Data Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer salary in the South West is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 129 145
Rank change year-on-year +36 +16 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 153 33 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.84% 1.00% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 1.08% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 99 27 95
10th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £30,385
25th Percentile £48,625 £51,875 £34,953
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -19.12%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -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 7,807 3,047 9,369
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 92.00% 96.00%
Number of salaries quoted 5,357 2,047 6,972
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,500 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,300 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +3.77% -11.67%

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 13 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 13 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 +3 48 £56,250 -40.79% 6
Gloucestershire +9 46 £80,000 +40.35% 20
Devon - 23 £50,000 - 1
Wiltshire -1 16 £48,875 +22.96% 3
Somerset -33 10 £48,240 -10.25% 2
Dorset +4 8 £75,000 -4.76% 2
Cornwall - 2 - -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 53 (34.64%) Analytics
2 52 (33.99%) Data Pipeline
3 46 (30.07%) Python
4 45 (29.41%) SQL
5 43 (28.10%) ETL
6 38 (24.84%) Security Cleared
7 35 (22.88%) Data Engineering
8 34 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
9 31 (20.26%) AI
9 31 (20.26%) Azure
10 27 (17.65%) AWS
11 25 (16.34%) Data Modelling
12 24 (15.69%) Data Integration
13 23 (15.03%) Data Science
14 22 (14.38%) Agile
14 22 (14.38%) Data Quality
15 21 (13.73%) DV Cleared
16 20 (13.07%) Data Warehouse
17 18 (11.76%) Databricks
18 14 (9.15%) Decision-Making
18 14 (9.15%) DevOps
18 14 (9.15%) GCP
18 14 (9.15%) NoSQL
18 14 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
18 14 (9.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 13 (8.50%) Azure Data Factory
19 13 (8.50%) Machine Learning
20 12 (7.84%) Data Governance
21 11 (7.19%) Apache
21 11 (7.19%) CI/CD

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 11 (7.19%) Apache
2 8 (5.23%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.26%) Azure
2 27 (17.65%) AWS
3 14 (9.15%) GCP
4 13 (8.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (7.19%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (3.27%) dbt
7 5 (3.27%) Serverless
8 3 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.96%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (1.96%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.65%) Anthropic Claude
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.65%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.65%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.27%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.31%) Broadband
3 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.07%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (9.15%) NoSQL
2 14 (9.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (5.88%) BigQuery
3 9 (5.88%) Power BI
4 8 (5.23%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (4.58%) Big Data
5 7 (4.58%) MongoDB
6 6 (3.92%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.61%) Star Schema
8 3 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.96%) OLAP
8 3 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.96%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.31%) Metadata
9 2 (1.31%) Power Query
9 2 (1.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Git
2 3 (1.96%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle APEX
General
1 16 (10.46%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (7.19%) Finance
3 10 (6.54%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.23%) Military
5 6 (3.92%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.96%) Banking
6 3 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.65%) Law
7 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Social Housing
7 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.19%) Kafka
2 7 (4.58%) Apache NiFi
2 7 (4.58%) PySpark
3 3 (1.96%) JSON
3 3 (1.96%) Keycloak
3 3 (1.96%) XML
4 2 (1.31%) gRPC
4 2 (1.31%) Node.js
4 2 (1.31%) REST
5 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.58%) Driving Licence
2 6 (3.92%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.61%) Algorithms
3 4 (2.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.96%) Data Structures
4 3 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.31%) Over-the-Top Content
5 2 (1.31%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.31%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.65%) Blog
6 1 (0.65%) CCTV
6 1 (0.65%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.65%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.65%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.61%) Linux
2 3 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.64%) Analytics
2 52 (33.99%) Data Pipeline
3 43 (28.10%) ETL
4 35 (22.88%) Data Engineering
5 34 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (20.26%) AI
7 25 (16.34%) Data Modelling
8 24 (15.69%) Data Integration
9 23 (15.03%) Data Science
10 22 (14.38%) Agile
11 14 (9.15%) Decision-Making
11 14 (9.15%) DevOps
11 14 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (8.50%) Machine Learning
13 12 (7.84%) Data Governance
14 11 (7.19%) CI/CD
14 11 (7.19%) Platform Engineering
15 10 (6.54%) Cost Reduction
15 10 (6.54%) Data Strategy
16 9 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 46 (30.07%) Python
2 45 (29.41%) SQL
3 7 (4.58%) Groovy
3 7 (4.58%) Java
4 5 (3.27%) Go
4 5 (3.27%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.61%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.96%) C#
6 3 (1.96%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.96%) VBA
7 2 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.31%) Scala
7 2 (1.31%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (24.84%) Security Cleared
2 21 (13.73%) DV Cleared
3 10 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.96%) Azure Certification
4 3 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.31%) Degree
6 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.38%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.61%) SLA
3 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.31%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (6.54%) Terraform
2 4 (2.61%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.96%) Ansible
3 3 (1.96%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (11.76%) Databricks
2 11 (7.19%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.61%) Google
4 2 (1.31%) SAP
4 2 (1.31%) Splunk
4 2 (1.31%) Typelevel
5 1 (0.65%) Oracle
5 1 (0.65%) Zoho