Data Engineer Jobs in South Wales

Data Engineer
Wales > South Wales

The median Data Engineer salary in South Wales is £45,530 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 91 98
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 10 21 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 0.70% 1.82% 1.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 2.04% 1.42%
Number of salaries quoted 6 19 19
10th Percentile £41,875 £41,350 £38,300
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,162 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,530 £44,666 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -14.92% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,458 £62,125 £61,875
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,750 £87,000
Wales median annual salary £46,096 £44,666 £52,500
% change year-on-year +3.20% -14.92% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South Wales

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 1,296 1,028 1,404
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 89.31% 97.30%
Number of salaries quoted 858 588 878
10th Percentile £27,157 £30,000 £31,175
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,029 £45,476 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.42% -7.19% +8.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,988 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.76%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in South Wales

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in South Wales

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in South Wales

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in South Wales over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in South Wales

Data Engineer
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 23 April 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
Cardiff -6 7 £72,500 +62.32% 5
Newport +5 3 £45,000 -15.45% 2
Data Engineer
Wales

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 Wales region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (60.00%) GCP
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
4 5 (50.00%) Google
4 5 (50.00%) Azure
4 5 (50.00%) SQL
5 4 (40.00%) ETL
5 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (40.00%) GDPR
5 4 (40.00%) DataOps
5 4 (40.00%) BigQuery
5 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (40.00%) Data Science
6 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (30.00%) Looker
6 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (30.00%) Change Management
6 3 (30.00%) Python
7 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (20.00%) Finance
7 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (20.00%) AWS
7 2 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
7 2 (20.00%) User Stories

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) GCP
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Snowflake
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) dbt
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) BigQuery
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) Looker
3 2 (20.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) Data Mining
4 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (10.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) PySpark
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (20.00%) iSeries
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Payment
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Data Engineering
2 7 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (60.00%) Agile
3 6 (60.00%) DevOps
4 4 (40.00%) Data Science
4 4 (40.00%) DataOps
4 4 (40.00%) ETL
4 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) Change Management
5 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (20.00%) Fintech
6 2 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
6 2 (20.00%) Scrum
6 2 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) GDPR
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft