Data Engineer Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Data Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 181 167
Rank change year-on-year +26 -14 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 91 86 114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.35% 1.40% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.43% 1.56% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 34 45 77
10th Percentile £28,255 £47,000 £49,300
25th Percentile £29,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.80% -8.93%
75th Percentile £74,688 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £90,750 £83,500
South East median annual salary £48,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -23.20% - +4.17%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 6,377 5,507 6,676
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 89.88% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 4,541 3,214 4,169
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £81,250
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 the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the Thames Valley

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the Thames Valley

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the Thames Valley

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Buckinghamshire +5 45 £67,500 -3.57% 3
Oxfordshire +26 27 £60,000 +4.35% 3
Berkshire +6 19 £32,500 -53.24% 9
Data Engineer
South East

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 2 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 Thames Valley region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 60 (65.93%) Data Engineering
2 54 (59.34%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (53.85%) Data Science
4 48 (52.75%) Data Modelling
5 45 (49.45%) Mentoring
6 40 (43.96%) Analytics
7 39 (42.86%) Data Quality
8 33 (36.26%) Degree
9 32 (35.16%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (35.16%) Coaching
9 32 (35.16%) Red Team
9 32 (35.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
11 23 (25.27%) Data Pipeline
12 21 (23.08%) Python
13 16 (17.58%) Azure
14 15 (16.48%) Data Lake
15 14 (15.38%) BigQuery
15 14 (15.38%) GCP
15 14 (15.38%) Agile
16 13 (14.29%) Google
16 13 (14.29%) DevOps
16 13 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
16 13 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
17 12 (13.19%) Looker
17 12 (13.19%) Data Warehouse
18 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
19 10 (10.99%) ETL
19 10 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
19 10 (10.99%) SQL

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (3.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.10%) Apache
2 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.10%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.58%) Azure
2 14 (15.38%) GCP
3 8 (8.79%) Power Platform
4 7 (7.69%) AWS
4 7 (7.69%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.10%) Akamai
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.10%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (1.10%) GitHub
7 1 (1.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) LAN
1 4 (4.40%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (3.30%) WAN
2 3 (3.30%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.48%) Data Lake
2 14 (15.38%) BigQuery
3 12 (13.19%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (13.19%) Looker
4 8 (8.79%) Power BI
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.20%) Apache Hive
6 2 (2.20%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.20%) Impala
6 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.10%) MySQL
7 1 (1.10%) PowerCenter
7 1 (1.10%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 1 (1.10%) ERwin
1 1 (1.10%) GitLab
General
1 32 (35.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 24 (26.37%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.69%) Games
5 5 (5.49%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.40%) Legal
6 4 (4.40%) Retail
7 3 (3.30%) Finance
7 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Advertising
8 1 (1.10%) Banking
8 1 (1.10%) Marketing
8 1 (1.10%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.20%) Kafka
2 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.10%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (7.69%) Fibre Optics
2 7 (7.69%) IoT
3 2 (2.20%) CCTV
3 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.10%) Linux
1 1 (1.10%) Windows
1 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.93%) Data Engineering
2 54 (59.34%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (53.85%) Data Science
4 48 (52.75%) Data Modelling
5 45 (49.45%) Mentoring
6 40 (43.96%) Analytics
7 32 (35.16%) Coaching
7 32 (35.16%) Cybersecurity
7 32 (35.16%) Red Team
8 23 (25.27%) Data Pipeline
9 14 (15.38%) Agile
10 13 (14.29%) DevOps
10 13 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
11 10 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (10.99%) ETL
12 9 (9.89%) Change Management
12 9 (9.89%) DataOps
13 7 (7.69%) Customer Service
14 6 (6.59%) Data Strategy
14 6 (6.59%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) Python
2 10 (10.99%) SQL
3 7 (7.69%) Java
3 7 (7.69%) Scala
4 1 (1.10%) Bash
4 1 (1.10%) Korn
4 1 (1.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (36.26%) Degree
2 2 (2.20%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.10%) ICAEW
3 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.10%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 9 (9.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) HDFS
2 1 (1.10%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (1.10%) Ansible
1 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) Google
2 8 (8.79%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) Databricks
4 5 (5.49%) SAP
4 5 (5.49%) Talend
5 3 (3.30%) Cloudera
6 2 (2.20%) Informatica