Data Engineer Jobs in Berkshire

Data Engineer
South East > Berkshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Berkshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 December 2024.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 138 114
Rank change year-on-year +13 -24 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 5 12 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.28% 0.57% 2.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.61% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 37
10th Percentile £46,100 £28,550 £53,000
25th Percentile £51,500 £35,848 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £42,710 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +52.19% -43.05% +15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,500 £81,250 £87,700
South East median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -15.38% +13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,537 1,979 2,879
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.49% 94.55% 95.58%
Number of salaries quoted 816 1,228 1,800
10th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £56,509 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.64% -4.55% +4.76%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Berkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Berkshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Berkshire over the 6 months to 21 December 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Berkshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Reading +23 4 £59,000 +15.12% 1
Slough - 1 £80,000 - 1
Data Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 21 December 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 Berkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (20.00%) LLM
3 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Acoustics
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack

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

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure AI
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Cognitive Services
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (20.00%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Acoustics
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Conversational UI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Open Source
3 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) PhD
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle