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 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 163 176
Rank change year-on-year +59 +13 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 200 70 117
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.31% 1.23% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 1.34% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 149 61 79
10th Percentile £41,600 £46,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £43,752
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% +6.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £78,500
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 14,227 5,226 9,539
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.50% 91.59% 94.85%
Number of salaries quoted 9,955 3,301 5,549
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,500 £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 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,446
England median annual salary £57,591 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.71% - -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 10 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 10 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 +54 145 £70,000 +7.69% 33
East Midlands +2 55 £51,250 -24.07% 25
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 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 74 (37.00%) Analytics
2 70 (35.00%) Azure
3 65 (32.50%) Python
4 64 (32.00%) SQL
5 53 (26.50%) AWS
6 47 (23.50%) Data Engineering
7 46 (23.00%) ETL
8 43 (21.50%) Data Pipeline
9 37 (18.50%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (17.00%) Power BI
10 34 (17.00%) Power Platform
11 31 (15.50%) Data Modelling
12 30 (15.00%) Decision-Making
13 29 (14.50%) AI
14 27 (13.50%) Microsoft
14 27 (13.50%) Security Cleared
15 26 (13.00%) SC Cleared
16 24 (12.00%) Mentoring
17 23 (11.50%) Data Warehouse
18 22 (11.00%) Azure Data Factory
19 21 (10.50%) Data Quality
19 21 (10.50%) Snowflake
20 19 (9.50%) Databricks
21 18 (9.00%) Data Integration
22 17 (8.50%) Agile
22 17 (8.50%) DevOps
22 17 (8.50%) PySpark
23 16 (8.00%) Data Security
24 15 (7.50%) CI/CD
24 15 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services

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 (6.50%) SAS
2 11 (5.50%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.50%) Apache
4 4 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 70 (35.00%) Azure
2 53 (26.50%) AWS
3 34 (17.00%) Power Platform
4 22 (11.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (10.50%) Snowflake
6 9 (4.50%) Azure Stack
7 8 (4.00%) GCP
8 7 (3.50%) Serverless
9 6 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.00%) Azure AI
9 6 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.00%) dbt
10 5 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.50%) Dagster
11 4 (2.00%) Amazon S3
11 4 (2.00%) Google Ads
11 4 (2.00%) Meta Ads
11 4 (2.00%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.00%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (2.00%) Wireless
2 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (17.00%) Power BI
2 23 (11.50%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (7.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (6.00%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (5.50%) Delta Lake
6 10 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.50%) Data Lake
9 6 (3.00%) QlikView
9 6 (3.00%) Spark SQL
10 5 (2.50%) Big Data
10 5 (2.50%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.00%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.50%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.50%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.50%) Tableau
13 2 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (1.00%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 12 (6.00%) Git
2 2 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.50%) Selenium
General
1 27 (13.50%) Public Sector
2 21 (10.50%) Finance
3 16 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.00%) Marketing
5 7 (3.50%) Automotive
6 4 (2.00%) Aerospace
6 4 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.00%) Law
6 4 (2.00%) Retail
6 4 (2.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.00%) Games
8 1 (0.50%) Billing
8 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.50%) PySpark
2 12 (6.00%) Kafka
3 10 (5.00%) Keycloak
4 7 (3.50%) REST
5 5 (2.50%) Terraform
6 4 (2.00%) EDI
7 2 (1.00%) .NET
7 2 (1.00%) RESTful
8 1 (0.50%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.50%) JSON
8 1 (0.50%) Middleware
8 1 (0.50%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.50%) SOAP
8 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (3.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.50%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.00%) NHS
4 4 (2.00%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.00%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.50%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.50%) iPad
7 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (37.00%) Analytics
2 47 (23.50%) Data Engineering
3 46 (23.00%) ETL
4 43 (21.50%) Data Pipeline
5 37 (18.50%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (15.50%) Data Modelling
7 30 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 29 (14.50%) AI
9 24 (12.00%) Mentoring
10 18 (9.00%) Data Integration
11 17 (8.50%) Agile
11 17 (8.50%) DevOps
12 16 (8.00%) Data Security
13 15 (7.50%) CI/CD
14 14 (7.00%) Data Governance
14 14 (7.00%) Data Transformation
15 12 (6.00%) ERP
15 12 (6.00%) Workflow
16 11 (5.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 11 (5.50%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 65 (32.50%) Python
2 64 (32.00%) SQL
3 12 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (5.00%) Go
5 8 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.00%) Java
7 3 (1.50%) Bash
8 2 (1.00%) C#
8 2 (1.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 27 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 26 (13.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.00%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.00%) CITP
5 2 (1.00%) Degree
6 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.50%) City & Guilds
6 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 27 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.50%) Databricks
3 7 (3.50%) Google
4 4 (2.00%) Informatica
5 2 (1.00%) Cloudera
5 2 (1.00%) Oracle
5 2 (1.00%) Planon
5 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.00%) SAP
5 2 (1.00%) Talend