Data Engineer Jobs in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer salary in the South West is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 133 153
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 152 140 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.53% 2.13% 2.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 2.39% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 109 108 114
10th Percentile £30,385 £42,350 £37,908
25th Percentile £35,000 £53,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £67,500 £49,263
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +37.02% +3.63%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,715 £74,063
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £116,246
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 9,582 5,850 8,093
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.16% 88.91% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 7,009 3,668 5,118
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £29,150
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,879 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,050 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol -31 71 £70,288 +4.13% 18
Somerset +13 24 £30,385 -49.36% 4
Gloucestershire -16 21 £55,000 -18.52% 4
Dorset - 16 £67,500 - 3
Wiltshire -6 13 £67,500 -3.57%
Devon -4 7 £39,500 -36.80% 4
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 1 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 South West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 65 (42.76%) Data Engineering
2 59 (38.82%) Data Pipeline
3 58 (38.16%) Python
4 56 (36.84%) SQL
5 51 (33.55%) Agile
6 45 (29.61%) DevOps
7 43 (28.29%) GCP
8 39 (25.66%) Data Science
9 37 (24.34%) Mentoring
9 37 (24.34%) Data Warehouse
9 37 (24.34%) Google
10 35 (23.03%) Platform Engineering
11 34 (22.37%) BigQuery
12 33 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
13 32 (21.05%) Big Data
13 32 (21.05%) ETL
14 30 (19.74%) Azure
14 30 (19.74%) Security Cleared
14 30 (19.74%) Looker
15 29 (19.08%) CI/CD
16 28 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
17 27 (17.76%) Analytics
18 26 (17.11%) Apache Spark
18 26 (17.11%) Data Lake
18 26 (17.11%) Self-Motivation
19 24 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
19 24 (15.79%) Finance
20 23 (15.13%) Apache
20 23 (15.13%) Hadoop
20 23 (15.13%) Docker

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 26 (17.11%) Apache Spark
2 23 (15.13%) Apache
3 16 (10.53%) Jupyter
3 16 (10.53%) nginx
4 7 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.32%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (28.29%) GCP
2 30 (19.74%) Azure
3 22 (14.47%) Power Platform
4 21 (13.82%) AWS
5 18 (11.84%) Amazon S3
6 16 (10.53%) MinIO
6 16 (10.53%) OpenShift
7 14 (9.21%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (6.58%) Snowflake
9 7 (4.61%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (3.29%) dbt
10 5 (3.29%) Fivetran
10 5 (3.29%) GitHub
10 5 (3.29%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.29%) Google Data Studio
10 5 (3.29%) Stitch
11 4 (2.63%) Azure Pipelines
12 3 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 3 (1.97%) Serverless
13 2 (1.32%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.58%) Wireless
2 4 (2.63%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (1.97%) Network Security
4 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (24.34%) Data Warehouse
2 34 (22.37%) BigQuery
3 32 (21.05%) Big Data
4 30 (19.74%) Looker
5 26 (17.11%) Data Lake
6 23 (15.13%) Hadoop
7 22 (14.47%) Power BI
8 16 (10.53%) Presto
8 16 (10.53%) SQL Server
9 13 (8.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (5.26%) MySQL
10 8 (5.26%) Tableau
11 7 (4.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (4.61%) Relational Database
12 5 (3.29%) Airbyte
12 5 (3.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (3.29%) Redshift Spectrum
13 4 (2.63%) Data Mining
13 4 (2.63%) Flink
13 4 (2.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (10.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 16 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 8 (5.26%) Git
3 6 (3.95%) RStudio
4 5 (3.29%) GitLab
5 4 (2.63%) Oracle Forms
General
1 28 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (15.79%) Finance
3 17 (11.18%) Social Skills
4 11 (7.24%) Manufacturing
5 10 (6.58%) Aerospace
6 8 (5.26%) Banking
6 8 (5.26%) Retail
7 6 (3.95%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.32%) Advertising
8 2 (1.32%) Aeronautics
8 2 (1.32%) Aviation
8 2 (1.32%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.66%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.18%) Apache NiFi
2 16 (10.53%) ActiveMQ
2 16 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (10.53%) RabbitMQ
2 16 (10.53%) YAML
3 8 (5.26%) Kafka
4 5 (3.29%) REST
5 4 (2.63%) Apache Beam
6 3 (1.97%) PySpark
7 2 (1.32%) Pandas
7 2 (1.32%) SQLAlchemy
8 1 (0.66%) JSON
8 1 (0.66%) Unreal Engine
8 1 (0.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (17.11%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.92%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 5 (3.29%) Replication
6 4 (2.63%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.97%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.97%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.32%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.66%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.66%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.66%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (14.47%) Linux
2 6 (3.95%) Unix
3 1 (0.66%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (42.76%) Data Engineering
2 59 (38.82%) Data Pipeline
3 51 (33.55%) Agile
4 45 (29.61%) DevOps
5 39 (25.66%) Data Science
6 37 (24.34%) Mentoring
7 35 (23.03%) Platform Engineering
8 33 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (21.05%) ETL
10 29 (19.08%) CI/CD
11 27 (17.76%) Analytics
12 24 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
13 22 (14.47%) Machine Learning
14 21 (13.82%) Change Management
14 21 (13.82%) DataOps
15 19 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
16 16 (10.53%) Containerisation
16 16 (10.53%) Observability
16 16 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 16 (10.53%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 58 (38.16%) Python
2 56 (36.84%) SQL
3 16 (10.53%) Bash
3 16 (10.53%) Shell Script
4 14 (9.21%) Java
5 13 (8.55%) Scala
6 6 (3.95%) R
7 5 (3.29%) C#
7 5 (3.29%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.63%) Go
9 3 (1.97%) C
10 1 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.47%) DV Cleared
3 14 (9.21%) Degree
3 14 (9.21%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.95%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.32%) HNC
7 1 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.82%) GDPR
2 18 (11.84%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
System Software
1 23 (15.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 19 (12.50%) Terraform
3 16 (10.53%) Ansible
3 16 (10.53%) Grafana
3 16 (10.53%) HAProxy
3 16 (10.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (24.34%) Google
2 17 (11.18%) Databricks
3 9 (5.92%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.95%) Alteryx
4 6 (3.95%) Oracle
5 4 (2.63%) Teradata
6 2 (1.32%) Twitter
7 1 (0.66%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.66%) Informatica