Data Engineer Jobs in Cheltenham

Data Engineer
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The median Data Engineer salary in Cheltenham is £57,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 60 52
Rank change year-on-year +36 -8 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 1.06% 1.03% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 1.06% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £56,000
25th Percentile £53,500 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +44.44%
75th Percentile £60,500 - £84,500
90th Percentile - - £93,200
Gloucestershire median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -15.38% +44.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Cheltenham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Cheltenham. 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 Cheltenham with a recognized job title 91 377 291
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.81% 97.42% 84.35%
Number of salaries quoted 55 299 199
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% -10.83% +33.21%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £82,500
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.20% -9.09% +10.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Cheltenham

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Cheltenham

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham

For the 6 months to 29 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 Cheltenham region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL