Data Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer salary in the South West is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 134 145
Rank change year-on-year +40 +11 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 139 31 150
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.72% 1.02% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 1.10% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 88 25 101
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £30,385
25th Percentile £47,250 £51,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -18.52%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.08% +9.26% -6.90%

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 7,596 2,810 9,752
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.00% 92.19% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5,292 1,870 7,271
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,750 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 47 £56,250 -40.79% 10
Gloucestershire -4 31 £99,000 +73.68% 24
Devon - 25 £50,000 - 2
Wiltshire -6 15 £48,688 +22.48% 3
Somerset -33 10 £48,240 -10.25% 3
Dorset +9 9 £77,500 - 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 2 July 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 48 (34.53%) Analytics
2 45 (32.37%) Data Pipeline
3 41 (29.50%) Python
4 37 (26.62%) SQL
5 34 (24.46%) ETL
6 32 (23.02%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (23.02%) Data Engineering
7 31 (22.30%) Security Cleared
8 27 (19.42%) AI
8 27 (19.42%) Azure
9 25 (17.99%) AWS
10 21 (15.11%) Data Modelling
10 21 (15.11%) Data Quality
10 21 (15.11%) Data Science
11 19 (13.67%) Agile
11 19 (13.67%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (12.23%) Databricks
13 16 (11.51%) Data Integration
14 13 (9.35%) DV Cleared
14 13 (9.35%) GCP
14 13 (9.35%) Machine Learning
14 13 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (9.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (8.63%) Decision-Making
16 11 (7.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (7.91%) CI/CD
17 10 (7.19%) DevOps
17 10 (7.19%) Microsoft
17 10 (7.19%) Power Platform
18 9 (6.47%) BigQuery

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 8 (5.76%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.32%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.60%) Apache
4 2 (1.44%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 3 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.44%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.42%) Azure
2 25 (17.99%) AWS
3 13 (9.35%) GCP
4 11 (7.91%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (7.19%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (3.60%) dbt
7 5 (3.60%) Serverless
8 4 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.88%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.16%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.44%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.44%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.72%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.72%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.72%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.04%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.44%) Broadband
2 2 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.67%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (9.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (6.47%) BigQuery
4 8 (5.76%) Power BI
4 8 (5.76%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.04%) Big Data
5 7 (5.04%) NoSQL
5 7 (5.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (3.60%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.60%) Star Schema
7 4 (2.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.88%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.44%) Metadata
9 2 (1.44%) OLAP
9 2 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (1.44%) Power Query
9 2 (1.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.60%) Git
2 2 (1.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.72%) DBeaver
3 1 (0.72%) Oracle APEX
General
1 15 (10.79%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (7.91%) Finance
3 10 (7.19%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.76%) Military
5 5 (3.60%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.16%) Banking
6 3 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.44%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.44%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.72%) Law
8 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.72%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.04%) Kafka
2 5 (3.60%) PySpark
3 4 (2.88%) Apache NiFi
4 3 (2.16%) JSON
4 3 (2.16%) XML
5 2 (1.44%) gRPC
5 2 (1.44%) Keycloak
5 2 (1.44%) Node.js
5 2 (1.44%) REST
6 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.04%) Driving Licence
2 6 (4.32%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.88%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.44%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.44%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (1.44%) Over-the-Top Content
5 2 (1.44%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.44%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.72%) Blog
6 1 (0.72%) CCTV
6 1 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.16%) Linux
2 2 (1.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (34.53%) Analytics
2 45 (32.37%) Data Pipeline
3 34 (24.46%) ETL
4 32 (23.02%) Business Intelligence
4 32 (23.02%) Data Engineering
5 27 (19.42%) AI
6 21 (15.11%) Data Modelling
6 21 (15.11%) Data Science
7 19 (13.67%) Agile
8 16 (11.51%) Data Integration
9 13 (9.35%) Machine Learning
9 13 (9.35%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (8.63%) Decision-Making
11 11 (7.91%) CI/CD
12 10 (7.19%) DevOps
13 9 (6.47%) Data Governance
14 8 (5.76%) Actionable Insight
14 8 (5.76%) Cost Reduction
14 8 (5.76%) Performance Tuning
14 8 (5.76%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (29.50%) Python
2 37 (26.62%) SQL
3 5 (3.60%) T-SQL
4 4 (2.88%) Go
4 4 (2.88%) Groovy
4 4 (2.88%) Java
4 4 (2.88%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.16%) VBA
6 2 (1.44%) C#
6 2 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.44%) Scala
6 2 (1.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (22.30%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.35%) DV Cleared
3 9 (6.47%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.44%) Degree
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.60%) SLA
3 2 (1.44%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.44%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (3.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (5.76%) Terraform
2 3 (2.16%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.44%) Ansible
3 2 (1.44%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (12.23%) Databricks
2 10 (7.19%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.16%) Google
4 2 (1.44%) Oracle
4 2 (1.44%) SAP
4 2 (1.44%) Splunk
4 2 (1.44%) Typelevel
5 1 (0.72%) Zoho