Data Engineering Jobs in South Wales

Data Engineering
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 72 99
Rank change year-on-year -13 +27 -27
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 17 30 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 1.16% 2.64% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 2.75% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 13 20 11
10th Percentile £41,708 £41,425 £34,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,162 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £44,666 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +118.29% -10.67% +51.52%
75th Percentile £130,000 £67,500 £67,000
90th Percentile - £71,875 £95,000
Wales median annual salary £97,500 £44,666 £50,000
% change year-on-year +118.29% -10.67% +51.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,156 1,091 1,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 78.91% 95.87% 93.31%
Number of salaries quoted 747 569 870
10th Percentile £28,290 £28,500 £31,475
25th Percentile £35,700 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -8.16% +8.89%
75th Percentile £61,823 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.20%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in South Wales

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in South Wales

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in South Wales over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in South Wales

Data Engineering
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 7 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
Cardiff +3 16 £97,500 +118.29% 4
Newport +3 1 £46,060 -25.11%
Data Engineering
Wales

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
1 5 (29.41%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) dbt
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) BigQuery
1 3 (17.65%) Looker
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
General
1 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Data Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Principal Data Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DataOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Mobile Payment
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Data Governance
1 9 (52.94%) Data Science
2 8 (47.06%) Decision-Making
2 8 (47.06%) MLOps
3 7 (41.18%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (35.29%) Data Architecture
4 6 (35.29%) DevOps
5 5 (29.41%) Agile
5 5 (29.41%) DataOps
5 5 (29.41%) Predictive Modelling
6 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (23.53%) Data Strategy
6 4 (23.53%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 4 (23.53%) ETL
6 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 4 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (23.53%) Robotic Process Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Change Management
7 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) Bash
2 1 (5.88%) Perl
2 1 (5.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Google
2 1 (5.88%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft