Data Engineer Jobs in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer salary in the South West is £67,500 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 149 117 155
Rank change year-on-year -32 +38 +36
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 154 176 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.68% 2.50% 2.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 2.80% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 111 109 109
10th Percentile £30,385 £42,400 £38,782
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +31.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,715 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 8,793 6,284 7,625
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.13% 89.31% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,444 3,903 5,084
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the South West 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
Bristol -18 77 £70,576 +4.56% 9
Somerset +6 21 £30,385 -49.36% 1
Gloucestershire -26 21 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Dorset 0 16 £67,500 +35.00%
Wiltshire -4 13 £67,500 +8.00%
Devon -7 6 £24,000 -61.60% 4
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

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 South West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (46.10%) Data Engineering
2 63 (40.91%) Python
3 62 (40.26%) SQL
4 61 (39.61%) Data Pipeline
5 52 (33.77%) Agile
6 51 (33.12%) DevOps
7 47 (30.52%) GCP
8 40 (25.97%) Mentoring
9 39 (25.32%) Google
9 39 (25.32%) Data Warehouse
10 37 (24.03%) BigQuery
11 36 (23.38%) Data Science
12 35 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
13 34 (22.08%) ETL
14 33 (21.43%) Big Data
15 32 (20.78%) Azure
16 31 (20.13%) Security Cleared
16 31 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (19.48%) CI/CD
17 30 (19.48%) Looker
18 28 (18.18%) Kubernetes
18 28 (18.18%) Analytics
18 28 (18.18%) Finance
19 26 (16.88%) Business Intelligence
19 26 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
19 26 (16.88%) Apache Spark
19 26 (16.88%) Docker
20 25 (16.23%) Self-Motivation
20 25 (16.23%) AWS
21 24 (15.58%) Hadoop

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 26 (16.88%) Apache Spark
2 23 (14.94%) Apache
3 17 (11.04%) Jupyter
3 17 (11.04%) nginx
4 6 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.65%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 47 (30.52%) GCP
2 32 (20.78%) Azure
3 25 (16.23%) AWS
4 23 (14.94%) Power Platform
5 22 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 17 (11.04%) MinIO
6 17 (11.04%) OpenShift
7 15 (9.74%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (5.84%) Snowflake
9 8 (5.19%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (3.25%) dbt
10 5 (3.25%) Fivetran
10 5 (3.25%) GitHub
10 5 (3.25%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.25%) Google Data Studio
10 5 (3.25%) Stitch
11 4 (2.60%) Azure Pipelines
11 4 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.60%) Serverless
12 3 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.49%) Wireless
2 2 (1.30%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (25.32%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (24.03%) BigQuery
3 33 (21.43%) Big Data
4 30 (19.48%) Looker
5 24 (15.58%) Hadoop
6 23 (14.94%) Data Lake
6 23 (14.94%) Power BI
7 17 (11.04%) Presto
8 16 (10.39%) SQL Server
8 16 (10.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (5.84%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (5.19%) MySQL
11 7 (4.55%) Relational Database
11 7 (4.55%) Tableau
12 5 (3.25%) Airbyte
12 5 (3.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (3.25%) Redshift Spectrum
13 4 (2.60%) Flink
13 4 (2.60%) Metadata
13 4 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (12.99%) Jenkins
2 17 (11.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (3.90%) Git
3 6 (3.90%) RStudio
4 5 (3.25%) GitLab
5 4 (2.60%) Oracle Forms
General
1 28 (18.18%) Finance
2 26 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.39%) Social Skills
4 13 (8.44%) Banking
5 11 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 10 (6.49%) Aerospace
7 8 (5.19%) Retail
8 6 (3.90%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.95%) Aviation
9 3 (1.95%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.30%) Advertising
10 2 (1.30%) Aeronautics
10 2 (1.30%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.69%) Apache NiFi
2 17 (11.04%) ActiveMQ
2 17 (11.04%) Elastic Stack
2 17 (11.04%) RabbitMQ
2 17 (11.04%) YAML
3 11 (7.14%) Kafka
4 5 (3.25%) REST
5 4 (2.60%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.65%) JSON
6 1 (0.65%) Pandas
6 1 (0.65%) PySpark
6 1 (0.65%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.65%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.23%) Self-Motivation
2 17 (11.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.84%) Driving Licence
4 7 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.90%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.25%) Replication
7 4 (2.60%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.95%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.95%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.30%) IoT
9 2 (1.30%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.65%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.65%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.65%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 23 (14.94%) Linux
2 6 (3.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (46.10%) Data Engineering
2 61 (39.61%) Data Pipeline
3 52 (33.77%) Agile
4 51 (33.12%) DevOps
5 40 (25.97%) Mentoring
6 36 (23.38%) Data Science
7 35 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
8 34 (22.08%) ETL
9 31 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (19.48%) CI/CD
11 28 (18.18%) Analytics
12 26 (16.88%) Business Intelligence
13 21 (13.64%) Change Management
13 21 (13.64%) DataOps
14 20 (12.99%) Containerisation
14 20 (12.99%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (12.34%) Machine Learning
16 17 (11.04%) Observability
16 17 (11.04%) Requirements Engineering
16 17 (11.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 63 (40.91%) Python
2 62 (40.26%) SQL
3 18 (11.69%) Java
4 17 (11.04%) Bash
4 17 (11.04%) Shell Script
5 12 (7.79%) Scala
6 6 (3.90%) R
7 5 (3.25%) C#
8 4 (2.60%) Go
8 4 (2.60%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.95%) C
10 2 (1.30%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (20.13%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.94%) DV Cleared
3 14 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.79%) Degree
5 6 (3.90%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.30%) HNC
7 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.64%) GDPR
2 16 (10.39%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.95%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (16.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 20 (12.99%) Terraform
3 17 (11.04%) Ansible
3 17 (11.04%) Grafana
3 17 (11.04%) HAProxy
3 17 (11.04%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (25.32%) Google
2 13 (8.44%) Databricks
3 8 (5.19%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.90%) Alteryx
5 5 (3.25%) Oracle
6 4 (2.60%) Teradata
7 2 (1.30%) Twitter
8 1 (0.65%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.65%) Informatica