Data Engineer Jobs in the South East

Data Engineer
England > South East

The median Data Engineer salary in the South East is £48,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 244 188 233
Rank change year-on-year -56 +45 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 159 250 286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.94% 1.75% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.93% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 83 147 152
10th Percentile £27,500 £42,500 £45,125
25th Percentile £31,250 £52,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.20% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £74,750 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,861 12,921 19,187
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 90.26% 96.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11,350 8,154 12,404
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,032 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the South East

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the South East

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the South East

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Thames Valley +19 88 £60,000 -14.29% 15
Buckinghamshire +5 45 £60,000 -14.29% 1
Hampshire -47 31 £35,000 -50.00% 7
Oxfordshire +15 25 £60,000 +4.35% 5
Berkshire +3 18 £33,200 -52.23% 9
Surrey -51 14 £50,500 -19.20% 5
Kent +3 10 £30,000 -45.45%
East Sussex +15 9 £70,000 +16.67% 1
West Sussex +9 5 £25,000 -43.50%
Middlesex - 2 £44,658 -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 South East region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 86 (54.09%) Data Engineering
2 73 (45.91%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (41.51%) Data Science
4 63 (39.62%) Mentoring
5 52 (32.70%) Data Modelling
6 51 (32.08%) Analytics
7 45 (28.30%) Data Pipeline
8 42 (26.42%) Data Quality
9 40 (25.16%) Social Skills
10 38 (23.90%) Python
11 37 (23.27%) Agile
12 34 (21.38%) SQL
12 34 (21.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 33 (20.75%) Coaching
13 33 (20.75%) Degree
14 32 (20.13%) Azure
14 32 (20.13%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (20.13%) Red Team
15 31 (19.50%) Self-Motivation
15 31 (19.50%) GCP
16 30 (18.87%) BigQuery
16 30 (18.87%) DevOps
17 28 (17.61%) Google
17 28 (17.61%) Business Intelligence
17 28 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
17 28 (17.61%) Looker
17 28 (17.61%) Platform Engineering
18 26 (16.35%) ETL
19 24 (15.09%) Change Management
19 24 (15.09%) DataOps

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (3.14%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.52%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.26%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.13%) Azure
2 31 (19.50%) GCP
3 22 (13.84%) Power Platform
4 13 (8.18%) AWS
5 10 (6.29%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (2.52%) dbt
9 3 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.26%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.26%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.26%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.63%) Akamai
11 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.63%) Cloud Composer
11 1 (0.63%) GitHub
11 1 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.32%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (2.52%) FTP
2 4 (2.52%) LAN
3 3 (1.89%) WAN
3 3 (1.89%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.63%) 5G
4 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (18.87%) BigQuery
2 28 (17.61%) Looker
3 23 (14.47%) Data Lake
4 22 (13.84%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (13.84%) Power BI
5 10 (6.29%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.14%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.89%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.26%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.26%) Impala
9 2 (1.26%) MySQL
10 1 (0.63%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.63%) PowerCenter
10 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (3.14%) Git
2 4 (2.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (2.52%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.63%) ERwin
4 1 (0.63%) GitLab
4 1 (0.63%) JIRA
4 1 (0.63%) Subversion
4 1 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 40 (25.16%) Social Skills
2 34 (21.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.06%) Telecoms
5 11 (6.92%) Legal
6 10 (6.29%) Games
7 9 (5.66%) Finance
8 7 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.77%) Retail
10 3 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.26%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.63%) Advertising
12 1 (0.63%) Banking
12 1 (0.63%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.89%) Great Expectations
1 3 (1.89%) Kafka
2 1 (0.63%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.63%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (0.63%) Matplotlib
2 1 (0.63%) NumPy
2 1 (0.63%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 31 (19.50%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.92%) Fibre Optics
3 8 (5.03%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.77%) IoT
5 5 (3.14%) CCTV
6 3 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.26%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.63%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.89%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (54.09%) Data Engineering
2 73 (45.91%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (41.51%) Data Science
4 63 (39.62%) Mentoring
5 52 (32.70%) Data Modelling
6 51 (32.08%) Analytics
7 45 (28.30%) Data Pipeline
8 37 (23.27%) Agile
9 33 (20.75%) Coaching
10 32 (20.13%) Cybersecurity
10 32 (20.13%) Red Team
11 30 (18.87%) DevOps
12 28 (17.61%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (17.61%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (16.35%) ETL
14 24 (15.09%) Change Management
14 24 (15.09%) DataOps
15 16 (10.06%) Roadmaps
16 13 (8.18%) Customer Service
16 13 (8.18%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 38 (23.90%) Python
2 34 (21.38%) SQL
3 8 (5.03%) Java
4 7 (4.40%) Scala
5 5 (3.14%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.89%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.26%) Bash
7 2 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.63%) C#
8 1 (0.63%) Korn
8 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (20.75%) Degree
2 4 (2.52%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.26%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.63%) ICAEW
4 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (26.42%) Data Quality
2 24 (15.09%) GDPR
3 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.26%) HDFS
2 1 (0.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.63%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.63%) Ansible
2 1 (0.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (17.61%) Google
2 20 (12.58%) Microsoft
3 18 (11.32%) Databricks
4 4 (2.52%) SAP
4 4 (2.52%) Talend
5 3 (1.89%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.26%) Informatica
7 1 (0.63%) Oracle
7 1 (0.63%) Vertica