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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 163 160
Rank change year-on-year +15 -3 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1,917 2,283 4,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.92% 2.30% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 2.51% 2.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,213 1,612 2,061
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,250 £42,500
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 £83,250 £92,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,308 £120,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
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 £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
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 20 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 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
England -11 1,531 £65,000 -10.34% 527
UK excluding London +57 1,251 £57,500 -4.17% 305
Work from Home -50 634 £65,000 -6.40% 235
London -32 586 £75,000 -11.76% 331
North of England +81 384 £55,000 -9.84% 61
Scotland +72 307 £65,000 +8.33% 18
North West +79 249 £60,000 +15.38% 40
South East -42 160 £49,000 -21.60% 108
Midlands -3 157 £55,000 +3.29% 34
South West -43 148 £63,750 -5.56% 40
West Midlands +11 113 £57,500 +9.52% 26
Yorkshire +67 83 £51,000 -23.88% 13
East of England +23 69 £57,500 -8.00% 19
North East +7 52 £72,000 +10.77% 8
East Midlands -4 42 £47,500 -13.64% 8
Wales +2 14 £46,131 +3.28% 11
Northern Ireland +43 13 £60,000 - 15

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 993 (51.80%) Python
2 944 (49.24%) SQL
3 721 (37.61%) Data Engineering
4 701 (36.57%) Azure
5 691 (36.05%) Agile
6 675 (35.21%) Data Pipeline
7 656 (34.22%) ETL
8 602 (31.40%) AWS
9 545 (28.43%) Data Modelling
10 491 (25.61%) Finance
11 490 (25.56%) Analytics
12 487 (25.40%) CI/CD
13 479 (24.99%) Data Science
14 467 (24.36%) Data Warehouse
15 434 (22.64%) GCP
16 416 (21.70%) Databricks
17 401 (20.92%) DevOps
18 399 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
19 369 (19.25%) Mentoring
20 364 (18.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 354 (18.47%) Big Data
22 352 (18.36%) Data Lake
23 349 (18.21%) Machine Learning
24 339 (17.68%) Apache Spark
25 336 (17.53%) Business Intelligence
26 321 (16.74%) Data Quality
27 319 (16.64%) Social Skills
28 310 (16.17%) Software Engineering
29 289 (15.08%) Power Platform
30 285 (14.87%) Power BI

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
1 339 (17.68%) Apache Spark
2 187 (9.75%) Apache Airflow
3 111 (5.79%) Apache
4 19 (0.99%) nginx
5 18 (0.94%) Jupyter
6 14 (0.73%) Confluence
7 5 (0.26%) SAS
7 5 (0.26%) SharePoint
8 4 (0.21%) Luigi
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 28 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (0.68%) 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
1 701 (36.57%) Azure
2 602 (31.40%) AWS
3 434 (22.64%) GCP
4 289 (15.08%) Power Platform
5 199 (10.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 155 (8.09%) Snowflake
7 142 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 116 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
9 107 (5.58%) Amazon S3
10 104 (5.43%) dbt
11 76 (3.96%) Serverless
12 57 (2.97%) GitHub
13 54 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 47 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (2.45%) SaaS
15 35 (1.83%) Amazon EMR
15 35 (1.83%) Matillion
16 32 (1.67%) Amazon Kinesis
17 28 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
18 21 (1.10%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.45%) Structured Cabling
2 18 (0.94%) DSL
3 14 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (0.57%) Network Security
4 11 (0.57%) Wireless
5 5 (0.26%) Firewall
5 5 (0.26%) LAN
6 4 (0.21%) Ethernet
6 4 (0.21%) FTP
6 4 (0.21%) WAN
7 2 (0.10%) 5G
7 2 (0.10%) PPP
7 2 (0.10%) WebEx
8 1 (0.052%) 3GPP
8 1 (0.052%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.052%) DMZ
8 1 (0.052%) NX-OS
8 1 (0.052%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.052%) snoop
8 1 (0.052%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 467 (24.36%) Data Warehouse
2 354 (18.47%) Big Data
3 352 (18.36%) Data Lake
4 285 (14.87%) Power BI
5 269 (14.03%) SQL Server
6 267 (13.93%) BigQuery
7 191 (9.96%) Looker
8 146 (7.62%) Hadoop
9 120 (6.26%) NoSQL
10 104 (5.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 102 (5.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 99 (5.16%) Tableau
13 79 (4.12%) Relational Database
14 73 (3.81%) Azure SQL Database
15 70 (3.65%) Data Vault
16 65 (3.39%) Apache Hive
16 65 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
17 61 (3.18%) Delta Lake
18 45 (2.35%) Metadata
19 44 (2.30%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 108 (5.63%) Git
2 95 (4.96%) Jenkins
3 67 (3.50%) JIRA
4 48 (2.50%) GitLab
5 30 (1.56%) Bitbucket Server
6 18 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 13 (0.68%) CircleCI
7 13 (0.68%) Spinnaker
8 12 (0.63%) MLflow
9 7 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.37%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.31%) RStudio
10 6 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 4 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.16%) Deequ
12 3 (0.16%) JUnit
12 3 (0.16%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.10%) NUnit
General
1 491 (25.61%) Finance
2 364 (18.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 319 (16.64%) Social Skills
4 284 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 276 (14.40%) Law
6 217 (11.32%) Legal
7 107 (5.58%) Marketing
8 81 (4.23%) Banking
9 71 (3.70%) Retail
10 45 (2.35%) Games
11 43 (2.24%) Public Sector
12 41 (2.14%) Telecoms
13 21 (1.10%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.04%) Manufacturing
15 19 (0.99%) Financial Institution
16 17 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
17 12 (0.63%) Aerospace
18 11 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
19 10 (0.52%) Retail Banking
20 9 (0.47%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 280 (14.61%) PySpark
2 131 (6.83%) Kafka
3 45 (2.35%) Spring
4 44 (2.30%) Spring Boot
5 42 (2.19%) Pandas
6 23 (1.20%) Apache Beam
6 23 (1.20%) JSON
7 22 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
7 22 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
8 21 (1.10%) ActiveMQ
9 19 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
10 18 (0.94%) RESTful
10 18 (0.94%) YAML
11 16 (0.83%) .NET
11 16 (0.83%) REST
11 16 (0.83%) XML
12 13 (0.68%) PyTorch
13 12 (0.63%) AWS CDK
14 11 (0.57%) GraphQL
14 11 (0.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 215 (11.22%) Self-Motivation
2 177 (9.23%) Algorithms
3 156 (8.14%) Cloud Native
4 136 (7.09%) Data Structures
5 89 (4.64%) Public Cloud
6 74 (3.86%) Onboarding
7 55 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 51 (2.66%) Management Information System
9 48 (2.50%) Reinsurance
10 43 (2.24%) Legacy Code
11 39 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
12 28 (1.46%) Driving Licence
13 24 (1.25%) IoT
14 21 (1.10%) Client/Server
15 19 (0.99%) CCTV
15 19 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
16 18 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
17 17 (0.89%) SCADA
18 16 (0.83%) NHS
18 16 (0.83%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 67 (3.50%) Linux
2 52 (2.71%) Unix
3 31 (1.62%) 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
1 721 (37.61%) Data Engineering
2 691 (36.05%) Agile
3 675 (35.21%) Data Pipeline
4 656 (34.22%) ETL
5 545 (28.43%) Data Modelling
6 490 (25.56%) Analytics
7 487 (25.40%) CI/CD
8 479 (24.99%) Data Science
9 401 (20.92%) DevOps
10 399 (20.81%) Problem-Solving
11 369 (19.25%) Mentoring
12 349 (18.21%) Machine Learning
13 336 (17.53%) Business Intelligence
14 310 (16.17%) Software Engineering
15 273 (14.24%) Visualisation
16 246 (12.83%) Artificial Intelligence
17 238 (12.42%) Platform Engineering
18 227 (11.84%) SDLC
19 226 (11.79%) Data Integration
20 202 (10.54%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 993 (51.80%) Python
2 944 (49.24%) SQL
3 221 (11.53%) Java
4 114 (5.95%) Scala
5 88 (4.59%) T-SQL
6 63 (3.29%) PL/SQL
7 50 (2.61%) C#
8 32 (1.67%) R
9 30 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 22 (1.15%) Bash
11 21 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.04%) JavaScript
12 20 (1.04%) PowerShell
13 11 (0.57%) U-SQL
14 9 (0.47%) VBA
15 8 (0.42%) C
15 8 (0.42%) Go
16 7 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
17 6 (0.31%) PHP
17 6 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 198 (10.33%) Degree
2 63 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (2.97%) Security Cleared
4 36 (1.88%) Master's Degree
5 35 (1.83%) SC Cleared
6 29 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 28 (1.46%) DBS Check
8 22 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (0.99%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.37%) CISSP
12 5 (0.26%) PhD
13 4 (0.21%) CCNA
13 4 (0.21%) CISM
13 4 (0.21%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (0.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.16%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.16%) CCSK
14 3 (0.16%) CCSP
15 2 (0.10%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 321 (16.74%) 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%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.052%) NCSC
System Software
1 87 (4.54%) 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
1 162 (8.45%) Kubernetes
1 162 (8.45%) Terraform
2 31 (1.62%) Ansible
3 19 (0.99%) Grafana
4 18 (0.94%) HAProxy
4 18 (0.94%) Prometheus
5 6 (0.31%) logstash
6 3 (0.16%) Argo
6 3 (0.16%) CASB
6 3 (0.16%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.10%) Marathon
7 2 (0.10%) Mesos
8 1 (0.052%) Kibana
8 1 (0.052%) Oozie
8 1 (0.052%) Podman
Vendors
1 416 (21.70%) Databricks
2 266 (13.88%) Google
3 185 (9.65%) Microsoft
4 115 (6.00%) Informatica
5 98 (5.11%) Oracle
6 74 (3.86%) 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 11 (0.57%) Dataiku
10 11 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.47%) SAP
12 8 (0.42%) Splunk
13 6 (0.31%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.31%) F5
13 6 (0.31%) Talend
14 5 (0.26%) SnapLogic