Data Engineering Jobs in the South East

Data Engineering
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 210 244 254
Rank change year-on-year +34 +10 +44
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 201 159 270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.14% 1.14% 1.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.37% 1.21% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 72 71 102
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -6.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,875 £87,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,700 13,139 19,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 83.43% 94.43% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,114 7,709 11,830
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,906 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the South East

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +30 115 £67,500 -3.57% 12
Buckinghamshire +24 59 £87,500 +25.00% 4
Oxfordshire +29 46 £45,000 -28.00% 4
Surrey -11 27 £55,000 -8.33% 6
Kent +15 25 £70,000 +30.23% 3
Hampshire -33 16 £70,000 - 2
East Sussex +14 15 £61,500 +16.79% 4
Berkshire -14 10 £70,000 - 4
West Sussex +21 3 £67,500 +87.50% 1
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 4 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 107 (53.23%) Azure
2 89 (44.28%) GCP
3 75 (37.31%) AWS
4 45 (22.39%) Power Platform
5 28 (13.93%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (8.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (7.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (7.46%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.49%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.49%) Serverless
9 4 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.99%) dbt
9 4 (1.99%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.50%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (0.50%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.50%) Cloud Composer
12 1 (0.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) VoIP
1 3 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (47.76%) Data Warehouse
2 85 (42.29%) BigQuery
3 83 (41.29%) Looker
4 45 (22.39%) Power BI
5 24 (11.94%) Data Lake
6 13 (6.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 13 (6.47%) Tableau
7 10 (4.98%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.99%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (2.49%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (2.49%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.99%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.49%) Big Data
12 3 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.00%) Impala
14 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
14 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
14 1 (0.50%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (3.48%) Git
2 3 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.00%) ERwin
4 1 (0.50%) GitLab
4 1 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 109 (54.23%) Analytical Skills
2 38 (18.91%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 27 (13.43%) Finance
5 24 (11.94%) Billing
6 11 (5.47%) Legal
7 7 (3.48%) Retail
8 6 (2.99%) Marketing
9 4 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.99%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.49%) Games
11 2 (1.00%) Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 87 (43.28%) Data Engineer
2 44 (21.89%) Data Manager
2 44 (21.89%) Engineering Manager
3 32 (15.92%) Architect
3 32 (15.92%) Data Architect
4 27 (13.43%) Principal Data Engineer
4 27 (13.43%) Principal Engineer
5 24 (11.94%) Platform Engineer
6 23 (11.44%) Security Engineer
7 18 (8.96%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 13 (6.47%) Business Intelligence Manager
9 9 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (4.48%) Lead
9 9 (4.48%) Senior
10 8 (3.98%) Research Engineer
11 7 (3.48%) Consultant
11 7 (3.48%) Data Consultant
11 7 (3.48%) Head of Engineering
12 6 (2.99%) Developer
12 6 (2.99%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.49%) Great Expectations
2 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (29.35%) Self-Motivation
2 25 (12.44%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.99%) Taxonomies
4 4 (1.99%) Pricing Data
5 3 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.49%) Handset
5 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.50%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.00%) Linux
2 1 (0.50%) Unix
2 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (60.70%) Problem-Solving
2 114 (56.72%) Data Modelling
3 110 (54.73%) Mentoring
4 97 (48.26%) ETL
4 97 (48.26%) Platform Engineering
5 78 (38.81%) Analytics
6 70 (34.83%) Agile
7 69 (34.33%) Data Science
8 60 (29.85%) Data Pipeline
9 59 (29.35%) DevOps
10 54 (26.87%) Business Intelligence
11 51 (25.37%) Coaching
12 44 (21.89%) Data Governance
13 42 (20.90%) Data Architecture
14 41 (20.40%) Data Integration
14 41 (20.40%) Scrum
15 34 (16.92%) CI/CD
16 32 (15.92%) Cybersecurity
16 32 (15.92%) Innovative Thinking
16 32 (15.92%) Red Team
Programming Languages
1 59 (29.35%) SQL
2 42 (20.90%) Python
3 12 (5.97%) Java
4 6 (2.99%) C#
4 6 (2.99%) Go
4 6 (2.99%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.99%) Ruby
4 6 (2.99%) Scala
5 5 (2.49%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 51 (25.37%) Degree
2 13 (6.47%) DBS Check
3 12 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (5.97%) Master's Degree
4 6 (2.99%) MBA
4 6 (2.99%) PhD
4 6 (2.99%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.99%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (40.30%) Data Quality
2 63 (31.34%) GDPR
3 31 (15.42%) QA
4 6 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (1.99%) Active Directory
1 4 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (1.00%) Ansible
1 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 86 (42.79%) Google
2 31 (15.42%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.46%) Databricks
4 4 (1.99%) SAP
4 4 (1.99%) Talend
5 3 (1.49%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.50%) Ab Initio
6 1 (0.50%) Informatica
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle