Data Engineering Jobs in Birmingham

Data Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 88 117
Rank change year-on-year -3 +29 +13
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 59 52 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.16% 2.61% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 2.73% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 41 28 67
10th Percentile £47,500 £42,930 £38,000
25th Percentile £52,325 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,400 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.62% +13.04% -32.35%
75th Percentile £70,400 £75,625 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £80,000 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £60,733 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.45% +1.82% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,255 1,908 3,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 82.60% 95.83% 97.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,828 1,410 2,309
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,725 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,188 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,480 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +2.69% +4.76%
75th Percentile £69,914 £71,250 £70,750
90th Percentile £84,974 £82,751 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £53,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.10% +6.50% +5.26%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Birmingham

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in Birmingham

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Birmingham over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Birmingham

Data Engineering
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 1 (1.69%) Apache
1 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 36 (61.02%) Azure
2 31 (52.54%) AWS
3 17 (28.81%) GCP
4 11 (18.64%) Snowflake
5 6 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (10.17%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.78%) GitHub
7 3 (5.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.08%) Matillion
8 2 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.69%) dbt
9 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.69%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.69%) iPaaS
9 1 (1.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) 3GPP
1 1 (1.69%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (44.07%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (25.42%) BigQuery
3 14 (23.73%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (18.64%) Looker
5 10 (16.95%) Metadata
5 10 (16.95%) SQL Server
6 6 (10.17%) Power BI
7 5 (8.47%) Data Lake
8 4 (6.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (6.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (6.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (5.08%) Star Schema
9 3 (5.08%) Tableau
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
11 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.69%) Big Data
11 1 (1.69%) Delta Lake
11 1 (1.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) GitLab
2 3 (5.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.39%) Git
4 1 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 16 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (10.17%) Finance
3 4 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (6.78%) Retail
3 4 (6.78%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.69%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.69%) Law
5 1 (1.69%) Legal
5 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Data Engineer
2 18 (30.51%) Architect
2 18 (30.51%) Data Architect
3 7 (11.86%) Senior
4 5 (8.47%) Lead
5 4 (6.78%) Administrator
5 4 (6.78%) DBA
5 4 (6.78%) Head of Business Intelligence
5 4 (6.78%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Head of Engineering
6 3 (5.08%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Principal Data Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Data Architect
8 1 (1.69%) Analyst
8 1 (1.69%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
8 1 (1.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.69%) Kafka
1 1 (1.69%) Pandas
1 1 (1.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.81%) Management Information System
2 16 (27.12%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (16.95%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.78%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.78%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.78%) Reference Data
4 4 (6.78%) Replication
5 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.69%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.78%) Linux
1 4 (6.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.85%) Data Modelling
2 27 (45.76%) Analytics
2 27 (45.76%) ETL
3 25 (42.37%) Data Architecture
4 19 (32.20%) Data Pipeline
5 18 (30.51%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (28.81%) Data Management
7 16 (27.12%) Data Governance
7 16 (27.12%) Data Science
8 15 (25.42%) Data Integration
8 15 (25.42%) DevOps
9 14 (23.73%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (23.73%) Information Management
9 14 (23.73%) Mentoring
10 13 (22.03%) CI/CD
11 12 (20.34%) Data Security
11 12 (20.34%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (16.95%) Agile
12 10 (16.95%) Architectural Patterns
13 9 (15.25%) Data Design
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.29%) SQL
2 17 (28.81%) Python
3 4 (6.78%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.39%) C#
4 2 (3.39%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.39%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (13.56%) Degree
2 5 (8.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.34%) Data Quality
2 11 (18.64%) GDPR
3 4 (6.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (6.78%) QA
4 1 (1.69%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Terraform
2 1 (1.69%) Ansible
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (22.03%) Databricks
2 11 (18.64%) Google
3 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
4 7 (11.86%) Informatica
5 2 (3.39%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) SnapLogic