Data Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 April 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 151 167
Rank change year-on-year +31 +16 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 141 58 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.24% 1.20% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.33% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 118 46 89
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,375 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,375 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £67,500 £70,750
England median annual salary £68,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.14% +7.69% -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 10,476 4,363 10,058
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 90.20% 93.88%
Number of salaries quoted 6,597 2,748 7,885
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,123
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 +63 119 £62,500 +13.64% 45
East Midlands -49 22 £63,750 +21.43% 14
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 April 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 78 (55.32%) SQL
2 64 (45.39%) Azure
3 63 (44.68%) Python
4 59 (41.84%) Data Engineering
5 58 (41.13%) ETL
6 54 (38.30%) Data Pipeline
7 50 (35.46%) Databricks
8 35 (24.82%) Business Intelligence
9 31 (21.99%) AWS
10 30 (21.28%) Analytics
11 29 (20.57%) Agile
11 29 (20.57%) Data Modelling
12 28 (19.86%) Power BI
12 28 (19.86%) Power Platform
13 26 (18.44%) Data Warehouse
14 25 (17.73%) Azure Data Factory
15 23 (16.31%) Snowflake
16 21 (14.89%) Mentoring
17 20 (14.18%) CI/CD
18 18 (12.77%) Data Integration
19 16 (11.35%) PySpark
19 16 (11.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 14 (9.93%) Security Cleared
21 13 (9.22%) Data Governance
21 13 (9.22%) SQL Server
22 12 (8.51%) AI
22 12 (8.51%) Microsoft
23 11 (7.80%) Data Lake
23 11 (7.80%) Data Quality
23 11 (7.80%) Decision-Making

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 11 (7.80%) SAS
2 6 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.42%) Apache
3 2 (1.42%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (45.39%) Azure
2 31 (21.99%) AWS
3 28 (19.86%) Power Platform
4 25 (17.73%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (16.31%) Snowflake
6 9 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (5.67%) SaaS
8 5 (3.55%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (2.84%) GCP
9 4 (2.84%) Serverless
10 3 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.13%) dbt
11 2 (1.42%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.71%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.71%) Boomi
12 1 (0.71%) Cloud Composer
12 1 (0.71%) Datadog
12 1 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (2.13%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.71%) Broadband
3 1 (0.71%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.86%) Power BI
2 26 (18.44%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (11.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (9.22%) SQL Server
5 11 (7.80%) Data Lake
5 11 (7.80%) Delta Lake
6 6 (4.26%) Pentaho
7 5 (3.55%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (3.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (2.84%) Big Data
8 4 (2.84%) Metadata
9 3 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.42%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.42%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.42%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.71%) Parquet
11 1 (0.71%) SAS Visual Analytics
11 1 (0.71%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (4.26%) Git
2 1 (0.71%) GitLab
2 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.71%) JIRA
2 1 (0.71%) Selenium
2 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (14.18%) Finance
1 20 (14.18%) Public Sector
2 14 (9.93%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.67%) Automotive
4 6 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.84%) Legal
6 3 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Law
7 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.42%) Retail
8 1 (0.71%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.71%) Games
8 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.35%) PySpark
2 3 (2.13%) EDI
3 2 (1.42%) .NET
4 1 (0.71%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.71%) JSON
4 1 (0.71%) Middleware
4 1 (0.71%) REST
4 1 (0.71%) SOAP
4 1 (0.71%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.55%) Driving Licence
2 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (2.84%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.13%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.42%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.71%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.71%) iPad
5 1 (0.71%) NHS
5 1 (0.71%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.71%) Replication
5 1 (0.71%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (41.84%) Data Engineering
2 58 (41.13%) ETL
3 54 (38.30%) Data Pipeline
4 35 (24.82%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (21.28%) Analytics
6 29 (20.57%) Agile
6 29 (20.57%) Data Modelling
7 21 (14.89%) Mentoring
8 20 (14.18%) CI/CD
9 18 (12.77%) Data Integration
10 13 (9.22%) Data Governance
11 12 (8.51%) AI
12 11 (7.80%) Decision-Making
13 10 (7.09%) Data Architecture
13 10 (7.09%) Data Transformation
13 10 (7.09%) Machine Learning
14 9 (6.38%) DevOps
14 9 (6.38%) Migration
15 8 (5.67%) Innovative Thinking
15 8 (5.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 78 (55.32%) SQL
2 63 (44.68%) Python
3 5 (3.55%) Bash
4 4 (2.84%) Scala
4 4 (2.84%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.42%) Bicep
5 2 (1.42%) C#
6 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.71%) R
6 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (9.93%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.13%) CITP
3 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.13%) Degree
4 2 (1.42%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.71%) City & Guilds
5 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.80%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.26%) GDPR
3 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (1.42%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.55%) Terraform
2 2 (1.42%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.71%) Control-M
Vendors
1 50 (35.46%) Databricks
2 12 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.96%) Talend
4 6 (4.26%) Informatica
4 6 (4.26%) Oracle
5 5 (3.55%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.13%) Planon
6 3 (2.13%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.42%) Google
8 1 (0.71%) BMC
8 1 (0.71%) BT
8 1 (0.71%) Denodo
8 1 (0.71%) IBM