Data Engineer Jobs in Cambridge

Data Engineer
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Data Engineer salary in Cambridge is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 92 94
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 13 1 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 1.29% 0.11% 2.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 0.13% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 4
10th Percentile £29,000 - £58,600
25th Percentile £62,500 - £59,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £63,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.93%
75th Percentile £77,500 - £72,813
90th Percentile £81,250 - £75,625
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £75,000 - £63,750
% change year-on-year - - -8.93%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 977 790 1,568
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.02% 84.76% 92.24%
Number of salaries quoted 753 383 563
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,100 £31,084
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £73,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £92,500 £83,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £52,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% -2.91%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Cambridge

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Cambridge

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Cambridge

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Cambridge over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Cambridge

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 Cambridge region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 9 (69.23%) Python
2 9 (69.23%) ETL
2 9 (69.23%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (61.54%) Data Engineering
4 7 (53.85%) SQL
5 5 (38.46%) Agile
5 5 (38.46%) GDPR
5 5 (38.46%) Data Science
5 5 (38.46%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 4 (30.77%) Agriculture
6 4 (30.77%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (30.77%) GCP
6 4 (30.77%) Docker
6 4 (30.77%) Games
6 4 (30.77%) Client/Server
6 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
7 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
7 3 (23.08%) Life Science
7 3 (23.08%) Google
7 3 (23.08%) Degree
7 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
7 3 (23.08%) Change Management
7 3 (23.08%) DevOps
7 3 (23.08%) Big Data
7 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (23.08%) Mentoring

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) GCP
3 3 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (23.08%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon Cognito
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (15.38%) Google Workspace
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.69%) Azure
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) NoSQL
2 3 (23.08%) Big Data
2 3 (23.08%) BigQuery
2 3 (23.08%) Looker
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (15.38%) DynamoDB
3 2 (15.38%) Metadata
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
4 1 (7.69%) Data Mining
4 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.69%) Delta Lake
4 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
4 1 (7.69%) Power BI
4 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
4 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 4 (30.77%) Agriculture
1 4 (30.77%) Games
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.69%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) GraphQL
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (30.77%) Client/Server
3 3 (23.08%) Life Science
3 3 (23.08%) Onboarding
4 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
4 2 (15.38%) Genomics
5 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Data Pipeline
1 9 (69.23%) ETL
2 8 (61.54%) Data Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Data Science
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 4 (30.77%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (23.08%) Change Management
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) DataOps
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (15.38%) Bioinformatics
6 2 (15.38%) Data Cleansing
6 2 (15.38%) Data Governance
6 2 (15.38%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Python
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) R
4 1 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Google
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks