Data Engineering Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 177 217
Rank change year-on-year +44 +40 -25
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 117 90 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.74% 1.47% 0.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.55% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 25 35 20
10th Percentile £43,500 - £52,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.48% -13.55%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,250 £77,750
South East median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% -3.45% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,732 5,801 6,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.12% 94.68% 92.88%
Number of salaries quoted 4,012 3,152 3,917
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +28 62 £90,000 +28.57% 5
Oxfordshire +43 45 £45,000 -21.74% 5
Berkshire -12 10 £70,000 - 5
Data Engineering
South East

Data Engineering
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 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 58 (49.57%) Azure
2 57 (48.72%) GCP
3 49 (41.88%) AWS
4 24 (20.51%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (10.26%) Power Platform
6 11 (9.40%) Snowflake
7 5 (4.27%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.27%) Serverless
8 4 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.85%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.85%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.85%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (0.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (50.43%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (46.15%) BigQuery
3 52 (44.44%) Looker
4 14 (11.97%) Data Lake
5 12 (10.26%) Power BI
6 4 (3.42%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (2.56%) Big Data
7 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.71%) Impala
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.85%) MySQL
9 1 (0.85%) Parquet
9 1 (0.85%) PowerCenter
9 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.56%) ERwin
2 1 (0.85%) GitLab
General
1 56 (47.86%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (27.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 24 (20.51%) Billing
4 18 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 5 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.42%) Legal
7 2 (1.71%) Banking
7 2 (1.71%) Finance
8 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (51.28%) Data Engineer
2 32 (27.35%) Data Manager
2 32 (27.35%) Engineering Manager
3 23 (19.66%) Security Engineer
4 18 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 17 (14.53%) Architect
5 17 (14.53%) Data Architect
6 12 (10.26%) Principal Data Engineer
6 12 (10.26%) Principal Engineer
7 9 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Research Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Lead
9 6 (5.13%) Lead Data Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Azure Data Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (3.42%) Head of Engineering
11 3 (2.56%) AWS Data Engineer
11 3 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
11 3 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Manager
11 3 (2.56%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.71%) Kafka
1 2 (1.71%) XML
2 1 (0.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.93%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (21.37%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.56%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.85%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Linux
1 1 (0.85%) Unix
1 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (76.92%) Data Modelling
2 87 (74.36%) Problem-Solving
3 65 (55.56%) Mentoring
4 56 (47.86%) Platform Engineering
5 52 (44.44%) ETL
6 51 (43.59%) Analytics
7 49 (41.88%) Data Science
8 41 (35.04%) Agile
9 39 (33.33%) DevOps
10 35 (29.91%) Coaching
11 32 (27.35%) Cybersecurity
11 32 (27.35%) Red Team
12 31 (26.50%) Scrum
13 29 (24.79%) Data Pipeline
14 25 (21.37%) CI/CD
15 24 (20.51%) Backlog Management
15 24 (20.51%) Business Strategy
15 24 (20.51%) Line Management
15 24 (20.51%) Product Backlog
15 24 (20.51%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.09%) Python
2 15 (12.82%) SQL
3 6 (5.13%) Java
3 6 (5.13%) Scala
4 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 38 (32.48%) Degree
2 6 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 6 (5.13%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.56%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (2.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (48.72%) Data Quality
2 26 (22.22%) GDPR
3 24 (20.51%) QA
4 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.85%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (0.85%) Ansible
1 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (47.01%) Google
2 8 (6.84%) Databricks
3 7 (5.98%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.27%) SAP
4 5 (4.27%) Talend
5 3 (2.56%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.85%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.85%) IBM
6 1 (0.85%) Informatica