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 17 October 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 132 157
Rank change year-on-year +48 +25 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 206 39 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.92% 1.09% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 1.17% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 136 27 46
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £53,000 £47,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +9.43% -8.62%
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.

6 months to
17 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 9,892 3,338 6,150
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 93.08% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6,781 2,167 3,795
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 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.89% -7.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,000 £54,793 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.68% -4.71% -4.17%

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 17 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 17 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 +17 112 £85,000 +8.28% 24
Bristol -15 55 £61,250 -14.04% 34
Wiltshire -5 16 £51,375 +10.48% 14
Somerset -24 11 £48,240 -8.12% 7
Dorset -8 5 £75,000 -3.23%
Devon -21 4 £50,000 - 1
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Data Pipeline39.8%82
2Security Cleared35.9%74
3Analytics35.4%73
4ETL33.0%68
5Python30.6%63
6SQL30.1%62
7AI24.8%51
8DV Cleared22.8%47
9Data Engineering21.8%45
10AWS20.4%42
11Azure18.0%37
12Data Modelling16.5%34
12Decision-Making16.5%34
12SC Cleared16.5%34
15DevOps16.0%33
16Agile15.5%32
17Apache14.1%29
17Data Integration14.1%29
19Data Science13.1%27
19NoSQL13.1%27
21CI/CD12.1%25
22Data Quality11.7%24
22Kafka11.7%24
24Data Warehouse11.2%23
25Business Intelligence10.7%22
26Azure Data Factory8.7%18
26Data Security8.7%18
26Machine Learning8.7%18
29Big Data7.8%16
29Software Engineering7.8%16

Data Engineer Skill Set Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Job Titles

RankJob TitleShareJob Ads
1Senior Data Engineer16.0%33
2Lead Data Engineer14.6%30
3Security Engineer8.3%17
4Kafka Engineer7.8%16
5AWS Data Engineer7.3%15
6Azure Data Engineer6.8%14
6Python Data Engineer6.8%14
8Elasticsearch Engineer6.3%13
9GCP Data Engineer4.9%10
9Principal Data Engineer4.9%10
11Artificial Intelligence Engineer4.4%9
12Artificial Intelligence Architect2.4%5
12Data Analytics Engineer2.4%5
12Data Architect2.4%5
12Integration Engineer2.4%5
12Junior Data Engineer2.4%5
17Data Scientist1.9%4
18Big Data Engineer1.5%3
18Databricks Data Engineer1.5%3
18Platform Engineer1.5%3
81 Data Engineer jobs in the South West