Data Engineering Jobs in the South East

Data Engineering
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 208 241 260
Rank change year-on-year +33 +19 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 203 176 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.22% 1.18% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.25% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 73 88 111
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,125 £48,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £52,892
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -3.45% +20.83%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £87,000 £85,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £76,383 £77,500
% change year-on-year -8.36% -1.44% +14.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,155 14,128 18,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.77% 94.49% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,933 8,194 12,068
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,704
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Thames Valley +45 116 £68,750 -1.79% 14
Buckinghamshire +32 61 £87,500 +25.00% 5
Oxfordshire +42 45 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Surrey -5 28 £55,000 -8.33% 2
Kent +17 25 £67,500 +25.58% 5
Hampshire -33 16 £70,000 - 10
East Sussex +21 15 £61,500 +17.35% 1
Berkshire -17 10 £70,000 - 5
West Sussex +41 3 £67,500 +87.50% 1
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 112 (55.17%) Azure
2 89 (43.84%) GCP
3 76 (37.44%) AWS
4 46 (22.66%) Power Platform
5 26 (12.81%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (8.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (7.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (7.39%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.46%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.46%) Serverless
10 4 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.48%) dbt
12 2 (0.99%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
13 1 (0.49%) Amazon EMR
13 1 (0.49%) Azure Functions
13 1 (0.49%) Cloud Composer
13 1 (0.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.48%) VoIP
1 3 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (49.26%) Data Warehouse
2 85 (41.87%) BigQuery
3 83 (40.89%) Looker
4 46 (22.66%) Power BI
5 28 (13.79%) Data Lake
6 14 (6.90%) Tableau
7 13 (6.40%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 11 (5.42%) SQL Server
9 8 (3.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 7 (3.45%) Qlik Sense
10 7 (3.45%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.48%) Big Data
13 2 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.99%) Impala
13 2 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.49%) Data Vault
14 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Git
2 3 (1.48%) ERwin
2 3 (1.48%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.49%) GitLab
3 1 (0.49%) JIRA
General
1 109 (53.69%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (19.70%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (13.79%) Finance
5 24 (11.82%) Billing
6 11 (5.42%) Legal
7 7 (3.45%) Retail
8 6 (2.96%) Marketing
9 5 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.97%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.48%) Games
12 2 (0.99%) Banking
12 2 (0.99%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (43.84%) Data Engineer
2 42 (20.69%) Data Manager
2 42 (20.69%) Engineering Manager
3 33 (16.26%) Architect
3 33 (16.26%) Data Architect
4 27 (13.30%) Principal Data Engineer
4 27 (13.30%) Principal Engineer
5 24 (11.82%) Platform Engineer
6 23 (11.33%) Security Engineer
7 18 (8.87%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 13 (6.40%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 10 (4.93%) Senior
10 8 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (3.94%) Consultant
10 8 (3.94%) Data Consultant
10 8 (3.94%) Head of Engineering
10 8 (3.94%) Research Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) Lead
12 6 (2.96%) Developer
12 6 (2.96%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.48%) Great Expectations
2 2 (0.99%) XML
3 1 (0.49%) JSON
3 1 (0.49%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 59 (29.06%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (12.32%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.96%) Taxonomies
4 4 (1.97%) Pricing Data
5 3 (1.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.48%) Handset
5 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.49%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.99%) Linux
2 1 (0.49%) Unix
2 1 (0.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (60.59%) Problem-Solving
2 117 (57.64%) Data Modelling
3 108 (53.20%) Mentoring
4 100 (49.26%) ETL
5 97 (47.78%) Platform Engineering
6 81 (39.90%) Analytics
7 70 (34.48%) Agile
7 70 (34.48%) Data Science
8 60 (29.56%) Data Pipeline
9 58 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
10 57 (28.08%) DevOps
11 51 (25.12%) Coaching
12 45 (22.17%) Data Governance
13 41 (20.20%) Data Architecture
13 41 (20.20%) Data Integration
13 41 (20.20%) Scrum
14 32 (15.76%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (15.76%) Data Security
14 32 (15.76%) ERD
14 32 (15.76%) Innovative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 61 (30.05%) SQL
2 44 (21.67%) Python
3 13 (6.40%) Java
4 7 (3.45%) C#
4 7 (3.45%) Go
4 7 (3.45%) PowerShell
4 7 (3.45%) Ruby
4 7 (3.45%) Scala
4 7 (3.45%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 51 (25.12%) Degree
2 13 (6.40%) DBS Check
3 12 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.91%) Master's Degree
4 7 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 7 (3.45%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.96%) MBA
5 6 (2.96%) PhD
6 3 (1.48%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (40.39%) Data Quality
2 63 (31.03%) GDPR
3 31 (15.27%) QA
4 6 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.99%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.49%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (0.99%) Ansible
1 2 (0.99%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 86 (42.36%) Google
2 33 (16.26%) Microsoft
3 20 (9.85%) Databricks
4 5 (2.46%) SAP
4 5 (2.46%) Talend
5 3 (1.48%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.49%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.49%) IBM
6 1 (0.49%) Informatica