Data Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £58,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 153 130
Rank change year-on-year +12 -23 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 104 129 170
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.45% 1.91% 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 2.12% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 70 95 104
10th Percentile £34,300 £41,250 £38,225
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £53,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.33% -3.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £67,813
90th Percentile £73,875 £74,000 £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
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 6,759 6,072 6,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 89.93% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,145 3,346 4,793
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,117 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
Birmingham +5 46 £65,000 +13.04% 8
Staffordshire -14 26 £44,750 -3.24% 2
Warwickshire +28 9 £73,000 +28.35% 2
Coventry +32 6 - - 1
Wolverhampton - 5 £59,250 -
Shropshire -1 4 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Solihull -7 1 £85,000 +70.00%
Walsall - 1 £42,500 -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 West Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (56.73%) SQL
2 58 (55.77%) Azure
3 54 (51.92%) ETL
3 54 (51.92%) Data Engineering
4 53 (50.96%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (42.31%) Data Pipeline
6 41 (39.42%) Data Science
7 40 (38.46%) SQL Server
8 39 (37.50%) Analytics
9 38 (36.54%) Python
9 38 (36.54%) Business Intelligence
10 36 (34.62%) Agile
11 34 (32.69%) Data Modelling
12 33 (31.73%) Data Quality
13 30 (28.85%) Power BI
13 30 (28.85%) Power Platform
14 29 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (27.88%) DevOps
15 28 (26.92%) Databricks
16 27 (25.96%) Data Structures
16 27 (25.96%) AWS
17 26 (25.00%) Data Lake
17 26 (25.00%) CI/CD
18 24 (23.08%) GCP
19 23 (22.12%) Snowflake
20 21 (20.19%) Data Integration
20 21 (20.19%) Degree
20 21 (20.19%) Machine Learning
20 21 (20.19%) Microsoft
21 20 (19.23%) Self-Motivation

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 4 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.88%) Apache
2 3 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 58 (55.77%) Azure
2 30 (28.85%) Power Platform
3 27 (25.96%) AWS
4 24 (23.08%) GCP
5 23 (22.12%) Snowflake
6 19 (18.27%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (18.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (12.50%) SaaS
8 11 (10.58%) GitHub
8 11 (10.58%) Matillion
9 9 (8.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (7.69%) Serverless
11 7 (6.73%) Boomi
12 6 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (4.81%) dbt
14 3 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (2.88%) iPaaS
15 2 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
15 2 (1.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.96%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.96%) 5G
2 1 (0.96%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (50.96%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (38.46%) SQL Server
3 30 (28.85%) Power BI
4 26 (25.00%) Data Lake
5 18 (17.31%) BigQuery
6 17 (16.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (15.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 12 (11.54%) Relational Database
8 12 (11.54%) Star Schema
9 11 (10.58%) Big Data
10 9 (8.65%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (8.65%) Looker
10 9 (8.65%) Metadata
10 9 (8.65%) Tableau
11 8 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (6.73%) Data Mining
13 6 (5.77%) Semantic Layer
14 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (9.62%) GitLab
2 5 (4.81%) Git
3 3 (2.88%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.96%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.96%) Toad
5 1 (0.96%) Zephyr
General
1 17 (16.35%) Finance
2 13 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.81%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (3.85%) Automotive
6 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.85%) Retail
7 3 (2.88%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.96%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.96%) Law
8 1 (0.96%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.69%) GraphQL
1 8 (7.69%) RESTful
2 4 (3.85%) Pandas
2 4 (3.85%) PySpark
3 3 (2.88%) Kafka
4 1 (0.96%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (25.96%) Data Structures
2 20 (19.23%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (6.73%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.77%) NHS
5 5 (4.81%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.88%) CCTV
6 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.96%) Clustering
8 1 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (51.92%) Data Engineering
1 54 (51.92%) ETL
2 44 (42.31%) Data Pipeline
3 41 (39.42%) Data Science
4 39 (37.50%) Analytics
5 38 (36.54%) Business Intelligence
6 36 (34.62%) Agile
7 34 (32.69%) Data Modelling
8 29 (27.88%) DevOps
8 29 (27.88%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (25.00%) CI/CD
10 21 (20.19%) Data Integration
10 21 (20.19%) Machine Learning
11 20 (19.23%) Mentoring
12 14 (13.46%) Data Acquisition
13 13 (12.50%) Data Analytics
14 12 (11.54%) Data Transformation
15 11 (10.58%) Artificial Intelligence
16 10 (9.62%) Data Ingestion
16 10 (9.62%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 59 (56.73%) SQL
2 38 (36.54%) Python
3 17 (16.35%) T-SQL
4 7 (6.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (5.77%) C#
6 3 (2.88%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.88%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.96%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (20.19%) Degree
2 5 (4.81%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.88%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (31.73%) Data Quality
2 16 (15.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.96%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 11 (10.58%) Terraform
2 1 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (26.92%) Databricks
2 21 (20.19%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.62%) Google
3 10 (9.62%) Informatica
4 8 (7.69%) MuleSoft
5 4 (3.85%) Oracle
6 3 (2.88%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.96%) Denodo
7 1 (0.96%) F5
7 1 (0.96%) Talend
7 1 (0.96%) YouTube