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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 131 157
Rank change year-on-year +46 +26 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 197 38 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.87% 1.06% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.02% 1.14% 1.10%
Number of salaries quoted 131 26 47
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,750 £48,496
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +1.79% -2.15%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 9,740 3,332 6,433
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 93.12% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 6,699 2,153 3,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,281
% change year-on-year +7.27% -0.51% -7.87%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 +15 105 £85,000 +8.28% 16
Bristol -8 55 £60,000 -14.29% 29
Wiltshire -8 14 £51,375 +10.48% 5
Somerset -16 10 £48,240 -8.12% 5
Devon -29 6 £50,000 - 3
Dorset 0 5 £75,000 -3.23%
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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 76 (38.58%) Data Pipeline
2 73 (37.06%) Analytics
3 69 (35.03%) Security Cleared
4 61 (30.96%) ETL
5 59 (29.95%) Python
6 57 (28.93%) SQL
7 50 (25.38%) AI
8 43 (21.83%) DV Cleared
9 41 (20.81%) Data Engineering
10 40 (20.30%) AWS
11 36 (18.27%) Azure
12 33 (16.75%) SC Cleared
13 32 (16.24%) Decision-Making
13 32 (16.24%) DevOps
14 31 (15.74%) Agile
14 31 (15.74%) Data Modelling
15 27 (13.71%) Data Science
16 26 (13.20%) Apache
17 25 (12.69%) Data Integration
17 25 (12.69%) NoSQL
18 24 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
18 24 (12.18%) CI/CD
18 24 (12.18%) Kafka
19 22 (11.17%) Data Quality
20 21 (10.66%) Data Warehouse
21 18 (9.14%) Azure Data Factory
21 18 (9.14%) Data Security
21 18 (9.14%) Machine Learning
22 16 (8.12%) Big Data
22 16 (8.12%) Problem-Solving

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 26 (13.20%) Apache
2 15 (7.61%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 40 (20.30%) AWS
2 36 (18.27%) Azure
3 18 (9.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (5.08%) GCP
4 10 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 7 (3.55%) Serverless
6 6 (3.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (2.03%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.03%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (2.03%) dbt
8 4 (2.03%) SaaS
8 4 (2.03%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.51%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.51%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.51%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (0.51%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.51%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.69%) NoSQL
2 21 (10.66%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (8.12%) Big Data
4 13 (6.60%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (6.60%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.58%) Hadoop
5 11 (5.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (5.08%) BigQuery
6 10 (5.08%) Data Lake
7 9 (4.57%) Power BI
8 6 (3.05%) MongoDB
8 6 (3.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (2.54%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.03%) OLAP
10 4 (2.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.52%) ClickHouse
12 2 (1.02%) Power Query
12 2 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.54%) Git
1 5 (2.54%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (9.14%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (7.11%) Finance
3 13 (6.60%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.06%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.54%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.54%) Military
6 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.51%) Legal
6 1 (0.51%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.18%) Kafka
2 13 (6.60%) Keycloak
3 12 (6.09%) Apache NiFi
3 12 (6.09%) Terraform
4 11 (5.58%) PySpark
5 3 (1.52%) JSON
6 2 (1.02%) Node.js
6 2 (1.02%) REST
6 2 (1.02%) XML
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.51%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (6.09%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.54%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.54%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (2.54%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.03%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.52%) IoT
6 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.02%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.51%) Blog
7 1 (0.51%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.54%) Linux
1 5 (2.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (38.58%) Data Pipeline
2 73 (37.06%) Analytics
3 61 (30.96%) ETL
4 50 (25.38%) AI
5 41 (20.81%) Data Engineering
6 32 (16.24%) Decision-Making
6 32 (16.24%) DevOps
7 31 (15.74%) Agile
7 31 (15.74%) Data Modelling
8 27 (13.71%) Data Science
9 25 (12.69%) Data Integration
10 24 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (12.18%) CI/CD
11 18 (9.14%) Data Security
11 18 (9.14%) Machine Learning
12 16 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (8.12%) Software Engineering
12 16 (8.12%) Workflow
13 15 (7.61%) ETL Development
14 14 (7.11%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 59 (29.95%) Python
2 57 (28.93%) SQL
3 13 (6.60%) Go
3 13 (6.60%) Java
4 6 (3.05%) Groovy
5 5 (2.54%) Scala
6 4 (2.03%) C#
6 4 (2.03%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.52%) VBA
8 2 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.02%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.02%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.02%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 69 (35.03%) Security Cleared
2 43 (21.83%) DV Cleared
3 33 (16.75%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.60%) Azure Certification
5 11 (5.58%) Degree
6 8 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.17%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.58%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (5.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (7.61%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.55%) Ansible
3 5 (2.54%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (6.09%) Databricks
1 12 (6.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.52%) Google
3 2 (1.02%) SAP
4 1 (0.51%) Infor
4 1 (0.51%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.51%) Splunk