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 26 May 2026.

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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 120 143
Rank change year-on-year +13 +23 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 115 33 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.49% 1.26% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.36% 1.66%
Number of salaries quoted 70 24 107
10th Percentile £42,443 £29,950 £30,385
25th Percentile £45,875 £43,298 £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 £72,813 £96,853 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,250 £102,410 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -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 7,259 2,423 8,924
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 92.34% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 5,007 1,539 6,798
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,983
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,365
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,198 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +2.40% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,575 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,777
% change year-on-year -4.35% +8.95% -13.20%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 +6 46 £53,750 -32.81% 16
Devon - 29 £50,000 - 3
Gloucestershire - 14 £75,000 - 12
Wiltshire -12 10 £48,500 +51.56% 2
Dorset -8 7 £80,000 -
Somerset -28 7 £48,240 -12.29% 6
Cornwall - 2 - -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 May 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 43 (37.39%) Analytics
2 40 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
3 37 (32.17%) Python
4 35 (30.43%) Data Engineering
5 33 (28.70%) SQL
6 32 (27.83%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (26.96%) ETL
8 25 (21.74%) Security Cleared
9 23 (20.00%) Azure
10 22 (19.13%) Data Modelling
11 21 (18.26%) Data Quality
12 18 (15.65%) AI
12 18 (15.65%) Data Science
13 17 (14.78%) AWS
13 17 (14.78%) Databricks
14 15 (13.04%) Agile
15 13 (11.30%) Data Integration
15 13 (11.30%) Data Warehouse
16 12 (10.43%) DevOps
16 12 (10.43%) GCP
16 12 (10.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 11 (9.57%) Azure Data Factory
17 11 (9.57%) Machine Learning
17 11 (9.57%) Power Platform
17 11 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
17 11 (9.57%) Structured Cabling
18 10 (8.70%) CI/CD
18 10 (8.70%) Microsoft
18 10 (8.70%) Power BI
19 9 (7.83%) Actionable Insight

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 (6.09%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.22%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.35%) Apache
4 2 (1.74%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 23 (20.00%) Azure
2 17 (14.78%) AWS
3 12 (10.43%) GCP
4 11 (9.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (9.57%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.22%) dbt
6 5 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (3.48%) Snowflake
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.61%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.61%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.61%) Serverless
9 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.74%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.74%) Azure Stack
9 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.87%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.87%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.57%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.74%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.30%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (10.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 10 (8.70%) Power BI
4 6 (5.22%) Big Data
4 6 (5.22%) BigQuery
5 5 (4.35%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.35%) Metadata
5 5 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
5 5 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (4.35%) Star Schema
6 4 (3.48%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.74%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.87%) DB2
9 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Git
2 1 (0.87%) DBeaver
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
General
1 15 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (11.30%) Finance
3 10 (8.70%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.09%) Military
5 6 (5.22%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.35%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.61%) Banking
7 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Law
9 1 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.87%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.09%) PySpark
2 4 (3.48%) Apache NiFi
2 4 (3.48%) Kafka
3 2 (1.74%) gRPC
4 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.87%) JSON
4 1 (0.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.22%) Driving Licence
2 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.35%) Fibre Optics
3 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.74%) Over-the-Top Content
4 2 (1.74%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.74%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.87%) Blog
5 1 (0.87%) CCTV
5 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.87%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.87%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (37.39%) Analytics
2 40 (34.78%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (30.43%) Data Engineering
4 32 (27.83%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (26.96%) ETL
6 22 (19.13%) Data Modelling
7 18 (15.65%) AI
7 18 (15.65%) Data Science
8 15 (13.04%) Agile
9 13 (11.30%) Data Integration
10 12 (10.43%) DevOps
11 11 (9.57%) Machine Learning
11 11 (9.57%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (8.70%) CI/CD
13 9 (7.83%) Actionable Insight
13 9 (7.83%) Decision-Making
14 8 (6.96%) Data Governance
15 7 (6.09%) Data Architecture
15 7 (6.09%) Data Strategy
15 7 (6.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (32.17%) Python
2 33 (28.70%) SQL
3 4 (3.48%) Groovy
3 4 (3.48%) Java
3 4 (3.48%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.48%) Scala
4 3 (2.61%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.74%) Go
5 2 (1.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.09%) DV Cleared
2 7 (6.09%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.87%) Degree
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.26%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.22%) SLA
3 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.74%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (3.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.09%) Terraform
2 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.87%) Control-M
Vendors
1 17 (14.78%) Databricks
2 10 (8.70%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.74%) Google
3 2 (1.74%) Oracle
3 2 (1.74%) Splunk
3 2 (1.74%) Typelevel
4 1 (0.87%) BMC
4 1 (0.87%) Foundry
4 1 (0.87%) IBM
4 1 (0.87%) Palantir
4 1 (0.87%) Talend
4 1 (0.87%) Zoho