Data Engineer Jobs in Reading

Data Engineer
Berkshire > Reading

The median Data Engineer salary in Reading is £53,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 110 108
Rank change year-on-year +46 -2 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 10 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 0.59% 0.59% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.62% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 21
10th Percentile £44,300 £31,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £39,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £66,000 £79,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £72,900 £81,625 £91,250
Berkshire median annual salary £64,000 £32,500 £69,500
% change year-on-year +96.92% -53.24% -7.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 422 1,618 1,513
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 82.58% 94.68% 93.68%
Number of salaries quoted 239 1,032 808
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,813 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,550 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% -12.42% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £92,500
Berkshire median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -8.70% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Reading

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Reading

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Reading

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Reading over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Reading region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) IoT
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared

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

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure AI
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Services
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) LLM
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle