Data Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 22 September 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 162 171
Rank change year-on-year +59 +9 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 216 72 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.38% 1.29% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.40% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 156 59 79
10th Percentile £44,125 £49,200 £36,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +17.39% +7.48%
75th Percentile £75,625 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,500 £78,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 14,553 5,143 9,366
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 92.37% 94.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,137 3,244 5,189
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.12%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £64,108
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 +48 162 £70,000 +7.69% 85
East Midlands -4 54 £50,000 -25.93% 48
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 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 81 (37.50%) Analytics
2 74 (34.26%) Azure
3 70 (32.41%) Python
3 70 (32.41%) SQL
4 53 (24.54%) Data Engineering
5 50 (23.15%) AWS
5 50 (23.15%) Data Pipeline
6 49 (22.69%) ETL
7 37 (17.13%) Data Modelling
8 36 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 35 (16.20%) AI
9 35 (16.20%) Decision-Making
9 35 (16.20%) Microsoft
10 32 (14.81%) Power BI
10 32 (14.81%) Power Platform
11 29 (13.43%) SC Cleared
11 29 (13.43%) Security Cleared
12 27 (12.50%) Data Quality
12 27 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 24 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (10.19%) Data Warehouse
15 21 (9.72%) Agile
15 21 (9.72%) PySpark
16 20 (9.26%) CI/CD
16 20 (9.26%) Data Integration
17 19 (8.80%) DevOps
17 19 (8.80%) Snowflake
18 18 (8.33%) Data Security
18 18 (8.33%) Databricks
19 17 (7.87%) 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 14 (6.48%) SAS
2 11 (5.09%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.85%) Apache
3 4 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 74 (34.26%) Azure
2 50 (23.15%) AWS
3 32 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 24 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (8.80%) Snowflake
6 10 (4.63%) GCP
7 9 (4.17%) Azure Stack
8 7 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (3.24%) dbt
8 7 (3.24%) Serverless
9 6 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.78%) Azure AI
9 6 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (2.31%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (2.31%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (2.31%) Dagster
11 4 (1.85%) GitHub
11 4 (1.85%) Google Ads
11 4 (1.85%) Meta Ads
11 4 (1.85%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.85%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.81%) Power BI
2 22 (10.19%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (6.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (6.48%) Delta Lake
5 13 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (5.09%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.78%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.78%) QlikView
8 6 (2.78%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.31%) Big Data
9 5 (2.31%) Spark SQL
10 4 (1.85%) Parquet
10 4 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.85%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.39%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.39%) Tableau
12 2 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 13 (6.02%) Git
2 4 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.46%) GitLab
3 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 30 (13.89%) Public Sector
2 22 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (10.19%) Finance
3 17 (7.87%) Social Skills
4 8 (3.70%) Marketing
5 7 (3.24%) Automotive
6 6 (2.78%) Retail
7 4 (1.85%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.39%) Law
9 2 (0.93%) Games
10 1 (0.46%) Billing
10 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.72%) PySpark
2 13 (6.02%) Kafka
3 11 (5.09%) Keycloak
4 7 (3.24%) REST
5 6 (2.78%) Terraform
6 4 (1.85%) EDI
7 2 (0.93%) .NET
7 2 (0.93%) RESTful
8 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.46%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.46%) JSON
8 1 (0.46%) Middleware
8 1 (0.46%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.46%) React
8 1 (0.46%) SOAP
8 1 (0.46%) Streamlit
8 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.02%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (3.24%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.31%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.85%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.85%) NHS
4 4 (1.85%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.93%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (37.50%) Analytics
2 53 (24.54%) Data Engineering
3 50 (23.15%) Data Pipeline
4 49 (22.69%) ETL
5 37 (17.13%) Data Modelling
6 36 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 35 (16.20%) AI
7 35 (16.20%) Decision-Making
8 27 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 21 (9.72%) Agile
10 20 (9.26%) CI/CD
10 20 (9.26%) Data Integration
11 19 (8.80%) DevOps
12 18 (8.33%) Data Security
13 17 (7.87%) Data Transformation
14 15 (6.94%) Data Governance
15 14 (6.48%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (6.02%) ERP
16 13 (6.02%) ETL Development
16 13 (6.02%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 70 (32.41%) Python
1 70 (32.41%) SQL
2 12 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 11 (5.09%) Go
4 8 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.85%) Java
6 3 (1.39%) Bash
7 2 (0.93%) C#
7 2 (0.93%) C++
8 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (13.43%) SC Cleared
1 29 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 15 (6.94%) DV Cleared
3 11 (5.09%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.93%) CITP
4 2 (0.93%) Degree
5 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.93%) GDPR
2 2 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.46%) Docker
Vendors
1 35 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.33%) Databricks
3 8 (3.70%) Google
4 4 (1.85%) Oracle
5 3 (1.39%) Informatica
5 3 (1.39%) SAP
5 3 (1.39%) Talend
6 2 (0.93%) Cloudera
6 2 (0.93%) Planon
6 2 (0.93%) Salesforce