Data Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Data Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Data Engineer salary in Birmingham is £65,000 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 96 101 107
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 46 45 90
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.70% 2.23% 2.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 2.39% 2.97%
Number of salaries quoted 36 44 78
10th Percentile £28,000 £45,759 £42,500
25th Percentile £44,375 £48,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +3.14% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,438 £77,813
90th Percentile £74,375 £77,500 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £58,750 £53,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.33% -3.18% -8.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,549 1,882 3,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.27% 93.31% 95.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2,082 1,430 2,351
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,991 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,886 £70,600 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,964 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Birmingham

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

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 Birmingham region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (56.52%) SQL
1 26 (56.52%) Azure
1 26 (56.52%) Data Pipeline
2 24 (52.17%) AWS
2 24 (52.17%) Python
2 24 (52.17%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (50.00%) ETL
4 21 (45.65%) Agile
4 21 (45.65%) Data Engineering
5 19 (41.30%) Data Science
6 17 (36.96%) Data Structures
6 17 (36.96%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (34.78%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (32.61%) GCP
9 14 (30.43%) Analytics
9 14 (30.43%) SQL Server
9 14 (30.43%) Degree
10 13 (28.26%) Snowflake
11 12 (26.09%) Power Platform
11 12 (26.09%) Power BI
11 12 (26.09%) BigQuery
12 11 (23.91%) DevOps
12 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
13 10 (21.74%) Databricks
13 10 (21.74%) Data Integration
14 9 (19.57%) GitHub
14 9 (19.57%) Tableau
14 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (17.39%) Self-Motivation
15 8 (17.39%) SaaS

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (56.52%) Azure
2 24 (52.17%) AWS
3 15 (32.61%) GCP
4 13 (28.26%) Snowflake
5 12 (26.09%) Power Platform
6 9 (19.57%) GitHub
7 8 (17.39%) SaaS
8 7 (15.22%) Boomi
9 5 (10.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (10.87%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (6.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (6.52%) Matillion
11 2 (4.35%) Amazon S3
11 2 (4.35%) dbt
11 2 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (4.35%) Entra ID
11 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (2.17%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 1 (2.17%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.17%) 3GPP
2 1 (2.17%) 5G
2 1 (2.17%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (52.17%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (34.78%) Amazon Redshift
3 14 (30.43%) SQL Server
4 12 (26.09%) BigQuery
4 12 (26.09%) Power BI
5 9 (19.57%) Tableau
6 7 (15.22%) Data Mining
7 5 (10.87%) Data Lake
8 3 (6.52%) Big Data
8 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (6.52%) Looker
8 3 (6.52%) Star Schema
9 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (4.35%) Relational Database
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (2.17%) Delta Lake
10 1 (2.17%) HBase
10 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) GitLab
2 3 (6.52%) Git
3 2 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 5 (10.87%) Finance
3 4 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Retail
4 3 (6.52%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.17%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.17%) Law
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) GraphQL
1 8 (17.39%) RESTful
2 3 (6.52%) Kafka
3 1 (2.17%) Pandas
3 1 (2.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.96%) Data Structures
2 8 (17.39%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.17%) Clustering
5 1 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.17%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) Data Pipeline
2 23 (50.00%) ETL
3 21 (45.65%) Agile
3 21 (45.65%) Data Engineering
4 19 (41.30%) Data Science
5 17 (36.96%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (30.43%) Analytics
7 11 (23.91%) DevOps
8 10 (21.74%) Data Integration
9 9 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (17.39%) Data Ingestion
10 8 (17.39%) Data Modelling
11 7 (15.22%) CI/CD
11 7 (15.22%) Data Acquisition
11 7 (15.22%) Event-Driven
11 7 (15.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (15.22%) Mentoring
11 7 (15.22%) Product Roadmap
11 7 (15.22%) Roadmaps
11 7 (15.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 26 (56.52%) SQL
2 24 (52.17%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.17%) C#
4 1 (2.17%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (30.43%) Degree
2 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.52%) GDPR
3 1 (2.17%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) Databricks
2 8 (17.39%) Informatica
3 7 (15.22%) MuleSoft
4 4 (8.70%) Google
5 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle
7 1 (2.17%) F5
7 1 (2.17%) SnapLogic
7 1 (2.17%) YouTube