Data Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 September 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 168 171
Rank change year-on-year +64 +3 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 197 67 118
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.31% 1.18% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 1.29% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 148 60 80
10th Percentile £41,150 £46,675 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,938 £55,000 £45,001
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +15.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,375 £78,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 14,047 5,193 9,653
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.72% 91.15% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,828 3,275 5,812
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £63,063
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,400 £76,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 5 September 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 5 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
West Midlands +48 142 £70,000 +7.69% 33
East Midlands -5 55 £52,500 -22.22% 27
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 72 (36.55%) Analytics
2 68 (34.52%) Azure
3 63 (31.98%) Python
4 62 (31.47%) SQL
5 54 (27.41%) AWS
6 45 (22.84%) ETL
7 43 (21.83%) Data Engineering
8 42 (21.32%) Data Pipeline
9 37 (18.78%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (17.26%) Power BI
10 34 (17.26%) Power Platform
11 30 (15.23%) Data Modelling
12 29 (14.72%) Decision-Making
13 27 (13.71%) AI
14 26 (13.20%) Microsoft
15 25 (12.69%) Security Cleared
16 24 (12.18%) SC Cleared
17 23 (11.68%) Mentoring
18 22 (11.17%) Data Warehouse
18 22 (11.17%) Snowflake
19 20 (10.15%) Azure Data Factory
20 19 (9.64%) Data Quality
21 18 (9.14%) Data Integration
21 18 (9.14%) Databricks
22 17 (8.63%) Agile
23 15 (7.61%) Data Security
23 15 (7.61%) DevOps
23 15 (7.61%) PySpark
23 15 (7.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
24 14 (7.11%) Data Governance

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 (6.60%) SAS
2 11 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.54%) Apache
4 3 (1.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.52%) Azure
2 54 (27.41%) AWS
3 34 (17.26%) Power Platform
4 22 (11.17%) Snowflake
5 20 (10.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (4.57%) Azure Stack
7 8 (4.06%) GCP
8 6 (3.05%) Azure AI
8 6 (3.05%) dbt
8 6 (3.05%) Serverless
9 5 (2.54%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.54%) Dagster
10 4 (2.03%) Amazon EMR
10 4 (2.03%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.03%) Google Ads
10 4 (2.03%) Meta Ads
10 4 (2.03%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.03%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (2.03%) Wireless
2 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.26%) Power BI
2 22 (11.17%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (7.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.08%) Delta Lake
6 9 (4.57%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (4.06%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (3.05%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.54%) Big Data
9 5 (2.54%) QlikView
9 5 (2.54%) Spark SQL
9 5 (2.54%) SQL Server
10 4 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.03%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.52%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.52%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.52%) Tableau
12 2 (1.02%) RDBMS
12 2 (1.02%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 12 (6.09%) Git
2 2 (1.02%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 28 (14.21%) Public Sector
2 20 (10.15%) Finance
3 16 (8.12%) Social Skills
4 14 (7.11%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.06%) Marketing
6 7 (3.55%) Automotive
7 4 (2.03%) Aerospace
7 4 (2.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.03%) Law
7 4 (2.03%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.02%) Games
8 2 (1.02%) Retail
9 1 (0.51%) Billing
9 1 (0.51%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (7.61%) PySpark
2 11 (5.58%) Kafka
3 9 (4.57%) Keycloak
4 7 (3.55%) REST
5 5 (2.54%) Terraform
6 4 (2.03%) EDI
7 2 (1.02%) .NET
7 2 (1.02%) RESTful
8 1 (0.51%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.51%) JSON
8 1 (0.51%) Middleware
8 1 (0.51%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.51%) SOAP
8 1 (0.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.58%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (3.05%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.54%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.03%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.03%) NHS
4 4 (2.03%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.02%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.51%) iPad
7 1 (0.51%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.51%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (36.55%) Analytics
2 45 (22.84%) ETL
3 43 (21.83%) Data Engineering
4 42 (21.32%) Data Pipeline
5 37 (18.78%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (15.23%) Data Modelling
7 29 (14.72%) Decision-Making
8 27 (13.71%) AI
9 23 (11.68%) Mentoring
10 18 (9.14%) Data Integration
11 17 (8.63%) Agile
12 15 (7.61%) Data Security
12 15 (7.61%) DevOps
13 14 (7.11%) Data Governance
14 13 (6.60%) CI/CD
14 13 (6.60%) Data Transformation
15 11 (5.58%) ERP
15 11 (5.58%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (5.08%) Data Science
16 10 (5.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 63 (31.98%) Python
2 62 (31.47%) SQL
3 11 (5.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (4.57%) Go
5 7 (3.55%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.03%) Java
7 2 (1.02%) Bash
7 2 (1.02%) C#
7 2 (1.02%) C++
Qualifications
1 25 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 24 (12.18%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.60%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.57%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.02%) CITP
5 2 (1.02%) Degree
6 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.51%) City & Guilds
6 1 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.64%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.02%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Docker
Vendors
1 26 (13.20%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.14%) Databricks
3 7 (3.55%) Google
4 4 (2.03%) Informatica
5 2 (1.02%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.02%) Oracle
5 2 (1.02%) Planon
5 2 (1.02%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.02%) SAP
5 2 (1.02%) Talend