Data Engineering Job Trends in Devon

Data Engineering
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Devon requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 55 51
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 2 4 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Devon 0.36% 0.85% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 1.08% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £42,973 - -
25th Percentile £44,544 £60,000 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,975 £65,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.65% +116.67% -
75th Percentile £54,394 £72,500 -
90th Percentile £56,558 - -
South West median annual salary £50,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -33.33% - +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 372 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Devon 77.44% 79.15% 90.70%
Number of salaries quoted 280 176 207
10th Percentile £25,950 £27,598 £23,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £31,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £56,563 £65,000 £54,463
90th Percentile £77,625 £75,000 £64,400
South West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £53,351
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.09% +4.61%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Devon.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Devon

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Devon

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Devon

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Devon over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Devon

Data Engineering
Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the Devon region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Plymouth - 2 £48,975 - 12
Data Engineering
South West

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) DB2
2 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (50.00%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Parquet
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Talend