Data Engineer Job Trends in Rugby

Data Engineer
Warwickshire > Rugby

The median Data Engineer salary in Rugby is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Rugby 3.70% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.85% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 - -
75th Percentile £57,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Warwickshire median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -1.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Rugby

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Rugby. 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 Rugby with a recognized job title 26 69 61
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.30% 95.83% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 12 15 51
10th Percentile - £28,800 -
25th Percentile £35,000 £53,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £59,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £63,125 £75,000 £70,276
Warwickshire median annual salary £50,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.48% +8.00% +5.82%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Rugby

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 Rugby.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Rugby

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Rugby

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Rugby.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Rugby

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Rugby

For the 6 months to 18 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 Rugby region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Rugby 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks