Data Engineer Jobs in Cambridgeshire

Data Engineer
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Cambridgeshire is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 100 124
Rank change year-on-year +17 +24 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 16 23 33
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.04% 1.49% 1.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.71% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile £29,000 - £60,750
25th Percentile £53,125 £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 £79,375 £67,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £81,250 - £76,250
East of England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -10.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,439 1,342 2,255
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 87.14% 93.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1,112 638 984
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,775 £28,575
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £54,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +35 15 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Peterborough +6 1 £47,500 -
Data Engineer
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 19 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 Cambridgeshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (75.00%) Python
1 12 (75.00%) ETL
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
2 10 (62.50%) SQL
3 9 (56.25%) Data Engineering
3 9 (56.25%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (37.50%) Data Science
4 6 (37.50%) Agile
5 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (31.25%) Serverless
5 5 (31.25%) GDPR
5 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
5 5 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) Agriculture
6 4 (25.00%) Onboarding
6 4 (25.00%) Docker
6 4 (25.00%) GCP
6 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
6 4 (25.00%) Big Data
6 4 (25.00%) Games
6 4 (25.00%) Client/Server
6 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 4 (25.00%) Degree
6 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (18.75%) Life Science

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (31.25%) Serverless
3 4 (25.00%) GCP
4 3 (18.75%) Amazon Cognito
4 3 (18.75%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 2 (12.50%) Azure
5 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
5 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Big Data
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (18.75%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (18.75%) BigQuery
2 3 (18.75%) DynamoDB
2 3 (18.75%) Looker
3 2 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (12.50%) Apache Hive
3 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (12.50%) Delta Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 2 (12.50%) Metadata
3 2 (12.50%) Power BI
3 2 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Agriculture
2 4 (25.00%) Games
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
5 1 (6.25%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) GraphQL
1 3 (18.75%) RESTful
2 2 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 4 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 3 (18.75%) Genomics
3 3 (18.75%) Life Science
4 2 (12.50%) Algorithms
4 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) ETL
2 9 (56.25%) Data Engineering
2 9 (56.25%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Data Science
4 5 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
5 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Bioinformatics
6 3 (18.75%) Change Management
6 3 (18.75%) DataOps
6 3 (18.75%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
6 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Data Privacy
7 2 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 10 (62.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) R
3 2 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 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 3 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft