Data Engineering Jobs in the Midlands

Data Engineering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 112 170
Rank change year-on-year -47 +58 +6
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 165 276 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.41% 2.89% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.71% 2.99% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 98 73 137
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £41,492 £44,186 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,750 £77,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +19.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,621 9,241 10,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.45% 96.63% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,121 4,617 6,956
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,750 £38,357 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £61,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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 -49 104 £61,616 +10.03% 15
East Midlands -3 60 £42,500 -22.73% 9
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 5 (3.03%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.42%) Apache
3 3 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.61%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.64%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 92 (55.76%) Azure
2 55 (33.33%) AWS
2 55 (33.33%) GCP
3 26 (15.76%) Power Platform
4 25 (15.15%) Snowflake
5 16 (9.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 14 (8.48%) Matillion
8 13 (7.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (3.64%) GitHub
10 4 (2.42%) dbt
10 4 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (2.42%) SaaS
11 3 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.82%) iPaaS
11 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (1.21%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.21%) Broadband
1 2 (1.21%) LAN
1 2 (1.21%) WAN
1 2 (1.21%) Wireless
2 1 (0.61%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.61%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (46.06%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (28.48%) BigQuery
3 43 (26.06%) Looker
4 37 (22.42%) Data Lake
4 37 (22.42%) SQL Server
5 26 (15.76%) Power BI
6 17 (10.30%) Metadata
6 17 (10.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (9.09%) Star Schema
8 14 (8.48%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (7.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 11 (6.67%) Big Data
11 10 (6.06%) Relational Database
11 10 (6.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (3.64%) Power Query
13 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 5 (3.03%) NoSQL
14 4 (2.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 4 (2.42%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (9.70%) GitLab
2 4 (2.42%) Git
3 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.82%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.21%) JIRA
5 1 (0.61%) Toad
General
1 53 (32.12%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (11.52%) Finance
3 17 (10.30%) Social Skills
4 16 (9.70%) Retail
5 10 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.85%) Billing
7 5 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.82%) Advertising
8 3 (1.82%) Games
9 2 (1.21%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.61%) German Language
10 1 (0.61%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Law
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (46.67%) Data Engineer
2 29 (17.58%) Architect
3 26 (15.76%) Data Architect
4 20 (12.12%) Data Manager
5 19 (11.52%) Engineering Manager
5 19 (11.52%) Principal Data Engineer
5 19 (11.52%) Principal Engineer
6 18 (10.91%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (7.27%) Senior
8 11 (6.67%) Lead
9 8 (4.85%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (4.85%) Senior Data Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) Azure Data Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) DBA
11 6 (3.64%) Administrator
12 4 (2.42%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 4 (2.42%) Head of Business Intelligence
12 4 (2.42%) Product Owner
12 4 (2.42%) Security Engineer
13 3 (1.82%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.42%) Pandas
1 4 (2.42%) PySpark
2 1 (0.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 49 (29.70%) Self-Motivation
2 24 (14.55%) Data Structures
3 21 (12.73%) Management Information System
4 12 (7.27%) Product Ownership
5 7 (4.24%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.64%) Cloud Native
6 6 (3.64%) NHS
7 5 (3.03%) Algorithms
7 5 (3.03%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.42%) IoT
8 4 (2.42%) PMI
8 4 (2.42%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.42%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.42%) Replication
9 2 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.21%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.21%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.03%) Linux
2 4 (2.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (49.70%) Data Modelling
2 69 (41.82%) ETL
2 69 (41.82%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (38.79%) Analytics
4 59 (35.76%) Data Pipeline
5 58 (35.15%) Data Science
6 51 (30.91%) DevOps
7 50 (30.30%) Agile
8 45 (27.27%) Mentoring
9 44 (26.67%) Platform Engineering
10 43 (26.06%) CI/CD
11 41 (24.85%) Data Architecture
12 40 (24.24%) Data Governance
13 39 (23.64%) Business Intelligence
14 38 (23.03%) Data Integration
15 27 (16.36%) Data Management
16 24 (14.55%) Machine Learning
17 23 (13.94%) DataOps
18 21 (12.73%) Artificial Intelligence
19 20 (12.12%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (38.18%) SQL
2 41 (24.85%) Python
3 12 (7.27%) T-SQL
4 6 (3.64%) C#
4 6 (3.64%) VBA
5 5 (3.03%) R
6 3 (1.82%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.61%) Java
7 1 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (13.33%) Degree
2 8 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (4.85%) DBS Check
3 6 (3.64%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.42%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.82%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.82%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.82%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.21%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (29.70%) Data Quality
2 42 (25.45%) GDPR
3 14 (8.48%) QA
4 7 (4.24%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.61%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 11 (6.67%) Terraform
2 1 (0.61%) Ansible
2 1 (0.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (26.06%) Google
2 31 (18.79%) Microsoft
3 27 (16.36%) Databricks
4 8 (4.85%) Informatica
5 6 (3.64%) Oracle
6 3 (1.82%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.61%) Cognos