Data Engineer Jobs in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineer
South East > Buckinghamshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Buckinghamshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 82 86
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 4 45 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 0.39% 2.29% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 2.48% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £33,200 £36,250 £43,550
25th Percentile £43,250 £48,125 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -14.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £64,375 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £67,000 £100,000 £82,500
South East median annual salary £70,000 £49,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +42.86% -21.60% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Buckinghamshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Buckinghamshire. 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 Buckinghamshire with a recognized job title 903 1,818 1,185
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.27% 92.52% 89.43%
Number of salaries quoted 339 1,087 718
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,400 £28,817
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,800 £75,000 £80,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Buckinghamshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 12 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
Milton Keynes +36 3 £63,750 +24.39% 2
Bletchley +2 1 £27,000 - 1
Data Engineer
South East

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Buckinghamshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (25.00%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Spark

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
2 1 (25.00%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (25.00%) Impala
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) PowerCenter
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (25.00%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Data Collection
2 1 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (25.00%) Data Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL Development
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) HDFS
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft