Data Engineer Jobs in Wales

Data Engineer
UK > Wales

The median Data Engineer salary in Wales is £66,199 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 115 94
Rank change year-on-year +32 -21 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 8 12 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 0.57% 0.94% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.98% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 42
10th Percentile £41,361 £41,235 £42,439
25th Percentile £41,375 £42,069 £50,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,199 £48,030 £57,063
Median % change year-on-year +37.83% -15.83% +26.81%
75th Percentile £74,974 £68,005 £65,625
90th Percentile £81,500 £73,750 £76,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wales. 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 Wales with a recognized job title 1,372 1,224 1,651
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.10% 96.23% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 760 706 991
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,920 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £46,210 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% -7.58% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,466 £72,500
UK median annual salary £56,525 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.79% - +4.35%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Wales

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Wales

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Wales

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Wales over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Wales

Data Engineer
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 Engineer within the Wales region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +31 5 £42,752 -32.18% 5
West Wales +10 3 £66,199 +48.06% 2
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 Wales region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) SQL
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) Databricks
3 4 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (37.50%) ETL
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
4 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (25.00%) Data Science
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (25.00%) PySpark
5 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
5 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (25.00%) GCP
5 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Star Schema
5 2 (25.00%) QA
5 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Big Data

Data Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (37.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) AWS
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (37.50%) Data Lake
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 2 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (25.00%) Big Data
3 2 (25.00%) Star Schema
4 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) PySpark
2 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (37.50%) Data Architecture
2 3 (37.50%) ETL
3 2 (25.00%) Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) Data Science
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
4 1 (12.50%) Data Security
4 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Kimball Methodology
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Google