Data Engineer Job Trends in Cheltenham

Data Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Data Engineer salary in Cheltenham is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 5 0 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 0.94% - 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% - 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - -
75th Percentile £82,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £70,000 - £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. 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 Cheltenham with a recognized job title 491 87 362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 96.67% 97.31%
Number of salaries quoted 342 54 295
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,925 £29,100
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -7.95%
75th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Cheltenham.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Cheltenham

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 16 May 2026, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Cheltenham region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Vision
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Docker
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Graph Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Time Series Analysis

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Cost Reduction
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Vision
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Science
3 1 (20.00%) Deep Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (20.00%) Graph Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Time Series Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks