Data Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer salary in the South West is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 117 142
Rank change year-on-year +18 +25 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 121 36 152
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.58% 1.32% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.43% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 71 27 109
10th Percentile £42,500 £30,400 £30,385
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £74,375 £95,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £102,410 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 7,197 2,511 9,280
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.03% 92.38% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4,995 1,592 7,029
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,058 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.61% +9.52% -13.32%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend 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 3 June 2026.

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 3 June 2026. 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 +8 46 £52,500 -34.38% 12
Devon - 29 £50,000 - 1
Gloucestershire -18 17 £75,000 +31.58% 13
Wiltshire -11 10 £48,500 +53.97% 4
Somerset -24 10 £48,240 -12.29% 1
Dorset -6 7 £80,000 +3.23% 1
Cornwall - 2 - -
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 3 June 2026, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (36.36%) Analytics
2 42 (34.71%) Data Pipeline
3 41 (33.88%) Python
4 36 (29.75%) Data Engineering
5 35 (28.93%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (28.93%) SQL
6 33 (27.27%) ETL
7 27 (22.31%) Security Cleared
8 24 (19.83%) Azure
9 23 (19.01%) AI
10 22 (18.18%) Data Modelling
11 21 (17.36%) Data Quality
11 21 (17.36%) Data Science
12 19 (15.70%) AWS
13 18 (14.88%) Databricks
14 17 (14.05%) Agile
15 14 (11.57%) Data Integration
15 14 (11.57%) Data Warehouse
15 14 (11.57%) GCP
16 13 (10.74%) DevOps
16 13 (10.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 12 (9.92%) Machine Learning
18 11 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
18 11 (9.09%) CI/CD
18 11 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (9.09%) Structured Cabling
19 10 (8.26%) Power Platform
20 9 (7.44%) Actionable Insight
20 9 (7.44%) BigQuery
20 9 (7.44%) Data Governance

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.79%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.96%) Apache
2 6 (4.96%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.65%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (0.83%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.83%) Azure
2 19 (15.70%) AWS
3 14 (11.57%) GCP
4 11 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (8.26%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.96%) dbt
7 5 (4.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (3.31%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.48%) Amazon SageMaker
9 3 (2.48%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (2.48%) Serverless
10 2 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.65%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.65%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.09%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (4.13%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.65%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.57%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (10.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (7.44%) BigQuery
3 9 (7.44%) Power BI
4 6 (4.96%) Big Data
4 6 (4.96%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.13%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.13%) Metadata
5 5 (4.13%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.13%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (4.13%) Star Schema
6 3 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.65%) Oracle ODI
7 2 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Git
2 1 (0.83%) DBeaver
2 1 (0.83%) Oracle APEX
General
1 15 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (10.74%) Finance
3 11 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 7 (5.79%) Military
4 7 (5.79%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.13%) Manufacturing
5 5 (4.13%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.48%) Banking
6 3 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.79%) PySpark
2 5 (4.13%) Apache NiFi
2 5 (4.13%) Kafka
3 2 (1.65%) gRPC
4 1 (0.83%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.83%) JSON
4 1 (0.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.96%) Cloud Native
1 6 (4.96%) Driving Licence
2 5 (4.13%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.13%) Fibre Optics
2 5 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (3.31%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.65%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.65%) Over-the-Top Content
4 2 (1.65%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.65%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.83%) Blog
5 1 (0.83%) CCTV
5 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (36.36%) Analytics
2 42 (34.71%) Data Pipeline
3 36 (29.75%) Data Engineering
4 35 (28.93%) Business Intelligence
5 33 (27.27%) ETL
6 23 (19.01%) AI
7 22 (18.18%) Data Modelling
8 21 (17.36%) Data Science
9 17 (14.05%) Agile
10 14 (11.57%) Data Integration
11 13 (10.74%) DevOps
12 12 (9.92%) Machine Learning
13 11 (9.09%) CI/CD
13 11 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (7.44%) Actionable Insight
14 9 (7.44%) Data Governance
15 8 (6.61%) Data Strategy
15 8 (6.61%) Decision-Making
15 8 (6.61%) Platform Engineering
16 7 (5.79%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 41 (33.88%) Python
2 35 (28.93%) SQL
3 5 (4.13%) Groovy
3 5 (4.13%) Java
4 4 (3.31%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.31%) Scala
5 3 (2.48%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.65%) Go
6 2 (1.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 27 (22.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.44%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.79%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.83%) Degree
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.36%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.96%) SLA
3 3 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (4.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (6.61%) Terraform
2 3 (2.48%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.83%) Control-M
Vendors
1 18 (14.88%) Databricks
2 9 (7.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.65%) Google
3 2 (1.65%) Oracle
3 2 (1.65%) Splunk
3 2 (1.65%) Typelevel
4 1 (0.83%) BMC
4 1 (0.83%) Foundry
4 1 (0.83%) IBM
4 1 (0.83%) Palantir
4 1 (0.83%) Talend
4 1 (0.83%) Zoho