Data Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £46,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 153 152 106
Rank change year-on-year -1 -46 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 41 29 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.94% 1.00% 2.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.14% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 18 14 72
10th Percentile - £41,625 £47,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% -15.38% +18.18%
75th Percentile £53,250 £60,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £64,875 £65,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 4,112 2,552 3,317
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.55% 88.34% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,989 1,384 2,200
10th Percentile £25,750 £26,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -7 18 £40,000 -27.27% 6
Derbyshire +13 9 £53,750 +7.50% 1
Northamptonshire -5 5 £47,500 -26.92%
Leicestershire -9 4 £47,500 -17.39% 3
Lincolnshire -11 3 - - 3
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 24 (58.54%) Python
1 24 (58.54%) Data Pipeline
2 23 (56.10%) Data Engineering
3 19 (46.34%) Data Science
4 16 (39.02%) SQL
4 16 (39.02%) Data Modelling
5 15 (36.59%) Azure
6 14 (34.15%) ETL
6 14 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (34.15%) DevOps
7 13 (31.71%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
7 13 (31.71%) Machine Learning
8 12 (29.27%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (29.27%) Agile
8 12 (29.27%) Data Lake
9 11 (26.83%) Databricks
9 11 (26.83%) Artificial Intelligence
10 10 (24.39%) Google
10 10 (24.39%) Data Transformation
10 10 (24.39%) Data Quality
10 10 (24.39%) Looker
10 10 (24.39%) Mentoring
10 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (24.39%) BigQuery
10 10 (24.39%) GCP
10 10 (24.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (24.39%) CI/CD
10 10 (24.39%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (21.95%) DataOps

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 9 (21.95%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (36.59%) Azure
2 10 (24.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 10 (24.39%) GCP
3 9 (21.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (19.51%) AWS
4 8 (19.51%) Power Platform
5 4 (9.76%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (9.76%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (9.76%) Amazon S3
5 4 (9.76%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (9.76%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (9.76%) AWS CodeBuild
5 4 (9.76%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (9.76%) Datadog
5 4 (9.76%) GitHub
5 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (9.76%) Serverless
6 3 (7.32%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) Data Lake
1 12 (29.27%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (24.39%) BigQuery
2 10 (24.39%) Looker
3 9 (21.95%) SQL Server
4 8 (19.51%) Power BI
5 6 (14.63%) Big Data
6 4 (9.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (9.76%) DynamoDB
7 3 (7.32%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (7.32%) MySQL
7 3 (7.32%) Star Schema
8 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
8 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (4.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (2.44%) Metadata
9 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) GitLab
2 2 (4.88%) Git
General
1 13 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (17.07%) Finance
4 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.32%) Retail
5 2 (4.88%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) AWS CDK
1 4 (9.76%) Pandas
1 4 (9.76%) PySpark
2 2 (4.88%) Hugging Face
2 2 (4.88%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (19.51%) Data Structures
3 5 (12.20%) IoT
3 5 (12.20%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (4.88%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) Data Pipeline
2 23 (56.10%) Data Engineering
3 19 (46.34%) Data Science
4 16 (39.02%) Data Modelling
5 14 (34.15%) DevOps
5 14 (34.15%) ETL
5 14 (34.15%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (31.71%) Machine Learning
7 12 (29.27%) Agile
8 11 (26.83%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (24.39%) CI/CD
9 10 (24.39%) Data Transformation
9 10 (24.39%) Mentoring
9 10 (24.39%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (21.95%) Change Management
10 9 (21.95%) DataOps
11 8 (19.51%) Data Governance
12 7 (17.07%) Analytics
12 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
13 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) Python
2 16 (39.02%) SQL
3 4 (9.76%) Java
3 4 (9.76%) Scala
4 1 (2.44%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) DBS Check
1 5 (12.20%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) PhD
3 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (24.39%) Data Quality
2 9 (21.95%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Databricks
2 10 (24.39%) Google
3 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.76%) Splunk
5 3 (7.32%) Siemens
6 1 (2.44%) Sparx