Data Engineering Job Trends in Peterborough

Data Engineering
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Peterborough requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 3 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Peterborough 0.66% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £46,460 - -
25th Percentile £54,758 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,418 - -
75th Percentile £85,498 - -
90th Percentile £93,449 - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £65,975 - £53,450
% change year-on-year - - -33.19%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Peterborough

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 Peterborough.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 345 139 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Peterborough 75.33% 92.05% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 255 90 81
10th Percentile £28,100 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £30,422
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,124 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £65,000
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £59,450 £47,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.16% -13.64% -

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Peterborough

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Peterborough

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Peterborough citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Peterborough citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Peterborough

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Peterborough over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Peterborough

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Peterborough 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) ERwin
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Head of Engineering
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Lakehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SFIA
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks