Data Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Data Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Data Engineer salary in Bristol is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 84 73
Rank change year-on-year +2 -11 +53
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 19 76 109
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 1.51% 2.45% 4.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 2.53% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 13 69 78
10th Percentile £48,034 £32,300 £42,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £56,052
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,576 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% +4.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £102,410 £82,500 £77,715
90th Percentile - £87,500 £87,500
South West median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £65,956
% change year-on-year -15.38% -1.45% +38.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 1,197 3,009 2,455
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 97.03% 92.75%
Number of salaries quoted 814 2,250 1,538
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,471 £57,500 £57,905
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -0.70% +9.02%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £74,151
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

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 4 May 2025.

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 4 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 Bristol region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (73.68%) Data Engineering
2 13 (68.42%) SQL
2 13 (68.42%) Data Modelling
2 13 (68.42%) Azure
3 12 (63.16%) DevOps
4 11 (57.89%) Power Platform
4 11 (57.89%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (57.89%) Finance
5 10 (52.63%) Power BI
6 9 (47.37%) AWS
6 9 (47.37%) Visualisation
6 9 (47.37%) Tableau
7 8 (42.11%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
9 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
9 6 (31.58%) ETL
9 6 (31.58%) Data Security
9 6 (31.58%) Banking
9 6 (31.58%) Analytics
10 5 (26.32%) Big Data
10 5 (26.32%) BigQuery
10 5 (26.32%) GCP
10 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
10 5 (26.32%) Data Visualisation
10 5 (26.32%) Data Validation
10 5 (26.32%) Validation
10 5 (26.32%) Google
10 5 (26.32%) Coaching

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 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (68.42%) Azure
2 11 (57.89%) Power Platform
3 9 (47.37%) AWS
4 6 (31.58%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (26.32%) GCP
6 4 (21.05%) Snowflake
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (5.26%) Boomi
7 1 (5.26%) Matillion
7 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (52.63%) Power BI
2 9 (47.37%) Tableau
3 8 (42.11%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (26.32%) Big Data
4 5 (26.32%) BigQuery
4 5 (26.32%) Data Hub
4 5 (26.32%) Looker
5 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
7 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
7 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
7 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
7 1 (5.26%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (5.26%) RDBMS
7 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Forms
General
1 11 (57.89%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Marketing
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) .NET
1 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.26%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Data Engineering
2 13 (68.42%) Data Modelling
3 12 (63.16%) DevOps
4 11 (57.89%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (47.37%) Visualisation
6 7 (36.84%) CI/CD
7 6 (31.58%) Analytics
7 6 (31.58%) Data Security
7 6 (31.58%) ETL
7 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
7 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (26.32%) Coaching
8 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
8 5 (26.32%) Data Validation
8 5 (26.32%) Data Visualisation
8 5 (26.32%) Validation
9 4 (21.05%) Agile
9 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (15.79%) Software Engineering
11 2 (10.53%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) T-SQL
3 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) GDPR
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Google
2 3 (15.79%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.26%) SnapLogic
3 1 (5.26%) UiPath