Data Engineering Job Trends, Salaries & Related Skills in Somerset

Data Engineering
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 12 Jan 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	-	49	46
Rank change year-on-year	-	-3	+18
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering	0	1	2
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset	-	0.23%	0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	-	0.29%	0.62%
Number of salaries quoted	0	1	0
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	-	£65,000	-
South West median annual salary	£50,000	£72,500	£72,788
% change year-on-year	-31.03%	-0.40%	+4.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	427	345	323
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset	77.78%	77.70%	86.13%
Number of salaries quoted	192	123	258
10^th Percentile	£26,775	£30,000	£27,500
25^th Percentile	£31,250	£38,500	£32,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£41,928	£52,500	£45,000
Median % change year-on-year	-20.14%	+16.67%	-10.00%
75^th Percentile	£53,375	£62,500	£60,000
90^th Percentile	£72,250	£81,250	£70,000
South West median annual salary	£50,000	£54,439	£52,500
% change year-on-year	-8.15%	+3.69%	+3.35%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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