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 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 253 232 187
Rank change year-on-year -21 -45 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 62 168 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.64% 0.95% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.01% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 41 91 140
10th Percentile £57,500 £27,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £31,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £48,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.83% -23.20% -1.96%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £80,000 £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 8,425 16,577 12,528
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.99% 94.08% 90.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,513 11,781 7,967
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £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 £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.32% +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 31 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 31 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 +69 33 £70,000 +38.61% 12
Middlesex -6 12 - -
East Sussex +22 5 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Thames Valley -23 5 £65,000 +8.33% 21
Hampshire +45 4 £76,250 +117.86% 18
Buckinghamshire -8 3 £47,250 -21.25% 3
Oxfordshire +15 2 £65,000 +8.33% 8
West Sussex +31 1 £42,500 +70.00% 3
Kent +26 1 £65,000 +116.67% 5
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 53 (85.48%) Python
2 51 (82.26%) SQL
3 43 (69.35%) Azure
4 36 (58.06%) Data Engineering
5 29 (46.77%) Databricks
5 29 (46.77%) Analytics
6 26 (41.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
7 23 (37.10%) ETL
8 21 (33.87%) Data Modelling
8 21 (33.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 21 (33.87%) CI/CD
9 20 (32.26%) C#
9 20 (32.26%) Software Engineering
10 19 (30.65%) Agile
11 18 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (29.03%) Degree
12 17 (27.42%) Data Quality
12 17 (27.42%) Finance
12 17 (27.42%) Azure Certification
12 17 (27.42%) Power Platform
12 17 (27.42%) Power BI
12 17 (27.42%) DevOps
13 16 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (25.81%) Java
14 15 (24.19%) Data Architecture
14 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (22.58%) Data Governance
16 13 (20.97%) .NET
16 13 (20.97%) Mentoring

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 10 (16.13%) Apache Spark
2 8 (12.90%) Apache
3 7 (11.29%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (9.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 43 (69.35%) Azure
2 26 (41.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 21 (33.87%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (27.42%) Power Platform
5 8 (12.90%) AWS
6 7 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (9.68%) GitHub
7 6 (9.68%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (9.68%) OpenShift
7 6 (9.68%) PowerApps
8 5 (8.06%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.45%) Snowflake
10 3 (4.84%) GCP
10 3 (4.84%) IaaS
10 3 (4.84%) SaaS
11 2 (3.23%) Alation
11 2 (3.23%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (3.23%) dbt
11 2 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Network Security
1 1 (1.61%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (29.03%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (27.42%) Power BI
3 10 (16.13%) Hadoop
4 9 (14.52%) NoSQL
5 8 (12.90%) Big Data
5 8 (12.90%) Data Lake
5 8 (12.90%) Delta Lake
6 7 (11.29%) Apache Iceberg
6 7 (11.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (9.68%) Apache Hudi
7 6 (9.68%) Metadata
7 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 6 (9.68%) Tableau
8 3 (4.84%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (4.84%) Apache Hive
8 3 (4.84%) Impala
8 3 (4.84%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (3.23%) Bigtable
9 2 (3.23%) HBase
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.61%) ERwin
2 1 (1.61%) Git
2 1 (1.61%) MLflow
General
1 23 (37.10%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.42%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.90%) Law
4 6 (9.68%) Automotive
5 2 (3.23%) Marketing
6 1 (1.61%) Banking
6 1 (1.61%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.97%) .NET
2 9 (14.52%) PySpark
3 7 (11.29%) Kafka
4 6 (9.68%) PyArrow
5 2 (3.23%) Apache Jena
5 2 (3.23%) Middleware
5 2 (3.23%) Pandas
5 2 (3.23%) XML
6 1 (1.61%) FastAPI
6 1 (1.61%) NumPy
6 1 (1.61%) pydantic
6 1 (1.61%) pytest
6 1 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.61%) React
6 1 (1.61%) REST
6 1 (1.61%) Spring
6 1 (1.61%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.61%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.84%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.61%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.61%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.68%) Unix
2 1 (1.61%) Linux
2 1 (1.61%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (58.06%) Data Engineering
2 29 (46.77%) Analytics
3 23 (37.10%) ETL
4 21 (33.87%) CI/CD
4 21 (33.87%) Data Modelling
5 20 (32.26%) Software Engineering
6 19 (30.65%) Agile
7 17 (27.42%) DevOps
8 16 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (24.19%) Data Architecture
9 15 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (22.58%) Data Governance
11 13 (20.97%) Mentoring
12 11 (17.74%) Decision-Making
12 11 (17.74%) Visualisation
13 9 (14.52%) Data Analytics
13 9 (14.52%) Data Extraction
13 9 (14.52%) Data Pipeline
14 8 (12.90%) Data Science
14 8 (12.90%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 53 (85.48%) Python
2 51 (82.26%) SQL
3 20 (32.26%) C#
4 16 (25.81%) Java
5 8 (12.90%) Scala
6 7 (11.29%) PowerShell
7 6 (9.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (3.23%) Ruby
8 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.23%) SPARQL
8 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.61%) C++
9 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (29.03%) Degree
2 17 (27.42%) Azure Certification
3 4 (6.45%) Master's Degree
3 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (27.42%) Data Quality
2 8 (12.90%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.84%) QA
4 2 (3.23%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 9 (14.52%) HDFS
2 2 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.23%) Hadoop YARN
3 1 (1.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (46.77%) Databricks
2 12 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.29%) Red Hat
4 3 (4.84%) Cloudera
4 3 (4.84%) Informatica
5 2 (3.23%) Dataiku
5 2 (3.23%) Google
5 2 (3.23%) MapR
5 2 (3.23%) Oracle
5 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.23%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Talend
6 1 (1.61%) Foundry
6 1 (1.61%) Palantir
6 1 (1.61%) SAP