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 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 128 143
Rank change year-on-year +43 +15 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 182 35 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.90% 1.02% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.11% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 120 29 66
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £81,875
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 8,982 3,147 7,353
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.78% 92.04% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,188 2,092 4,986
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -8.65% -5.25%
75th Percentile £73,813 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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
Gloucestershire +19 84 £85,000 +49.12% 33
Bristol -9 51 £60,000 -15.79% 22
Devon -9 17 £50,000 - 1
Wiltshire 0 16 £51,375 +10.48% 1
Somerset -29 10 £48,240 -8.12% 4
Dorset -6 3 £75,000 -3.23% 4
Cornwall - 1 - -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 September 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 70 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
2 68 (37.36%) Analytics
3 64 (35.16%) Security Cleared
4 60 (32.97%) Python
5 58 (31.87%) ETL
6 57 (31.32%) SQL
7 54 (29.67%) AI
8 41 (22.53%) Data Engineering
9 40 (21.98%) AWS
10 39 (21.43%) DV Cleared
11 35 (19.23%) Agile
12 32 (17.58%) Azure
13 31 (17.03%) Data Science
14 30 (16.48%) Business Intelligence
15 29 (15.93%) Data Modelling
16 28 (15.38%) Decision-Making
16 28 (15.38%) DevOps
17 27 (14.84%) Data Quality
18 26 (14.29%) SC Cleared
19 25 (13.74%) CI/CD
20 24 (13.19%) Data Integration
21 23 (12.64%) Apache
22 22 (12.09%) Data Warehouse
22 22 (12.09%) Kafka
22 22 (12.09%) NoSQL
23 21 (11.54%) Machine Learning
24 19 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
25 17 (9.34%) Databricks
26 16 (8.79%) Big Data
26 16 (8.79%) Software Engineering

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 23 (12.64%) Apache
2 14 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 40 (21.98%) AWS
2 32 (17.58%) Azure
3 14 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (7.14%) GCP
5 12 (6.59%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (2.75%) Azure Machine Learning
7 5 (2.75%) dbt
7 5 (2.75%) Serverless
7 5 (2.75%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.65%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.55%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.55%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.55%) Cloud Composer
9 1 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.55%) Fivetran
9 1 (0.55%) GitHub
9 1 (0.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.10%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.55%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.09%) Data Warehouse
1 22 (12.09%) NoSQL
2 16 (8.79%) Big Data
3 13 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (6.59%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.04%) Hadoop
6 10 (5.49%) BigQuery
6 10 (5.49%) Power BI
7 9 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (4.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (4.40%) MongoDB
8 8 (4.40%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.20%) OLAP
9 4 (2.20%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.65%) ClickHouse
11 2 (1.10%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (3.30%) Git
2 4 (2.20%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (7.69%) Finance
3 11 (6.04%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.40%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.85%) Military
6 5 (2.75%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.09%) Kafka
2 14 (7.69%) Terraform
3 13 (7.14%) Apache NiFi
4 9 (4.95%) Keycloak
4 9 (4.95%) PySpark
5 2 (1.10%) JSON
5 2 (1.10%) Node.js
5 2 (1.10%) REST
5 2 (1.10%) XML
6 1 (0.55%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.55%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.49%) Cloud Native
1 10 (5.49%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (3.85%) Driving Licence
3 4 (2.20%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.20%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.20%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.65%) IoT
5 1 (0.55%) Blog
5 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.55%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.55%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.20%) Linux
1 4 (2.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
2 68 (37.36%) Analytics
3 58 (31.87%) ETL
4 54 (29.67%) AI
5 41 (22.53%) Data Engineering
6 35 (19.23%) Agile
7 31 (17.03%) Data Science
8 30 (16.48%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (15.93%) Data Modelling
10 28 (15.38%) Decision-Making
10 28 (15.38%) DevOps
11 25 (13.74%) CI/CD
12 24 (13.19%) Data Integration
13 21 (11.54%) Machine Learning
14 19 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (8.79%) Software Engineering
16 15 (8.24%) Data Strategy
17 14 (7.69%) ETL Development
17 14 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 13 (7.14%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 60 (32.97%) Python
2 57 (31.32%) SQL
3 14 (7.69%) Java
4 10 (5.49%) Go
5 8 (4.40%) Groovy
6 6 (3.30%) Scala
7 4 (2.20%) C#
7 4 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.20%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.65%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.65%) VBA
9 2 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 64 (35.16%) Security Cleared
2 39 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 26 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.49%) Degree
5 9 (4.95%) Azure Certification
6 8 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.84%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.49%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.65%) GDPR
4 2 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.30%) Ansible
3 4 (2.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (9.34%) Databricks
2 10 (5.49%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.20%) Google
4 2 (1.10%) SAP
4 2 (1.10%) Splunk
5 1 (0.55%) Infor
5 1 (0.55%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.55%) Typelevel
5 1 (0.55%) Zoho