Data Engineer Jobs in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer salary in the South West is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 150 136
Rank change year-on-year +3 -14 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 33 143 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.84% 1.42% 2.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.48% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 27 95 112
10th Percentile £47,500 £30,385 £45,000
25th Percentile £51,875 £34,953 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £68,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -19.12% +36.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,410 £87,500 £88,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 3,640 9,658 5,734
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 96.06% 89.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,300 6,979 3,826
10th Percentile £26,475 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,099 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the South West

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the South West.

Salary trend for Data Engineer 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 12 July 2025.

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 12 July 2025. 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
Bristol +23 20 £95,000 +40.74% 33
Somerset -4 5 £53,750 +76.90% 4
Wiltshire +30 3 £39,750 -41.11%
Dorset +27 3 £78,750 +47.20% 4
Gloucestershire +36 1 £57,000 +3.64% 14
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 12 July 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (69.70%) SQL
2 20 (60.61%) Data Engineering
3 18 (54.55%) AWS
3 18 (54.55%) Data Modelling
4 15 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (42.42%) Azure
6 12 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
6 12 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (33.33%) Finance
7 11 (33.33%) ETL
7 11 (33.33%) Analytics
8 10 (30.30%) Snowflake
9 9 (27.27%) Power Platform
9 9 (27.27%) Power BI
9 9 (27.27%) Python
9 9 (27.27%) Data Security
10 8 (24.24%) Amazon S3
10 8 (24.24%) DevOps
11 7 (21.21%) Data Science
11 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
11 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
11 7 (21.21%) GCP
11 7 (21.21%) Databricks
12 6 (18.18%) Docker
12 6 (18.18%) Big Data
12 6 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
12 6 (18.18%) Visualisation
12 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
12 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
13 5 (15.15%) Containerisation

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (9.09%) Apache
2 2 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 18 (54.55%) AWS
2 14 (42.42%) Azure
3 10 (30.30%) Snowflake
4 9 (27.27%) Power Platform
5 8 (24.24%) Amazon S3
6 7 (21.21%) GCP
7 5 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (15.15%) Serverless
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (12.12%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (12.12%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (12.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon EventBridge
9 1 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (3.03%) Fivetran
9 1 (3.03%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Network Security
1 1 (3.03%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (27.27%) Power BI
3 6 (18.18%) Big Data
4 5 (15.15%) BigQuery
4 5 (15.15%) Data Hub
4 5 (15.15%) Looker
4 5 (15.15%) Tableau
5 4 (12.12%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
5 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (9.09%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
7 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
8 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
8 1 (3.03%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 5 (15.15%) Banking
4 3 (9.09%) Retail
5 2 (6.06%) Marketing
5 2 (6.06%) Tech for Good
6 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) JSON
1 2 (6.06%) Kafka
1 2 (6.06%) PySpark
1 2 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (6.06%) XML
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (3.03%) Spring
2 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
2 1 (3.03%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.03%) IoT
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) Data Engineering
2 18 (54.55%) Data Modelling
3 12 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (33.33%) Analytics
4 11 (33.33%) ETL
5 9 (27.27%) Data Security
6 8 (24.24%) DevOps
7 7 (21.21%) CI/CD
7 7 (21.21%) Data Science
7 7 (21.21%) Mentoring
8 6 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
8 6 (18.18%) Visualisation
9 5 (15.15%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (15.15%) Coaching
9 5 (15.15%) Containerisation
9 5 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (15.15%) Data Validation
9 5 (15.15%) Validation
10 4 (12.12%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 23 (69.70%) SQL
2 9 (27.27%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) Data Quality
1 4 (12.12%) GDPR
1 4 (12.12%) NIST
2 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Databricks
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.15%) Google
3 5 (15.15%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Talend
5 1 (3.03%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce