Data Engineering Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 92 144
Rank change year-on-year -54 +52 +25
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 104 233 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.44% 3.49% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.73% 3.60% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 72 63 91
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,250 £44,000
25th Percentile £52,119 £44,186 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,616 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.03% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £104,250 £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
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,008 6,470 6,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.08% 96.86% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,523 3,277 4,747
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,561 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the West 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
Birmingham -3 59 £65,400 +0.62% 6
Staffordshire -6 15 £35,000 -17.65% 1
Wolverhampton +7 12 £70,000 -
Warwickshire -18 9 £73,000 +53.68% 2
Coventry +16 3 - - 3
Solihull - 1 £60,733 -
Shropshire - 1 £55,000 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £95,000 -
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 3 (2.88%) Apache
1 3 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (54.81%) Azure
2 35 (33.65%) AWS
3 26 (25.00%) GCP
4 21 (20.19%) Snowflake
5 14 (13.46%) Power Platform
6 11 (10.58%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (10.58%) Matillion
7 9 (8.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.77%) GitHub
10 4 (3.85%) dbt
10 4 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.85%) SaaS
11 3 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.88%) iPaaS
12 1 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.96%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.96%) 3GPP
1 1 (0.96%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (46.15%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 25 (24.04%) Data Lake
4 21 (20.19%) BigQuery
5 17 (16.35%) Looker
5 17 (16.35%) Metadata
6 14 (13.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (13.46%) Power BI
7 12 (11.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (11.54%) Star Schema
8 10 (9.62%) Relational Database
9 9 (8.65%) Big Data
9 9 (8.65%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (6.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 5 (4.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (3.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 4 (3.85%) Delta Lake
12 4 (3.85%) NoSQL
13 3 (2.88%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 13 (12.50%) GitLab
2 4 (3.85%) Git
3 3 (2.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.88%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.92%) JIRA
5 1 (0.96%) Toad
General
1 22 (21.15%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (14.42%) Finance
3 10 (9.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (8.65%) Social Skills
5 6 (5.77%) Retail
6 5 (4.81%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.96%) German Language
8 1 (0.96%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.96%) Law
8 1 (0.96%) Legal
8 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (52.88%) Data Engineer
2 18 (17.31%) Architect
2 18 (17.31%) Data Architect
3 10 (9.62%) Senior
4 9 (8.65%) Data Manager
4 9 (8.65%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (8.65%) Principal Data Engineer
4 9 (8.65%) Principal Engineer
5 8 (7.69%) Engineering Manager
6 7 (6.73%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.73%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) Azure Data Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Lead
9 4 (3.85%) Administrator
9 4 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) DBA
9 4 (3.85%) Head of Business Intelligence
9 4 (3.85%) Security Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Analyst
10 3 (2.88%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.85%) Pandas
1 4 (3.85%) PySpark
2 1 (0.96%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (26.92%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (17.31%) Data Structures
3 17 (16.35%) Management Information System
4 7 (6.73%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (5.77%) NHS
6 5 (4.81%) Algorithms
7 4 (3.85%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.85%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.85%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.85%) Replication
8 2 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.85%) Linux
1 4 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (50.96%) Analytics
2 51 (49.04%) Data Modelling
3 45 (43.27%) ETL
4 40 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (35.58%) Data Pipeline
5 37 (35.58%) Data Science
6 30 (28.85%) CI/CD
6 30 (28.85%) DevOps
7 28 (26.92%) Data Architecture
8 27 (25.96%) Mentoring
9 25 (24.04%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (23.08%) Agile
10 24 (23.08%) Data Integration
11 21 (20.19%) Data Management
12 20 (19.23%) Machine Learning
13 18 (17.31%) Data Governance
13 18 (17.31%) Platform Engineering
14 17 (16.35%) Data Analytics
15 15 (14.42%) Data Strategy
16 14 (13.46%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.38%) SQL
2 28 (26.92%) Python
3 12 (11.54%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.81%) C#
5 3 (2.88%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.92%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (16.35%) Degree
2 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.85%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.96%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (33.65%) Data Quality
2 24 (23.08%) GDPR
3 4 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.85%) QA
4 1 (0.96%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 11 (10.58%) Terraform
2 1 (0.96%) Ansible
2 1 (0.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (19.23%) Databricks
2 17 (16.35%) Google
2 17 (16.35%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.69%) Informatica
4 3 (2.88%) Oracle
4 3 (2.88%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.96%) Cognos