Data Engineer Jobs in Southampton

Data Engineer
Hampshire > Southampton

The median Data Engineer salary in Southampton is £40,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 66 53
Rank change year-on-year +23 -13 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 12 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 0.29% 1.40% 3.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 1.44% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 23
10th Percentile - £50,875 £52,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £61,563 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £42,500 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile - - £75,600
Hampshire median annual salary £70,000 £35,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +100.00% -48.15% +12.50%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Southampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Southampton. 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 Southampton with a recognized job title 341 832 726
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.55% 97.08% 93.20%
Number of salaries quoted 269 705 576
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,350 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Hampshire median annual salary £53,250 £50,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +6.50% -3.85% -0.95%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Southampton

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Southampton.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Southampton

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton

For the 6 months to 7 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 Southampton region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks