Data Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 171 141
Rank change year-on-year -11 -30 +32
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 146 160 261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.25% 1.67% 2.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.33% 1.87% 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 92 110 177
10th Percentile - £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,759 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -11.25% +4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £73,750
90th Percentile £73,375 £72,500 £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
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 10,985 8,560 10,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 89.46% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,223 4,758 7,103
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,925 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,706
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
West Midlands +7 105 £60,000 +12.68% 16
East Midlands -3 40 £47,500 -13.64% 13
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 77 (52.74%) Data Engineering
2 75 (51.37%) Azure
3 74 (50.68%) SQL
4 73 (50.00%) ETL
5 68 (46.58%) Data Pipeline
6 62 (42.47%) Python
7 61 (41.78%) Data Warehouse
7 61 (41.78%) Data Science
8 50 (34.25%) Data Modelling
9 49 (33.56%) Agile
10 48 (32.88%) Business Intelligence
10 48 (32.88%) SQL Server
10 48 (32.88%) Analytics
11 43 (29.45%) Problem-Solving
11 43 (29.45%) DevOps
12 40 (27.40%) Power BI
12 40 (27.40%) Power Platform
12 40 (27.40%) Data Quality
13 39 (26.71%) Data Lake
14 37 (25.34%) CI/CD
15 36 (24.66%) Databricks
15 36 (24.66%) AWS
16 35 (23.97%) Machine Learning
16 35 (23.97%) GCP
17 33 (22.60%) Data Structures
17 33 (22.60%) Self-Motivation
18 31 (21.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 31 (21.23%) Mentoring
19 29 (19.86%) BigQuery
19 29 (19.86%) Azure Data Factory

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 11 (7.53%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.42%) Apache
3 3 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.68%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 75 (51.37%) Azure
2 40 (27.40%) Power Platform
3 36 (24.66%) AWS
4 35 (23.97%) GCP
5 31 (21.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 29 (19.86%) Azure Data Factory
7 28 (19.18%) Snowflake
8 15 (10.27%) GitHub
9 14 (9.59%) Matillion
10 13 (8.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 13 (8.90%) SaaS
11 12 (8.22%) Serverless
12 7 (4.79%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.79%) Boomi
13 6 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (4.11%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (3.42%) dbt
15 4 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
15 4 (2.74%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.68%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.68%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (41.78%) Data Warehouse
2 48 (32.88%) SQL Server
3 40 (27.40%) Power BI
4 39 (26.71%) Data Lake
5 29 (19.86%) BigQuery
6 20 (13.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 20 (13.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 19 (13.01%) Looker
7 19 (13.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 16 (10.96%) Big Data
9 15 (10.27%) Star Schema
10 12 (8.22%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (8.22%) Relational Database
11 10 (6.85%) Metadata
11 10 (6.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (6.16%) Tableau
13 8 (5.48%) NoSQL
14 7 (4.79%) Data Mining
15 6 (4.11%) Semantic Layer
16 5 (3.42%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 14 (9.59%) GitLab
2 7 (4.79%) Git
3 3 (2.05%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.68%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.68%) Toad
5 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 26 (17.81%) Social Skills
2 24 (16.44%) Finance
3 22 (15.07%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (4.79%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.79%) Retail
6 5 (3.42%) Automotive
6 5 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.05%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.37%) Law
9 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.16%) PySpark
2 8 (5.48%) GraphQL
2 8 (5.48%) Pandas
2 8 (5.48%) RESTful
3 4 (2.74%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.05%) Kafka
5 2 (1.37%) Hugging Face
5 2 (1.37%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.68%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 33 (22.60%) Data Structures
1 33 (22.60%) Self-Motivation
2 7 (4.79%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (4.11%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.11%) NHS
4 5 (3.42%) IoT
5 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.05%) CCTV
6 3 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.37%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (52.74%) Data Engineering
2 73 (50.00%) ETL
3 68 (46.58%) Data Pipeline
4 61 (41.78%) Data Science
5 50 (34.25%) Data Modelling
6 49 (33.56%) Agile
7 48 (32.88%) Analytics
7 48 (32.88%) Business Intelligence
8 43 (29.45%) DevOps
8 43 (29.45%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (25.34%) CI/CD
10 35 (23.97%) Machine Learning
11 31 (21.23%) Mentoring
12 28 (19.18%) Data Integration
13 23 (15.75%) Artificial Intelligence
14 20 (13.70%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (13.01%) Data Transformation
15 19 (13.01%) DataOps
16 18 (12.33%) Change Management
17 16 (10.96%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 74 (50.68%) SQL
2 62 (42.47%) Python
3 17 (11.64%) T-SQL
4 7 (4.79%) C#
4 7 (4.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (3.42%) Java
6 4 (2.74%) Scala
7 3 (2.05%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.05%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (19.18%) Degree
2 8 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (4.79%) Azure Certification
4 6 (4.11%) Security Cleared
5 5 (3.42%) Master's Degree
5 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.05%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (27.40%) Data Quality
2 25 (17.12%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (1.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (8.90%) Terraform
2 1 (0.68%) Ansible
2 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 36 (24.66%) Databricks
2 27 (18.49%) Microsoft
3 20 (13.70%) Google
4 10 (6.85%) Informatica
5 8 (5.48%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.74%) Oracle
6 4 (2.74%) Splunk
7 3 (2.05%) Siemens
7 3 (2.05%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.68%) Denodo
8 1 (0.68%) Sparx
8 1 (0.68%) Talend
8 1 (0.68%) YouTube