Data Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Data Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Data Engineer salary in Bristol is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 78 132
Rank change year-on-year -14 +54 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 77 109 65
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.48% 4.10% 1.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.56% 4.43% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 70 78 47
10th Percentile £32,400 £42,750 £33,515
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,263 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.56% +17.39% +27.67%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,715 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,625 £96,250
South West median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 3,009 2,463 3,234
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 92.70% 97.88%
Number of salaries quoted 2,254 1,548 2,211
10th Percentile £33,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,905 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% +9.02% +14.22%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,776 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,125 £87,500 £85,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Bristol

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Bristol

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Bristol

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Bristol

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 Bristol region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (66.23%) Python
2 45 (58.44%) Data Engineering
3 40 (51.95%) SQL
4 28 (36.36%) DevOps
4 28 (36.36%) Apache Spark
5 27 (35.06%) Kubernetes
5 27 (35.06%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (33.77%) Big Data
7 25 (32.47%) Hadoop
7 25 (32.47%) Docker
8 23 (29.87%) Amazon S3
8 23 (29.87%) CI/CD
9 21 (27.27%) Containerisation
9 21 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (27.27%) Terraform
9 21 (27.27%) Jenkins
9 21 (27.27%) DV Cleared
9 21 (27.27%) Security Cleared
10 20 (25.97%) Agile
10 20 (25.97%) Azure
11 19 (24.68%) GCP
11 19 (24.68%) Mentoring
11 19 (24.68%) Apache
11 19 (24.68%) Apache NiFi
11 19 (24.68%) Data Science
12 18 (23.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 18 (23.38%) Thought Leadership
12 18 (23.38%) Observability
12 18 (23.38%) MinIO
12 18 (23.38%) Grafana

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 28 (36.36%) Apache Spark
2 19 (24.68%) Apache
3 18 (23.38%) Jupyter
3 18 (23.38%) nginx
4 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.30%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 23 (29.87%) Amazon S3
2 20 (25.97%) Azure
3 19 (24.68%) GCP
4 18 (23.38%) MinIO
4 18 (23.38%) OpenShift
5 17 (22.08%) AWS
6 13 (16.88%) Power Platform
7 7 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (6.49%) Serverless
9 4 (5.19%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (2.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.30%) Google Analytics
12 1 (1.30%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (33.77%) Big Data
2 25 (32.47%) Hadoop
3 18 (23.38%) Presto
4 17 (22.08%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (16.88%) Power BI
6 11 (14.29%) BigQuery
6 11 (14.29%) Data Lake
7 6 (7.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
9 4 (5.19%) Data Mining
9 4 (5.19%) Flink
9 4 (5.19%) Looker
9 4 (5.19%) Relational Database
9 4 (5.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (5.19%) Star Schema
10 3 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (3.90%) OLAP
10 3 (3.90%) OLAP Cube
11 2 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (2.60%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 18 (23.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (5.19%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (1.30%) Git
General
1 16 (20.78%) Finance
2 11 (14.29%) Banking
3 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.90%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.30%) Aviation
7 1 (1.30%) Legal
7 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (24.68%) Apache NiFi
2 18 (23.38%) ActiveMQ
2 18 (23.38%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (23.38%) RabbitMQ
2 18 (23.38%) YAML
3 9 (11.69%) Kafka
4 4 (5.19%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.30%) JSON
5 1 (1.30%) Pandas
5 1 (1.30%) PySpark
5 1 (1.30%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.30%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (6.49%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.19%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.90%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.90%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) IoT
6 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.30%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.30%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 18 (23.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (58.44%) Data Engineering
2 28 (36.36%) DevOps
3 27 (35.06%) Data Pipeline
4 23 (29.87%) CI/CD
5 21 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 21 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (25.97%) Agile
7 19 (24.68%) Data Science
7 19 (24.68%) Mentoring
8 18 (23.38%) Observability
8 18 (23.38%) Requirements Engineering
8 18 (23.38%) Service Delivery
8 18 (23.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 18 (23.38%) Thought Leadership
9 15 (19.48%) Analytics
10 13 (16.88%) ETL
11 12 (15.58%) Computer Science
11 12 (15.58%) Machine Learning
12 10 (12.99%) Data Modelling
12 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 51 (66.23%) Python
2 40 (51.95%) SQL
3 18 (23.38%) Bash
3 18 (23.38%) Shell Script
4 14 (18.18%) Java
5 10 (12.99%) Scala
6 5 (6.49%) C#
7 4 (5.19%) Go
8 3 (3.90%) C
9 2 (2.60%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (27.27%) DV Cleared
1 21 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.58%) Degree
3 6 (7.79%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (32.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 27 (35.06%) Kubernetes
2 21 (27.27%) Terraform
3 18 (23.38%) Ansible
3 18 (23.38%) Grafana
3 18 (23.38%) HAProxy
3 18 (23.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Google
2 5 (6.49%) Databricks
2 5 (6.49%) Oracle
3 4 (5.19%) Teradata
4 1 (1.30%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.30%) Informatica