Data Engineer Job Trends in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer salary in the South West is £67,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 July 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 90 139 126
Rank change year-on-year +49 -13 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 167 33 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.96% 0.96% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 1.06% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 106 27 86
10th Percentile £46,000 £49,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,750 £72,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.55% +31.82% -20.45%
75th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -6.21%

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 8,068 3,124 8,190
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.56% 91.29% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 5,490 2,117 6,016
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -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 27 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 27 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
Gloucestershire +20 61 £85,000 +49.12% 14
Bristol -7 50 £60,000 -25.00% 5
Devon - 22 £50,000 - 1
Wiltshire 0 16 £50,000 +7.53% 5
Somerset -36 10 £48,240 -8.12% 3
Dorset -4 6 £75,000 -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 27 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 60 (35.93%) Analytics
2 59 (35.33%) Data Pipeline
3 55 (32.93%) Python
4 51 (30.54%) Security Cleared
4 51 (30.54%) SQL
5 50 (29.94%) ETL
6 41 (24.55%) AI
7 38 (22.75%) Data Engineering
8 34 (20.36%) AWS
9 32 (19.16%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (18.56%) Azure
11 29 (17.37%) Agile
11 29 (17.37%) DV Cleared
12 28 (16.77%) Data Science
13 27 (16.17%) Data Modelling
14 24 (14.37%) Data Integration
15 23 (13.77%) Data Quality
16 21 (12.57%) Data Warehouse
16 21 (12.57%) Decision-Making
17 20 (11.98%) DevOps
18 19 (11.38%) CI/CD
18 19 (11.38%) Databricks
19 18 (10.78%) Machine Learning
19 18 (10.78%) NoSQL
19 18 (10.78%) SC Cleared
20 17 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
21 16 (9.58%) Apache
21 16 (9.58%) Kafka
22 14 (8.38%) Azure Data Factory
22 14 (8.38%) GCP

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 16 (9.58%) Apache
2 12 (7.19%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.36%) AWS
2 31 (18.56%) Azure
3 14 (8.38%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (8.38%) GCP
4 11 (6.59%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (3.59%) Serverless
7 4 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (2.40%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.40%) dbt
8 3 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (1.80%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.60%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.60%) Azure Storage
9 1 (0.60%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.60%) Dagster
9 1 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.99%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.20%) Broadband
3 1 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (12.57%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (10.78%) NoSQL
3 14 (8.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (7.78%) Big Data
5 9 (5.39%) BigQuery
5 9 (5.39%) Power BI
5 9 (5.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (4.79%) Data Lake
6 8 (4.79%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.79%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.99%) Hadoop
7 5 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.40%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.40%) OLAP
8 4 (2.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (2.40%) Star Schema
9 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.20%) ClickHouse
Development Applications
1 5 (2.99%) Git
2 4 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle APEX
General
1 19 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (7.78%) Finance
3 12 (7.19%) Social Skills
4 9 (5.39%) Military
5 7 (4.19%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.20%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.20%) Banking
7 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.58%) Kafka
2 11 (6.59%) Apache NiFi
3 9 (5.39%) PySpark
4 5 (2.99%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.80%) JSON
5 3 (1.80%) XML
6 2 (1.20%) gRPC
6 2 (1.20%) Node.js
6 2 (1.20%) REST
7 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.79%) Cloud Native
1 8 (4.79%) Driving Licence
2 6 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.99%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.40%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.20%) IoT
6 2 (1.20%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (1.20%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.20%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.60%) Blog
7 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.60%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.60%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.99%) Linux
2 4 (2.40%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (35.93%) Analytics
2 59 (35.33%) Data Pipeline
3 50 (29.94%) ETL
4 41 (24.55%) AI
5 38 (22.75%) Data Engineering
6 32 (19.16%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (17.37%) Agile
8 28 (16.77%) Data Science
9 27 (16.17%) Data Modelling
10 24 (14.37%) Data Integration
11 21 (12.57%) Decision-Making
12 20 (11.98%) DevOps
13 19 (11.38%) CI/CD
14 18 (10.78%) Machine Learning
15 17 (10.18%) Problem-Solving
16 12 (7.19%) Cost Reduction
16 12 (7.19%) Data Governance
16 12 (7.19%) Data Strategy
16 12 (7.19%) Platform Engineering
16 12 (7.19%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (32.93%) Python
2 51 (30.54%) SQL
3 11 (6.59%) Java
4 8 (4.79%) Groovy
5 7 (4.19%) Go
6 5 (2.99%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.40%) C#
7 4 (2.40%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (2.40%) Scala
8 3 (1.80%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.80%) VBA
9 2 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (30.54%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.37%) DV Cleared
3 18 (10.78%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.19%) Degree
5 6 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (2.99%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (13.77%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.40%) SLA
4 2 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (5.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (7.78%) Terraform
2 8 (4.79%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.99%) Ansible
4 4 (2.40%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (11.38%) Databricks
2 10 (5.99%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.40%) Google
4 2 (1.20%) SAP
4 2 (1.20%) Splunk
4 2 (1.20%) Typelevel
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle
5 1 (0.60%) Zoho