Data Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £61,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 146 148
Rank change year-on-year +13 +2 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 26 42 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.97% 0.93% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.02% 0.98% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 22 17 14
10th Percentile £46,300 - £41,625
25th Percentile £51,250 £35,000 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £66,875 £53,250 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £65,250 £65,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% +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 2,543 4,274 2,467
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 94.64% 88.61%
Number of salaries quoted 988 3,073 1,309
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58,000 £56,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 +24 16 £65,000 +44.44% 6
Leicestershire +41 5 £48,500 +2.11% 4
Northamptonshire -12 4 £65,000 +36.84%
Lincolnshire +13 1 £57,500 -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 East Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (73.08%) SQL
2 17 (65.38%) Data Pipeline
3 16 (61.54%) Data Engineering
4 15 (57.69%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (57.69%) ETL
5 12 (46.15%) Azure
6 11 (42.31%) Data Modelling
6 11 (42.31%) SQL Server
6 11 (42.31%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (42.31%) Finance
6 11 (42.31%) Databricks
7 10 (38.46%) Snowflake
8 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (34.62%) Power Platform
8 9 (34.62%) Python
8 9 (34.62%) Data Quality
9 8 (30.77%) Power BI
10 7 (26.92%) Analytics
10 7 (26.92%) Data Integration
10 7 (26.92%) Visualisation
11 6 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (23.08%) Law
11 6 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (19.23%) Data Strategy
12 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
12 5 (19.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 5 (19.23%) Data Ingestion
12 5 (19.23%) Dashboard Development

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 6 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (19.23%) Apache Spark
3 4 (15.38%) Luigi
4 3 (11.54%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 10 (38.46%) Snowflake
3 9 (34.62%) Power Platform
4 5 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (19.23%) dbt
5 4 (15.38%) AWS
5 4 (15.38%) GCP
5 4 (15.38%) Pulumi
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.85%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (57.69%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (42.31%) SQL Server
3 8 (30.77%) Power BI
4 6 (23.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (15.38%) Big Data
5 4 (15.38%) BigQuery
5 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
6 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
6 2 (7.69%) Power Query
6 2 (7.69%) PowerPivot
7 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.85%) PowerCenter
7 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.85%) Toad
General
1 11 (42.31%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Law
3 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Dask
1 4 (15.38%) Polars
2 2 (7.69%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Replication
2 4 (15.38%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.69%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.85%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Data Pipeline
2 16 (61.54%) Data Engineering
3 15 (57.69%) ETL
4 11 (42.31%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (42.31%) Data Modelling
5 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (26.92%) Analytics
6 7 (26.92%) Data Integration
6 7 (26.92%) Visualisation
7 5 (19.23%) Customer Experience
7 5 (19.23%) Dashboard Development
7 5 (19.23%) Data Analysis
7 5 (19.23%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (19.23%) Data Strategy
7 5 (19.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 5 (19.23%) Decision-Making
7 5 (19.23%) Machine Learning
7 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 4 (15.38%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) C#
3 2 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (7.69%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (42.31%) Databricks
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Informatica
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) SnapLogic