Data Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 139 121
Rank change year-on-year -8 -18 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 111 124 168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.50% 1.94% 2.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 2.15% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 77 92 106
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,127 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.98% -3.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £68,438
90th Percentile £76,000 £74,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +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 6,944 5,756 6,885
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 90.22% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,216 3,269 4,738
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,563 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -8 45 £65,000 +13.04% 11
Staffordshire -17 31 £57,500 +27.78% 6
Warwickshire +23 9 £73,000 +57.84% 1
Coventry +32 7 £75,000 +42.86% 6
Wolverhampton - 5 £59,250 -
Shropshire -6 4 £57,500 -4.17%
Walsall - 2 £42,500 - 1
Solihull -4 1 £85,000 +61.90%
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 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 65 (58.56%) SQL
2 62 (55.86%) ETL
2 62 (55.86%) Azure
3 59 (53.15%) Data Engineering
4 57 (51.35%) Data Warehouse
5 45 (40.54%) Business Intelligence
6 44 (39.64%) SQL Server
6 44 (39.64%) Analytics
6 44 (39.64%) Data Pipeline
7 41 (36.94%) Data Science
8 40 (36.04%) Python
9 38 (34.23%) Data Modelling
9 38 (34.23%) Data Quality
10 37 (33.33%) Agile
11 36 (32.43%) Power Platform
11 36 (32.43%) Power BI
12 33 (29.73%) Databricks
13 32 (28.83%) DevOps
14 30 (27.03%) Data Lake
14 30 (27.03%) CI/CD
15 29 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (25.23%) AWS
17 27 (24.32%) Data Structures
18 26 (23.42%) Microsoft
19 25 (22.52%) GCP
20 24 (21.62%) Machine Learning
21 23 (20.72%) Azure Data Factory
21 23 (20.72%) Snowflake
21 23 (20.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
22 22 (19.82%) Data Integration

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 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.70%) Apache
2 3 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (55.86%) Azure
2 36 (32.43%) Power Platform
3 28 (25.23%) AWS
4 25 (22.52%) GCP
5 23 (20.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (20.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 23 (20.72%) Snowflake
6 14 (12.61%) SaaS
7 11 (9.91%) GitHub
7 11 (9.91%) Matillion
8 9 (8.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (7.21%) Serverless
10 7 (6.31%) Boomi
11 5 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (3.60%) dbt
13 3 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (2.70%) iPaaS
14 2 (1.80%) Apigee
14 2 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.90%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.90%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (51.35%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (39.64%) SQL Server
3 36 (32.43%) Power BI
4 30 (27.03%) Data Lake
5 21 (18.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 20 (18.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 19 (17.12%) BigQuery
8 16 (14.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 16 (14.41%) Relational Database
9 14 (12.61%) Big Data
10 13 (11.71%) Metadata
11 12 (10.81%) Star Schema
12 9 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (8.11%) Looker
13 8 (7.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (7.21%) Tableau
14 7 (6.31%) Data Mining
14 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 6 (5.41%) Semantic Layer
16 4 (3.60%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (9.91%) GitLab
2 5 (4.50%) Git
3 3 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.90%) Toad
4 1 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (18.02%) Finance
2 14 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.71%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.31%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (4.50%) Automotive
7 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.60%) Retail
8 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.90%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.31%) GraphQL
1 7 (6.31%) RESTful
2 5 (4.50%) PySpark
3 4 (3.60%) Pandas
4 3 (2.70%) Kafka
5 2 (1.80%) Middleware
6 1 (0.90%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.32%) Data Structures
2 20 (18.02%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (7.21%) NHS
5 7 (6.31%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.70%) CCTV
6 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (55.86%) ETL
2 59 (53.15%) Data Engineering
3 45 (40.54%) Business Intelligence
4 44 (39.64%) Analytics
4 44 (39.64%) Data Pipeline
5 41 (36.94%) Data Science
6 38 (34.23%) Data Modelling
7 37 (33.33%) Agile
8 32 (28.83%) DevOps
9 30 (27.03%) CI/CD
10 29 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (21.62%) Machine Learning
12 22 (19.82%) Data Integration
13 21 (18.92%) Mentoring
14 17 (15.32%) Data Acquisition
15 13 (11.71%) Data Analytics
15 13 (11.71%) Metadata Management
16 12 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence
16 12 (10.81%) Data Protection
16 12 (10.81%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 65 (58.56%) SQL
2 40 (36.04%) Python
3 22 (19.82%) T-SQL
4 8 (7.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (5.41%) C#
6 4 (3.60%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.70%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.80%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (18.92%) Degree
2 6 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.70%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (34.23%) Data Quality
2 19 (17.12%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 15 (13.51%) Terraform
2 1 (0.90%) Ansible
2 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 33 (29.73%) Databricks
2 26 (23.42%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.91%) Google
4 10 (9.01%) Informatica
5 9 (8.11%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.60%) Oracle
7 3 (2.70%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.90%) Denodo
8 1 (0.90%) Talend
8 1 (0.90%) YouTube