Data Engineer Job Trends in St Albans

Data Engineer
Hertfordshire > St Albans

The median Data Engineer salary in St Albans is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in St Albans 1.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% - -
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £48,250 - -
25th Percentile £49,375 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £54,375 - -
90th Percentile £54,750 - -
Hertfordshire median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
St Albans

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in St Albans. 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 St Albans with a recognized job title 137 30 97
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 78.95% 97.98%
Number of salaries quoted 94 22 89
10th Percentile £31,125 £31,375 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £68,625 £87,500
Hertfordshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in St Albans

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in St Albans.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in St Albans

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in St Albans

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in St Albans.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in St Albans

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 13 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in St Albans

For the 6 months to 29 April 2026, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the St Albans region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Looker
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in St Albans by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Looker
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Marketing
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL