Data Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Data Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Data Engineer salary in Bristol is £70,288 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 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
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 69 121
Rank change year-on-year -19 +52 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 72 107 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 2.28% 4.13% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.35% 4.46% 2.27%
Number of salaries quoted 68 77 57
10th Percentile £32,200 £42,750 £34,406
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,288 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% +8.00% +35.03%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,715 £86,250
90th Percentile - £86,250 £116,246
South West median annual salary £62,500 £67,500 £47,750
% change year-on-year -7.41% +41.36% -2.13%

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 3,063 2,400 3,302
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.11% 92.59% 97.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,297 1,498 2,200
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,871 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £57,810 £53,112
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +8.85% +13.24%
75th Percentile £70,250 £74,250 £73,675
90th Percentile £86,750 £87,419 £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 21 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 21 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 49 (68.06%) Python
2 41 (56.94%) Data Engineering
3 36 (50.00%) SQL
4 28 (38.89%) Apache Spark
5 27 (37.50%) Big Data
6 26 (36.11%) Kubernetes
6 26 (36.11%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (34.72%) Docker
7 25 (34.72%) DevOps
7 25 (34.72%) Hadoop
8 23 (31.94%) CI/CD
9 21 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (29.17%) Terraform
9 21 (29.17%) Data Science
9 21 (29.17%) Amazon S3
9 21 (29.17%) Agile
9 21 (29.17%) DV Cleared
9 21 (29.17%) Security Cleared
10 20 (27.78%) Apache
10 20 (27.78%) Jenkins
10 20 (27.78%) Containerisation
11 19 (26.39%) Apache NiFi
11 19 (26.39%) GCP
12 18 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (25.00%) Presto
12 18 (25.00%) OpenShift
12 18 (25.00%) HAProxy
12 18 (25.00%) Ansible
12 18 (25.00%) Requirements Engineering
12 18 (25.00%) Bash

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 (38.89%) Apache Spark
2 20 (27.78%) Apache
3 18 (25.00%) Jupyter
3 18 (25.00%) nginx
4 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.78%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.17%) Amazon S3
2 19 (26.39%) GCP
3 18 (25.00%) MinIO
3 18 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 17 (23.61%) Azure
5 15 (20.83%) AWS
6 11 (15.28%) Power Platform
7 5 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (6.94%) Snowflake
8 3 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.17%) Serverless
9 2 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.39%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (37.50%) Big Data
2 25 (34.72%) Hadoop
3 18 (25.00%) Presto
4 16 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (15.28%) Data Lake
5 11 (15.28%) Power BI
6 10 (13.89%) BigQuery
7 5 (6.94%) SQL Server
8 4 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (5.56%) Data Mining
8 4 (5.56%) Flink
8 4 (5.56%) Looker
8 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
9 3 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (4.17%) Star Schema
10 2 (2.78%) Bigtable
10 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.78%) OLAP
10 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 18 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 4 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (4.17%) Git
General
1 15 (20.83%) Finance
2 10 (13.89%) Banking
3 9 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.78%) Retail Banking
6 2 (2.78%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.39%) Apache NiFi
2 18 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 18 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 18 (25.00%) YAML
3 8 (11.11%) Kafka
4 4 (5.56%) Apache Beam
5 3 (4.17%) PySpark
6 2 (2.78%) Pandas
6 2 (2.78%) SQLAlchemy
7 1 (1.39%) JSON
7 1 (1.39%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 3 (4.17%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.39%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (56.94%) Data Engineering
2 26 (36.11%) Data Pipeline
3 25 (34.72%) DevOps
4 23 (31.94%) CI/CD
5 21 (29.17%) Agile
5 21 (29.17%) Data Science
5 21 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (27.78%) Containerisation
7 18 (25.00%) Observability
7 18 (25.00%) Requirements Engineering
7 18 (25.00%) Service Delivery
7 18 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 18 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
8 17 (23.61%) Mentoring
9 14 (19.44%) Analytics
9 14 (19.44%) Computer Science
9 14 (19.44%) Machine Learning
10 12 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 11 (15.28%) ETL
12 9 (12.50%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 49 (68.06%) Python
2 36 (50.00%) SQL
3 18 (25.00%) Bash
3 18 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 13 (18.06%) Java
5 10 (13.89%) Scala
6 5 (6.94%) C#
7 4 (5.56%) Go
8 3 (4.17%) C
9 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (29.17%) DV Cleared
1 21 (29.17%) Security Cleared
2 14 (19.44%) Degree
3 6 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (34.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 26 (36.11%) Kubernetes
2 21 (29.17%) Terraform
3 18 (25.00%) Ansible
3 18 (25.00%) Grafana
3 18 (25.00%) HAProxy
3 18 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) Google
2 7 (9.72%) Databricks
3 5 (6.94%) Oracle
4 4 (5.56%) Teradata
5 1 (1.39%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.39%) Informatica