Data Engineer Jobs in Coventry

Data Engineer
West Midlands > Coventry

The median Data Engineer salary in Coventry is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 34 63
Rank change year-on-year -4 +29 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 4 7 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Coventry 1.33% 3.08% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.47% 3.17% 1.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile £57,875 - £49,250
25th Percentile £58,438 £72,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £75,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -18.33% +40.85% +22.41%
75th Percentile £63,438 £77,500 £54,875
90th Percentile £63,625 - -
West Midlands median annual salary £58,750 £58,750 £53,250
% change year-on-year - +10.33% -3.18%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Coventry

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Coventry. 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 Coventry with a recognized job title 273 221 433
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.70% 97.36% 93.93%
Number of salaries quoted 46 171 310
10th Percentile £41,002 £30,000 £35,450
25th Percentile £53,750 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,750 £51,300 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.47% +2.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £64,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £68,750 £74,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Coventry

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Coventry

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Coventry

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Coventry region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Data Security
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) R
2 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (75.00%) Big Data
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (75.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (50.00%) GDPR
3 2 (50.00%) Pandas
3 2 (50.00%) Business Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Coventry 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 3 (75.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Big Data
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (25.00%) Metadata
3 1 (25.00%) Power BI
3 1 (25.00%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) NumPy
1 2 (50.00%) Pandas
1 2 (50.00%) SciPy
2 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Actionable Insight
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Data Security
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Parallel Computing
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) R
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) C++
3 2 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks