Data Engineering Jobs in Kent

Data Engineering
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 81 98
Rank change year-on-year +17 +17 -20
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 5 25 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.67% 1.68% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 2.04% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5 19 2
10th Percentile £70,500 - £47,625
25th Percentile £82,500 £61,750 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £67,500 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +25.58% -25.86%
75th Percentile - £85,000 £57,188
90th Percentile £94,500 £87,500 £58,875
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 653 1,226 1,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 87.07% 82.28% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 313 898 540
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £47,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.05% +5.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £60,800
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,678 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% -9.09% -

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Kent

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Kent

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in Kent.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in Kent

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Kent

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Kent over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Kent

Data Engineering
Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the Kent region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Chatham +4 4 £90,000 +41.73%
Data Engineering
South East

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (40.00%) Datadog
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
General
1 4 (80.00%) Banking
1 4 (80.00%) Retail Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
1 4 (80.00%) Lead Software Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
3 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
2 2 (40.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (40.00%) API Development
4 2 (40.00%) API Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Coaching
4 2 (40.00%) Data Management
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Banking
4 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
4 2 (40.00%) Observability
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) ETL
5 1 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
5 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Grafana
1 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Google