Data Engineer Jobs in the South East

Data Engineer
England > South East

The median Data Engineer salary in the South East is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 241 202 233
Rank change year-on-year -39 +31 +49
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 168 214 304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.94% 1.56% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.73% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 91 142 152
10th Percentile £27,500 £43,875 £45,125
25th Percentile £31,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% -1.96% +6.25%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £84,750
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 16,769 12,374 19,894
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 89.99% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 11,915 7,936 12,370
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 1 June 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 1 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
Thames Valley +41 98 £60,000 -14.29% 12
Buckinghamshire +9 45 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Hampshire -55 32 £35,000 -50.00% 4
Berkshire +10 28 £45,000 -35.71% 5
Oxfordshire +26 25 £60,000 -3.42% 2
Surrey -54 12 £58,750 -6.00% 6
Kent -5 10 £30,000 -45.45% 3
East Sussex +7 9 £70,000 +14.29% 3
West Sussex +10 5 £25,000 -52.38%
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 1 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 South East region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (51.79%) Data Engineering
2 73 (43.45%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (39.29%) Data Science
4 63 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 52 (30.95%) Data Modelling
6 51 (30.36%) Analytics
7 46 (27.38%) Data Pipeline
8 42 (25.00%) Data Quality
9 41 (24.40%) Social Skills
10 39 (23.21%) Python
11 37 (22.02%) Agile
12 34 (20.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 33 (19.64%) Coaching
13 33 (19.64%) SQL
13 33 (19.64%) Degree
13 33 (19.64%) Azure
14 32 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
14 32 (19.05%) Red Team
15 31 (18.45%) Self-Motivation
15 31 (18.45%) GCP
16 30 (17.86%) BigQuery
16 30 (17.86%) DevOps
17 28 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
17 28 (16.67%) Looker
17 28 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
17 28 (16.67%) Google
17 28 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
18 25 (14.88%) DataOps
19 24 (14.29%) GDPR
19 24 (14.29%) Change Management

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 (2.98%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.19%) Apache
4 1 (0.60%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 33 (19.64%) Azure
2 31 (18.45%) GCP
3 23 (13.69%) Power Platform
4 13 (7.74%) AWS
5 11 (6.55%) Snowflake
6 6 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (2.98%) dbt
8 3 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.19%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (1.19%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.19%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.60%) Akamai
10 1 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.60%) Cloud Composer
10 1 (0.60%) GitHub
10 1 (0.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.71%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (2.38%) FTP
2 4 (2.38%) LAN
3 3 (1.79%) Network Security
3 3 (1.79%) WAN
3 3 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.60%) 5G
4 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (17.86%) BigQuery
2 28 (16.67%) Looker
3 23 (13.69%) Data Lake
3 23 (13.69%) Power BI
4 21 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (5.36%) SQL Server
6 4 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (2.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.79%) Hadoop
7 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.19%) Apache Hive
8 2 (1.19%) Impala
8 2 (1.19%) MySQL
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.60%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.60%) Presto
Development Applications
1 5 (2.98%) Git
2 3 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.19%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.60%) ERwin
4 1 (0.60%) GitLab
4 1 (0.60%) JIRA
4 1 (0.60%) Subversion
4 1 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 41 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 28 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 11 (6.55%) Legal
6 10 (5.95%) Games
7 9 (5.36%) Finance
8 7 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (3.57%) Retail
10 2 (1.19%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.60%) Advertising
11 1 (0.60%) Banking
11 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.79%) Great Expectations
1 3 (1.79%) Kafka
2 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.60%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (0.60%) Matplotlib
2 1 (0.60%) NumPy
2 1 (0.60%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.45%) Self-Motivation
2 11 (6.55%) Fibre Optics
3 8 (4.76%) Driving Licence
4 6 (3.57%) IoT
5 5 (2.98%) CCTV
6 3 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.79%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (51.79%) Data Engineering
2 73 (43.45%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (39.29%) Data Science
4 63 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 52 (30.95%) Data Modelling
6 51 (30.36%) Analytics
7 46 (27.38%) Data Pipeline
8 37 (22.02%) Agile
9 33 (19.64%) Coaching
10 32 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
10 32 (19.05%) Red Team
11 30 (17.86%) DevOps
12 28 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (14.88%) DataOps
14 24 (14.29%) Change Management
14 24 (14.29%) ETL
15 16 (9.52%) Roadmaps
16 13 (7.74%) Customer Service
16 13 (7.74%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 39 (23.21%) Python
2 33 (19.64%) SQL
3 8 (4.76%) Java
4 7 (4.17%) Scala
5 3 (1.79%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.19%) Bash
6 2 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.60%) C#
7 1 (0.60%) Korn
7 1 (0.60%) PHP
7 1 (0.60%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (19.64%) Degree
2 4 (2.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.19%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.60%) ICAEW
4 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.60%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 24 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.19%) HDFS
2 1 (0.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.60%) Ansible
2 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (16.67%) Google
2 19 (11.31%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.71%) Databricks
4 4 (2.38%) SAP
4 4 (2.38%) Talend
5 3 (1.79%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.19%) Informatica
6 2 (1.19%) Oracle
7 1 (0.60%) Vertica