Data Engineer Job Trends in Plymouth

Data Engineer
Devon > Plymouth

The median Data Engineer salary in Plymouth is £48,975 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 5 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Plymouth 3.25% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.29% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £42,973 - -
25th Percentile £44,544 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,975 - -
75th Percentile £54,394 - -
90th Percentile £56,558 - -
Devon median annual salary £48,975 £70,000 -
% change year-on-year -30.04% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Plymouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Plymouth. 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 Plymouth with a recognized job title 152 66 97
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.70% 98.51% 97.98%
Number of salaries quoted 89 28 94
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £31,625
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,512 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.14% -13.24% -2.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,625 £54,175
90th Percentile £81,500 £65,272 £57,500
Devon median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +18.75%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Plymouth

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Plymouth.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Plymouth

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Plymouth

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Plymouth.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Plymouth

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Plymouth

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Plymouth over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Plymouth

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Plymouth

For the 6 months to 19 December 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Plymouth region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Break/Fix
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
1 3 (60.00%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata Management
2 2 (40.00%) PySpark
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Scala
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Control-M
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) DataOps
3 1 (20.00%) DB2
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Plymouth 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 2 (40.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (40.00%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) DB2
2 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (20.00%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Parquet
General
1 3 (60.00%) Military
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Break/Fix
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Metadata Management
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) DataOps
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SEO
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
2 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) BMC
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Talend