Data Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 104 151
Rank change year-on-year -17 +47 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 44 25 42
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.94% 1.29% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 1.37% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 33 21 16
10th Percentile - £46,250 -
25th Percentile £36,250 £51,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +21.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £53,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £65,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 4,451 1,821 4,478
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.13% 94.30% 94.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,780 949 3,288
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,375 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £42,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -0.58% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,000 £56,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £69,000
England median annual salary £55,875 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.83% +9.52% -13.22%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies 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 1 June 2026.

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 1 June 2026. 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
Leicestershire -25 14 £50,000 +3.09% 3
Derbyshire -2 10 £50,000 -28.57% 8
Nottinghamshire -14 10 £65,000 - 4
Northamptonshire +8 5 - -
Lincolnshire -18 5 £65,000 +13.04% 2
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 June 2026, 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 East Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (38.64%) Analytics
2 15 (34.09%) AWS
2 15 (34.09%) SQL
3 13 (29.55%) Python
4 12 (27.27%) Azure
4 12 (27.27%) Databricks
5 11 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 10 (22.73%) Data Modelling
7 9 (20.45%) Data Integration
7 9 (20.45%) Data Pipeline
7 9 (20.45%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (18.18%) Snowflake
9 7 (15.91%) Agile
9 7 (15.91%) AI
10 6 (13.64%) Data Governance
10 6 (13.64%) ETL
11 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
12 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 4 (9.09%) Power BI
12 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
13 3 (6.82%) Clean Code
13 3 (6.82%) Data Lake
13 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
13 3 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
14 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
14 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (4.55%) Cloud Security
14 2 (4.55%) Coaching
14 2 (4.55%) Customer Experience

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) AWS
2 12 (27.27%) Azure
3 8 (18.18%) Snowflake
4 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.55%) dbt
5 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.27%) Boomi
6 1 (2.27%) Dagster
6 1 (2.27%) Datadog
6 1 (2.27%) GCP
6 1 (2.27%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.45%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.09%) Power BI
3 3 (6.82%) Data Lake
4 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.27%) Apache Hudi
5 1 (2.27%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (2.27%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (6.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.55%) Automotive
2 2 (4.55%) Law
2 2 (4.55%) Marketing
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.27%) Finance
3 1 (2.27%) Games
3 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.27%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) AWS CDK
1 1 (2.27%) JSON
1 1 (2.27%) Middleware
1 1 (2.27%) PySpark
1 1 (2.27%) REST
1 1 (2.27%) SOAP
1 1 (2.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
1 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.27%) iPad
1 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.27%) Replication
1 1 (2.27%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) Analytics
2 11 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 10 (22.73%) Data Modelling
4 9 (20.45%) Data Integration
4 9 (20.45%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (15.91%) Agile
5 7 (15.91%) AI
6 6 (13.64%) Data Governance
6 6 (13.64%) ETL
7 5 (11.36%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (9.09%) Mentoring
9 3 (6.82%) Clean Code
9 3 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (4.55%) Cloud Security
10 2 (4.55%) Coaching
10 2 (4.55%) Customer Experience
10 2 (4.55%) Data Design
10 2 (4.55%) Data Science
10 2 (4.55%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 2 (4.55%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) SQL
2 13 (29.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.27%) City & Guilds
1 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.27%) Degree
1 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Databricks
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft