Data Engineering Jobs in Wales

Data Engineering
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 100 122
Rank change year-on-year +2 +22 -39
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 20 31 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.98% 1.85% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.92% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 13 20 11
10th Percentile £41,708 £41,425 £34,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,162 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £44,666 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +118.29% -10.67% +38.41%
75th Percentile £130,000 £67,500 £67,000
90th Percentile - £71,875 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,614 1,613 1,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 79.47% 96.07% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 1,059 818 1,139
10th Percentile £26,700 £26,391 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,875 £75,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Wales

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in Wales.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in Wales

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Wales over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Wales

Data Engineering
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the Wales region over the 6 months to 5 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
South Wales -10 17 £97,500 +118.29% 4
West Wales - 3 - - 2
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) GCP
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) AWS
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.00%) dbt
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) BigQuery
1 6 (30.00%) Looker
2 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Tableau
General
1 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Principal Data Engineer
3 6 (30.00%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DataOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile Payment
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Data Science
2 10 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (45.00%) Data Governance
3 9 (45.00%) DevOps
4 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) DataOps
4 8 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 8 (40.00%) MLOps
5 7 (35.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (35.00%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (30.00%) Change Management
6 6 (30.00%) Data Architecture
6 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
8 4 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 4 (20.00%) Data Strategy
8 4 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 4 (20.00%) ETL
8 4 (20.00%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Python
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) Bash
2 1 (5.00%) Perl
2 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft