 2.51% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,210 1,636 2,016
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,000 £42,750
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% - +12.00%
75th Percentile £83,000 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £96,539 £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 93,776 92,678 150,788
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 91.45% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,209 58,362 84,200
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 £81,250 £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 9 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 9 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 -13 1,531 £65,000 -7.14% 388
UK excluding London +56 1,255 £57,500 -4.17% 207
Work from Home -56 639 £65,000 -6.40% 202
London -28 580 £75,000 -11.76% 213
North of England +89 386 £55,000 -8.33% 50
Scotland +79 308 £65,000 +8.33% 20
North West +90 249 £60,000 +15.38% 34
South East -56 160 £49,000 -21.60% 28
Midlands -8 154 £56,500 +2.73% 35
South West -33 152 £63,750 -4.46% 29
West Midlands +2 112 £57,500 +7.98% 26
Yorkshire +69 83 £51,000 -21.54% 12
East of England +37 69 £57,500 -8.00% 21
North East +3 54 £67,750 +4.23% 4
East Midlands -3 41 £47,500 -13.64% 9
Wales -3 15 £46,096 +3.20% 13
Northern Ireland +38 12 £60,000 - 13

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 995 (51.90%) Python
2 947 (49.40%) SQL
3 724 (37.77%) Data Engineering
4 690 (35.99%) Agile
5 688 (35.89%) Azure
6 673 (35.11%) Data Pipeline
7 661 (34.48%) ETL
8 612 (31.92%) AWS
9 545 (28.43%) Data Modelling
10 489 (25.51%) CI/CD
11 485 (25.30%) Data Science
12 483 (25.20%) Finance
13 480 (25.04%) Analytics
14 465 (24.26%) Data Warehouse
15 434 (22.64%) GCP
16 407 (21.23%) Databricks
17 401 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
17 401 (20.92%) DevOps
18 371 (19.35%) Mentoring
19 359 (18.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 355 (18.52%) Big Data
21 349 (18.21%) Data Lake
22 348 (18.15%) Machine Learning
23 337 (17.58%) Apache Spark
24 326 (17.01%) Social Skills
25 325 (16.95%) Business Intelligence
26 317 (16.54%) Data Quality
27 316 (16.48%) Software Engineering
28 282 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
29 278 (14.50%) Law

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 (17.58%) Apache Spark
2 190 (9.91%) Apache Airflow
3 111 (5.79%) Apache
4 18 (0.94%) nginx
5 17 (0.89%) Jupyter
6 14 (0.73%) Confluence
7 5 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) Luigi
10 2 (0.10%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.052%) Apache Pig
11 1 (0.052%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.052%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 26 (1.36%) 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
1 688 (35.89%) Azure
2 612 (31.92%) AWS
3 434 (22.64%) GCP
4 277 (14.45%) Power Platform
5 198 (10.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 157 (8.19%) Snowflake
7 136 (7.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 118 (6.16%) Azure DevOps
9 114 (5.95%) Amazon S3
10 107 (5.58%) dbt
11 83 (4.33%) Serverless
12 57 (2.97%) GitHub
13 54 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
13 54 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 45 (2.35%) SaaS
15 34 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
16 33 (1.72%) Matillion
17 32 (1.67%) Amazon Kinesis
18 26 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
19 21 (1.10%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.40%) 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
1 465 (24.26%) Data Warehouse
2 355 (18.52%) Big Data
3 349 (18.21%) Data Lake
4 273 (14.24%) Power BI
5 269 (14.03%) SQL Server
6 268 (13.98%) BigQuery
7 192 (10.02%) Looker
8 145 (7.56%) Hadoop
9 119 (6.21%) NoSQL
10 107 (5.58%) Amazon Redshift
11 100 (5.22%) Tableau
12 97 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 81 (4.23%) Relational Database
14 73 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
15 71 (3.70%) Data Vault
16 67 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
17 65 (3.39%) Apache Hive
18 62 (3.23%) Delta Lake
19 46 (2.40%) Metadata
20 44 (2.30%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 108 (5.63%) Git
2 96 (5.01%) Jenkins
3 68 (3.55%) JIRA
4 48 (2.50%) GitLab
5 30 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
6 17 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 13 (0.68%) CircleCI
7 13 (0.68%) Spinnaker
8 12 (0.63%) MLflow
9 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.37%) 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
12 4 (0.21%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.16%) Deequ
13 3 (0.16%) JUnit
14 2 (0.10%) NUnit
General
1 483 (25.20%) Finance
2 359 (18.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 326 (17.01%) Social Skills
4 282 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
5 278 (14.50%) Law
6 217 (11.32%) Legal
7 109 (5.69%) Marketing
8 83 (4.33%) Banking
9 72 (3.76%) Retail
10 47 (2.45%) Public Sector
11 46 (2.40%) Games
12 41 (2.14%) Telecoms
13 22 (1.15%) Investment Banking
13 22 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 19 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
16 12 (0.63%) Aerospace
17 11 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.57%) Retail Banking
18 10 (0.52%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (14.29%) PySpark
2 131 (6.83%) Kafka
3 46 (2.40%) Spring
4 45 (2.35%) Spring Boot
5 43 (2.24%) Pandas
6 24 (1.25%) Apache Beam
6 24 (1.25%) JSON
7 22 (1.15%) RESTful
8 21 (1.10%) Apache NiFi
8 21 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (1.04%) ActiveMQ
10 19 (0.99%) .NET
11 18 (0.94%) RabbitMQ
12 17 (0.89%) YAML
13 16 (0.83%) XML
14 15 (0.78%) REST
15 13 (0.68%) PyTorch
16 12 (0.63%) AWS CDK
16 12 (0.63%) GraphQL
16 12 (0.63%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 214 (11.16%) Self-Motivation
2 176 (9.18%) Algorithms
3 157 (8.19%) Cloud Native
4 138 (7.20%) Data Structures
5 93 (4.85%) Public Cloud
6 73 (3.81%) Onboarding
7 55 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 49 (2.56%) Management Information System
9 48 (2.50%) Reinsurance
10 43 (2.24%) Legacy Code
11 37 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
12 27 (1.41%) Driving Licence
13 26 (1.36%) IoT
14 21 (1.10%) Client/Server
15 19 (0.99%) CCTV
16 18 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
17 17 (0.89%) Hybrid Cloud
17 17 (0.89%) SCADA
18 16 (0.83%) NHS
18 16 (0.83%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 66 (3.44%) Linux
2 52 (2.71%) 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
1 724 (37.77%) Data Engineering
2 690 (35.99%) Agile
3 673 (35.11%) Data Pipeline
4 661 (34.48%) ETL
5 545 (28.43%) Data Modelling
6 489 (25.51%) CI/CD
7 485 (25.30%) Data Science
8 480 (25.04%) Analytics
9 401 (20.92%) DevOps
9 401 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
10 371 (19.35%) Mentoring
11 348 (18.15%) Machine Learning
12 325 (16.95%) Business Intelligence
13 316 (16.48%) Software Engineering
14 274 (14.29%) Visualisation
15 248 (12.94%) Artificial Intelligence
16 238 (12.42%) Platform Engineering
17 228 (11.89%) Data Integration
18 227 (11.84%) SDLC
19 201 (10.49%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 995 (51.90%) Python
2 947 (49.40%) SQL
3 220 (11.48%) Java
4 115 (6.00%) Scala
5 88 (4.59%) T-SQL
6 64 (3.34%) PL/SQL
7 51 (2.66%) C#
8 31 (1.62%) R
9 28 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 21 (1.10%) Bash
10 21 (1.10%) 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 (0.37%) VB
16 6 (0.31%) Go
16 6 (0.31%) PHP
16 6 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 195 (10.17%) Degree
2 62 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 58 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 36 (1.88%) SC Cleared
5 34 (1.77%) Master's Degree
6 28 (1.46%) DV Cleared
7 27 (1.41%) DBS Check
8 21 (1.10%) Azure Certification
8 21 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.37%) CISSP
11 5 (0.26%) PhD
12 4 (0.21%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
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%) CCSK
13 3 (0.16%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 317 (16.54%) Data Quality
2 177 (9.23%) GDPR
3 35 (1.83%) 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 90 (4.69%) Docker
2 40 (2.09%) 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 (8.50%) Kubernetes
2 162 (8.45%) Terraform
3 30 (1.56%) Ansible
4 19 (0.99%) Grafana
5 18 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 17 (0.89%) 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
1 407 (21.23%) Databricks
2 271 (14.14%) Google
3 186 (9.70%) Microsoft
4 116 (6.05%) Informatica
5 100 (5.22%) Oracle
6 75 (3.91%) Alteryx
7 18 (0.94%) Cognos
7 18 (0.94%) Sybase
7 18 (0.94%) YouTube
8 17 (0.89%) Cloudera
8 17 (0.89%) VMware
9 13 (0.68%) Teradata
10 12 (0.63%) Dataiku
11 11 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 11 (0.57%) SAP
12 9 (0.47%) Splunk
13 7 (0.37%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.31%) F5
14 6 (0.31%) Talend
15 5 (0.26%) SnapLogic