Data Engineering Jobs in the South East

Data Engineering
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 209 246 248
Rank change year-on-year +37 +2 +36
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 200 167 257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.18% 1.16% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% 1.23% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 71 78 107
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,125 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -4.11% +21.67%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,125 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,226 13,553 19,067
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.26% 94.52% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,862 7,908 11,946
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the South East region 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
Thames Valley +48 115 £67,500 -3.57% 10
Buckinghamshire +23 59 £87,500 +25.00% 2
Oxfordshire +40 46 £45,000 -25.00% 3
Surrey -14 28 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Kent +15 23 £67,500 +25.58% 3
Hampshire -25 16 £70,000 - 6
East Sussex +19 15 £61,500 +17.35% 1
Berkshire -20 10 £70,000 - 5
West Sussex +24 3 £67,500 +87.50% 1
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 106 (53.00%) Azure
2 89 (44.50%) GCP
3 76 (38.00%) AWS
4 46 (23.00%) Power Platform
5 26 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (7.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (7.50%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.50%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.50%) Serverless
9 4 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.00%) dbt
10 3 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.00%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.50%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (0.50%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.50%) Cloud Composer
12 1 (0.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.50%) VoIP
1 3 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (48.00%) Data Warehouse
2 85 (42.50%) BigQuery
3 83 (41.50%) Looker
4 46 (23.00%) Power BI
5 24 (12.00%) Data Lake
6 14 (7.00%) Tableau
7 13 (6.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 10 (5.00%) SQL Server
9 8 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (3.50%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (2.50%) Relational Database
12 4 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.50%) Big Data
13 3 (1.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.00%) Impala
15 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
15 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
15 1 (0.50%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (2.50%) Git
2 3 (1.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.00%) ERwin
4 1 (0.50%) GitLab
4 1 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 109 (54.50%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (19.50%) Social Skills
3 32 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 25 (12.50%) Finance
5 24 (12.00%) Billing
6 11 (5.50%) Legal
7 7 (3.50%) Retail
8 6 (3.00%) Marketing
9 4 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.00%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.50%) Games
11 2 (1.00%) Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 87 (43.50%) Data Engineer
2 44 (22.00%) Data Manager
2 44 (22.00%) Engineering Manager
3 32 (16.00%) Architect
3 32 (16.00%) Data Architect
4 27 (13.50%) Principal Data Engineer
4 27 (13.50%) Principal Engineer
5 24 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
6 23 (11.50%) Security Engineer
7 18 (9.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 13 (6.50%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 9 (4.50%) Senior
10 8 (4.00%) Consultant
10 8 (4.00%) Data Consultant
10 8 (4.00%) Research Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Head of Engineering
11 7 (3.50%) Lead
12 6 (3.00%) Developer
12 6 (3.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.50%) Great Expectations
2 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (29.50%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.00%) Taxonomies
4 4 (2.00%) Pricing Data
5 3 (1.50%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.50%) Handset
5 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.50%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.00%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) Unix
2 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (61.00%) Problem-Solving
2 114 (57.00%) Data Modelling
3 108 (54.00%) Mentoring
4 98 (49.00%) ETL
5 97 (48.50%) Platform Engineering
6 78 (39.00%) Analytics
7 70 (35.00%) Agile
8 69 (34.50%) Data Science
9 58 (29.00%) Data Pipeline
10 57 (28.50%) DevOps
11 55 (27.50%) Business Intelligence
12 51 (25.50%) Coaching
13 44 (22.00%) Data Governance
14 42 (21.00%) Data Architecture
15 41 (20.50%) Data Integration
15 41 (20.50%) Scrum
16 32 (16.00%) CI/CD
16 32 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
16 32 (16.00%) Innovative Thinking
16 32 (16.00%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 58 (29.00%) SQL
2 43 (21.50%) Python
3 13 (6.50%) Java
4 7 (3.50%) C#
4 7 (3.50%) Go
4 7 (3.50%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.50%) Ruby
5 6 (3.00%) Scala
6 5 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 51 (25.50%) Degree
2 13 (6.50%) DBS Check
3 12 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (6.00%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.50%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.50%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.00%) MBA
5 6 (3.00%) PhD
6 3 (1.50%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (40.50%) Data Quality
2 63 (31.50%) GDPR
3 31 (15.50%) QA
4 6 (3.00%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.00%) Ansible
1 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 86 (43.00%) Google
2 31 (15.50%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.50%) Databricks
4 4 (2.00%) SAP
4 4 (2.00%) Talend
5 3 (1.50%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.50%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.50%) Informatica
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle