Data Engineer Jobs in Somerset

Data Engineer
South West > Somerset

The median Data Engineer salary in Somerset is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 41 47
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 6 22 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 1.61% 2.98% 2.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 3.06% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5 14 11
10th Percentile - £29,346 £34,788
25th Percentile £51,250 £30,000 £44,538
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £30,385 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +81.01% -49.36% +46.34%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £65,000
90th Percentile - £38,275 -
South West median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £64,228
% change year-on-year -12.00% -2.69% +33.81%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Somerset

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Somerset. 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 Somerset with a recognized job title 358 719 471
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 97.43% 82.20%
Number of salaries quoted 170 590 357
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,239 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% -10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,375 £61,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £70,600
South West median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Somerset

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Somerset

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Somerset

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 16 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bath +11 3 £55,000 -1.79%
Data Engineer
South West

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 Somerset region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) XML
4 2 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (33.33%) Retail
4 2 (33.33%) JSON
4 2 (33.33%) Talend
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (33.33%) Databricks
4 2 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (16.67%) GCP

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

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) JSON
1 2 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (50.00%) ETL
2 3 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Talend