Data Engineer Jobs in Brighton

Data Engineer
East Sussex > Brighton

The median Data Engineer salary in Brighton is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 August 2025.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 53 61
Rank change year-on-year +28 +8 +29
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 2 5 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Brighton 1.21% 1.17% 1.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 1.20% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £53,850 £46,250
25th Percentile £77,500 £57,375 £51,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £66,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.30% +10.83% -5.75%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,375 £76,250
90th Percentile - £81,950 £83,750
East Sussex median annual salary £60,000 £66,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.77% +10.83% +4.68%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Brighton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Brighton. 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 Brighton with a recognized job title 161 416 570
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.58% 96.97% 90.19%
Number of salaries quoted 112 370 491
10th Percentile £37,750 £29,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,500 £77,500
East Sussex median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Brighton

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Brighton

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Brighton

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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 Brighton region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Looker
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (50.00%) Fivetran
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brighton 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 Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Fivetran
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Looker
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks