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 1 October 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 129 156
Rank change year-on-year +37 +27 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 199 40 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.91% 1.13% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% 1.22% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 138 27 50
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £50,828 £51,875 £47,998
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.82%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £82,813
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.

Permanent vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 9,674 3,284 6,659
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 92.90% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,700 2,106 4,206
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 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -9.09%
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 1 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 1 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 +13 97 £85,000 +8.28% 28
Bristol -6 58 £60,000 -14.29% 32
Wiltshire -14 15 £51,375 +10.48% 6
Devon -15 12 £50,000 - 3
Somerset -25 10 £48,240 -8.12% 10
Dorset -1 5 £75,000 -3.23% 2
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 78 (39.20%) Data Pipeline
2 75 (37.69%) Analytics
3 68 (34.17%) Security Cleared
4 65 (32.66%) ETL
5 63 (31.66%) Python
6 62 (31.16%) SQL
7 53 (26.63%) AI
8 45 (22.61%) Data Engineering
9 44 (22.11%) DV Cleared
10 41 (20.60%) AWS
11 38 (19.10%) Azure
12 33 (16.58%) Data Modelling
13 32 (16.08%) Decision-Making
13 32 (16.08%) DevOps
14 31 (15.58%) Agile
14 31 (15.58%) SC Cleared
15 27 (13.57%) Business Intelligence
15 27 (13.57%) Data Quality
15 27 (13.57%) Data Science
16 26 (13.07%) Apache
16 26 (13.07%) Data Integration
17 25 (12.56%) CI/CD
18 24 (12.06%) Data Warehouse
18 24 (12.06%) Kafka
18 24 (12.06%) NoSQL
19 20 (10.05%) Azure Data Factory
20 19 (9.55%) Machine Learning
20 19 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
21 17 (8.54%) Data Security
21 17 (8.54%) ETL Development

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 26 (13.07%) Apache
2 15 (7.54%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 41 (20.60%) AWS
2 38 (19.10%) Azure
3 20 (10.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (6.03%) Power Platform
5 10 (5.03%) GCP
6 7 (3.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (3.02%) dbt
7 6 (3.02%) Serverless
7 6 (3.02%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.01%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.51%) SaaS
10 2 (1.01%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.50%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.50%) Cloud Composer
11 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.06%) Data Warehouse
1 24 (12.06%) NoSQL
2 16 (8.04%) Big Data
3 14 (7.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (6.53%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (6.53%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (6.03%) Data Lake
6 11 (5.53%) Hadoop
7 10 (5.03%) BigQuery
7 10 (5.03%) Power BI
8 9 (4.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (3.52%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.02%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.01%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.01%) OLAP
11 4 (2.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.51%) ClickHouse
12 3 (1.51%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.52%) Git
2 4 (2.01%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (8.04%) Finance
3 12 (6.03%) Social Skills
4 7 (3.52%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.51%) Aerospace
5 5 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (2.51%) Military
6 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.50%) Legal
6 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.06%) Kafka
2 13 (6.53%) Keycloak
2 13 (6.53%) Terraform
3 12 (6.03%) PySpark
4 11 (5.53%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.51%) JSON
6 2 (1.01%) Node.js
6 2 (1.01%) REST
6 2 (1.01%) XML
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.04%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (5.53%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.51%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.01%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.01%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.01%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.51%) IoT
6 2 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.50%) Blog
7 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.01%) Linux
1 4 (2.01%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (39.20%) Data Pipeline
2 75 (37.69%) Analytics
3 65 (32.66%) ETL
4 53 (26.63%) AI
5 45 (22.61%) Data Engineering
6 33 (16.58%) Data Modelling
7 32 (16.08%) Decision-Making
7 32 (16.08%) DevOps
8 31 (15.58%) Agile
9 27 (13.57%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (13.57%) Data Science
10 26 (13.07%) Data Integration
11 25 (12.56%) CI/CD
12 19 (9.55%) Machine Learning
12 19 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (8.54%) Data Security
13 17 (8.54%) ETL Development
14 16 (8.04%) Software Engineering
14 16 (8.04%) Workflow
15 14 (7.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 63 (31.66%) Python
2 62 (31.16%) SQL
3 13 (6.53%) Go
3 13 (6.53%) Java
4 6 (3.02%) Groovy
5 5 (2.51%) Scala
6 4 (2.01%) C#
6 4 (2.01%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.51%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.51%) VBA
8 2 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.01%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 68 (34.17%) Security Cleared
2 44 (22.11%) DV Cleared
3 31 (15.58%) SC Cleared
4 13 (6.53%) Azure Certification
5 11 (5.53%) Degree
6 8 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.57%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.53%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.51%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (5.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (7.04%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.02%) Ansible
3 4 (2.01%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (7.54%) Databricks
2 12 (6.03%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.51%) Google
4 2 (1.01%) SAP
4 2 (1.01%) Splunk
5 1 (0.50%) Infor
5 1 (0.50%) OpenAI