Data Engineer Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 September 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 115 148
Rank change year-on-year -5 +33 -40
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 55 27 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.87% 1.17% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 1.26% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 32 26 7
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,375 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,688 £65,000 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £67,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.07% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,875 £52,875
90th Percentile - £77,500 £55,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 5,931 2,151 3,740
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.70% 93.44% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 3,832 1,243 2,115
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.35% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £58,015 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.48% - -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 8 September 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 8 September 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
Derbyshire +10 18 £50,000 -28.83% 5
Leicestershire -32 15 £77,500 +47.62% 1
Nottinghamshire -14 11 £87,000 +28.89% 11
Lincolnshire -12 6 £65,000 +73.33% 6
Northamptonshire - 5 - - 2
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 September 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 19 (34.55%) Analytics
2 15 (27.27%) AWS
3 13 (23.64%) Python
4 12 (21.82%) SQL
5 11 (20.00%) Azure
5 11 (20.00%) Databricks
6 10 (18.18%) AI
6 10 (18.18%) Data Integration
6 10 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 9 (16.36%) Data Engineering
7 9 (16.36%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (12.73%) Data Governance
8 7 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
9 6 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (10.91%) Power BI
9 6 (10.91%) Power Platform
9 6 (10.91%) Snowflake
10 5 (9.09%) Agile
10 5 (9.09%) ETL
10 5 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (7.27%) Data Lake
11 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
11 4 (7.27%) Data Science
11 4 (7.27%) Data Security
11 4 (7.27%) Data Strategy
11 4 (7.27%) PySpark
12 3 (5.45%) Machine Learning
12 3 (5.45%) Master Data Management

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 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 15 (27.27%) AWS
2 11 (20.00%) Azure
3 6 (10.91%) Power Platform
3 6 (10.91%) Snowflake
4 4 (7.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Stack
5 2 (3.64%) dbt
5 2 (3.64%) Serverless
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.82%) Dagster
6 1 (1.82%) Datadog
6 1 (1.82%) GCP
6 1 (1.82%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (10.91%) Power BI
3 4 (7.27%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.64%) Delta Lake
5 2 (3.64%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (3.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.64%) Tableau
6 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.82%) Apache Hudi
6 1 (1.82%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.82%) Data Vault
General
1 7 (12.73%) Automotive
1 7 (12.73%) Finance
2 4 (7.27%) Aerospace
2 4 (7.27%) Marketing
3 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.45%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.64%) Law
5 1 (1.82%) Games
5 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) PySpark
2 1 (1.82%) AWS CDK
2 1 (1.82%) JSON
2 1 (1.82%) Middleware
2 1 (1.82%) REST
2 1 (1.82%) SOAP
2 1 (1.82%) Terraform
2 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
1 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (1.82%) iPad
1 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
1 1 (1.82%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (34.55%) Analytics
2 10 (18.18%) AI
2 10 (18.18%) Data Integration
2 10 (18.18%) Data Modelling
3 9 (16.36%) Data Engineering
3 9 (16.36%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (12.73%) Data Governance
4 7 (12.73%) Mentoring
5 6 (10.91%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (9.09%) Agile
6 5 (9.09%) ETL
6 5 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
7 4 (7.27%) Data Science
7 4 (7.27%) Data Security
7 4 (7.27%) Data Strategy
8 3 (5.45%) Machine Learning
8 3 (5.45%) Master Data Management
9 2 (3.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (3.64%) Data Architecture
9 2 (3.64%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.64%) Python
2 12 (21.82%) SQL
3 2 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (1.82%) City & Guilds
1 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (1.82%) Degree
1 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.82%) GDPR
Vendors
1 11 (20.00%) Databricks
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft