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 8 August 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 134 130
Rank change year-on-year +48 -4 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 178 35 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 2.00% 1.00% 1.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 1.10% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 112 29 82
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £29,412
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +30.63% -20.08%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,410 £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 8,355 3,178 7,654
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 91.22% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,688 2,140 5,505
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -8.02%
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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +24 73 £85,000 +49.12% 12
Bristol -5 53 £60,000 -25.00% 7
Devon - 21 £50,000 - 3
Wiltshire -3 16 £51,375 +10.48% 2
Somerset -34 10 £48,240 -8.12% 5
Dorset -3 3 £75,000 -3.23% 5
Cornwall - 2 - - 1
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 August 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 65 (36.52%) Analytics
2 63 (35.39%) Data Pipeline
3 60 (33.71%) Python
3 60 (33.71%) Security Cleared
4 55 (30.90%) SQL
5 54 (30.34%) ETL
6 49 (27.53%) AI
7 42 (23.60%) Data Engineering
8 39 (21.91%) AWS
9 35 (19.66%) Agile
9 35 (19.66%) DV Cleared
10 32 (17.98%) Data Science
11 31 (17.42%) Azure
11 31 (17.42%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (15.73%) Data Modelling
13 26 (14.61%) CI/CD
14 25 (14.04%) Data Quality
14 25 (14.04%) Decision-Making
14 25 (14.04%) DevOps
15 23 (12.92%) SC Cleared
16 22 (12.36%) Data Integration
16 22 (12.36%) Machine Learning
17 21 (11.80%) Apache
17 21 (11.80%) Data Warehouse
18 20 (11.24%) NoSQL
19 19 (10.67%) Databricks
19 19 (10.67%) Kafka
19 19 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
20 16 (8.99%) Big Data
20 16 (8.99%) 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 21 (11.80%) Apache
2 15 (8.43%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.56%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 39 (21.91%) AWS
2 31 (17.42%) Azure
3 15 (8.43%) GCP
4 14 (7.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (6.18%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (3.37%) Serverless
7 5 (2.81%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (2.25%) dbt
8 4 (2.25%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.56%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.56%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.56%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.56%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (0.56%) Dagster
10 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.69%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.12%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.80%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (11.24%) NoSQL
3 16 (8.99%) Big Data
4 14 (7.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (6.18%) Data Lake
6 10 (5.62%) BigQuery
6 10 (5.62%) Hadoop
7 9 (5.06%) Power BI
7 9 (5.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (4.49%) MongoDB
8 8 (4.49%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.37%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (3.37%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.25%) OLAP
10 4 (2.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (2.25%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.69%) ClickHouse
11 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.37%) Git
2 4 (2.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle APEX
General
1 20 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (8.43%) Finance
3 12 (6.74%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.49%) Military
4 8 (4.49%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.25%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.56%) Law
7 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.67%) Kafka
2 13 (7.30%) Apache NiFi
3 10 (5.62%) PySpark
4 6 (3.37%) Keycloak
5 3 (1.69%) JSON
5 3 (1.69%) XML
6 2 (1.12%) gRPC
6 2 (1.12%) Node.js
6 2 (1.12%) REST
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Beam
7 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.62%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.49%) Driving Licence
3 7 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.25%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.25%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.69%) IoT
6 2 (1.12%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.56%) Blog
7 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.81%) Linux
2 4 (2.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (36.52%) Analytics
2 63 (35.39%) Data Pipeline
3 54 (30.34%) ETL
4 49 (27.53%) AI
5 42 (23.60%) Data Engineering
6 35 (19.66%) Agile
7 32 (17.98%) Data Science
8 31 (17.42%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (15.73%) Data Modelling
10 26 (14.61%) CI/CD
11 25 (14.04%) Decision-Making
11 25 (14.04%) DevOps
12 22 (12.36%) Data Integration
12 22 (12.36%) Machine Learning
13 19 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (8.99%) Software Engineering
15 14 (7.87%) Data Strategy
16 13 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
16 13 (7.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 12 (6.74%) Cost Reduction
Programming Languages
1 60 (33.71%) Python
2 55 (30.90%) SQL
3 13 (7.30%) Java
4 8 (4.49%) Go
4 8 (4.49%) Groovy
5 6 (3.37%) Scala
6 5 (2.81%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.25%) C#
7 4 (2.25%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 3 (1.69%) VBA
9 2 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 60 (33.71%) Security Cleared
2 35 (19.66%) DV Cleared
3 23 (12.92%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.62%) Degree
5 8 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.37%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.04%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.69%) SLA
4 2 (1.12%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (7.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (8.43%) Terraform
2 12 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 6 (3.37%) Ansible
4 4 (2.25%) Packer
Vendors
1 19 (10.67%) Databricks
2 9 (5.06%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.81%) Google
4 2 (1.12%) SAP
4 2 (1.12%) Splunk
4 2 (1.12%) Typelevel
5 1 (0.56%) Oracle
5 1 (0.56%) Zoho