Data Engineering Jobs in Birmingham

Data Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 89 90
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +27
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 16 60 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.09% 2.20% 2.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 2.66% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 14 42 28
10th Percentile - £47,500 £42,930
25th Percentile £37,500 £52,681 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £64,150 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.85% -1.31% +15.04%
75th Percentile £47,500 £70,400 £75,625
90th Percentile £97,625 £105,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £56,250 £60,733 £56,000
% change year-on-year -7.38% +8.45% +1.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,385 2,255 1,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 94.60% 82.60% 95.87%
Number of salaries quoted 767 1,829 1,409
10th Percentile £34,150 £32,000 £31,700
25th Percentile £43,240 £41,250 £43,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,435 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.43% -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,914 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,550
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +6.00%

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 7 May 2025.

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:

Applications
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) Azure
2 11 (68.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 11 (68.75%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (68.75%) Power BI
2 10 (62.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
General
1 12 (75.00%) Finance
2 11 (68.75%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (68.75%) Marketing
3 10 (62.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Data Scientist
2 3 (18.75%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) ERP Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Product Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (75.00%) Computer Science
2 12 (75.00%) Data Science
2 12 (75.00%) Mathematics
3 11 (68.75%) Analytics
3 11 (68.75%) Customer Experience
3 11 (68.75%) Machine Learning
4 10 (62.50%) Actionable Insight
4 10 (62.50%) Bayesian Methods
4 10 (62.50%) Customer-Centricity
4 10 (62.50%) Data Analysis
4 10 (62.50%) Decision-Making
4 10 (62.50%) Deep Learning
4 10 (62.50%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 10 (62.50%) Generative AI
4 10 (62.50%) Statistical Modelling
4 10 (62.50%) Statistics
5 2 (12.50%) Agile
5 2 (12.50%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) Java
1 11 (68.75%) Python
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
2 10 (62.50%) C++
2 10 (62.50%) R
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) Go
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft