Data Engineer Jobs in Kent

Data Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Data Engineer salary in Kent is £30,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 101 111
Rank change year-on-year +12 +10 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 11 5 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.74% 0.43% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.51% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile - £51,500 -
25th Percentile £27,500 £51,875 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -45.45% - -
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 -
90th Percentile £63,150 - -
South East median annual salary £49,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.33% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 1,373 990 1,215
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.90% 85.49% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,023 552 722
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,050 £26,275
25th Percentile £30,625 £33,500 £33,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +3.33% +12.50%
75th Percentile £58,750 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Kent

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Kent

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Kent over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Kent

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Kent region over the 6 months to 25 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
Aylesford - 3 £30,000 -
Canterbury - 3 - -
Maidstone - 3 - - 1
Chatham - 2 £61,750 -
Data Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 Kent region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (81.82%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (63.64%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (63.64%) Data Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Looker
3 6 (54.55%) GDPR
3 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
3 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (54.55%) BigQuery
3 6 (54.55%) GCP
3 6 (54.55%) Change Management
3 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) Google
3 6 (54.55%) DataOps
3 6 (54.55%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (54.55%) Data Science
4 3 (27.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (27.27%) CCTV
4 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
4 3 (27.27%) Structured Cabling
4 3 (27.27%) Line Management
5 2 (18.18%) Databricks
5 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) ETL Development
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 2 (18.18%) ETL

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) GCP
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) BigQuery
1 6 (54.55%) Looker
2 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (27.27%) CCTV
2 3 (27.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Data Engineering
1 7 (63.64%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Change Management
2 6 (54.55%) Data Science
2 6 (54.55%) DataOps
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) Mentoring
2 6 (54.55%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Line Management
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) ETL Development
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Data Design
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
1 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Google
2 2 (18.18%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft