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 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 178 167
Rank change year-on-year +61 -11 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 160 44 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.23% 0.87% 1.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 0.96% 1.39%
Number of salaries quoted 135 37 95
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,550 £35,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +6.19% +4.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,000 £67,500 £72,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.08% +13.46% -7.14%

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 12,125 4,591 11,041
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 91.22% 94.29%
Number of salaries quoted 7,775 2,730 8,325
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £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 £63,750 £60,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £53,847
% change year-on-year -5.17% +7.71% -11.44%

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 15 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 15 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 +63 127 £65,000 +8.33% 31
East Midlands -11 33 £60,000 +4.35% 17
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 73 (45.63%) SQL
2 63 (39.38%) Python
3 58 (36.25%) Azure
4 53 (33.13%) Data Engineering
4 53 (33.13%) ETL
5 50 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
6 43 (26.88%) AWS
6 43 (26.88%) Databricks
7 37 (23.13%) Analytics
8 34 (21.25%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (18.75%) Agile
10 28 (17.50%) Power BI
10 28 (17.50%) Power Platform
11 27 (16.88%) Snowflake
12 25 (15.63%) Data Modelling
13 23 (14.38%) Data Warehouse
14 22 (13.75%) Mentoring
15 18 (11.25%) Azure Data Factory
15 18 (11.25%) CI/CD
15 18 (11.25%) Data Integration
16 16 (10.00%) AI
16 16 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (8.75%) PySpark
17 14 (8.75%) Security Cleared
18 12 (7.50%) Data Governance
18 12 (7.50%) Microsoft
18 12 (7.50%) SC Cleared
19 11 (6.88%) Delta Lake
19 11 (6.88%) SAS
20 10 (6.25%) 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 11 (6.88%) SAS
2 5 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.25%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 58 (36.25%) Azure
2 43 (26.88%) AWS
3 28 (17.50%) Power Platform
4 27 (16.88%) Snowflake
5 18 (11.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (4.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (3.75%) Azure Stack
8 5 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.50%) SaaS
10 3 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.88%) dbt
10 3 (1.88%) GCP
10 3 (1.88%) Serverless
11 2 (1.25%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.63%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.63%) Boomi
12 1 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (1.88%) Wireless
3 2 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.63%) Broadband
4 1 (0.63%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (17.50%) Power BI
2 23 (14.38%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (6.88%) Delta Lake
5 9 (5.63%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.13%) Pentaho
8 4 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.88%) Big Data
9 3 (1.88%) Metadata
9 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.25%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.25%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.25%) SAP BW
10 2 (1.25%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.63%) DB2
11 1 (0.63%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.63%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (3.75%) Git
2 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.63%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) Selenium
2 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (15.63%) Public Sector
2 17 (10.63%) Finance
3 12 (7.50%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.00%) Automotive
5 5 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.50%) Law
6 4 (2.50%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.25%) Legal
7 2 (1.25%) Marketing
7 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.25%) Retail
8 1 (0.63%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.63%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.63%) Games
8 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.75%) PySpark
2 3 (1.88%) EDI
3 2 (1.25%) REST
4 1 (0.63%) .NET
4 1 (0.63%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.63%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.63%) JSON
4 1 (0.63%) Middleware
4 1 (0.63%) SOAP
4 1 (0.63%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.75%) Driving Licence
2 4 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.88%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.88%) NHS
4 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.63%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.63%) iPad
5 1 (0.63%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.63%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.63%) Replication
5 1 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.13%) Data Engineering
1 53 (33.13%) ETL
2 50 (31.25%) Data Pipeline
3 37 (23.13%) Analytics
4 34 (21.25%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (18.75%) Agile
6 25 (15.63%) Data Modelling
7 22 (13.75%) Mentoring
8 18 (11.25%) CI/CD
8 18 (11.25%) Data Integration
9 16 (10.00%) AI
10 12 (7.50%) Data Governance
11 10 (6.25%) Data Transformation
11 10 (6.25%) Innovative Thinking
12 8 (5.00%) Decision-Making
13 7 (4.38%) Data Architecture
13 7 (4.38%) Migration
13 7 (4.38%) Visualisation
14 6 (3.75%) Continuous Improvement
14 6 (3.75%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 73 (45.63%) SQL
2 63 (39.38%) Python
3 4 (2.50%) Bash
4 3 (1.88%) Scala
4 3 (1.88%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.63%) Bicep
5 1 (0.63%) C#
5 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 14 (8.75%) Security Cleared
2 12 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.88%) CITP
5 2 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.25%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.25%) Degree
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) City & Guilds
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.75%) GDPR
3 2 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.75%) Terraform
2 1 (0.63%) Control-M
2 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (26.88%) Databricks
2 12 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.75%) Talend
4 5 (3.13%) Informatica
4 5 (3.13%) Oracle
5 4 (2.50%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.88%) Google
6 3 (1.88%) Planon
6 3 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.25%) SAP
8 1 (0.63%) BMC
8 1 (0.63%) BT
8 1 (0.63%) Denodo
8 1 (0.63%) IBM