Data Engineer Jobs in the South West

Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Data Engineer salary in the South West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2025.

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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 150 115
Rank change year-on-year +4 -35 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 35 148 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.99% 1.52% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 1.58% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 26 107 108
10th Percentile £30,250 £30,385 £42,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £35,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -11.11% +41.36%
75th Percentile £92,500 £73,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £102,410 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% +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 3,296 9,393 5,982
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 96.17% 89.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,933 6,889 3,677
10th Percentile £27,250 £27,945 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,365 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,187 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +6 20 £76,250 +8.93% 56
Somerset -8 6 £55,000 +81.01% 49
Wiltshire +40 5 £31,500 -53.33% 39
Dorset +29 2 £77,500 +14.81% 35
Gloucestershire +49 1 £57,000 +3.64% 71
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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 25 (71.43%) SQL
2 22 (62.86%) Data Modelling
3 19 (54.29%) Data Engineering
4 18 (51.43%) Azure
5 16 (45.71%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (40.00%) Finance
7 14 (40.00%) AWS
8 13 (37.14%) DevOps
8 13 (37.14%) Power Platform
9 12 (34.29%) Power BI
10 10 (28.57%) ETL
10 10 (28.57%) Visualisation
10 10 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
11 9 (25.71%) Tableau
12 8 (22.86%) Analytics
12 8 (22.86%) Databricks
13 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
13 7 (20.00%) GCP
13 7 (20.00%) Python
13 7 (20.00%) Snowflake
13 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
13 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
14 6 (17.14%) Data Security
14 6 (17.14%) Banking
14 6 (17.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (17.14%) Docker
14 6 (17.14%) Big Data
14 6 (17.14%) Data Visualisation
14 6 (17.14%) Azure DevOps

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 2 (5.71%) Apache
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) Oracle Application Server
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) Azure
2 14 (40.00%) AWS
3 13 (37.14%) Power Platform
4 7 (20.00%) GCP
4 7 (20.00%) Snowflake
5 6 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
9 2 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.86%) Boomi
10 1 (2.86%) Fivetran
10 1 (2.86%) Matillion
10 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
1 1 (2.86%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (34.29%) Power BI
3 9 (25.71%) Tableau
4 6 (17.14%) Big Data
4 6 (17.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (14.29%) BigQuery
5 5 (14.29%) Data Hub
5 5 (14.29%) Looker
6 4 (11.43%) Data Lake
7 3 (8.57%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
8 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
9 1 (2.86%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Git
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Banking
3 5 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Law
6 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.86%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) JSON
1 2 (5.71%) XML
2 1 (2.86%) .NET
2 1 (2.86%) GraphQL
2 1 (2.86%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (2.86%) PySpark
2 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.86%) Spring
2 1 (2.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (5.71%) CCTV
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.86%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Data Modelling
2 19 (54.29%) Data Engineering
3 16 (45.71%) Business Intelligence
4 13 (37.14%) DevOps
5 10 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (28.57%) ETL
5 10 (28.57%) Visualisation
6 8 (22.86%) Analytics
7 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 7 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.14%) Data Security
8 6 (17.14%) Data Visualisation
9 5 (14.29%) Coaching
9 5 (14.29%) Containerisation
9 5 (14.29%) Data Validation
9 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (14.29%) Validation
10 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (11.43%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 25 (71.43%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) Python
3 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.71%) Java
5 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (22.86%) Databricks
2 5 (14.29%) Google
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.57%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) Talend
5 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.86%) SnapLogic
5 1 (2.86%) UiPath