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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 94 99
Rank change year-on-year -7 +5 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 45 43 93
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.62% 2.27% 2.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 2.44% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 36 42 82
10th Percentile £28,000 £45,759 £38,450
25th Percentile £44,375 £47,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £80,813
90th Percentile £77,250 £77,375 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%

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 2,629 1,764 2,988
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 93.19% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,136 1,352 2,278
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,188
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,251 £83,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 18 May 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 18 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 Birmingham region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (57.78%) SQL
2 25 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
3 24 (53.33%) Python
3 24 (53.33%) ETL
3 24 (53.33%) Azure
3 24 (53.33%) AWS
4 22 (48.89%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (48.89%) Data Engineering
5 20 (44.44%) Agile
6 19 (42.22%) Data Science
7 17 (37.78%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (37.78%) Data Structures
8 16 (35.56%) GCP
8 16 (35.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 15 (33.33%) Analytics
10 14 (31.11%) Degree
11 13 (28.89%) SQL Server
11 13 (28.89%) BigQuery
12 12 (26.67%) Snowflake
13 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
13 11 (24.44%) Power Platform
13 11 (24.44%) Power BI
13 11 (24.44%) Data Integration
14 10 (22.22%) Databricks
15 9 (20.00%) DevOps
15 9 (20.00%) GitHub
15 9 (20.00%) SaaS
15 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
15 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (17.78%) Self-Motivation

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 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 24 (53.33%) AWS
1 24 (53.33%) Azure
2 16 (35.56%) GCP
3 12 (26.67%) Snowflake
4 11 (24.44%) Power Platform
5 9 (20.00%) GitHub
5 9 (20.00%) SaaS
6 7 (15.56%) Boomi
7 4 (8.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (6.67%) Matillion
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon S3
9 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (2.22%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 1 (2.22%) dbt
10 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.22%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.44%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (4.44%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.22%) 3GPP
2 1 (2.22%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (48.89%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (35.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (28.89%) BigQuery
3 13 (28.89%) SQL Server
4 11 (24.44%) Power BI
5 8 (17.78%) Tableau
6 7 (15.56%) Data Mining
7 5 (11.11%) Data Lake
8 3 (6.67%) Big Data
8 3 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (6.67%) Looker
8 3 (6.67%) Star Schema
9 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
10 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
10 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
10 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
10 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) GitLab
2 2 (4.44%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Retail
4 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.22%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) GraphQL
1 7 (15.56%) RESTful
2 3 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (2.22%) Pandas
3 1 (2.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (37.78%) Data Structures
2 8 (17.78%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.22%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
2 24 (53.33%) ETL
3 22 (48.89%) Data Engineering
4 20 (44.44%) Agile
5 19 (42.22%) Data Science
6 17 (37.78%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (33.33%) Analytics
8 11 (24.44%) Data Integration
9 9 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 9 (20.00%) DevOps
9 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (17.78%) CI/CD
10 8 (17.78%) Mentoring
11 7 (15.56%) Data Acquisition
11 7 (15.56%) Data Ingestion
11 7 (15.56%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 7 (15.56%) Machine Learning
11 7 (15.56%) Product Roadmap
11 7 (15.56%) Roadmaps
11 7 (15.56%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) SQL
2 24 (53.33%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) Java
3 2 (4.44%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.22%) C#
4 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) Degree
2 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Terraform
2 1 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Databricks
2 8 (17.78%) Informatica
3 7 (15.56%) MuleSoft
4 4 (8.89%) Google
5 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle
7 1 (2.22%) SnapLogic
7 1 (2.22%) YouTube