Data Engineer Jobs in Reading

Data Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Data Engineer salary in Reading is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 105 105
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 -42
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 10 27 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.59% 1.67% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 1.79% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10 21 23
10th Percentile £31,250 £50,000 £60,500
25th Percentile £37,813 £55,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £81,625 £91,250 £87,000
Berkshire median annual salary £32,500 £69,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -53.24% -7.33% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,613 1,511 1,726
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 93.68% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,025 803 1,026
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,125 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 £82,500
Berkshire median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Reading

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Reading

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 Reading region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 5 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Databricks
4 4 (40.00%) Data Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (40.00%) Legal
4 4 (40.00%) Power BI
5 3 (30.00%) Structured Cabling
5 3 (30.00%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
5 3 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
7 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 1 (10.00%) Microservices
7 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
7 1 (10.00%) GCP
7 1 (10.00%) GitLab
7 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
7 1 (10.00%) Software Delivery
7 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
7 1 (10.00%) Ansible
7 1 (10.00%) Terraform
7 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (40.00%) Legal
2 3 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Data Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (10.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) ETL
5 1 (10.00%) High Availability
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (10.00%) Microservices
5 1 (10.00%) MLOps
5 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Ansible
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) Databricks