Data Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Data Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Data Engineer salary in Bristol is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 May 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 76 120
Rank change year-on-year -15 +44 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 72 105 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.32% 4.06% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 4.38% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 67 75 56
10th Percentile £32,100 £42,750 £34,258
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% +17.39% +17.86%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,715 £85,000
90th Percentile - £86,250 £116,246
South West median annual salary £62,500 £64,228 £48,000
% change year-on-year -2.69% +33.81% -4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 3,020 2,396 3,254
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.17% 92.55% 97.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,265 1,495 2,191
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,750 £42,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,810 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +8.85% +13.00%
75th Percentile £71,250 £74,250 £73,675
90th Percentile £87,000 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Bristol

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Bristol

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Bristol over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 Bristol region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 48 (66.67%) Python
2 41 (56.94%) Data Engineering
3 37 (51.39%) SQL
4 27 (37.50%) Apache Spark
5 25 (34.72%) Kubernetes
5 25 (34.72%) DevOps
5 25 (34.72%) Big Data
5 25 (34.72%) Data Pipeline
6 24 (33.33%) Hadoop
6 24 (33.33%) Docker
7 22 (30.56%) CI/CD
8 21 (29.17%) Amazon S3
9 20 (27.78%) DV Cleared
9 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
9 20 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (27.78%) Terraform
10 19 (26.39%) Data Science
10 19 (26.39%) Containerisation
10 19 (26.39%) Agile
10 19 (26.39%) Azure
10 19 (26.39%) Jenkins
11 18 (25.00%) GCP
11 18 (25.00%) Mentoring
11 18 (25.00%) Apache
11 18 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
12 17 (23.61%) Thought Leadership
12 17 (23.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 17 (23.61%) Observability
12 17 (23.61%) MinIO
12 17 (23.61%) Prometheus

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 27 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 18 (25.00%) Apache
3 17 (23.61%) Jupyter
3 17 (23.61%) nginx
4 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.39%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.17%) Amazon S3
2 19 (26.39%) Azure
3 18 (25.00%) GCP
4 17 (23.61%) MinIO
4 17 (23.61%) OpenShift
5 16 (22.22%) AWS
6 12 (16.67%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (5.56%) Serverless
8 4 (5.56%) Snowflake
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (1.39%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (1.39%) Google Analytics
11 1 (1.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (34.72%) Big Data
2 24 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 17 (23.61%) Presto
4 16 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (16.67%) Power BI
6 11 (15.28%) Data Lake
7 10 (13.89%) BigQuery
8 5 (6.94%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
9 4 (5.56%) Data Mining
9 4 (5.56%) Flink
9 4 (5.56%) Looker
9 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
10 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (4.17%) Star Schema
11 2 (2.78%) OLAP
11 2 (2.78%) OLAP Cube
11 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (26.39%) Jenkins
2 17 (23.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.39%) Git
General
1 15 (20.83%) Finance
2 10 (13.89%) Banking
3 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.72%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.78%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.39%) Aviation
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
2 17 (23.61%) ActiveMQ
2 17 (23.61%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (23.61%) RabbitMQ
2 17 (23.61%) YAML
3 9 (12.50%) Kafka
4 4 (5.56%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.39%) JSON
5 1 (1.39%) Pandas
5 1 (1.39%) PySpark
5 1 (1.39%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.39%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 17 (23.61%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.17%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.39%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.39%) IoT
5 1 (1.39%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (56.94%) Data Engineering
2 25 (34.72%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (34.72%) DevOps
3 22 (30.56%) CI/CD
4 20 (27.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (26.39%) Agile
5 19 (26.39%) Containerisation
5 19 (26.39%) Data Science
6 18 (25.00%) Mentoring
7 17 (23.61%) Observability
7 17 (23.61%) Requirements Engineering
7 17 (23.61%) Service Delivery
7 17 (23.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 17 (23.61%) Thought Leadership
8 14 (19.44%) Analytics
9 12 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 12 (16.67%) ETL
9 12 (16.67%) Machine Learning
10 10 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (12.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 48 (66.67%) Python
2 37 (51.39%) SQL
3 17 (23.61%) Bash
3 17 (23.61%) Shell Script
4 13 (18.06%) Java
5 10 (13.89%) Scala
6 5 (6.94%) C#
7 4 (5.56%) Go
8 3 (4.17%) C
9 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) DV Cleared
1 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 12 (16.67%) Degree
3 6 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 24 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (34.72%) Kubernetes
2 20 (27.78%) Terraform
3 17 (23.61%) Ansible
3 17 (23.61%) Grafana
3 17 (23.61%) HAProxy
3 17 (23.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Google
2 5 (6.94%) Databricks
2 5 (6.94%) Oracle
3 4 (5.56%) Teradata
4 1 (1.39%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.39%) Informatica