Data Engineer Jobs in the South East

Data Engineer
England > South East

The median Data Engineer salary in the South East is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 213 238 193
Rank change year-on-year +25 -45 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 75 167 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.89% 1.00% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.07% 1.90%
Number of salaries quoted 49 86 158
10th Percentile £44,500 £27,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £30,125 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £49,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -21.60% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 7,275 15,664 13,569
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.95% 93.87% 90.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,427 11,342 8,523
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the South East

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the South East

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the South East

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Surrey +94 40 £70,000 +37.25% 10
Middlesex +4 14 - - 3
Thames Valley -6 10 £62,500 +4.17% 33
Hampshire +40 5 £70,000 +100.00% 21
Berkshire +40 4 £64,000 +96.92% 16
East Sussex +31 4 - - 4
Buckinghamshire +5 4 £60,000 -11.11% 7
Oxfordshire +17 2 £65,000 +8.33% 16
West Sussex +33 1 £42,500 +70.00% 3
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 1 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 South East region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 63 (84.00%) Python
2 60 (80.00%) SQL
3 49 (65.33%) Azure
4 39 (52.00%) Data Engineering
5 29 (38.67%) Databricks
5 29 (38.67%) Analytics
5 29 (38.67%) Data Modelling
6 28 (37.33%) Degree
6 28 (37.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 27 (36.00%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (34.67%) CI/CD
9 25 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (33.33%) ETL
10 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
11 23 (30.67%) C#
11 23 (30.67%) Agile
12 22 (29.33%) Data Quality
12 22 (29.33%) Azure Certification
13 21 (28.00%) Data Architecture
14 19 (25.33%) Software Engineering
14 19 (25.33%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (25.33%) DevOps
15 18 (24.00%) .NET
15 18 (24.00%) Data Governance
16 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
17 16 (21.33%) Apache Spark
18 15 (20.00%) Java
18 15 (20.00%) Finance
19 14 (18.67%) Power BI
19 14 (18.67%) Decision-Making

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (21.33%) Apache Spark
2 12 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (14.67%) Apache
4 6 (8.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 49 (65.33%) Azure
2 28 (37.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 25 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (18.67%) Power Platform
5 11 (14.67%) AWS
6 9 (12.00%) OpenShift
7 7 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (9.33%) Snowflake
8 6 (8.00%) GitHub
8 6 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (8.00%) PowerApps
9 5 (6.67%) Amazon S3
10 3 (4.00%) GCP
10 3 (4.00%) IaaS
10 3 (4.00%) SaaS
11 2 (2.67%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.67%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (2.67%) H2O.ai
11 2 (2.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) Network Security
1 1 (1.33%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (36.00%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (18.67%) Power BI
3 13 (17.33%) Hadoop
3 13 (17.33%) NoSQL
4 11 (14.67%) Big Data
5 10 (13.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 10 (13.33%) Delta Lake
6 9 (12.00%) Apache Hudi
7 8 (10.67%) Metadata
8 7 (9.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (9.33%) Data Lake
9 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 6 (8.00%) SQL Server
10 3 (4.00%) Airbyte
10 3 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (4.00%) Apache Hive
10 3 (4.00%) Impala
10 3 (4.00%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.33%) ERwin
2 1 (1.33%) Git
General
1 24 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Finance
3 11 (14.67%) Law
4 8 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.33%) Automotive
6 1 (1.33%) Aviation
6 1 (1.33%) Banking
6 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.33%) Legal
6 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.00%) .NET
2 12 (16.00%) PySpark
3 10 (13.33%) Kafka
4 9 (12.00%) PyArrow
5 4 (5.33%) Pandas
5 4 (5.33%) REST
6 3 (4.00%) NumPy
6 3 (4.00%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (2.67%) Apache Jena
7 2 (2.67%) XML
8 1 (1.33%) CSS
8 1 (1.33%) HTML
8 1 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (1.33%) React
8 1 (1.33%) Spring
8 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.00%) NHS
3 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Acoustics
4 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.33%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.33%) IoT
4 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.00%) Unix
2 3 (4.00%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Ubuntu
2 3 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (52.00%) Data Engineering
2 29 (38.67%) Analytics
2 29 (38.67%) Data Modelling
3 26 (34.67%) CI/CD
4 25 (33.33%) ETL
5 23 (30.67%) Agile
6 21 (28.00%) Data Architecture
7 19 (25.33%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (25.33%) DevOps
7 19 (25.33%) Software Engineering
8 18 (24.00%) Data Governance
9 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (18.67%) Decision-Making
11 12 (16.00%) Data Analysis
11 12 (16.00%) Data Science
11 12 (16.00%) Mentoring
12 11 (14.67%) Collaborative Working
13 10 (13.33%) Data Extraction
13 10 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
14 9 (12.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 63 (84.00%) Python
2 60 (80.00%) SQL
3 23 (30.67%) C#
4 15 (20.00%) Java
5 9 (12.00%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.00%) Scala
6 6 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (6.67%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.00%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.67%) Ruby
9 2 (2.67%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.67%) SPARQL
10 1 (1.33%) C++
10 1 (1.33%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (37.33%) Degree
2 22 (29.33%) Azure Certification
3 6 (8.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.67%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.33%) HND
6 1 (1.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (29.33%) Data Quality
2 12 (16.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.67%) Dublin Core
3 2 (2.67%) QA
System Software
1 12 (16.00%) HDFS
2 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (14.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.67%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (1.33%) Ansible
3 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (38.67%) Databricks
2 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (16.00%) Red Hat
4 6 (8.00%) Informatica
4 6 (8.00%) Oracle
5 3 (4.00%) Cloudera
5 3 (4.00%) Google
6 2 (2.67%) Dataiku
6 2 (2.67%) MapR
6 2 (2.67%) Talend
7 1 (1.33%) Foundry
7 1 (1.33%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.33%) Palantir
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) SAP