Data Engineer Jobs in Surrey

Data Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Data Engineer salary in Surrey is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 142 99
Rank change year-on-year +95 -43 +40
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 39 14 66
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 4.00% 0.55% 2.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.16% 0.61% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 33 7 39
10th Percentile £54,250 £45,000 £40,321
25th Percentile £67,500 £47,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% -15.00% -9.43%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,050 £63,750
90th Percentile - £73,330 £65,000
South East median annual salary £70,000 £48,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +45.83% -23.20% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 756 2,306 2,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 77.46% 91.29% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 569 1,491 1,443
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +8.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £80,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Surrey

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Surrey

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Surrey

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 2 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
Epsom - 22 £70,000 - 1
Dorking - 5 £70,000 -
Woking +19 1 £70,000 -4.18% 2
Banstead - 1 £72,500 -
Leatherhead - 1 - - 2
Data Engineer
South East

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 2 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 Surrey region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (89.74%) Python
2 34 (87.18%) SQL
3 30 (76.92%) Azure
4 23 (58.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 23 (58.97%) Databricks
5 22 (56.41%) C#
5 22 (56.41%) Azure Certification
6 20 (51.28%) CI/CD
7 18 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (46.15%) Agile
8 16 (41.03%) .NET
9 15 (38.46%) Software Engineering
9 15 (38.46%) Degree
9 15 (38.46%) Data Engineering
10 14 (35.90%) DevOps
10 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
11 13 (33.33%) Analytics
12 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
13 11 (28.21%) Data Modelling
14 9 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
15 8 (20.51%) Data Extraction
16 7 (17.95%) Data Architecture
16 7 (17.95%) Visualisation
16 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
16 7 (17.95%) ETL
16 7 (17.95%) Migration
16 7 (17.95%) Power Platform
16 7 (17.95%) Decision-Making
16 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 6 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 30 (76.92%) Azure
2 23 (58.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 18 (46.15%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (17.95%) Power Platform
5 6 (15.38%) GitHub
5 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (15.38%) PowerApps
6 3 (7.69%) Snowflake
7 2 (5.13%) Alation
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.13%) AWS
7 2 (5.13%) Azure API Management
7 2 (5.13%) dbt
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (17.95%) Power BI
3 6 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (15.38%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 3 (7.69%) Big Data
4 3 (7.69%) Data Lake
4 3 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.13%) Metadata
5 2 (5.13%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (5.13%) MySQL
5 2 (5.13%) Pentaho
5 2 (5.13%) Triplestore
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Git
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Automotive
2 6 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Marketing
4 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (41.03%) .NET
2 3 (7.69%) REST
3 2 (5.13%) Apache Jena
3 2 (5.13%) PySpark
3 2 (5.13%) XML
4 1 (2.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 18 (46.15%) Agile
3 15 (38.46%) Data Engineering
3 15 (38.46%) Software Engineering
4 14 (35.90%) DevOps
5 13 (33.33%) Analytics
6 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (28.21%) Data Modelling
8 9 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (20.51%) Data Extraction
10 7 (17.95%) Data Architecture
10 7 (17.95%) Decision-Making
10 7 (17.95%) ETL
10 7 (17.95%) Mentoring
10 7 (17.95%) Migration
10 7 (17.95%) Visualisation
11 6 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (15.38%) Data Analytics
11 6 (15.38%) Logical Data Model
11 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (89.74%) Python
2 34 (87.18%) SQL
3 22 (56.41%) C#
4 6 (15.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (15.38%) Java
4 6 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 6 (15.38%) Scala
5 3 (7.69%) PL/SQL
6 2 (5.13%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.13%) SPARQL
7 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (56.41%) Azure Certification
2 15 (38.46%) Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) Dublin Core
2 2 (5.13%) QA
Vendors
1 23 (58.97%) Databricks
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) Informatica
3 5 (12.82%) Oracle
4 2 (5.13%) Talend
5 1 (2.56%) Foundry
5 1 (2.56%) Palantir
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud