Data Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer salary in the South West is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 155 141
Rank change year-on-year +26 -14 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 37 87 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.06% 1.15% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.14% 1.22% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 27 61 84
10th Percentile £47,500 £28,500 £45,375
25th Percentile £51,875 £47,500 £58,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,288
Median % change year-on-year - -0.41% +33.88%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £95,925
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +6.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 West with a recognized job title 3,250 7,148 4,408
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.88% 93.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,128 4,636 3,450
10th Percentile £27,175 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,150 £52,000 £54,545
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% -4.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in the South West.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in the South West

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Bristol +14 21 £70,000 -12.50% 17
Devon +19 5 - - 2
Dorset +27 4 £77,500 +44.86%
Somerset -6 3 £52,500 +87.50% 3
Wiltshire +31 2 £46,500 -31.11% 2
Gloucestershire +29 2 £78,500 - 11
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (59.46%) SQL
2 16 (43.24%) Python
2 16 (43.24%) AWS
2 16 (43.24%) Analytics
2 16 (43.24%) Data Engineering
3 14 (37.84%) ETL
4 12 (32.43%) Data Modelling
4 12 (32.43%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (32.43%) Snowflake
5 11 (29.73%) Databricks
6 10 (27.03%) Azure
6 10 (27.03%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (24.32%) Amazon S3
8 8 (21.62%) Power Platform
8 8 (21.62%) Power BI
8 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
8 8 (21.62%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (18.92%) Oracle
9 7 (18.92%) Finance
9 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
9 7 (18.92%) Data Science
10 6 (16.22%) Serverless
10 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
10 6 (16.22%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (16.22%) Data Strategy
10 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
11 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (13.51%) Legal
11 5 (13.51%) Apache

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (13.51%) Apache
2 3 (8.11%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (5.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Superset
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) AWS
2 12 (32.43%) Snowflake
3 10 (27.03%) Azure
4 9 (24.32%) Amazon S3
5 8 (21.62%) Power Platform
6 6 (16.22%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (16.22%) Serverless
7 4 (10.81%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (10.81%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (10.81%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (8.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (8.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (8.11%) GCP
8 3 (8.11%) Matillion
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.70%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) Structured Cabling
1 5 (13.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (21.62%) Power BI
3 5 (13.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (13.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
4 4 (10.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (8.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (8.11%) ClickHouse
5 3 (8.11%) MySQL
5 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.41%) Big Data
6 2 (5.41%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.41%) DynamoDB
6 2 (5.41%) MongoDB
6 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.41%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (5.41%) Spark SQL
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (18.92%) Finance
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Legal
4 4 (10.81%) Marketing
5 3 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Retail
5 3 (8.11%) Tech for Good
6 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Law
7 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Kafka
1 5 (13.51%) PySpark
2 2 (5.41%) JSON
2 2 (5.41%) XML
3 1 (2.70%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.70%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Driving Licence
1 5 (13.51%) Onboarding
2 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (8.11%) IoT
2 3 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.41%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.70%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.70%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Analytics
1 16 (43.24%) Data Engineering
2 14 (37.84%) ETL
3 12 (32.43%) Data Modelling
3 12 (32.43%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (24.32%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (21.62%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (18.92%) Data Science
6 7 (18.92%) Mentoring
7 6 (16.22%) Data Strategy
8 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (10.81%) Cloud Security
9 4 (10.81%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (10.81%) Data Encryption
9 4 (10.81%) Data Protection
9 4 (10.81%) Data Security
9 4 (10.81%) Key Management
9 4 (10.81%) Software Engineering
9 4 (10.81%) Technology Transformation
10 3 (8.11%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (59.46%) SQL
2 16 (43.24%) Python
3 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.41%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.70%) C#
5 1 (2.70%) Groovy
5 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) GDPR
1 4 (10.81%) NIST
2 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kibana
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (29.73%) Databricks
2 7 (18.92%) Oracle
3 6 (16.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.41%) Talend
5 1 (2.70%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce