Data Engineer Jobs in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer salary in the South West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 146 167
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 128 117 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.46% 1.88% 2.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.52% 2.10% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 86 102 120
10th Percentile £30,000 £45,000 £34,958
25th Percentile £35,000 £56,052 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £69,135 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +38.27% +5.26%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £69,063
90th Percentile £87,500 £88,625 £116,246
England median annual salary £68,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.21% +3.57% +7.69%

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 8,426 5,578 8,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 89.64% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 6,017 3,752 5,360
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,438 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,288 £36,363
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,725 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +5.45% +8.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer 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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
Bristol -17 60 £77,500 +12.61% 11
Somerset +30 28 £30,385 -49.36%
Gloucestershire +9 16 £55,000 -44.44% 2
Wiltshire -10 9 £67,500 -10.00% 1
Dorset - 9 £53,500 -
Devon +4 6 £70,000 +12.00% 2
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (39.06%) Data Engineering
1 50 (39.06%) Data Pipeline
2 46 (35.94%) DevOps
3 41 (32.03%) Python
4 40 (31.25%) Agile
5 35 (27.34%) GCP
6 33 (25.78%) Google
7 32 (25.00%) BigQuery
7 32 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
8 31 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (24.22%) SQL
9 30 (23.44%) Data Science
9 30 (23.44%) CI/CD
9 30 (23.44%) Looker
10 28 (21.88%) Mentoring
11 27 (21.09%) Security Cleared
12 26 (20.31%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (18.75%) Apache
13 24 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
14 23 (17.97%) ETL
15 22 (17.19%) Linux
15 22 (17.19%) Apache Spark
16 21 (16.41%) Docker
16 21 (16.41%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (16.41%) DataOps
16 21 (16.41%) GDPR
16 21 (16.41%) Change Management
16 21 (16.41%) Big Data
16 21 (16.41%) Azure
17 20 (15.63%) Analytics

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 24 (18.75%) Apache
2 22 (17.19%) Apache Spark
3 16 (12.50%) Jupyter
3 16 (12.50%) nginx
4 7 (5.47%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.56%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (27.34%) GCP
2 21 (16.41%) Azure
3 19 (14.84%) Amazon S3
4 16 (12.50%) MinIO
4 16 (12.50%) OpenShift
5 13 (10.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (8.59%) Power Platform
7 9 (7.03%) AWS
8 8 (6.25%) Snowflake
9 5 (3.91%) dbt
9 5 (3.91%) Fivetran
9 5 (3.91%) GitHub
9 5 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.91%) Google Data Studio
9 5 (3.91%) Stitch
10 4 (3.13%) Serverless
11 3 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (1.56%) Amazon Kinesis
12 2 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (11.72%) Structured Cabling
2 9 (7.03%) Wireless
3 5 (3.91%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (25.00%) BigQuery
2 30 (23.44%) Looker
3 21 (16.41%) Big Data
4 19 (14.84%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (14.06%) Hadoop
6 16 (12.50%) Data Lake
6 16 (12.50%) Presto
7 11 (8.59%) Power BI
8 8 (6.25%) MySQL
9 7 (5.47%) SQL Server
10 6 (4.69%) Tableau
11 5 (3.91%) Airbyte
11 5 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (3.91%) Redshift Spectrum
11 5 (3.91%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (1.56%) Flink
12 2 (1.56%) Redis
12 2 (1.56%) RethinkDB
Development Applications
1 16 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 16 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.59%) Git
3 6 (4.69%) RStudio
4 5 (3.91%) GitLab
5 2 (1.56%) JIRA
5 2 (1.56%) Oracle Forms
General
1 24 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (12.50%) Finance
3 13 (10.16%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.25%) Retail
5 7 (5.47%) Manufacturing
6 5 (3.91%) Aerospace
6 5 (3.91%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.34%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.78%) Aeronautics
8 1 (0.78%) Aviation
8 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.28%) Apache NiFi
2 16 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
2 16 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 16 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 16 (12.50%) YAML
3 5 (3.91%) REST
4 4 (3.13%) Kafka
4 4 (3.13%) PySpark
5 2 (1.56%) Apache Beam
5 2 (1.56%) Pandas
5 2 (1.56%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.78%) JSON
6 1 (0.78%) Unreal Engine
6 1 (0.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (20.31%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (10.16%) Data Centre
4 9 (7.03%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.91%) Fibre Optics
5 5 (3.91%) Replication
6 4 (3.13%) Reinsurance
7 3 (2.34%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.78%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.19%) Linux
2 6 (4.69%) Unix
3 5 (3.91%) OS/2
4 1 (0.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (39.06%) Data Engineering
1 50 (39.06%) Data Pipeline
2 46 (35.94%) DevOps
3 40 (31.25%) Agile
4 32 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 31 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (23.44%) CI/CD
6 30 (23.44%) Data Science
7 28 (21.88%) Mentoring
8 23 (17.97%) ETL
9 21 (16.41%) Change Management
9 21 (16.41%) DataOps
9 21 (16.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 20 (15.63%) Analytics
11 18 (14.06%) Containerisation
11 18 (14.06%) Service Delivery
12 17 (13.28%) Observability
13 16 (12.50%) Requirements Engineering
13 16 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 16 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 41 (32.03%) Python
2 31 (24.22%) SQL
3 16 (12.50%) Bash
3 16 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 9 (7.03%) Java
5 8 (6.25%) Scala
6 6 (4.69%) R
7 2 (1.56%) Go
8 1 (0.78%) C#
8 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.78%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (21.09%) Security Cleared
2 19 (14.84%) DV Cleared
3 11 (8.59%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.47%) Degree
5 4 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.78%) HNC
7 1 (0.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.41%) GDPR
2 17 (13.28%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.78%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (16.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (15.63%) Kubernetes
2 19 (14.84%) Terraform
3 16 (12.50%) Ansible
3 16 (12.50%) Grafana
3 16 (12.50%) HAProxy
3 16 (12.50%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (25.78%) Google
2 18 (14.06%) Databricks
3 6 (4.69%) Alteryx
4 4 (3.13%) Oracle
5 3 (2.34%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.56%) Teradata
6 2 (1.56%) Twitter
7 1 (0.78%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.78%) Informatica