Data Engineer Job Trends in Burton-upon-Trent

Data Engineer
Staffordshire > Burton-upon-Trent

The median Data Engineer salary in Burton-upon-Trent is £60,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 11 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 2 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Burton-upon-Trent 2.78% 8.51% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.57% 8.51% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £55,175 - -
25th Percentile £56,188 £56,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £58,750 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% - -
75th Percentile £63,688 £60,000 -
90th Percentile £63,725 - -
Staffordshire median annual salary £65,000 £55,000 -
% change year-on-year +18.18% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Burton-upon-Trent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Burton-upon-Trent. 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 Burton-upon-Trent with a recognized job title 56 47 47
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 77.78% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 28 27 34
10th Percentile £23,000 £12,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £22,620 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £24,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +111.46% -40.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £63,781 £49,375 £54,375
90th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £71,375
Staffordshire median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% - -3.95%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Burton-upon-Trent

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Burton-upon-Trent.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Burton-upon-Trent

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Burton-upon-Trent

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Burton-upon-Trent.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Burton-upon-Trent

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Burton-upon-Trent

For the 6 months to 3 November 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Burton-upon-Trent region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Burton-upon-Trent by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Scala
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft