Data Engineering Jobs in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 140 173
Rank change year-on-year +61 +33 +42
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 106 116 88
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.13% 1.73% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 2.04% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 13 25 35
10th Percentile £49,500 £43,500 -
25th Percentile £60,000 £45,000 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% +4.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,750 £97,000 £90,250
South East median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% -3.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,181 5,682 5,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.97% 84.81% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,233 3,901 3,099
10th Percentile £28,500 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.00% -9.09% -

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the Thames Valley

Data Engineering
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 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
Berkshire +97 86 £69,500 -0.71% 30
Buckinghamshire -7 18 £85,000 -5.56% 5
Oxfordshire -14 2 £65,000 +44.44% 8
Data Engineering
South East

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 26 (24.53%) SharePoint
2 12 (11.32%) IBM Domino
3 3 (2.83%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 73 (68.87%) Azure
2 36 (33.96%) GCP
3 32 (30.19%) AWS
4 31 (29.25%) Power Platform
5 28 (26.42%) Snowflake
6 26 (24.53%) Power Automate
6 26 (24.53%) PowerApps
7 15 (14.15%) Vertex AI
8 11 (10.38%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (8.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.89%) SaaS
11 1 (0.94%) Amazon EMR
11 1 (0.94%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.94%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.94%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.94%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (50.94%) Data Lake
2 44 (41.51%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (29.25%) Power BI
4 29 (27.36%) Big Data
5 26 (24.53%) Tableau
6 24 (22.64%) Data Mining
6 24 (22.64%) Metadata
7 12 (11.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (2.83%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.89%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.94%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.94%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.94%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.94%) MySQL
10 1 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.94%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (0.94%) ERwin
1 1 (0.94%) MLflow
1 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 78 (73.58%) Law
2 46 (43.40%) Social Skills
3 30 (28.30%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (25.47%) Retail
5 6 (5.66%) Finance
6 2 (1.89%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.94%) Banking
7 1 (0.94%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 78 (73.58%) Lead
2 52 (49.06%) Senior
3 5 (4.72%) Data Manager
4 4 (3.77%) Data Engineer
4 4 (3.77%) Senior Manager
5 3 (2.83%) Architect
5 3 (2.83%) Data Architect
5 3 (2.83%) Senior Service Manager
5 3 (2.83%) Service Manager
6 2 (1.89%) Business Developer
6 2 (1.89%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (1.89%) Data Analytics Director
6 2 (1.89%) Developer
6 2 (1.89%) Power BI Engineer
6 2 (1.89%) Product Lead
7 1 (0.94%) Azure Data Engineer
7 1 (0.94%) Consultant
7 1 (0.94%) Engineering Manager
7 1 (0.94%) Power BI Consultant
7 1 (0.94%) Presales Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.89%) Kafka
1 2 (1.89%) REST
2 1 (0.94%) .NET
2 1 (0.94%) FastAPI
2 1 (0.94%) jQuery
2 1 (0.94%) pydantic
2 1 (0.94%) PySpark
2 1 (0.94%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.53%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.83%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (81.13%) Analytics
2 57 (53.77%) Data Governance
2 57 (53.77%) Data Management
3 56 (52.83%) Data Science
4 55 (51.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 48 (45.28%) Use Case
6 46 (43.40%) Business Intelligence
7 36 (33.96%) DevOps
8 33 (31.13%) Data Modelling
9 32 (30.19%) Data Integration
10 31 (29.25%) Agile
10 31 (29.25%) Machine Learning
11 30 (28.30%) Data Strategy
11 30 (28.30%) ETL
12 29 (27.36%) Computer Science
12 29 (27.36%) Data Analytics
12 29 (27.36%) Data Architecture
12 29 (27.36%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (27.36%) Project Management
12 29 (27.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.51%) SQL
2 41 (38.68%) Python
3 10 (9.43%) T-SQL
4 3 (2.83%) Java
5 2 (1.89%) C#
5 2 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.94%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.94%) R
6 1 (0.94%) Scala
6 1 (0.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (53.77%) Degree
2 4 (3.77%) Master's Degree
3 3 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (54.72%) Data Quality
2 27 (25.47%) Accessibility
3 25 (23.58%) QA
4 2 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.94%) HDFS
Vendors
1 56 (52.83%) Microsoft
2 26 (24.53%) ServiceNow
3 17 (16.04%) Google
4 15 (14.15%) OpenAI
5 11 (10.38%) Databricks
6 2 (1.89%) SAP
7 1 (0.94%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.94%) Informatica