Data Engineering Jobs in the South West

Data Engineering
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 143 133
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +78
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 34 156 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.98% 1.69% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 2.01% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 25 57 81
10th Percentile £49,000 £50,500 £41,227
25th Percentile £64,621 £63,353 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,420 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.23% +20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £115,000 £87,500 £80,627
90th Percentile £122,500 £96,539 £87,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,226 7,759 6,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 92.57% 84.14% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,918 5,562 3,654
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,833 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,213
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.16% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £64,100 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the South West

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the South West

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the South West

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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 +12 27 £98,420 +31.23% 16
Somerset 0 3 £95,000 - 11
Wiltshire +37 2 - - 3
Dorset +42 1 £50,000 - 5
Gloucestershire +30 1 - - 15
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 (5.88%) Apache
1 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (73.53%) Azure
2 19 (55.88%) AWS
3 15 (44.12%) Power Platform
4 14 (41.18%) GCP
5 6 (17.65%) Snowflake
6 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (11.76%) Collibra
8 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.88%) Datadog
8 2 (5.88%) Fivetran
8 2 (5.88%) Serverless
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.94%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (41.18%) Power BI
2 13 (38.24%) Tableau
3 7 (20.59%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (17.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (14.71%) Big Data
5 5 (14.71%) BigQuery
5 5 (14.71%) Data Hub
5 5 (14.71%) Looker
6 4 (11.76%) Ataccama
6 4 (11.76%) Metadata
6 4 (11.76%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
7 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.94%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 22 (64.71%) Finance
2 11 (32.35%) Banking
3 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (23.53%) Social Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Marketing
5 2 (5.88%) Retail
5 2 (5.88%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.94%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Data Engineer
2 13 (38.24%) Lead
3 5 (14.71%) Lead Data Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Provisioning Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Data Analytics Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Data Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Data Quality Manager
4 4 (11.76%) Quality Manager
5 3 (8.82%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (8.82%) Senior
5 3 (8.82%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.88%) Graduate
6 2 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Analytics Consultant
7 1 (2.94%) Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.71%) PySpark
2 2 (5.88%) GraphQL
2 2 (5.88%) Kafka
2 2 (5.88%) Pandas
2 2 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.94%) NumPy
3 1 (2.94%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.94%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Reinsurance
2 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.94%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Analytics
2 18 (52.94%) DevOps
3 15 (44.12%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (44.12%) Data Modelling
3 15 (44.12%) Mentoring
4 13 (38.24%) Data Science
4 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
6 10 (29.41%) Visualisation
7 9 (26.47%) Machine Learning
8 8 (23.53%) Coaching
8 8 (23.53%) Data Management
8 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
9 7 (20.59%) Analytical Modelling
9 7 (20.59%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (20.59%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (20.59%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (17.65%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
10 6 (17.65%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (41.18%) SQL
2 13 (38.24%) Python
3 4 (11.76%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.88%) C#
4 2 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) R
5 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (8.82%) Degree
1 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (20.59%) Data Quality
2 5 (14.71%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (2.94%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (35.29%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (20.59%) Terraform
3 2 (5.88%) Grafana
3 2 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.94%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Databricks
2 7 (20.59%) Google
3 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Cribl.io
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle
4 1 (2.94%) Splunk