Data Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £66,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 174 157
Rank change year-on-year +10 -17 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 70 112 82
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.25% 1.12% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 1.18% 1.54%
Number of salaries quoted 60 80 76
10th Percentile £49,600 £36,250 £41,875
25th Percentile £55,000 £45,001 £45,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% +7.48% -10.83%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £76,375 £78,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +7.14%

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 5,171 9,517 5,319
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 94.80% 93.23%
Number of salaries quoted 3,266 5,379 4,030
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,119 £26,750
25th Percentile £31,813 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +8 41 £65,000 +8.33% 19
East Midlands +33 29 £67,500 +35.00% 21
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 57 (81.43%) SQL
2 42 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (58.57%) Azure
4 34 (48.57%) Python
5 33 (47.14%) ETL
6 32 (45.71%) Business Intelligence
7 29 (41.43%) Data Engineering
8 26 (37.14%) Data Pipeline
8 26 (37.14%) Power BI
8 26 (37.14%) Power Platform
9 23 (32.86%) Data Modelling
10 20 (28.57%) Databricks
10 20 (28.57%) Analytics
11 19 (27.14%) Microsoft
12 17 (24.29%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (21.43%) Decision-Making
13 15 (21.43%) Agile
13 15 (21.43%) Retail
14 14 (20.00%) SQL Server
14 14 (20.00%) CI/CD
15 12 (17.14%) Requirements Gathering
15 12 (17.14%) Data Lake
15 12 (17.14%) AWS
15 12 (17.14%) Visualisation
16 11 (15.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (15.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 11 (15.71%) Mentoring
17 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
17 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (14.29%) PySpark

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.57%) Apache
1 6 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (58.57%) Azure
2 26 (37.14%) Power Platform
3 17 (24.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (17.14%) AWS
5 9 (12.86%) Snowflake
6 8 (11.43%) SaaS
7 6 (8.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (5.71%) GCP
9 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.86%) dbt
9 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.86%) GitHub
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.43%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.43%) Datadog
10 1 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.43%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (60.00%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (37.14%) Power BI
3 14 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 12 (17.14%) Data Lake
5 11 (15.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 5 (7.14%) NoSQL
8 4 (5.71%) Delta Lake
8 4 (5.71%) MongoDB
9 3 (4.29%) Big Data
9 3 (4.29%) Parquet
9 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
9 3 (4.29%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (4.29%) Tableau
10 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.86%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.86%) Metadata
10 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (1.43%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.43%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (21.43%) Retail
2 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.86%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.00%) Finance
5 6 (8.57%) Law
6 4 (5.71%) Legal
6 4 (5.71%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.29%) Automotive
8 1 (1.43%) Advertising
8 1 (1.43%) Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Games
8 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.29%) PySpark
2 5 (7.14%) Kafka
3 2 (2.86%) NumPy
3 2 (2.86%) Pandas
4 1 (1.43%) .NET
4 1 (1.43%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.43%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.43%) Plotly
4 1 (1.43%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.43%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.43%) Shiny
4 1 (1.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.14%) Replication
2 4 (5.71%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.71%) Driving Licence
2 4 (5.71%) Legacy Code
2 4 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.43%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.43%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) ETL
2 32 (45.71%) Business Intelligence
3 29 (41.43%) Data Engineering
4 26 (37.14%) Data Pipeline
5 23 (32.86%) Data Modelling
6 20 (28.57%) Analytics
7 15 (21.43%) Agile
7 15 (21.43%) Decision-Making
8 14 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 12 (17.14%) Requirements Gathering
9 12 (17.14%) Visualisation
10 11 (15.71%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 11 (15.71%) Mentoring
11 10 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 9 (12.86%) Data Integration
12 9 (12.86%) Machine Learning
13 7 (10.00%) Customer Experience
13 7 (10.00%) DevOps
13 7 (10.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 57 (81.43%) SQL
2 34 (48.57%) Python
3 8 (11.43%) T-SQL
4 6 (8.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (2.86%) Java
5 2 (2.86%) Scala
6 1 (1.43%) Bash
6 1 (1.43%) Bicep
6 1 (1.43%) C#
6 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.43%) PROC SQL
6 1 (1.43%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
2 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.43%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.43%) GDPR
2 1 (1.43%) ISO 19650
2 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Apache Flume
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
1 1 (1.43%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Terraform
2 1 (1.43%) Kibana
2 1 (1.43%) logstash
2 1 (1.43%) Oozie
Vendors
1 20 (28.57%) Databricks
2 19 (27.14%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.86%) Cloudera
3 2 (2.86%) Informatica
3 2 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (1.43%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.43%) Cognos
4 1 (1.43%) JD Edwards
4 1 (1.43%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle
4 1 (1.43%) Splunk