Data Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £50,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 158 136
Rank change year-on-year -3 -22 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 34 10 63
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.75% 0.40% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.45% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 46
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £40,625 £43,125 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £52,500 £61,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -14.63% +23.00%
75th Percentile £55,875 £60,000 £69,375
90th Percentile £64,875 £67,625 £82,500
England median annual salary £68,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.21% +3.57% +7.69%

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 4,276 2,225 3,344
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 89.90% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,688 1,192 2,036
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,685 £25,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £34,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +7.95%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -13 16 £51,500 +3.00% 2
Derbyshire +6 8 £50,000 -9.09%
Northamptonshire -26 4 - -
Leicestershire - 3 - -
Lincolnshire - 3 - -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 23 (67.65%) Data Pipeline
2 22 (64.71%) Data Engineering
3 18 (52.94%) Python
4 13 (38.24%) Data Modelling
4 13 (38.24%) Databricks
5 12 (35.29%) Data Science
5 12 (35.29%) SQL
5 12 (35.29%) Agile
5 12 (35.29%) DevOps
6 11 (32.35%) Data Governance
6 11 (32.35%) Data Quality
6 11 (32.35%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (29.41%) Google
7 10 (29.41%) Mentoring
7 10 (29.41%) Apache Spark
7 10 (29.41%) BigQuery
7 10 (29.41%) GCP
7 10 (29.41%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (29.41%) Looker
7 10 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
8 9 (26.47%) GDPR
8 9 (26.47%) DataOps
8 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
8 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (26.47%) Data Transformation
8 9 (26.47%) AWS
8 9 (26.47%) Change Management
9 8 (23.53%) Data Cleansing
9 8 (23.53%) Data Extraction

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 10 (29.41%) Apache Spark
2 3 (8.82%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) GCP
2 9 (26.47%) AWS
3 6 (17.65%) Azure
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (14.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (11.76%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.76%) Datadog
5 4 (11.76%) GitHub
5 4 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 4 (11.76%) Serverless
6 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (5.88%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (32.35%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (29.41%) BigQuery
2 10 (29.41%) Looker
3 6 (17.65%) Big Data
3 6 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (11.76%) DynamoDB
4 4 (11.76%) Power BI
5 3 (8.82%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.88%) MySQL
6 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.94%) Metadata
7 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) AWS CDK
1 4 (11.76%) Pandas
1 4 (11.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (23.53%) Data Structures
2 8 (23.53%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (11.76%) IoT
4 2 (5.88%) Client/Server
4 2 (5.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Data Pipeline
2 22 (64.71%) Data Engineering
3 13 (38.24%) Data Modelling
4 12 (35.29%) Agile
4 12 (35.29%) Data Science
4 12 (35.29%) DevOps
5 11 (32.35%) Data Governance
6 10 (29.41%) Mentoring
6 10 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (26.47%) Change Management
7 9 (26.47%) Data Transformation
7 9 (26.47%) DataOps
8 8 (23.53%) Data Cleansing
8 8 (23.53%) Data Extraction
9 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
10 5 (14.71%) Analytics
10 5 (14.71%) ETL
10 5 (14.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (14.71%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 18 (52.94%) Python
2 12 (35.29%) SQL
3 3 (8.82%) Java
3 3 (8.82%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) DBS Check
2 3 (8.82%) Degree
3 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (32.35%) Data Quality
2 9 (26.47%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) Databricks
2 10 (29.41%) Google
3 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.76%) Splunk
4 3 (8.82%) Siemens
5 1 (2.94%) Sparx