Data Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer salary in the South West is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 125 145
Rank change year-on-year +19 +20 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 124 32 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.58% 1.12% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.21% 1.57%
Number of salaries quoted 75 26 107
10th Percentile £45,000 £46,490 £30,385
25th Percentile £47,063 £51,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,750 £102,410 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -10.34%

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 7,387 2,645 10,043
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 92.32% 96.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,152 1,720 7,463
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 £67,500 £64,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,800 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.86%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -2 45 £56,250 -40.79% 10
Devon - 27 £50,000 - 1
Gloucestershire -5 21 £75,000 +31.58% 11
Wiltshire -8 12 £48,500 +46.97% 3
Somerset -28 10 £48,240 -12.29% 3
Dorset +4 7 £80,000 +3.23% 3
Cornwall - 2 - -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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 43 (34.68%) Analytics
2 42 (33.87%) Data Pipeline
3 38 (30.65%) Python
4 34 (27.42%) SQL
5 31 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 28 (22.58%) ETL
6 28 (22.58%) Security Cleared
7 25 (20.16%) AI
8 24 (19.35%) Azure
9 21 (16.94%) Data Science
10 19 (15.32%) AWS
10 19 (15.32%) Data Modelling
11 18 (14.52%) Data Quality
12 17 (13.71%) Databricks
13 15 (12.10%) Data Warehouse
14 14 (11.29%) Agile
14 14 (11.29%) Data Integration
15 13 (10.48%) GCP
16 12 (9.68%) Machine Learning
17 11 (8.87%) CI/CD
17 11 (8.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 10 (8.06%) Azure Data Factory
18 10 (8.06%) DV Cleared
18 10 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
18 10 (8.06%) Structured Cabling
19 9 (7.26%) BigQuery
19 9 (7.26%) Data Governance
19 9 (7.26%) Power Platform
20 8 (6.45%) Actionable Insight

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 (6.45%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.03%) Apache
4 2 (1.61%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.81%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 24 (19.35%) Azure
2 19 (15.32%) AWS
3 13 (10.48%) GCP
4 10 (8.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (7.26%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.03%) dbt
8 4 (3.23%) Serverless
8 4 (3.23%) Snowflake
9 3 (2.42%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.61%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.81%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.81%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.06%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.61%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.10%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (8.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (7.26%) BigQuery
4 7 (5.65%) Big Data
4 7 (5.65%) Power BI
4 7 (5.65%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.84%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.03%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 5 (4.03%) Star Schema
7 4 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.23%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.61%) Metadata
8 2 (1.61%) Oracle ODI
8 2 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.81%) Power Query
9 1 (0.81%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.03%) Git
2 1 (0.81%) DBeaver
2 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.81%) Oracle APEX
General
1 13 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (8.87%) Finance
3 10 (8.06%) Social Skills
4 7 (5.65%) Military
5 5 (4.03%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.42%) Banking
7 3 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.81%) Law
8 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.03%) Kafka
2 4 (3.23%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (2.42%) PySpark
4 2 (1.61%) gRPC
4 2 (1.61%) JSON
4 2 (1.61%) XML
5 1 (0.81%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.81%) Node.js
5 1 (0.81%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.84%) Cloud Native
1 6 (4.84%) Driving Licence
2 4 (3.23%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.23%) Data Centre
2 4 (3.23%) Fibre Optics
2 4 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.61%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.61%) Over-the-Top Content
3 2 (1.61%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.61%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (0.81%) Blog
4 1 (0.81%) CCTV
4 1 (0.81%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (0.81%) Low-Code
4 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (34.68%) Analytics
2 42 (33.87%) Data Pipeline
3 31 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 28 (22.58%) ETL
5 25 (20.16%) AI
6 21 (16.94%) Data Science
7 19 (15.32%) Data Modelling
8 14 (11.29%) Agile
8 14 (11.29%) Data Integration
9 12 (9.68%) Machine Learning
10 11 (8.87%) CI/CD
11 10 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (7.26%) Data Governance
13 8 (6.45%) Actionable Insight
13 8 (6.45%) DevOps
13 8 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
14 7 (5.65%) Cost Reduction
14 7 (5.65%) Data Strategy
14 7 (5.65%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 38 (30.65%) Python
2 34 (27.42%) SQL
3 4 (3.23%) Groovy
3 4 (3.23%) Java
3 4 (3.23%) T-SQL
4 3 (2.42%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.42%) VBA
5 2 (1.61%) Go
5 2 (1.61%) Scala
6 1 (0.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.06%) DV Cleared
3 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.61%) Degree
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.52%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.84%) SLA
3 2 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (4.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.65%) Terraform
2 3 (2.42%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) Ansible
3 1 (0.81%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (13.71%) Databricks
2 8 (6.45%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.61%) Google
3 2 (1.61%) Oracle
3 2 (1.61%) Splunk
3 2 (1.61%) Typelevel
4 1 (0.81%) SAP
4 1 (0.81%) Zoho