Data Engineering Job Trends in Essex

Data Engineering
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 49 69
Rank change year-on-year -5 +20 +4
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 4 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.47% 0.27% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.31% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
East of England median annual salary £62,225 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -4.27% -7.14% +21.74%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 656 321 629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 77.54% 85.83% 84.54%
Number of salaries quoted 391 113 514
10th Percentile £26,750 £24,198 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £61,875 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £82,500
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Essex

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the Essex region over the 6 months to 2 March 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
Basildon -5 1 - - 1
Epping - 1 - -
Data Engineering
East of England

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (50.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) dbt
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (50.00%) Impala
2 2 (50.00%) Parquet
2 2 (50.00%) Spark SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Tableau
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Banking Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Transformation Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) AI
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Transformation
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Decision Table
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (50.00%) User Stories
4 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Databricks
3 1 (25.00%) StreamSets