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 26 December 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 177 137
Rank change year-on-year +65 -40 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 123 75 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.56% 1.10% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 1.17% 1.82%
Number of salaries quoted 97 58 77
10th Percentile £50,750 £39,050 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £43,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,875 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,375 £85,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -

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 7,147 6,407 4,673
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.54% 94.33% 94.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4,340 3,027 3,873
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,344 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +4.69% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,300 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.41%

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 26 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 +62 98 £64,250 +16.82% 51
East Midlands +1 25 £67,500 +20.54% 36
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 December 2025, 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 83 (67.48%) SQL
2 58 (47.15%) Azure
3 55 (44.72%) Python
4 50 (40.65%) Data Engineering
5 48 (39.02%) ETL
6 42 (34.15%) Databricks
7 40 (32.52%) Data Warehouse
8 37 (30.08%) Business Intelligence
8 37 (30.08%) Data Pipeline
9 34 (27.64%) Data Modelling
10 27 (21.95%) Power BI
10 27 (21.95%) Power Platform
11 26 (21.14%) Agile
12 24 (19.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 24 (19.51%) CI/CD
13 23 (18.70%) Mentoring
13 23 (18.70%) Microsoft
14 19 (15.45%) Analytics
15 18 (14.63%) Security Cleared
16 16 (13.01%) PySpark
16 16 (13.01%) SQL Server
17 15 (12.20%) Data Lake
17 15 (12.20%) Decision-Making
18 14 (11.38%) Structured Cabling
18 14 (11.38%) Wi-Fi
19 12 (9.76%) Data Integration
19 12 (9.76%) Requirements Gathering
19 12 (9.76%) SaaS
20 11 (8.94%) AWS
20 11 (8.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics

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 6 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
1 6 (4.88%) SAS
2 2 (1.63%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.81%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 58 (47.15%) Azure
2 27 (21.95%) Power Platform
3 24 (19.51%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (9.76%) SaaS
5 11 (8.94%) AWS
5 11 (8.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 11 (8.94%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.25%) GCP
7 3 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.63%) dbt
8 2 (1.63%) GitHub
8 2 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.63%) Serverless
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.81%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.81%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (11.38%) Structured Cabling
1 14 (11.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (32.52%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (21.95%) Power BI
3 16 (13.01%) SQL Server
4 15 (12.20%) Data Lake
5 11 (8.94%) Delta Lake
5 11 (8.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (5.69%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (5.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (4.07%) Metadata
8 4 (3.25%) Big Data
8 4 (3.25%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.25%) Parquet
8 4 (3.25%) Pentaho
9 3 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (1.63%) DB2
10 2 (1.63%) Looker
10 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.63%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (0.81%) GitLab
2 1 (0.81%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.81%) JIRA
General
1 24 (19.51%) Finance
2 16 (13.01%) Retail
3 15 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 14 (11.38%) Legal
5 7 (5.69%) Automotive
6 6 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.07%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.44%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Games
10 1 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.01%) PySpark
2 3 (2.44%) .NET
3 2 (1.63%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.81%) JSON
4 1 (0.81%) Kafka
4 1 (0.81%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.81%) REST
4 1 (0.81%) Snowpark
4 1 (0.81%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.57%) Driving Licence
1 13 (10.57%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.63%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.63%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.81%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.81%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.81%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (40.65%) Data Engineering
2 48 (39.02%) ETL
3 37 (30.08%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (30.08%) Data Pipeline
4 34 (27.64%) Data Modelling
5 26 (21.14%) Agile
6 24 (19.51%) CI/CD
7 23 (18.70%) Mentoring
8 19 (15.45%) Analytics
9 15 (12.20%) Decision-Making
10 12 (9.76%) Data Integration
10 12 (9.76%) Requirements Gathering
11 11 (8.94%) Machine Learning
12 10 (8.13%) DevOps
13 9 (7.32%) AI
13 9 (7.32%) Data Governance
13 9 (7.32%) Data Science
13 9 (7.32%) Data Transformation
14 8 (6.50%) Customer Service
14 8 (6.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 83 (67.48%) SQL
2 55 (44.72%) Python
3 8 (6.50%) T-SQL
4 6 (4.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (4.88%) Scala
5 3 (2.44%) Bash
5 3 (2.44%) Bicep
5 3 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (0.81%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.81%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.25%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.63%) Degree
3 2 (1.63%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.81%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.07%) GDPR
3 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (3.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.69%) Terraform
2 2 (1.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.81%) Control-M
Vendors
1 42 (34.15%) Databricks
2 23 (18.70%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.07%) Oracle
3 5 (4.07%) Talend
4 4 (3.25%) Informatica
5 3 (2.44%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.81%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.81%) BMC
6 1 (0.81%) Denodo
6 1 (0.81%) Google
6 1 (0.81%) IBM
6 1 (0.81%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.81%) SAP
6 1 (0.81%) Splunk