Data Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 May 2025.

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

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 171 179
Rank change year-on-year -27 +8 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 53 150 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.76% 1.28% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 1.36% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 41 93 108
10th Percentile £46,250 - £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £35,000 £45,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,125
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.62% -8.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £73,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,050
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.21% +0.07%

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 6,427 11,047 8,539
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 94.29% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,858 8,256 4,765
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Data Engineer 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 -22 29 £60,000 +4.35% 34
East Midlands +24 24 £56,250 +21.62% 17
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 34 (64.15%) ETL
2 33 (62.26%) SQL
2 33 (62.26%) Data Pipeline
3 32 (60.38%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (52.83%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (52.83%) Azure
4 28 (52.83%) Analytics
5 25 (47.17%) Data Engineering
6 23 (43.40%) Python
7 21 (39.62%) Data Modelling
7 21 (39.62%) Databricks
8 19 (35.85%) Power Platform
8 19 (35.85%) Data Quality
9 18 (33.96%) Power BI
10 16 (30.19%) Data Lake
10 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
10 16 (30.19%) Visualisation
11 15 (28.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (26.42%) SQL Server
13 13 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
13 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (22.64%) AWS
14 12 (22.64%) Finance
14 12 (22.64%) Migration
15 11 (20.75%) Machine Learning
15 11 (20.75%) Data Ingestion
16 10 (18.87%) Decision-Making
16 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
16 10 (18.87%) Data Migration
16 10 (18.87%) Data Integration

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 8 (15.09%) Apache Spark
2 6 (11.32%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (7.55%) Luigi
4 3 (5.66%) Apache
5 1 (1.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (52.83%) Azure
2 19 (35.85%) Power Platform
3 15 (28.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (22.64%) AWS
5 9 (16.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (16.98%) Snowflake
6 7 (13.21%) Serverless
7 5 (9.43%) GCP
8 4 (7.55%) Amazon S3
8 4 (7.55%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.55%) dbt
8 4 (7.55%) Pulumi
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon EMR
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (5.66%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
9 3 (5.66%) Azure Functions
10 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.89%) Azure Stack
11 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (60.38%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (33.96%) Power BI
3 16 (30.19%) Data Lake
4 14 (26.42%) SQL Server
5 9 (16.98%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (15.09%) Big Data
6 8 (15.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 7 (13.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (13.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (11.32%) Relational Database
9 4 (7.55%) BigQuery
10 3 (5.66%) Data Mining
10 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
10 3 (5.66%) Hadoop
10 3 (5.66%) Power Query
10 3 (5.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (5.66%) Tableau
11 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (3.77%) MySQL
11 2 (3.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.89%) JIRA
2 1 (1.89%) kappa
2 1 (1.89%) Toad
General
1 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 13 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (22.64%) Finance
4 4 (7.55%) Law
5 3 (5.66%) Retail
6 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Banking
7 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) PySpark
2 4 (7.55%) .NET
2 4 (7.55%) Dask
2 4 (7.55%) Polars
3 3 (5.66%) NumPy
3 3 (5.66%) Pandas
4 2 (3.77%) SciPy
5 1 (1.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Cloud Native
1 5 (9.43%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (7.55%) Replication
3 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.77%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.77%) IoT
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (64.15%) ETL
2 33 (62.26%) Data Pipeline
3 28 (52.83%) Analytics
3 28 (52.83%) Business Intelligence
4 25 (47.17%) Data Engineering
5 21 (39.62%) Data Modelling
6 16 (30.19%) Visualisation
7 13 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (22.64%) Migration
9 11 (20.75%) Data Ingestion
9 11 (20.75%) Machine Learning
10 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
10 10 (18.87%) Data Governance
10 10 (18.87%) Data Integration
10 10 (18.87%) Data Migration
10 10 (18.87%) Data Visualisation
10 10 (18.87%) Decision-Making
11 9 (16.98%) Validation
12 8 (15.09%) Data Analysis
12 8 (15.09%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 33 (62.26%) SQL
2 23 (43.40%) Python
3 5 (9.43%) T-SQL
4 3 (5.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.66%) R
5 2 (3.77%) C#
5 2 (3.77%) C++
5 2 (3.77%) Java
6 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (7.55%) DBS Check
2 3 (5.66%) Degree
3 1 (1.89%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (35.85%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.55%) GDPR
3 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Terraform
2 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (39.62%) Databricks
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.66%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.89%) Informatica
4 1 (1.89%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.89%) SAP
4 1 (1.89%) SnapLogic