Data Engineering Job Trends in Cambridge

Data Engineering
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 56
Rank change year-on-year - - +53
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.55% - 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% - 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £75,250
25th Percentile £75,000 - £75,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +25.49%
75th Percentile £85,000 - £84,375
90th Percentile - - £84,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £80,000 - £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 338 484 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 93.11% 77.44% 94.08%
Number of salaries quoted 223 280 241
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £28,500 £48,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £83,125 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,000 £85,250 £85,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +4.76%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Cambridge

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Law
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Java Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FHIR
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) Micronaut
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Biopharmaceutical
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
1 1 (50.00%) Omics
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Neuroscience
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) R
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) CDISC
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) DICOM
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (50.00%) HL7
1 1 (50.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Istio
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform