Data Engineering Job Trends in the East of England

Data Engineering
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 167 107
Rank change year-on-year +43 -60 +31
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 31 14 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.75% 0.40% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.46% 1.51%
Number of salaries quoted 14 8 22
10th Percentile £41,750 - £46,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,188 £73,750
90th Percentile £82,750 £83,750 £107,875
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,105 3,037 1,981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.91% 86.65% 87.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,814 1,200 1,447
10th Percentile £27,625 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,813 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the East of England

Data Engineering
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the East of England region over the 6 months to 5 January 2026. 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
Bedfordshire +37 11 - - 14
Hertfordshire +13 10 £75,000 +15.38% 31
Suffolk -10 7 £50,000 +11.11% 8
Cambridgeshire +11 2 £80,000 +10.34% 14
Essex - 1 - - 24
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 16 (51.61%) Azure
2 14 (45.16%) Snowflake
3 8 (25.81%) AWS
4 4 (12.90%) Boomi
4 4 (12.90%) Matillion
5 3 (9.68%) AWS KMS
6 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.45%) GCP
6 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.45%) Serverless
6 2 (6.45%) Workato
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.23%) dbt
7 1 (3.23%) H2O.ai
7 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (70.97%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (12.90%) NoSQL
2 4 (12.90%) Pentaho
2 4 (12.90%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (9.68%) Big Data
3 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 3 (9.68%) Star Schema
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (6.45%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.45%) Neo4j
4 2 (6.45%) Power BI
4 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.23%) Metadata
5 1 (3.23%) MySQL
5 1 (3.23%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.23%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) GitLab
General
1 6 (19.35%) Law
2 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Manufacturing
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
3 3 (9.68%) Social Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
5 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Architect
1 12 (38.71%) Data Engineer
2 11 (35.48%) Data Architect
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (6.45%) Senior
4 1 (3.23%) Business Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (3.23%) Java Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Principal Java Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) PySpark
2 1 (3.23%) FHIR
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) Keras
2 1 (3.23%) Micronaut
2 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.23%) React
2 1 (3.23%) Spring
2 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Data Structures
2 3 (9.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.23%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) IoT
3 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Life Science
3 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.23%) Omics
3 1 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Data Modelling
2 16 (51.61%) Analytics
3 13 (41.94%) Data Architecture
3 13 (41.94%) Data Integration
4 12 (38.71%) Data Management
5 11 (35.48%) Digital Analytics
5 11 (35.48%) E-Commerce
6 9 (29.03%) ETL
7 7 (22.58%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (19.35%) Migration
9 5 (16.13%) Agile
9 5 (16.13%) Data Migration
10 4 (12.90%) AI
10 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
10 4 (12.90%) Data Extraction
10 4 (12.90%) Data Transformation
10 4 (12.90%) DevOps
10 4 (12.90%) Machine Learning
10 4 (12.90%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Python
1 12 (38.71%) SQL
2 1 (3.23%) Java
2 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.23%) R
2 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.68%) Degree
4 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (35.48%) Accessibility
2 10 (32.26%) Data Quality
3 5 (16.13%) GDPR
4 4 (12.90%) HIPAA
5 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (9.68%) NIST
5 3 (9.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (3.23%) CDISC
6 1 (3.23%) DICOM
6 1 (3.23%) HL7
6 1 (3.23%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Istio
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) Netezza
3 4 (12.90%) Informatica
3 4 (12.90%) MuleSoft
3 4 (12.90%) Talend
4 3 (9.68%) Databricks
4 3 (9.68%) Oracle
5 1 (3.23%) Dell
5 1 (3.23%) NVIDIA
5 1 (3.23%) StreamSets