Data Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 188 180
Rank change year-on-year +92 -8 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 177 46 170
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.43% 0.92% 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.50% 1.01% 1.28%
Number of salaries quoted 148 40 107
10th Percentile £40,000 £45,650 £35,000
25th Percentile £54,375 £51,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £59,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% +5.31% +7.62%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 11,763 4,567 13,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 90.90% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,173 2,736 9,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,000 £34,834
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,741
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -13.22%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the 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 Midlands.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 June 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
West Midlands +74 129 £70,000 +20.17% 29
East Midlands 0 48 £61,250 -5.77% 22
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 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 Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 70 (39.55%) SQL
2 62 (35.03%) Python
3 56 (31.64%) Azure
4 54 (30.51%) AWS
5 52 (29.38%) Data Engineering
6 47 (26.55%) Data Pipeline
7 45 (25.42%) Analytics
7 45 (25.42%) ETL
8 35 (19.77%) Databricks
9 29 (16.38%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (15.82%) Snowflake
11 27 (15.25%) Data Modelling
11 27 (15.25%) Power BI
11 27 (15.25%) Power Platform
12 23 (12.99%) AI
12 23 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (12.43%) Agile
14 21 (11.86%) Mentoring
15 18 (10.17%) Data Integration
15 18 (10.17%) Security Cleared
16 17 (9.60%) Microsoft
16 17 (9.60%) SAS
16 17 (9.60%) SC Cleared
17 15 (8.47%) Data Governance
18 14 (7.91%) CI/CD
18 14 (7.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 12 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
19 12 (6.78%) Data Quality
20 11 (6.21%) Data Transformation
20 11 (6.21%) Decision-Making

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 17 (9.60%) SAS
2 9 (5.08%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.26%) Apache
4 2 (1.13%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 56 (31.64%) Azure
2 54 (30.51%) AWS
3 28 (15.82%) Snowflake
4 27 (15.25%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (3.95%) Azure Stack
7 5 (2.82%) dbt
7 5 (2.82%) GCP
8 4 (2.26%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.69%) Dagster
9 3 (1.69%) SaaS
9 3 (1.69%) Serverless
10 2 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.13%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.13%) Azure AI
10 2 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.13%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.13%) Meta Ads
10 2 (1.13%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.26%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (2.26%) Wireless
2 1 (0.56%) Broadband
2 1 (0.56%) DSLAM
2 1 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.25%) Power BI
2 23 (12.99%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (7.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (5.08%) Delta Lake
5 8 (4.52%) SQL Server
6 6 (3.39%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.26%) Big Data
8 3 (1.69%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.69%) Pentaho
8 3 (1.69%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.13%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.13%) SAP BW
9 2 (1.13%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.56%) MySQL
10 1 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.95%) Git
2 1 (0.56%) Selenium
2 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (16.95%) Public Sector
2 14 (7.91%) Finance
2 14 (7.91%) Social Skills
3 7 (3.95%) Automotive
4 5 (2.82%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (2.82%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.26%) Law
5 4 (2.26%) Marketing
6 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Games
7 2 (1.13%) Retail
8 1 (0.56%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Legal
8 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.21%) PySpark
2 4 (2.26%) EDI
2 4 (2.26%) REST
3 1 (0.56%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.56%) JSON
3 1 (0.56%) Middleware
3 1 (0.56%) RESTful
3 1 (0.56%) SOAP
3 1 (0.56%) Streamlit
3 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.39%) Driving Licence
2 4 (2.26%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.26%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.26%) NHS
2 4 (2.26%) Sports Betting
3 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.13%) Online Gambling
4 2 (1.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.56%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.56%) iPad
5 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.56%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (29.38%) Data Engineering
2 47 (26.55%) Data Pipeline
3 45 (25.42%) Analytics
3 45 (25.42%) ETL
4 29 (16.38%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (15.25%) Data Modelling
6 23 (12.99%) AI
7 22 (12.43%) Agile
8 21 (11.86%) Mentoring
9 18 (10.17%) Data Integration
10 15 (8.47%) Data Governance
11 14 (7.91%) CI/CD
12 11 (6.21%) Data Transformation
12 11 (6.21%) Decision-Making
13 10 (5.65%) Innovative Thinking
14 8 (4.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (4.52%) Problem-Solving
15 7 (3.95%) Data Architecture
15 7 (3.95%) Migration
16 5 (2.82%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 70 (39.55%) SQL
2 62 (35.03%) Python
3 3 (1.69%) Bash
4 2 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.56%) Java
5 1 (0.56%) R
5 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.17%) Security Cleared
2 17 (9.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.26%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.69%) CITP
5 2 (1.13%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.56%) City & Guilds
6 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.78%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.26%) GDPR
3 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 35 (19.77%) Databricks
2 17 (9.60%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.26%) Google
3 4 (2.26%) Informatica
4 3 (1.69%) Cloudera
4 3 (1.69%) Oracle
4 3 (1.69%) Planon
4 3 (1.69%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.69%) Talend
5 2 (1.13%) SAP
6 1 (0.56%) BT