Data Engineer Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Data Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Cambridgeshire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 104 132
Rank change year-on-year +13 +28 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 16 5 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.91% 0.40% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.47% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 13 3 6
10th Percentile £31,200 £67,250 £59,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £68,750 £60,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £77,500 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +8.77% +1.79%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £78,438
90th Percentile - £82,750 £80,625
East of England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -12.00% - -12.28%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 1,649 1,053 2,540
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 85.19% 91.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,247 529 962
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £28,700
25th Percentile £35,788 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,641 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% +10.00% -0.50%
75th Percentile £68,901 £70,000 £64,688
90th Percentile £80,950 £85,000 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Cambridgeshire.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Cambridgeshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cambridge +21 14 £65,000 -16.13%
Peterborough +6 2 £51,250 -
Data Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (50.00%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) ETL
2 8 (50.00%) AWS
3 7 (43.75%) Data Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Data Science
4 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (37.50%) SQL
5 5 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) GDPR
6 4 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (25.00%) GCP
6 4 (25.00%) Docker
6 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
6 4 (25.00%) Client/Server
6 4 (25.00%) Games
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) Agriculture
7 3 (18.75%) DataOps
7 3 (18.75%) Looker
7 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
7 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Google
7 3 (18.75%) Life Science
7 3 (18.75%) Change Management
7 3 (18.75%) DevOps
7 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (18.75%) BigQuery
2 3 (18.75%) Looker
3 2 (12.50%) Big Data
3 2 (12.50%) Metadata
3 2 (12.50%) Power BI
4 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (25.00%) Agriculture
1 4 (25.00%) Games
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
1 1 (6.25%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (25.00%) Client/Server
3 3 (18.75%) Life Science
4 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (6.25%) Genomics
5 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (50.00%) ETL
3 7 (43.75%) Data Engineering
4 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (37.50%) Data Science
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (18.75%) Change Management
7 3 (18.75%) DataOps
7 3 (18.75%) DevOps
7 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (12.50%) DAMA
8 2 (12.50%) DAMA DMBOK
8 2 (12.50%) Data Management
8 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
8 2 (12.50%) Hematology
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) GDPR
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft