Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Senior Data Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Birmingham is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 134 138
Rank change year-on-year +25 +4 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 3 14 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.20% 0.51% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.54% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile £65,125 £28,000 £55,650
25th Percentile £65,313 £42,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% +16.67% -33.33%
75th Percentile £67,813 £74,750 £75,750
90th Percentile £68,375 £85,000 £76,050
West Midlands median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +21.74% -23.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 1,388 2,572 1,864
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.36% 94.28% 93.48%
Number of salaries quoted 799 2,098 1,427
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,991 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £69,914 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,964 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Birmingham

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Kimball Methodology
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Data Privacy
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing

Senior 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft