Data Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 182 182 173
Rank change year-on-year 0 -9 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 132 106 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.14% 1.40% 1.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.20% 1.55% 2.00%
Number of salaries quoted 83 93 142
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £42,875
25th Percentile £41,627 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.09% -9.17% +17.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,250 £75,100 £82,500
England median annual salary £68,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.21% +3.57% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,958 6,838 11,649
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 90.04% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 7,238 4,339 7,425
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,125 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62,500 £66,004 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Data Engineer 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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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
West Midlands -3 96 £60,000 +11.11% 13
East Midlands -3 34 £50,750 -3.33% 2
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 71 (53.79%) Data Engineering
2 64 (48.48%) SQL
3 59 (44.70%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (43.18%) Data Pipeline
5 55 (41.67%) ETL
6 52 (39.39%) Azure
7 49 (37.12%) Analytics
8 47 (35.61%) Business Intelligence
9 46 (34.85%) DevOps
10 44 (33.33%) Data Quality
11 41 (31.06%) Data Modelling
11 41 (31.06%) Agile
11 41 (31.06%) Power BI
11 41 (31.06%) Power Platform
12 40 (30.30%) Databricks
13 35 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
14 33 (25.00%) Data Science
14 33 (25.00%) Python
15 32 (24.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 31 (23.48%) Azure Data Factory
17 29 (21.97%) GDPR
17 29 (21.97%) Microsoft
17 29 (21.97%) AWS
18 27 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
18 27 (20.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 26 (19.70%) SQL Server
20 25 (18.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
20 25 (18.94%) CI/CD
20 25 (18.94%) GCP
21 23 (17.42%) Data Lake

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 14 (10.61%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.55%) Apache
3 4 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (39.39%) Azure
2 41 (31.06%) Power Platform
3 31 (23.48%) Azure Data Factory
4 29 (21.97%) AWS
5 27 (20.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 25 (18.94%) GCP
7 9 (6.82%) SaaS
8 8 (6.06%) Serverless
9 7 (5.30%) GitHub
10 6 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (3.79%) dbt
11 5 (3.79%) Snowflake
12 4 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.03%) Amazon Kinesis
12 4 (3.03%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (3.03%) AWS CodeBuild
12 4 (3.03%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) 3GPP
1 1 (0.76%) 5G
1 1 (0.76%) Structured Cabling
1 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (44.70%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (31.06%) Power BI
3 32 (24.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 26 (19.70%) SQL Server
5 25 (18.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 23 (17.42%) Data Lake
7 20 (15.15%) Big Data
7 20 (15.15%) BigQuery
8 19 (14.39%) Looker
9 15 (11.36%) Metadata
10 14 (10.61%) Relational Database
11 11 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (7.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (6.82%) BusinessObjects
14 8 (6.06%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 6 (4.55%) NoSQL
16 4 (3.03%) Delta Lake
16 4 (3.03%) DynamoDB
17 3 (2.27%) Semantic Layer
18 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (3.79%) Git
2 3 (2.27%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.76%) GitLab
3 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.76%) Toad
3 1 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (17.42%) Finance
3 19 (14.39%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.06%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (2.27%) Retail
6 2 (1.52%) Automotive
6 2 (1.52%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.82%) PySpark
2 8 (6.06%) Pandas
3 4 (3.03%) AWS CDK
4 2 (1.52%) Middleware
5 1 (0.76%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (0.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.15%) Self-Motivation
2 16 (12.12%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.82%) Algorithms
4 8 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (6.06%) NHS
4 8 (6.06%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (3.03%) IoT
6 3 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.52%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.30%) Linux
2 2 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (53.79%) Data Engineering
2 57 (43.18%) Data Pipeline
3 55 (41.67%) ETL
4 49 (37.12%) Analytics
5 47 (35.61%) Business Intelligence
6 46 (34.85%) DevOps
7 41 (31.06%) Agile
7 41 (31.06%) Data Modelling
8 33 (25.00%) Data Science
9 27 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (18.94%) CI/CD
11 22 (16.67%) Data Governance
11 22 (16.67%) Mentoring
12 20 (15.15%) Machine Learning
12 20 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (14.39%) DataOps
14 18 (13.64%) Change Management
14 18 (13.64%) Data Transformation
15 16 (12.12%) Data Integration
15 16 (12.12%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (48.48%) SQL
2 33 (25.00%) Python
3 19 (14.39%) T-SQL
4 7 (5.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 7 (5.30%) Java
5 6 (4.55%) C#
5 6 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.27%) Scala
7 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (11.36%) Degree
2 9 (6.82%) DBS Check
3 7 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.79%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.79%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.52%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 29 (21.97%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (15.15%) Terraform
2 1 (0.76%) Ansible
2 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (30.30%) Databricks
2 29 (21.97%) Microsoft
3 22 (16.67%) Google
4 10 (7.58%) Informatica
5 5 (3.79%) SAP
6 4 (3.03%) Splunk
7 3 (2.27%) Siemens
7 3 (2.27%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.52%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.52%) Oracle
9 1 (0.76%) Denodo
9 1 (0.76%) Sparx
9 1 (0.76%) Talend