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 25 September 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 128 157
Rank change year-on-year +41 +29 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 200 39 80
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.93% 1.10% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 1.19% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 137 27 55
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £50,688 £51,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.41%
75th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £81,875
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 9,629 3,280 6,980
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 92.89% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 6,658 2,130 4,421
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,225 £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 25 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 25 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 +17 92 £85,000 +8.28% 28
Bristol -9 58 £60,000 -14.29% 34
Wiltshire -5 16 £51,375 +10.48% 7
Devon -12 16 £50,000 - 4
Somerset -23 10 £48,240 -8.12% 14
Dorset -3 5 £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 25 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 77 (38.50%) Data Pipeline
2 75 (37.50%) Analytics
3 66 (33.00%) Security Cleared
4 64 (32.00%) ETL
4 64 (32.00%) Python
5 61 (30.50%) SQL
6 54 (27.00%) AI
7 46 (23.00%) Data Engineering
8 43 (21.50%) AWS
9 41 (20.50%) DV Cleared
10 38 (19.00%) Azure
11 33 (16.50%) Data Modelling
12 32 (16.00%) Agile
13 31 (15.50%) Decision-Making
13 31 (15.50%) DevOps
14 30 (15.00%) SC Cleared
15 29 (14.50%) Business Intelligence
16 28 (14.00%) Data Quality
16 28 (14.00%) Data Science
17 26 (13.00%) CI/CD
18 25 (12.50%) Data Integration
18 25 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
19 24 (12.00%) Apache
20 23 (11.50%) Kafka
21 22 (11.00%) NoSQL
22 21 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
23 20 (10.00%) Machine Learning
24 19 (9.50%) Azure Data Factory
25 17 (8.50%) ETL Development
25 17 (8.50%) 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 24 (12.00%) Apache
2 15 (7.50%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 43 (21.50%) AWS
2 38 (19.00%) Azure
3 19 (9.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (6.50%) Power Platform
5 11 (5.50%) GCP
6 7 (3.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (3.00%) dbt
7 6 (3.00%) Serverless
7 6 (3.00%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (2.00%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.50%) SaaS
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.50%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.50%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.50%) Cloud Composer
11 1 (0.50%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) Broadband
1 1 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (11.00%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.00%) Big Data
4 15 (7.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (6.50%) Data Lake
6 12 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (5.50%) Hadoop
7 11 (5.50%) Power BI
8 10 (5.00%) BigQuery
8 10 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (4.00%) SQL Server
10 6 (3.00%) MongoDB
11 4 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.00%) OLAP
11 4 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 3 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (1.50%) ClickHouse
12 3 (1.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.50%) Git
2 4 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (8.00%) Finance
3 12 (6.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (3.50%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.00%) Military
6 5 (2.50%) Aerospace
6 5 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.50%) Legal
7 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.50%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (11.50%) Kafka
2 13 (6.50%) Terraform
3 12 (6.00%) Keycloak
3 12 (6.00%) PySpark
4 11 (5.50%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (1.50%) JSON
6 2 (1.00%) Node.js
6 2 (1.00%) REST
6 2 (1.00%) XML
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.50%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.50%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 11 (5.50%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.00%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.50%) IoT
6 1 (0.50%) Blog
6 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.50%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.50%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.00%) Linux
1 4 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (38.50%) Data Pipeline
2 75 (37.50%) Analytics
3 64 (32.00%) ETL
4 54 (27.00%) AI
5 46 (23.00%) Data Engineering
6 33 (16.50%) Data Modelling
7 32 (16.00%) Agile
8 31 (15.50%) Decision-Making
8 31 (15.50%) DevOps
9 29 (14.50%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (14.00%) Data Science
11 26 (13.00%) CI/CD
12 25 (12.50%) Data Integration
13 21 (10.50%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (10.00%) Machine Learning
15 17 (8.50%) ETL Development
15 17 (8.50%) Software Engineering
16 16 (8.00%) Data Security
17 15 (7.50%) Workflow
18 14 (7.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 64 (32.00%) Python
2 61 (30.50%) SQL
3 13 (6.50%) Go
3 13 (6.50%) Java
4 6 (3.00%) Groovy
4 6 (3.00%) Scala
5 4 (2.00%) C#
5 4 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (2.00%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.50%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.50%) VBA
7 2 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 66 (33.00%) Security Cleared
2 41 (20.50%) DV Cleared
3 30 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 12 (6.00%) Azure Certification
5 11 (5.50%) Degree
6 8 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.00%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (7.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.00%) Ansible
3 4 (2.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 16 (8.00%) Databricks
2 12 (6.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (1.50%) Google
4 2 (1.00%) SAP
4 2 (1.00%) Splunk
5 1 (0.50%) Infor
5 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.50%) Typelevel
5 1 (0.50%) Zoho