Based on advertised midpoints across the 14 UK listings priced in pounds in the last 12 months. Base salary only.
Morson Edge Manchester £120,000 – £160,000 pa
Principal Engineer acting as the go-to technical expert on client projects, owning architecture, technical direction and mentoring engineers. Involves stakeholder work up to CTO/CEO level, AI-assisted engineering with agents and evals, and tech-agnostic delivery across Java, Node, .NET, Python and major clouds.
Maxwell Bond Manchester £60,000 – £80,000 pa
Builds and owns data pipelines in Python and SQL on an AWS platform, working with S3, Glue, Lambda and Redshift. Integrates internal and external data sources, automates reporting and improves data quality, with ownership of infrastructure, pipelines and data models. Joins a new data team at a growing financial services business, shaping the platform from day one.
Morson Edge Manchester £800 – £1,000 pd
Hands-on technical leadership role shaping a strategic data platform for an investment management firm, with Snowflake at its core. Responsibilities span designing scalable platform solutions, building and optimising end-to-end ELT pipelines, defining engineering standards and governance, and developing Infrastructure as Code with Cloud Engineering. Works in an Agile team supporting analytics, AI and ML adoption.
Tenth Revolution Group Manchester £90,000 – £110,000 pa
Hands-on senior role designing and building scalable data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines and Data-as-a-Service capabilities that power analytics, machine learning and AI products for enterprise clients. Involves setting standards for data quality, governance and observability, plus secure data services and APIs, with scope to build and lead a wider data function.
Vermelo RPO Manchester
Senior technical authority for a Databricks Lakehouse platform, defining engineering standards, architecture and best practices across the enterprise data ecosystem. Leads design and delivery of scalable data products using Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog and Azure Data Services, while mentoring engineers and acting as escalation point for technical decisions.
Adria Solutions Manchester £70,000 – £90,000 pa
Hands-on lead role owning an existing data estate and building a modern, scalable platform supporting BI, Data Science and Applied AI. Involves modernising SQL Server, SSIS/SSDT and Power BI, building lakehouse architecture on AWS, streaming with Flink, Terraform and CI/CD, plus line-managing a small team of Data Engineers.
Socium Recruitment Manchester £90,000 – £100,000 pa
Owns the data engineering strategy, architecture and roadmap for an established online business, leading a team of ten through a migration from on-prem SQL to Azure. Sets engineering standards across data modelling, pipelines, governance and automated deployments, and makes the calls on tooling, budget and suppliers while reporting into the C-suite. Microsoft Fabric adoption and practical AI use are open questions the role holder will shape.
Vermelo RPO Manchester
Senior technical authority for a Databricks Lakehouse platform, defining engineering standards, architecture and best practices across the enterprise data ecosystem. Leads design and delivery of scalable data products using Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog and Azure Data Services, designing Medallion Architecture solutions and providing technical leadership across multiple squads. Hybrid role requiring two days a week in the Manchester, Stoke or Peterborough office.
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