Data Engineer Jobs in Cambridge

Data Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Data Engineer salary in Cambridge is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 93 98
Rank change year-on-year +26 +5 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 15 2 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.52% 0.19% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 0.23% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile £29,000 - £60,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £80,313 £67,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £81,250 - £76,250
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% -3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 954 884 1,503
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.95% 85.66% 93.24%
Number of salaries quoted 735 416 594
10th Percentile £31,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £89,375 £85,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Cambridge

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Cambridge

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Cambridge over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Cambridge

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 Cambridge region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 11 (73.33%) Python
2 11 (73.33%) ETL
3 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 9 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (33.33%) GDPR
5 5 (33.33%) Serverless
5 5 (33.33%) Data Science
5 5 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (26.67%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (26.67%) Agriculture
6 4 (26.67%) Onboarding
6 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
6 4 (26.67%) GCP
6 4 (26.67%) Docker
6 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
6 4 (26.67%) Big Data
6 4 (26.67%) Games
6 4 (26.67%) Client/Server
6 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (26.67%) Degree
6 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
7 3 (20.00%) Life Science

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 2 (13.33%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (13.33%) Google Workspace
6 1 (6.67%) Azure
6 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Big Data
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
2 3 (20.00%) Looker
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (13.33%) Apache Hive
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) Delta Lake
3 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
3 2 (13.33%) Metadata
3 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.67%) Power BI
4 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
General
1 4 (26.67%) Agriculture
1 4 (26.67%) Games
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (20.00%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (26.67%) Client/Server
2 4 (26.67%) Onboarding
3 3 (20.00%) Genomics
3 3 (20.00%) Life Science
4 2 (13.33%) Algorithms
4 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) ETL
2 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 9 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Data Science
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
6 3 (20.00%) Bioinformatics
6 3 (20.00%) Change Management
6 3 (20.00%) DataOps
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (13.33%) DAMA
7 2 (13.33%) DAMA DMBOK
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) R
3 2 (13.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (6.67%) Databricks