Data Engineering Jobs in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 186 249
Rank change year-on-year +14 +63 +58
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 1,262 1,035 1,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.60% 1.86% 1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 1.95% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 497 400 489
10th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £38,950
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,554 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,107 53,150 71,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.14% 95.49% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,360 28,415 41,497
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 +53 524 £57,500 -11.54% 68
North West +56 362 £55,000 - 41
South East +47 200 £67,500 -3.57% 27
Midlands -37 197 £57,500 +4.55% 30
South West +4 158 £75,288 +12.79% 13
West Midlands -48 124 £59,300 +7.82% 20
Scotland -17 115 £70,000 +16.67% 9
Yorkshire -4 95 £65,066 -5.89% 19
East Midlands +1 71 £45,000 -25.00% 10
North East +41 67 £75,000 +15.38% 8
East of England -28 42 £75,000 +30.43% 6
Wales +2 17 £97,500 +118.29% 3
Northern Ireland +21 9 £55,000 - 3
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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 83 (6.58%) Apache Spark
2 32 (2.54%) Apache
3 30 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
4 20 (1.58%) Confluence
5 16 (1.27%) Jupyter
5 16 (1.27%) nginx
6 4 (0.32%) SAS
7 1 (0.079%) Luigi
7 1 (0.079%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.079%) WildFly
Applications
1 15 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 464 (36.77%) Azure
2 433 (34.31%) GCP
3 335 (26.55%) AWS
4 172 (13.63%) Power Platform
5 120 (9.51%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 96 (7.61%) Snowflake
8 68 (5.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 45 (3.57%) Amazon S3
10 41 (3.25%) dbt
11 37 (2.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 32 (2.54%) Matillion
13 23 (1.82%) Serverless
14 16 (1.27%) MinIO
14 16 (1.27%) OpenShift
14 16 (1.27%) SaaS
15 14 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
16 13 (1.03%) GitHub
17 11 (0.87%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.48%) Firewall
2 3 (0.24%) VoIP
2 3 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.16%) Broadband
3 2 (0.16%) LAN
3 2 (0.16%) WAN
3 2 (0.16%) Wireless
4 1 (0.079%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.079%) 5G
4 1 (0.079%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 403 (31.93%) Data Warehouse
2 367 (29.08%) BigQuery
3 337 (26.70%) Looker
4 172 (13.63%) Power BI
5 158 (12.52%) Data Lake
6 114 (9.03%) SQL Server
7 57 (4.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 56 (4.44%) Big Data
9 55 (4.36%) Tableau
10 41 (3.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 41 (3.25%) Relational Database
11 38 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 35 (2.77%) Hadoop
12 35 (2.77%) Metadata
13 33 (2.61%) Star Schema
14 31 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
15 27 (2.14%) Azure SQL Database
16 26 (2.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 20 (1.58%) MySQL
18 19 (1.51%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 40 (3.17%) GitLab
2 31 (2.46%) Jenkins
3 28 (2.22%) Git
4 24 (1.90%) JIRA
5 16 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
7 4 (0.32%) ERwin
8 3 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.16%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.079%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.079%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.079%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.079%) Selenium
10 1 (0.079%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.079%) Subversion
10 1 (0.079%) Toad
General
1 400 (31.70%) Analytical Skills
2 327 (25.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 183 (14.50%) Finance
4 134 (10.62%) Social Skills
5 72 (5.71%) Billing
6 60 (4.75%) Law
7 49 (3.88%) Marketing
8 40 (3.17%) Retail
9 35 (2.77%) Banking
10 30 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.98%) Games
12 20 (1.58%) Public Sector
13 17 (1.35%) Legal
14 13 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (0.71%) Telecoms
16 8 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.32%) Agriculture
17 4 (0.32%) Electronics
17 4 (0.32%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 495 (39.22%) Data Engineer
2 213 (16.88%) Architect
3 192 (15.21%) Lead
4 161 (12.76%) Principal Data Engineer
4 161 (12.76%) Principal Engineer
5 160 (12.68%) Platform Engineer
6 139 (11.01%) Data Manager
7 133 (10.54%) Software Engineer
8 128 (10.14%) Data Architect
9 117 (9.27%) Senior
10 115 (9.11%) Engineering Manager
11 98 (7.77%) Lead Software Engineer
12 75 (5.94%) Software Architect
13 74 (5.86%) Programmer
13 74 (5.86%) Software Programmer
14 60 (4.75%) Lead Data Engineer
15 51 (4.04%) Senior Data Engineer
16 44 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
17 37 (2.93%) Developer
18 31 (2.46%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (4.12%) PySpark
2 35 (2.77%) React
3 28 (2.22%) Kafka
4 25 (1.98%) AngularJS
4 25 (1.98%) Spring
5 22 (1.74%) TensorFlow
6 18 (1.43%) ActiveMQ
7 17 (1.35%) Apache NiFi
8 16 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
8 16 (1.27%) Keras
8 16 (1.27%) NumPy
8 16 (1.27%) RabbitMQ
8 16 (1.27%) YAML
9 14 (1.11%) REST
10 13 (1.03%) JPA
11 12 (0.95%) SOAP
11 12 (0.95%) Spring Boot
12 11 (0.87%) RESTful
12 11 (0.87%) Vue
12 11 (0.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 285 (22.58%) Self-Motivation
2 227 (17.99%) Cyberattack
3 92 (7.29%) Product Ownership
4 62 (4.91%) Data Structures
5 60 (4.75%) Algorithms
6 45 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 28 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.66%) Hybrid Cloud
9 18 (1.43%) Reference Data
10 13 (1.03%) Client/Server
11 11 (0.87%) Onboarding
11 11 (0.87%) Taxonomies
12 10 (0.79%) Mainframe
12 10 (0.79%) Public Cloud
13 9 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.71%) NHS
13 9 (0.71%) Online Games
14 8 (0.63%) IoT
14 8 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
15 6 (0.48%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (2.38%) Linux
2 11 (0.87%) Windows
3 6 (0.48%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.079%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.079%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 710 (56.26%) Problem-Solving
2 687 (54.44%) Agile
3 597 (47.31%) Mentoring
4 441 (34.94%) ETL
5 430 (34.07%) Data Modelling
6 400 (31.70%) Machine Learning
7 360 (28.53%) Data Pipeline
8 357 (28.29%) Platform Engineering
9 349 (27.65%) Analytics
10 348 (27.58%) DevOps
11 339 (26.86%) Data Science
12 319 (25.28%) Software Engineering
13 243 (19.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 239 (18.94%) User Experience
15 232 (18.38%) Data Governance
16 227 (17.99%) CI/CD
16 227 (17.99%) Creative Thinking
17 214 (16.96%) Business Intelligence
18 190 (15.06%) Data Architecture
19 179 (14.18%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 350 (27.73%) SQL
2 304 (24.09%) Python
3 104 (8.24%) Java
4 45 (3.57%) T-SQL
5 38 (3.01%) Scala
6 21 (1.66%) Shell Script
7 18 (1.43%) C#
8 17 (1.35%) Bash
9 16 (1.27%) MATLAB
10 12 (0.95%) Go
11 11 (0.87%) R
12 9 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.63%) Perl
14 7 (0.55%) Ruby
15 6 (0.48%) C
15 6 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
15 6 (0.48%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.48%) VBA
16 3 (0.24%) PHP
16 3 (0.24%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (8.00%) Degree
2 52 (4.12%) Security Cleared
3 40 (3.17%) DV Cleared
4 38 (3.01%) DBS Check
5 35 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (1.51%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 16 (1.27%) SC Cleared
8 13 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.48%) MBA
9 6 (0.48%) PhD
10 5 (0.40%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.32%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.24%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 302 (23.93%) Data Quality
2 268 (21.24%) GDPR
3 92 (7.29%) QA
4 18 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.16%) COBIT
7 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.16%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.079%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (3.17%) Docker
2 7 (0.55%) IAG
3 4 (0.32%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.079%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.079%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 52 (4.12%) Terraform
2 49 (3.88%) Kubernetes
3 20 (1.58%) Ansible
4 16 (1.27%) Grafana
4 16 (1.27%) HAProxy
4 16 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 7 (0.55%) SysTrack
6 1 (0.079%) Oozie
6 1 (0.079%) Podman
6 1 (0.079%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.079%) Puppet
Vendors
1 375 (29.71%) Google
2 129 (10.22%) Microsoft
3 115 (9.11%) Databricks
4 44 (3.49%) Oracle
5 23 (1.82%) Informatica
6 17 (1.35%) Teradata
7 7 (0.55%) ServiceNow
7 7 (0.55%) Snow
8 6 (0.48%) Alteryx
8 6 (0.48%) Dataiku
8 6 (0.48%) F5
9 4 (0.32%) SAP
9 4 (0.32%) Talend
10 3 (0.24%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.24%) SnapLogic
11 1 (0.079%) Ab Initio
11 1 (0.079%) Cognos
11 1 (0.079%) CyberTech
11 1 (0.079%) ESRI