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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 87 88
Rank change year-on-year -8 +1 +31
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 13 62 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.93% 2.24% 2.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 2.74% 2.57%
Number of salaries quoted 12 44 23
10th Percentile - £47,500 £40,837
25th Percentile £37,500 £53,394 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £65,400 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.19% +0.62% +14.04%
75th Percentile £47,500 £80,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £66,625 £105,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £60,733 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.32% +10.42% -1.35%

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 1,333 2,266 1,828
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 95.01% 81.69% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 744 1,833 1,342
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £42,892 £40,988 £43,400
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,625 £85,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

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 17 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 9 (69.23%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
1 10 (76.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 10 (76.92%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (76.92%) Power BI
2 9 (69.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
General
1 10 (76.92%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (76.92%) Finance
1 10 (76.92%) Marketing
2 9 (69.23%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Data Scientist
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) ERP Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Product Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Artificial Intelligence
2 11 (84.62%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (76.92%) Analytics
3 10 (76.92%) Computer Science
3 10 (76.92%) Customer Experience
3 10 (76.92%) Data Science
3 10 (76.92%) Machine Learning
3 10 (76.92%) Mathematics
4 9 (69.23%) Actionable Insight
4 9 (69.23%) Bayesian Methods
4 9 (69.23%) Customer-Centricity
4 9 (69.23%) Data Analysis
4 9 (69.23%) Decision-Making
4 9 (69.23%) Deep Learning
4 9 (69.23%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 9 (69.23%) Generative AI
4 9 (69.23%) Statistical Modelling
4 9 (69.23%) Statistics
5 1 (7.69%) Physics
5 1 (7.69%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) SQL
2 9 (69.23%) C++
2 9 (69.23%) Java
2 9 (69.23%) Python
2 9 (69.23%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Microsoft