Data Engineer Jobs in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer salary in the South West is £67,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 122 150
Rank change year-on-year -26 +28 +45
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 155 176 172
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.70% 2.48% 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.77% 2.78% 2.25%
Number of salaries quoted 112 109 110
10th Percentile £30,385 £42,400 £39,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £48,263
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% +29.50% -3.48%
75th Percentile £75,625 £77,715 £65,938
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 8,760 6,334 7,632
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.12% 89.34% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 6,432 3,910 5,108
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,918 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.69% +3.84% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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 -13 78 £70,576 +4.56% 9
Somerset +10 21 £30,385 -49.36% 1
Gloucestershire -26 21 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Dorset -5 16 £67,500 +35.00%
Wiltshire -1 13 £67,500 +31.71%
Devon -6 6 £24,000 -61.60% 2
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 72 (46.45%) Data Engineering
2 64 (41.29%) Python
3 62 (40.00%) SQL
4 61 (39.35%) Data Pipeline
5 52 (33.55%) DevOps
5 52 (33.55%) Agile
6 47 (30.32%) GCP
7 40 (25.81%) Mentoring
8 39 (25.16%) Google
8 39 (25.16%) Data Warehouse
9 37 (23.87%) BigQuery
10 36 (23.23%) Data Science
11 35 (22.58%) Platform Engineering
12 34 (21.94%) ETL
12 34 (21.94%) Big Data
13 32 (20.65%) Security Cleared
13 32 (20.65%) Azure
14 31 (20.00%) CI/CD
14 31 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (19.35%) Looker
16 29 (18.71%) Kubernetes
17 28 (18.06%) Analytics
17 28 (18.06%) Finance
18 27 (17.42%) Apache Spark
18 27 (17.42%) Docker
19 26 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
19 26 (16.77%) Business Intelligence
20 25 (16.13%) AWS
20 25 (16.13%) Hadoop
20 25 (16.13%) Self-Motivation

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 27 (17.42%) Apache Spark
2 24 (15.48%) Apache
3 18 (11.61%) Jupyter
3 18 (11.61%) nginx
4 6 (3.87%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.65%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 47 (30.32%) GCP
2 32 (20.65%) Azure
3 25 (16.13%) AWS
4 23 (14.84%) Amazon S3
4 23 (14.84%) Power Platform
5 18 (11.61%) MinIO
5 18 (11.61%) OpenShift
6 15 (9.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (5.81%) Snowflake
8 8 (5.16%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (3.23%) dbt
9 5 (3.23%) Fivetran
9 5 (3.23%) GitHub
9 5 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.23%) Google Data Studio
9 5 (3.23%) Stitch
10 4 (2.58%) Azure Pipelines
10 4 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.58%) Serverless
11 3 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.45%) Wireless
2 2 (1.29%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (25.16%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (23.87%) BigQuery
3 34 (21.94%) Big Data
4 30 (19.35%) Looker
5 25 (16.13%) Hadoop
6 23 (14.84%) Data Lake
6 23 (14.84%) Power BI
7 18 (11.61%) Presto
8 16 (10.32%) SQL Server
8 16 (10.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (5.16%) MySQL
11 7 (4.52%) Relational Database
11 7 (4.52%) Tableau
12 5 (3.23%) Airbyte
12 5 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (3.23%) Redshift Spectrum
13 4 (2.58%) Flink
13 4 (2.58%) Metadata
13 4 (2.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (13.55%) Jenkins
2 18 (11.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (3.87%) Git
3 6 (3.87%) RStudio
4 5 (3.23%) GitLab
5 4 (2.58%) Oracle Forms
General
1 28 (18.06%) Finance
2 26 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (10.32%) Social Skills
4 13 (8.39%) Banking
5 11 (7.10%) Manufacturing
6 10 (6.45%) Aerospace
7 8 (5.16%) Retail
8 6 (3.87%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.94%) Aviation
9 3 (1.94%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.29%) Advertising
10 2 (1.29%) Aeronautics
10 2 (1.29%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.65%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (12.26%) Apache NiFi
2 18 (11.61%) ActiveMQ
2 18 (11.61%) Elastic Stack
2 18 (11.61%) RabbitMQ
2 18 (11.61%) YAML
3 11 (7.10%) Kafka
4 5 (3.23%) REST
5 4 (2.58%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.65%) JSON
6 1 (0.65%) Pandas
6 1 (0.65%) PySpark
6 1 (0.65%) SQLAlchemy
6 1 (0.65%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 25 (16.13%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (11.61%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (5.81%) Driving Licence
4 7 (4.52%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.87%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.23%) Replication
7 4 (2.58%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.94%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.94%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.29%) IoT
9 2 (1.29%) Reference Data
10 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.65%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.65%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.65%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 24 (15.48%) Linux
2 6 (3.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (46.45%) Data Engineering
2 61 (39.35%) Data Pipeline
3 52 (33.55%) Agile
3 52 (33.55%) DevOps
4 40 (25.81%) Mentoring
5 36 (23.23%) Data Science
6 35 (22.58%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (21.94%) ETL
8 31 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 31 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (18.06%) Analytics
10 26 (16.77%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (13.55%) Change Management
11 21 (13.55%) Containerisation
11 21 (13.55%) DataOps
11 21 (13.55%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (12.26%) Machine Learning
13 18 (11.61%) Observability
13 18 (11.61%) Requirements Engineering
13 18 (11.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.29%) Python
2 62 (40.00%) SQL
3 18 (11.61%) Bash
3 18 (11.61%) Java
3 18 (11.61%) Shell Script
4 12 (7.74%) Scala
5 6 (3.87%) R
6 5 (3.23%) C#
7 4 (2.58%) Go
7 4 (2.58%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.94%) C
9 2 (1.29%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (20.65%) Security Cleared
2 24 (15.48%) DV Cleared
3 14 (9.03%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.74%) Degree
5 6 (3.87%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.29%) HNC
7 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.65%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (13.55%) GDPR
2 16 (10.32%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.94%) Accessibility
System Software
1 27 (17.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (18.71%) Kubernetes
2 21 (13.55%) Terraform
3 18 (11.61%) Ansible
3 18 (11.61%) Grafana
3 18 (11.61%) HAProxy
3 18 (11.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (25.16%) Google
2 13 (8.39%) Databricks
3 8 (5.16%) Microsoft
4 6 (3.87%) Alteryx
5 5 (3.23%) Oracle
6 4 (2.58%) Teradata
7 2 (1.29%) Twitter
8 1 (0.65%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.65%) Informatica