Data Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 December 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 134 79
Rank change year-on-year +28 -55 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 26 14 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.08% 0.48% 2.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 0.50% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 16 11 33
10th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £57,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +14.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £69,750 £67,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 2,236 2,790 1,463
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 95.25% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,504 1,318 1,115
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £59,000 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,800
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 6 December 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 6 December 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
Leicestershire +29 12 £67,500 +8.00% 3
Nottinghamshire +21 10 £67,500 +18.42% 4
Derbyshire -14 2 £70,500 +41.00% 1
Lincolnshire - 1 £37,500 -
Data Engineer
England

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

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

1 17 (65.38%) SQL
2 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) Data Modelling
2 11 (42.31%) Python
3 10 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (38.46%) Databricks
4 9 (34.62%) Mentoring
4 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
4 9 (34.62%) Structured Cabling
4 9 (34.62%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (30.77%) SaaS
6 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
7 6 (23.08%) Data Engineering
7 6 (23.08%) ETL
7 6 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (19.23%) Agile
9 4 (15.38%) Clean Code
10 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (11.54%) Big Data
10 3 (11.54%) Coaching
10 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
10 3 (11.54%) Data Integration
10 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
10 3 (11.54%) Data Science
10 3 (11.54%) Logical Data Model
10 3 (11.54%) Physical Data Model
10 3 (11.54%) SDLC
11 2 (7.69%) AI
11 2 (7.69%) AWS
11 2 (7.69%) Data Governance

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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 11 (42.31%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) SaaS
3 2 (7.69%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.85%) Datadog
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (34.62%) Structured Cabling
1 9 (34.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (11.54%) Big Data
2 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.85%) Looker
3 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.85%) Power BI
3 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (3.85%) Tableau
General
1 8 (30.77%) Legal
2 6 (23.08%) Retail
3 3 (11.54%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Driving Licence
1 8 (30.77%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.85%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Code
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Data Modelling
2 9 (34.62%) Mentoring
3 7 (26.92%) CI/CD
4 6 (23.08%) Data Engineering
4 6 (23.08%) ETL
4 6 (23.08%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (19.23%) Agile
6 4 (15.38%) Clean Code
7 3 (11.54%) Coaching
7 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
7 3 (11.54%) Data Integration
7 3 (11.54%) Data Science
7 3 (11.54%) Logical Data Model
7 3 (11.54%) Physical Data Model
7 3 (11.54%) SDLC
8 2 (7.69%) AI
8 2 (7.69%) Data Governance
9 1 (3.85%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (3.85%) Logistics
9 1 (3.85%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) SQL
2 11 (42.31%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (34.62%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 10 (38.46%) Databricks