Data Engineer Jobs in Cardiff

Data Engineer
South Wales > Cardiff

The median Data Engineer salary in Cardiff is £72,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 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
24 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 49 67
Rank change year-on-year -9 +18 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 7 17 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.07% 2.98% 2.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 3.29% 2.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3 17 19
10th Percentile £47,250 £41,200 £38,300
25th Percentile £56,250 £43,162 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £44,666 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +62.32% -14.92% +16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £60,000 £61,875
90th Percentile £79,750 £68,000 £87,000
South Wales median annual salary £45,530 £44,666 £52,500
% change year-on-year +1.94% -14.92% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cardiff

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Cardiff. 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 Cardiff with a recognized job title 614 516 824
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.46% 90.53% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 532 390 620
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,738 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,013 £40,000 £39,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £65,887 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
South Wales median annual salary £46,604 £45,476 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.48% -9.05% +11.11%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Cardiff

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Cardiff

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Cardiff

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Cardiff over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Cardiff

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 Cardiff region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) Google
4 4 (57.14%) Azure
4 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
4 4 (57.14%) BigQuery
4 4 (57.14%) GDPR
4 4 (57.14%) DataOps
5 3 (42.86%) Looker
5 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) Data Science
5 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (42.86%) ETL
5 3 (42.86%) SQL
5 3 (42.86%) Change Management
6 2 (28.57%) Finance
6 2 (28.57%) Python
6 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
6 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
6 2 (28.57%) AWS
6 2 (28.57%) Kimball Methodology
6 2 (28.57%) User Stories
6 2 (28.57%) Big Data
6 2 (28.57%) Fintech

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) GCP
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) dbt
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) BigQuery
2 3 (42.86%) Looker
3 2 (28.57%) Big Data
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
4 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
4 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Payment
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
4 4 (57.14%) DataOps
4 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
5 3 (42.86%) Change Management
5 3 (42.86%) Data Science
5 3 (42.86%) ETL
5 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
6 2 (28.57%) Data Architecture
6 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
6 2 (28.57%) Fintech
6 2 (28.57%) Kimball Methodology
6 2 (28.57%) User Stories
7 1 (14.29%) Analytics
7 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 1 (14.29%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
2 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
7 Data Engineer jobs in South Wales