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 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 185 173
Rank change year-on-year +68 -12 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 169 43 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.27% 0.88% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 0.96% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 145 38 99
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,600 -
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% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £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 12,391 4,466 11,826
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 91.24% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 7,983 2,565 8,818
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,500 £33,934
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +1.05% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £60,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,200 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +9.52% -13.65%

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 29 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 29 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 +63 129 £68,750 +14.58% 23
East Midlands -18 40 £52,500 -4.55% 11
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 72 (42.60%) SQL
2 65 (38.46%) Python
3 58 (34.32%) Azure
4 54 (31.95%) Data Engineering
5 51 (30.18%) Data Pipeline
6 49 (28.99%) AWS
7 48 (28.40%) ETL
8 43 (25.44%) Analytics
9 37 (21.89%) Databricks
10 33 (19.53%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (17.16%) Snowflake
12 28 (16.57%) Data Modelling
12 28 (16.57%) Power BI
12 28 (16.57%) Power Platform
13 26 (15.38%) Agile
14 22 (13.02%) Data Warehouse
14 22 (13.02%) Mentoring
15 19 (11.24%) AI
16 18 (10.65%) Data Integration
16 18 (10.65%) Security Cleared
17 17 (10.06%) SC Cleared
18 16 (9.47%) CI/CD
19 15 (8.88%) Azure Data Factory
19 15 (8.88%) Data Governance
19 15 (8.88%) Microsoft
19 15 (8.88%) SAS
19 15 (8.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 14 (8.28%) Data Quality
21 13 (7.69%) PySpark
22 12 (7.10%) Data Transformation

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 15 (8.88%) SAS
2 8 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.18%) Apache
4 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 58 (34.32%) Azure
2 49 (28.99%) AWS
3 29 (17.16%) Snowflake
4 28 (16.57%) Power Platform
5 15 (8.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (4.14%) Azure Stack
6 7 (4.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (3.55%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.96%) dbt
8 5 (2.96%) GCP
9 3 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.78%) Dagster
9 3 (1.78%) SaaS
9 3 (1.78%) Serverless
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.18%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.18%) Meta Ads
10 2 (1.18%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.78%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (1.78%) Wireless
2 1 (0.59%) Broadband
2 1 (0.59%) DSLAM
2 1 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.57%) Power BI
2 22 (13.02%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (8.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (5.92%) Delta Lake
5 7 (4.14%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.14%) SQL Server
6 5 (2.96%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.37%) Big Data
8 3 (1.78%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.78%) Metadata
8 3 (1.78%) Pentaho
8 3 (1.78%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.18%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.18%) SAP BW
9 2 (1.18%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.59%) DB2
10 1 (0.59%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (3.55%) Git
2 1 (0.59%) Selenium
2 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (17.75%) Public Sector
2 16 (9.47%) Finance
3 13 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.14%) Automotive
5 5 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.37%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.37%) Law
6 4 (2.37%) Marketing
6 4 (2.37%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.78%) Games
8 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.18%) Retail
9 1 (0.59%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.69%) PySpark
2 4 (2.37%) REST
3 3 (1.78%) EDI
4 1 (0.59%) .NET
4 1 (0.59%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.59%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.59%) JSON
4 1 (0.59%) Middleware
4 1 (0.59%) RESTful
4 1 (0.59%) SOAP
4 1 (0.59%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.96%) Driving Licence
2 4 (2.37%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.37%) Sports Betting
3 3 (1.78%) NHS
4 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.18%) Online Gambling
4 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.59%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.59%) iPad
5 1 (0.59%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.59%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (31.95%) Data Engineering
2 51 (30.18%) Data Pipeline
3 48 (28.40%) ETL
4 43 (25.44%) Analytics
5 33 (19.53%) Business Intelligence
6 28 (16.57%) Data Modelling
7 26 (15.38%) Agile
8 22 (13.02%) Mentoring
9 19 (11.24%) AI
10 18 (10.65%) Data Integration
11 16 (9.47%) CI/CD
12 15 (8.88%) Data Governance
13 12 (7.10%) Data Transformation
14 10 (5.92%) Decision-Making
14 10 (5.92%) Innovative Thinking
15 8 (4.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (4.73%) Migration
16 7 (4.14%) Data Architecture
16 7 (4.14%) Problem-Solving
17 5 (2.96%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 72 (42.60%) SQL
2 65 (38.46%) Python
3 3 (1.78%) Bash
3 3 (1.78%) Scala
3 3 (1.78%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.59%) Bicep
5 1 (0.59%) C#
5 1 (0.59%) Java
5 1 (0.59%) R
Qualifications
1 18 (10.65%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.06%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.96%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.78%) CITP
5 2 (1.18%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.59%) City & Guilds
6 1 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.28%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.55%) GDPR
3 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 7 (4.14%) Terraform
2 1 (0.59%) Control-M
Vendors
1 37 (21.89%) Databricks
2 15 (8.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.37%) Google
3 4 (2.37%) Informatica
3 4 (2.37%) Talend
4 3 (1.78%) Cloudera
4 3 (1.78%) Oracle
4 3 (1.78%) Planon
4 3 (1.78%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.18%) SAP
6 1 (0.59%) BMC
6 1 (0.59%) BT
6 1 (0.59%) IBM