Data Engineer Jobs in Milton Keynes

Data Engineer
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Data Engineer salary in Milton Keynes is £63,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 69 69
Rank change year-on-year +31 0 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 18 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 1.19% 1.67% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.76% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £60,625 £28,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £61,563 £34,375 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £47,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.21% -32.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £66,563 £55,625 £77,500
90th Percentile £67,875 £58,250 £80,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +21.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 239 1,023 786
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.84% 95.07% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 133 674 541
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £28,954
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £34,324
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.81% -3.81% +1.94%
75th Percentile £68,750 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £80,000
Buckinghamshire median annual salary £50,967 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.30% -5.00% -3.85%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Milton Keynes

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Milton Keynes

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes

For the 6 months to 5 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) Impala
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) PowerCenter
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) ERwin
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
1 2 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) HDFS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
1 1 (33.33%) Informatica
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft