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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 131 154
Rank change year-on-year +43 +23 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 193 38 87
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.92% 1.09% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 1.17% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 131 28 61
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £50,688 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 9,336 3,236 7,130
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 92.59% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,476 2,122 4,624
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,250 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -11.06% -4.74%
75th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +15 89 £85,000 +8.28% 39
Bristol -6 56 £60,000 -14.29% 42
Devon -13 17 £50,000 - 2
Wiltshire -1 16 £51,375 +10.48% 5
Somerset -24 10 £48,240 -8.12% 12
Dorset -2 4 £75,000 -3.23% 2
Cornwall - 1 - -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 73 (37.82%) Analytics
1 73 (37.82%) Data Pipeline
2 67 (34.72%) Security Cleared
3 63 (32.64%) Python
4 62 (32.12%) ETL
5 59 (30.57%) SQL
6 55 (28.50%) AI
7 43 (22.28%) Data Engineering
8 42 (21.76%) AWS
9 41 (21.24%) DV Cleared
10 36 (18.65%) Azure
11 35 (18.13%) Agile
12 31 (16.06%) DevOps
13 30 (15.54%) Business Intelligence
13 30 (15.54%) Data Modelling
13 30 (15.54%) Data Science
13 30 (15.54%) Decision-Making
14 29 (15.03%) SC Cleared
15 28 (14.51%) Data Quality
16 27 (13.99%) CI/CD
17 25 (12.95%) Data Integration
18 23 (11.92%) Apache
18 23 (11.92%) Kafka
19 22 (11.40%) Data Warehouse
19 22 (11.40%) NoSQL
20 21 (10.88%) Machine Learning
21 20 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
22 17 (8.81%) Azure Data Factory
22 17 (8.81%) Databricks
22 17 (8.81%) Software Engineering

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 23 (11.92%) Apache
2 14 (7.25%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 42 (21.76%) AWS
2 36 (18.65%) Azure
3 17 (8.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (6.74%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.22%) GCP
6 7 (3.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (3.11%) Serverless
8 5 (2.59%) Azure Machine Learning
8 5 (2.59%) dbt
8 5 (2.59%) Snowflake
9 4 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (2.07%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.04%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.52%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.52%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.52%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.52%) Cloud Composer
12 1 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.52%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.04%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (0.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.40%) Data Warehouse
1 22 (11.40%) NoSQL
2 16 (8.29%) Big Data
3 14 (7.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (6.74%) Data Lake
5 11 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (5.70%) Hadoop
5 11 (5.70%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.70%) Power BI
6 10 (5.18%) BigQuery
6 10 (5.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 8 (4.15%) SQL Server
8 7 (3.63%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.07%) OLAP
9 4 (2.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.55%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.55%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 7 (3.63%) Git
2 4 (2.07%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (7.77%) Finance
3 11 (5.70%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.15%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.63%) Military
6 5 (2.59%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.52%) Legal
7 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.52%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.92%) Kafka
2 14 (7.25%) Terraform
3 12 (6.22%) Apache NiFi
4 11 (5.70%) Keycloak
4 11 (5.70%) PySpark
5 3 (1.55%) JSON
6 2 (1.04%) Node.js
6 2 (1.04%) REST
6 2 (1.04%) XML
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.52%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (5.18%) Cloud Native
3 7 (3.63%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.07%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.07%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.07%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.55%) IoT
6 1 (0.52%) Blog
6 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.52%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.52%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.52%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.07%) Linux
1 4 (2.07%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (37.82%) Analytics
1 73 (37.82%) Data Pipeline
2 62 (32.12%) ETL
3 55 (28.50%) AI
4 43 (22.28%) Data Engineering
5 35 (18.13%) Agile
6 31 (16.06%) DevOps
7 30 (15.54%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (15.54%) Data Modelling
7 30 (15.54%) Data Science
7 30 (15.54%) Decision-Making
8 27 (13.99%) CI/CD
9 25 (12.95%) Data Integration
10 21 (10.88%) Machine Learning
11 20 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (8.81%) Software Engineering
13 16 (8.29%) ETL Development
14 15 (7.77%) Data Security
15 14 (7.25%) Data Strategy
15 14 (7.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 63 (32.64%) Python
2 59 (30.57%) SQL
3 14 (7.25%) Java
4 12 (6.22%) Go
5 7 (3.63%) Groovy
6 6 (3.11%) Scala
7 4 (2.07%) C#
7 4 (2.07%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.07%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.55%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.55%) VBA
9 2 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 67 (34.72%) Security Cleared
2 41 (21.24%) DV Cleared
3 29 (15.03%) SC Cleared
4 11 (5.70%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.18%) Degree
6 8 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.51%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.70%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.55%) GDPR
4 2 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (6.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (6.74%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.11%) Ansible
3 4 (2.07%) Packer
Vendors
1 17 (8.81%) Databricks
2 11 (5.70%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.55%) Google
4 2 (1.04%) SAP
4 2 (1.04%) Splunk
5 1 (0.52%) Infor
5 1 (0.52%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.52%) Typelevel
5 1 (0.52%) Zoho