Junior Data Engineer
UK

The median Junior Data Engineer salary in the UK is £25,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 883 950 1154
Rank change year-on-year +67 +204 -256
Permanent jobs requiring a Junior Data Engineer 28 14 79
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.014% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.015% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 23 14 64
10th Percentile £24,000 £33,750 £33,250
25th Percentile £24,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £25,000 £46,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.95% -7.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £34,125 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £47,000 £140,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £25,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -37.50% -5.88% +77.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 94,668 90,468 156,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 91.50% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,568 57,123 85,131
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,325 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.24% +6.65% +5.26%

Junior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Data Engineer in the UK

Junior Data Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Junior Data Engineer in the UK

Junior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Junior Data Engineer over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Junior Data Engineer in the UK

Junior Data Engineer
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 2024. 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
England +97 28 £25,000 -47.37% 3
UK excluding London -24 21 £25,000 -37.50% 2
Work from Home +70 8 £34,000 -28.42% 2
North of England - 8 £25,000 - 2
London +114 7 £47,500 -20.83% 1
North West - 6 £25,000 - 1
East of England - 6 £24,000 -
West Midlands +6 4 £24,500 -36.77%
Midlands -4 4 £24,500 -36.77%
South West -12 3 £35,000 -12.50%
North East - 2 £32,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Junior 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 featuring Junior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (57.14%) Python
2 14 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 13 (46.43%) SQL
3 13 (46.43%) Mentoring
4 11 (39.29%) Big Data
4 11 (39.29%) Visualisation
5 10 (35.71%) Data Science
6 9 (32.14%) Data Visualisation
6 9 (32.14%) ETL
7 8 (28.57%) Coaching
7 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
7 8 (28.57%) YouTube
7 8 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (25.00%) AWS
9 6 (21.43%) Azure
9 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
9 6 (21.43%) Power BI
10 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
10 5 (17.86%) Degree
11 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
11 4 (14.29%) Kafka
12 3 (10.71%) Analytics
12 3 (10.71%) Data Engineering
12 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
12 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
12 3 (10.71%) Master's Degree
13 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree

Junior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) AWS
2 6 (21.43%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) Power Platform
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (7.14%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.57%) dbt
4 1 (3.57%) Fivetran
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) Big Data
2 6 (21.43%) Power BI
3 4 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
5 2 (7.14%) Looker
5 2 (7.14%) Metadata
6 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
6 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
General
1 8 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.14%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) Handlebars
2 2 (7.14%) JSON
2 2 (7.14%) XML
3 1 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (3.57%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Algorithms
1 2 (7.14%) Life Science
1 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
1 2 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Reality
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 13 (46.43%) Mentoring
3 11 (39.29%) Visualisation
4 10 (35.71%) Data Science
5 9 (32.14%) Data Visualisation
5 9 (32.14%) ETL
6 8 (28.57%) Coaching
7 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (10.71%) Analytics
8 3 (10.71%) Computer Science
8 3 (10.71%) Data Engineering
9 2 (7.14%) Actionable Insight
9 2 (7.14%) API Integration
9 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis
9 2 (7.14%) Data Cleansing
9 2 (7.14%) Data Governance
9 2 (7.14%) Data Management
9 2 (7.14%) Data Modelling
9 2 (7.14%) Data Privacy
9 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Python
2 13 (46.43%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 2 (7.14%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.14%) R
4 2 (7.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 2 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) YouTube
2 2 (7.14%) Databricks
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft