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 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 185 173
Rank change year-on-year +66 -12 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 164 46 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.25% 0.90% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 0.98% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 140 39 97
10th Percentile £39,625 £46,650 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,750 £70,000
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 12,260 4,686 11,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 91.58% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 7,894 2,725 8,447
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,981 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £60,741
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +48 126 £65,000 +8.33% 29
East Midlands -9 38 £52,500 -8.70% 14
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 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 71 (43.29%) SQL
2 62 (37.80%) Python
3 57 (34.76%) Azure
4 49 (29.88%) Data Engineering
4 49 (29.88%) Data Pipeline
5 47 (28.66%) ETL
6 45 (27.44%) AWS
7 39 (23.78%) Analytics
7 39 (23.78%) Databricks
8 34 (20.73%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (17.68%) Power BI
9 29 (17.68%) Power Platform
9 29 (17.68%) Snowflake
10 27 (16.46%) Agile
11 24 (14.63%) Data Modelling
12 21 (12.80%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (12.80%) Mentoring
13 17 (10.37%) AI
13 17 (10.37%) Data Integration
14 16 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
14 16 (9.76%) CI/CD
14 16 (9.76%) Security Cleared
14 16 (9.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 15 (9.15%) SC Cleared
16 13 (7.93%) Data Governance
16 13 (7.93%) Microsoft
16 13 (7.93%) PySpark
16 13 (7.93%) SAS
17 10 (6.10%) Data Transformation
17 10 (6.10%) Delta Lake

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 13 (7.93%) SAS
2 5 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (34.76%) Azure
2 45 (27.44%) AWS
3 29 (17.68%) Power Platform
3 29 (17.68%) Snowflake
4 16 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (4.27%) Azure Stack
5 7 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (3.05%) Amazon S3
7 3 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.83%) dbt
7 3 (1.83%) GCP
7 3 (1.83%) SaaS
7 3 (1.83%) Serverless
8 2 (1.22%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.22%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.61%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.61%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.83%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (1.83%) Wireless
2 1 (0.61%) Broadband
2 1 (0.61%) DSLAM
2 1 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (17.68%) Power BI
2 21 (12.80%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (9.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (6.10%) Delta Lake
5 7 (4.27%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.27%) SQL Server
6 5 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.44%) Big Data
7 4 (2.44%) Pentaho
8 3 (1.83%) Metadata
8 3 (1.83%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.22%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.22%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.22%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.61%) DB2
10 1 (0.61%) IBM InfoSphere
10 1 (0.61%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.05%) Git
2 1 (0.61%) Selenium
2 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (17.07%) Public Sector
2 15 (9.15%) Finance
3 12 (7.32%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.27%) Automotive
5 5 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.44%) Law
6 4 (2.44%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.83%) Marketing
8 2 (1.22%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.22%) Retail
9 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.61%) Games
9 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.61%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.93%) PySpark
2 3 (1.83%) EDI
3 2 (1.22%) REST
4 1 (0.61%) .NET
4 1 (0.61%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.61%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.61%) JSON
4 1 (0.61%) Middleware
4 1 (0.61%) SOAP
4 1 (0.61%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.05%) Driving Licence
2 4 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.83%) NHS
4 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.61%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.61%) iPad
5 1 (0.61%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.61%) Replication
5 1 (0.61%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (29.88%) Data Engineering
1 49 (29.88%) Data Pipeline
2 47 (28.66%) ETL
3 39 (23.78%) Analytics
4 34 (20.73%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (16.46%) Agile
6 24 (14.63%) Data Modelling
7 21 (12.80%) Mentoring
8 17 (10.37%) AI
8 17 (10.37%) Data Integration
9 16 (9.76%) CI/CD
10 13 (7.93%) Data Governance
11 10 (6.10%) Data Transformation
11 10 (6.10%) Innovative Thinking
12 9 (5.49%) Decision-Making
13 8 (4.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (4.27%) Data Architecture
14 7 (4.27%) Migration
15 6 (3.66%) Machine Learning
16 5 (3.05%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 71 (43.29%) SQL
2 62 (37.80%) Python
3 4 (2.44%) Bash
4 3 (1.83%) Scala
4 3 (1.83%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.61%) Bicep
5 1 (0.61%) C#
5 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.15%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.05%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.83%) CITP
5 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) City & Guilds
6 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.66%) GDPR
3 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 6 (3.66%) Terraform
2 1 (0.61%) Control-M
Vendors
1 39 (23.78%) Databricks
2 13 (7.93%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.05%) Informatica
3 5 (3.05%) Talend
4 4 (2.44%) Cloudera
4 4 (2.44%) Oracle
5 3 (1.83%) Google
5 3 (1.83%) Planon
5 3 (1.83%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.22%) SAP
7 1 (0.61%) BMC
7 1 (0.61%) BT
7 1 (0.61%) IBM