Data Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Data Engineer
England > East of England

The median Data Engineer salary in the East of England is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 190 140
Rank change year-on-year +40 -50 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 77 50 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.27% 0.90% 2.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 1.07% 2.33%
Number of salaries quoted 51 4 52
10th Percentile £29,000 £38,475 £39,650
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,063 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% -14.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,938 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £93,375 £74,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,100 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.28% +0.14% +12.51%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 5,680 4,663 5,977
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 84.35% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 4,332 2,314 2,883
10th Percentile £25,809 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £37,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the East of England

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the East of England.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the East of England

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the East of England

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 27 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
Norfolk -11 21 £49,417 - 2
Cambridgeshire +11 16 £75,000 - 2
Essex +25 13 £45,000 - 3
Bedfordshire +45 11 £60,000 +45.45% 6
Hertfordshire +17 9 £70,000 +12.00% 4
Suffolk -2 7 £24,000 -77.14%
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 27 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 East of England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (46.75%) Python
2 33 (42.86%) SQL
2 33 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (41.56%) AWS
4 31 (40.26%) Data Pipeline
5 30 (38.96%) Social Skills
5 30 (38.96%) Data Engineering
6 29 (37.66%) Data Science
7 27 (35.06%) ETL
8 24 (31.17%) Azure
8 24 (31.17%) GCP
9 22 (28.57%) Data Modelling
9 22 (28.57%) Google
10 21 (27.27%) Agile
11 20 (25.97%) Mentoring
12 19 (24.68%) DevOps
13 16 (20.78%) Data Analysis
13 16 (20.78%) Business Intelligence
14 15 (19.48%) GDPR
15 14 (18.18%) Power BI
15 14 (18.18%) BigQuery
15 14 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (18.18%) Power Platform
15 14 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
16 13 (16.88%) Change Management
16 13 (16.88%) Degree
16 13 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
17 12 (15.58%) Analytics
17 12 (15.58%) Looker
17 12 (15.58%) DataOps

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (9.09%) Apache
2 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.60%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (41.56%) AWS
2 24 (31.17%) Azure
2 24 (31.17%) GCP
3 14 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.39%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (9.09%) Amazon S3
6 6 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (7.79%) Serverless
7 4 (5.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (5.19%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.90%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (3.90%) AWS Fargate
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
9 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.60%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.30%) GitHub
10 1 (1.30%) SaaS
10 1 (1.30%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.30%) SMS
2 1 (1.30%) snoop
2 1 (1.30%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (18.18%) BigQuery
1 14 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 14 (18.18%) Power BI
2 12 (15.58%) Looker
3 11 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 8 (10.39%) Big Data
4 8 (10.39%) Data Lake
5 7 (9.09%) MySQL
6 6 (7.79%) Relational Database
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (5.19%) Data Mining
8 4 (5.19%) DynamoDB
8 4 (5.19%) GIS
8 4 (5.19%) NoSQL
8 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (5.19%) Spatial Data
8 4 (5.19%) Triplestore
9 3 (3.90%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Git
1 2 (2.60%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.60%) JIRA
1 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.30%) GitLab
General
1 30 (38.96%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Finance
3 5 (6.49%) Marketing
4 4 (5.19%) Agriculture
4 4 (5.19%) Electronics
4 4 (5.19%) Games
4 4 (5.19%) Local Government
4 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.19%) Retail
5 3 (3.90%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) RESTful
2 5 (6.49%) HTML
3 4 (5.19%) JSON
3 4 (5.19%) XML
4 3 (3.90%) GraphQL
4 3 (3.90%) Node.js
5 1 (1.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (11.69%) Algorithms
3 7 (9.09%) Data Structures
4 5 (6.49%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.19%) Client/Server
5 4 (5.19%) Clustering
5 4 (5.19%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (5.19%) Linked Data
5 4 (5.19%) Onboarding
5 4 (5.19%) Reference Data
6 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.90%) Genomics
6 3 (3.90%) Life Science
7 2 (2.60%) e-Learning
7 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.60%) Housing Association
8 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (40.26%) Data Pipeline
3 30 (38.96%) Data Engineering
4 29 (37.66%) Data Science
5 27 (35.06%) ETL
6 22 (28.57%) Data Modelling
7 21 (27.27%) Agile
8 20 (25.97%) Mentoring
9 19 (24.68%) DevOps
10 16 (20.78%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (20.78%) Data Analysis
11 13 (16.88%) Change Management
12 12 (15.58%) Analytics
12 12 (15.58%) DataOps
12 12 (15.58%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (14.29%) Visualisation
14 9 (11.69%) Computer Science
14 9 (11.69%) Containerisation
15 7 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 6 (7.79%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (46.75%) Python
2 33 (42.86%) SQL
3 6 (7.79%) Java
4 5 (6.49%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.49%) PHP
4 5 (6.49%) R
5 4 (5.19%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (5.19%) SPARQL
6 3 (3.90%) C
6 3 (3.90%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) Degree
2 7 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.49%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.90%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (19.48%) GDPR
2 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 9 (11.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (28.57%) Google
2 10 (12.99%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.79%) Databricks
4 2 (2.60%) SAP
5 1 (1.30%) Informatica
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle
5 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.30%) YouTube