Data Engineer Jobs in Bedfordshire

Data Engineer
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Bedfordshire is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 38 77
Rank change year-on-year -16 +39 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 2 11 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 0.36% 2.44% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 2.53% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 2
10th Percentile £48,500 - £37,325
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £38,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +45.45% -7.30%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £45,188
90th Percentile £76,500 - £46,575
East of England median annual salary £66,253 £56,250 £62,500
% change year-on-year +17.78% -10.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bedfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bedfordshire. 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 Bedfordshire with a recognized job title 547 434 546
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.16% 96.44% 84.78%
Number of salaries quoted 99 330 278
10th Percentile £31,250 £26,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,625 £33,152 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £49,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% -13.91% +15.00%
75th Percentile £61,875 £63,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,750 £85,000 £84,125
East of England median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.64% +10.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Bedfordshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Bedfordshire.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Bedfordshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bedfordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Bedfordshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 May 2025. 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
Bedford +9 1 £80,000 +33.33% 30
Luton +4 1 £45,000 -25.00% 31
Data Engineer
East of England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, 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 Bedfordshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) PySpark
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Functions

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Composer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Workspace
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) Feature Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Google