Data Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 July 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 169 158
Rank change year-on-year +33 -11 -22
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 26 36 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.95% 0.69% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.01% 0.74% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26 10 10
10th Percentile £47,125 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.21% -1.90% -16.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £61,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £67,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 the East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,587 4,895 2,299
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.42% 94.44% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,236 3,248 1,232
10th Percentile £26,125 £25,750 £26,685
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,941 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% -14.40% +10.53%
75th Percentile £58,000 £56,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £70,125 £70,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.97% -11.83% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire +25 17 £67,500 +31.07% 5
Leicestershire +45 7 £50,000 - 4
Lincolnshire +13 1 £57,500 -
Derbyshire +6 1 £70,000 +27.27%
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 16 July 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 East Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (80.77%) SQL
2 18 (69.23%) Azure
3 17 (65.38%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (50.00%) ETL
5 11 (42.31%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (42.31%) Python
6 10 (38.46%) SQL Server
6 10 (38.46%) Data Modelling
6 10 (38.46%) Power Platform
6 10 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
7 9 (34.62%) Data Integration
7 9 (34.62%) Power BI
8 8 (30.77%) Databricks
8 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (26.92%) Visualisation
9 7 (26.92%) Law
10 6 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (23.08%) Agile
10 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (23.08%) Snowflake
10 6 (23.08%) Decision-Making
11 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (19.23%) Customer Experience
11 5 (19.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 5 (19.23%) Data Ingestion
11 5 (19.23%) Dashboard Development
11 5 (19.23%) AWS
11 5 (19.23%) SaaS
11 5 (19.23%) Analytics

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (15.38%) Apache
2 3 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 18 (69.23%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) Power Platform
3 6 (23.08%) Snowflake
4 5 (19.23%) AWS
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (19.23%) SaaS
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) Datadog
5 1 (3.85%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (65.38%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (38.46%) SQL Server
3 9 (34.62%) Power BI
4 6 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (15.38%) Data Lake
5 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
7 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
7 2 (7.69%) Power Query
7 2 (7.69%) PowerPivot
7 2 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (26.92%) Law
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 4 (15.38%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Kafka
2 2 (7.69%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Replication
2 3 (11.54%) Data Structures
2 3 (11.54%) Legacy Code
3 1 (3.85%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) ETL
2 11 (42.31%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (38.46%) Data Modelling
3 10 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
4 9 (34.62%) Data Integration
5 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (26.92%) Visualisation
7 6 (23.08%) Agile
7 6 (23.08%) Decision-Making
8 5 (19.23%) Analytics
8 5 (19.23%) Customer Experience
8 5 (19.23%) Dashboard Development
8 5 (19.23%) Data Analysis
8 5 (19.23%) Data Ingestion
8 5 (19.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
9 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 4 (15.38%) Data Analytics
9 4 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) SQL
2 11 (42.31%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) C#
3 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Databricks
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.85%) Cognos
4 1 (3.85%) SnapLogic