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 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 180 167
Rank change year-on-year +24 -13 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 91 84 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.32% 1.43% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 1.59% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 36 41 79
10th Percentile £28,925 £48,500 £48,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £55,000 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +9.80% -8.93%
75th Percentile £74,063 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,250 £83,000
South East median annual salary £49,000 £62,500 £63,750
% change year-on-year -21.60% -1.96% +6.25%

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 6,513 5,282 6,857
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 89.81% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 4,501 3,121 4,099
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £38,750 £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 £77,750 £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 26 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 26 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 0 45 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Oxfordshire +17 25 £60,000 -3.42% 4
Berkshire -4 21 £39,450 -43.64% 7
Data Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 59 (64.84%) Data Engineering
2 53 (58.24%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (52.75%) Data Science
4 47 (51.65%) Data Modelling
5 45 (49.45%) Mentoring
6 40 (43.96%) Analytics
7 39 (42.86%) Data Quality
8 33 (36.26%) Coaching
8 33 (36.26%) Degree
9 32 (35.16%) Cybersecurity
9 32 (35.16%) Red Team
9 32 (35.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 23 (25.27%) Social Skills
11 21 (23.08%) Python
11 21 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
12 16 (17.58%) Azure
13 14 (15.38%) Agile
13 14 (15.38%) Data Lake
13 14 (15.38%) BigQuery
13 14 (15.38%) GCP
14 13 (14.29%) Google
14 13 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (13.19%) SQL
15 12 (13.19%) DevOps
15 12 (13.19%) Looker
16 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
16 11 (12.09%) Business Intelligence
16 11 (12.09%) Data Warehouse
17 10 (10.99%) ETL

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 4 (4.40%) 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%) AWS
3 8 (8.79%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.59%) 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%) Azure DevOps
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 14 (15.38%) BigQuery
1 14 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 12 (13.19%) Looker
3 11 (12.09%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (8.79%) Power BI
5 3 (3.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (3.30%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.20%) Apache Hive
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%) Big Data
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 23 (25.27%) 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 3 (3.30%) 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
3 6 (6.59%) IoT
4 2 (2.20%) CCTV
4 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.20%) Linux
2 1 (1.10%) Windows
2 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (64.84%) Data Engineering
2 53 (58.24%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (52.75%) Data Science
4 47 (51.65%) Data Modelling
5 45 (49.45%) Mentoring
6 40 (43.96%) Analytics
7 33 (36.26%) Coaching
8 32 (35.16%) Cybersecurity
8 32 (35.16%) Red Team
9 21 (23.08%) Data Pipeline
10 14 (15.38%) Agile
11 13 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (13.19%) DevOps
13 11 (12.09%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (10.99%) ETL
15 9 (9.89%) Change Management
15 9 (9.89%) DataOps
16 6 (6.59%) Customer Service
16 6 (6.59%) Data Governance
16 6 (6.59%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.08%) Python
2 12 (13.19%) 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 9 (9.89%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.69%) Databricks
4 4 (4.40%) SAP
4 4 (4.40%) Talend
5 3 (3.30%) Cloudera
6 2 (2.20%) Informatica