Data Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Data Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Data Engineer salary in Birmingham is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 99 105
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 45 47 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.66% 2.33% 2.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 2.50% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 35 46 78
10th Percentile £28,000 £45,759 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +3.14% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,313 £77,813
90th Percentile £74,500 £77,500 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £58,750 £53,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.33% -3.18% -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,555 1,882 2,997
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 93.45% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,083 1,435 2,321
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,914 £70,800 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 Birmingham region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (57.78%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (55.56%) SQL
2 25 (55.56%) Azure
3 24 (53.33%) AWS
3 24 (53.33%) Python
4 23 (51.11%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (51.11%) ETL
5 21 (46.67%) Agile
5 21 (46.67%) Data Engineering
6 19 (42.22%) Data Science
7 17 (37.78%) Data Structures
7 17 (37.78%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (35.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (33.33%) GCP
10 14 (31.11%) Analytics
10 14 (31.11%) Degree
11 13 (28.89%) SQL Server
11 13 (28.89%) Snowflake
12 12 (26.67%) Power Platform
12 12 (26.67%) Power BI
12 12 (26.67%) BigQuery
13 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
14 10 (22.22%) DevOps
14 10 (22.22%) Databricks
14 10 (22.22%) Data Integration
15 9 (20.00%) GitHub
15 9 (20.00%) Tableau
15 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (17.78%) Self-Motivation
16 8 (17.78%) Data Ingestion

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) Azure
2 24 (53.33%) AWS
3 15 (33.33%) GCP
4 13 (28.89%) Snowflake
5 12 (26.67%) Power Platform
6 9 (20.00%) GitHub
7 8 (17.78%) SaaS
8 7 (15.56%) Boomi
9 5 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (6.67%) Matillion
11 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
11 2 (4.44%) dbt
11 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (2.22%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
12 1 (2.22%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.22%) 3GPP
2 1 (2.22%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (51.11%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (35.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (28.89%) SQL Server
4 12 (26.67%) BigQuery
4 12 (26.67%) Power BI
5 9 (20.00%) Tableau
6 7 (15.56%) Data Mining
7 5 (11.11%) Data Lake
8 3 (6.67%) Big Data
8 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (6.67%) Looker
8 3 (6.67%) Star Schema
9 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
10 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
10 1 (2.22%) HBase
10 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
10 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) GitLab
2 3 (6.67%) Git
3 2 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.22%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Retail
4 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) GraphQL
1 8 (17.78%) RESTful
2 3 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (2.22%) Pandas
3 1 (2.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) Data Structures
2 8 (17.78%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.22%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (57.78%) Data Pipeline
2 23 (51.11%) ETL
3 21 (46.67%) Agile
3 21 (46.67%) Data Engineering
4 19 (42.22%) Data Science
5 17 (37.78%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (31.11%) Analytics
7 10 (22.22%) Data Integration
7 10 (22.22%) DevOps
8 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (17.78%) Data Ingestion
9 8 (17.78%) Data Modelling
10 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
10 7 (15.56%) Data Acquisition
10 7 (15.56%) Event-Driven
10 7 (15.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (15.56%) Mentoring
10 7 (15.56%) Product Roadmap
10 7 (15.56%) Roadmaps
10 7 (15.56%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 25 (55.56%) SQL
2 24 (53.33%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.22%) C#
4 1 (2.22%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) Degree
2 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Databricks
2 8 (17.78%) Informatica
3 7 (15.56%) MuleSoft
4 4 (8.89%) Google
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle
7 1 (2.22%) SnapLogic
7 1 (2.22%) YouTube