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 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 135 158
Rank change year-on-year +55 +23 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 203 39 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.91% 1.09% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 1.17% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 135 26 46
10th Percentile £48,163 £47,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,750 £47,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £71,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +1.79% -3.45%
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 9,827 3,332 6,242
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.99% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,744 2,160 3,856
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 £62,575 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +8.18% -2.70% -5.79%

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 14 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 14 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 +18 109 £85,000 +8.28% 20
Bristol -8 56 £60,000 -14.29% 27
Wiltshire -10 14 £51,375 +10.48% 3
Somerset -20 11 £48,240 -8.12% 2
Devon -32 6 £50,000 - 1
Dorset -5 5 £75,000 -3.23% 2
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 79 (38.92%) Data Pipeline
2 74 (36.45%) Analytics
3 71 (34.98%) Security Cleared
4 65 (32.02%) ETL
5 60 (29.56%) Python
5 60 (29.56%) SQL
6 51 (25.12%) AI
7 45 (22.17%) DV Cleared
8 42 (20.69%) AWS
8 42 (20.69%) Data Engineering
9 36 (17.73%) Azure
10 33 (16.26%) SC Cleared
11 32 (15.76%) Agile
11 32 (15.76%) Data Modelling
11 32 (15.76%) Decision-Making
11 32 (15.76%) DevOps
12 28 (13.79%) Apache
13 27 (13.30%) Data Integration
13 27 (13.30%) Data Science
13 27 (13.30%) NoSQL
14 24 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (11.82%) CI/CD
14 24 (11.82%) Kafka
15 22 (10.84%) Data Quality
15 22 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
16 18 (8.87%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (8.87%) Data Security
16 18 (8.87%) Machine Learning
17 16 (7.88%) Big Data
17 16 (7.88%) 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 28 (13.79%) Apache
2 15 (7.39%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 42 (20.69%) AWS
2 36 (17.73%) Azure
3 18 (8.87%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (4.93%) GCP
4 10 (4.93%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.94%) Serverless
6 6 (2.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (2.46%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.46%) dbt
7 5 (2.46%) Snowflake
8 4 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (1.97%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.97%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (1.97%) SaaS
9 2 (0.99%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.99%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.49%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.49%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.49%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.30%) NoSQL
2 22 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (7.88%) Big Data
4 13 (6.40%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.42%) Hadoop
5 11 (5.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 10 (4.93%) BigQuery
6 10 (4.93%) Data Lake
7 9 (4.43%) Power BI
8 6 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (2.96%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (2.46%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.97%) OLAP
10 4 (1.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (1.48%) ClickHouse
12 2 (0.99%) Power Query
12 2 (0.99%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (2.46%) Git
1 5 (2.46%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.49%) Claude Code
General
1 18 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (7.88%) Finance
3 13 (6.40%) Social Skills
4 8 (3.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.46%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.46%) Military
6 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.49%) Legal
6 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.82%) Kafka
2 13 (6.40%) Keycloak
3 12 (5.91%) Apache NiFi
3 12 (5.91%) PySpark
3 12 (5.91%) Terraform
4 3 (1.48%) JSON
5 2 (0.99%) Node.js
5 2 (0.99%) REST
5 2 (0.99%) XML
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (5.91%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.46%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (2.46%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.97%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.48%) IoT
6 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.99%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.49%) Blog
7 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.46%) Linux
1 5 (2.46%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (38.92%) Data Pipeline
2 74 (36.45%) Analytics
3 65 (32.02%) ETL
4 51 (25.12%) AI
5 42 (20.69%) Data Engineering
6 32 (15.76%) Agile
6 32 (15.76%) Data Modelling
6 32 (15.76%) Decision-Making
6 32 (15.76%) DevOps
7 27 (13.30%) Data Integration
7 27 (13.30%) Data Science
8 24 (11.82%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (11.82%) CI/CD
9 18 (8.87%) Data Security
9 18 (8.87%) Machine Learning
10 16 (7.88%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (7.88%) Software Engineering
10 16 (7.88%) Workflow
11 15 (7.39%) ETL Development
12 14 (6.90%) Batch Processing
Programming Languages
1 60 (29.56%) Python
1 60 (29.56%) SQL
2 13 (6.40%) Go
2 13 (6.40%) Java
3 6 (2.96%) Groovy
4 5 (2.46%) Scala
5 4 (1.97%) C#
5 4 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.48%) VBA
7 2 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.99%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.99%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.99%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 71 (34.98%) Security Cleared
2 45 (22.17%) DV Cleared
3 33 (16.26%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.40%) Azure Certification
5 11 (5.42%) Degree
6 8 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.84%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (5.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.45%) Ansible
3 5 (2.46%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (5.91%) Databricks
1 12 (5.91%) Microsoft
2 3 (1.48%) Google
3 2 (0.99%) SAP
4 1 (0.49%) Ab Initio
4 1 (0.49%) Infor
4 1 (0.49%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.49%) Oracle
4 1 (0.49%) Splunk