Data Engineer Jobs in the East of England

Data Engineer
England > East of England

The median Data Engineer salary in the East of England is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 199 165
Rank change year-on-year +48 -34 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 72 14 140
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 1.05% 0.30% 1.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 0.36% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 47 11 56
10th Percentile £29,000 £41,250 £44,375
25th Percentile £40,000 £50,625 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -12.28%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £69,125
90th Percentile £74,500 £83,750 £78,125
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 6,448 3,865 6,682
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 82.82% 93.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,880 2,077 2,943
10th Percentile £26,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,075 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the East of England

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the East of England.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the East of England

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the East of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the East of England

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Norfolk - 20 £49,417 -
Cambridgeshire +13 16 £55,000 -29.03%
Essex +14 13 £45,000 - 1
Bedfordshire +33 12 £60,000 +41.18% 1
Suffolk -7 7 £24,000 -77.14%
Hertfordshire +10 4 £70,000 +12.00% 3
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, 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 East of England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 33 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (44.44%) Python
3 30 (41.67%) Data Science
4 28 (38.89%) Data Pipeline
5 26 (36.11%) SQL
6 25 (34.72%) Azure
6 25 (34.72%) AWS
7 24 (33.33%) GCP
7 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
8 23 (31.94%) Data Engineering
9 22 (30.56%) Google
10 19 (26.39%) Mentoring
11 18 (25.00%) Agile
12 17 (23.61%) Data Modelling
12 17 (23.61%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (22.22%) ETL
14 15 (20.83%) Data Analysis
14 15 (20.83%) DevOps
14 15 (20.83%) GDPR
15 14 (19.44%) BigQuery
15 14 (19.44%) Power BI
15 14 (19.44%) Self-Motivation
15 14 (19.44%) Power Platform
15 14 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
16 13 (18.06%) Change Management
17 12 (16.67%) Analytics
17 12 (16.67%) DataOps
17 12 (16.67%) Looker
17 12 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
18 11 (15.28%) Degree

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 (8.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (34.72%) AWS
1 25 (34.72%) Azure
2 24 (33.33%) GCP
3 14 (19.44%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.17%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.78%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.78%) Serverless
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.39%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.39%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (1.39%) GitHub
8 1 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.39%) SaaS
8 1 (1.39%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.39%) snoop
2 1 (1.39%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.44%) BigQuery
1 14 (19.44%) Power BI
2 12 (16.67%) Looker
3 10 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 7 (9.72%) Big Data
5 7 (9.72%) Data Lake
6 5 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.56%) Data Mining
7 4 (5.56%) GIS
7 4 (5.56%) MySQL
7 4 (5.56%) NoSQL
7 4 (5.56%) Spatial Data
7 4 (5.56%) Triplestore
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.78%) Metadata
8 2 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Git
1 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) GitLab
2 1 (1.39%) MLflow
General
1 24 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Marketing
4 4 (5.56%) Agriculture
4 4 (5.56%) Electronics
4 4 (5.56%) Games
4 4 (5.56%) Local Government
4 4 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.56%) Retail
5 3 (4.17%) Finance
5 3 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Advertising
7 1 (1.39%) Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Legal
7 1 (1.39%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) HTML
1 5 (6.94%) RESTful
2 3 (4.17%) JSON
2 3 (4.17%) XML
3 1 (1.39%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.39%) Node.js
3 1 (1.39%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.44%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (13.89%) Algorithms
3 7 (9.72%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.56%) Client/Server
4 4 (5.56%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (5.56%) Linked Data
4 4 (5.56%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.56%) Reference Data
5 3 (4.17%) Clustering
5 3 (4.17%) Life Science
6 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.78%) e-Learning
6 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.78%) Housing Association
6 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.39%) Genomics
7 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (41.67%) Data Science
3 28 (38.89%) Data Pipeline
4 23 (31.94%) Data Engineering
5 19 (26.39%) Mentoring
6 18 (25.00%) Agile
7 17 (23.61%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (23.61%) Data Modelling
8 16 (22.22%) ETL
9 15 (20.83%) Data Analysis
9 15 (20.83%) DevOps
10 13 (18.06%) Change Management
11 12 (16.67%) Analytics
11 12 (16.67%) DataOps
11 12 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
12 9 (12.50%) Containerisation
13 8 (11.11%) Visualisation
14 7 (9.72%) Computer Science
14 7 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (8.33%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 32 (44.44%) Python
2 26 (36.11%) SQL
3 5 (6.94%) JavaScript
3 5 (6.94%) PHP
3 5 (6.94%) R
4 4 (5.56%) Java
4 4 (5.56%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (5.56%) SPARQL
5 3 (4.17%) C
6 1 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (15.28%) Degree
2 7 (9.72%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.83%) GDPR
2 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 9 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.94%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (30.56%) Google
2 10 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.56%) Databricks
4 1 (1.39%) Sage
4 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.39%) SAP
4 1 (1.39%) YouTube