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 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 162 169
Rank change year-on-year +36 +7 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 145 53 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.17% 1.08% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 1.21% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 121 41 95
10th Percentile £41,925 £46,000 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +8.49% -3.64%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile - £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £68,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.52% +11.54% -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 11,480 4,385 10,730
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 89.64% 94.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7,203 2,794 8,209
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £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 £60,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.74%

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 24 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 24 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 +63 121 £62,500 +8.70% 42
East Midlands -58 24 £63,750 +13.33% 5
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 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 79 (54.48%) SQL
2 63 (43.45%) Python
3 60 (41.38%) Azure
4 56 (38.62%) Data Engineering
5 55 (37.93%) ETL
6 50 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
7 48 (33.10%) Databricks
8 36 (24.83%) AWS
9 32 (22.07%) Agile
9 32 (22.07%) Business Intelligence
10 30 (20.69%) Analytics
11 28 (19.31%) Data Modelling
12 27 (18.62%) Power BI
12 27 (18.62%) Power Platform
13 25 (17.24%) Mentoring
14 24 (16.55%) Data Warehouse
15 23 (15.86%) Snowflake
16 21 (14.48%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (13.10%) Data Integration
18 18 (12.41%) CI/CD
19 15 (10.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 13 (8.97%) AI
20 13 (8.97%) PySpark
20 13 (8.97%) Security Cleared
21 11 (7.59%) Data Governance
21 11 (7.59%) Data Quality
21 11 (7.59%) SAS
22 10 (6.90%) Data Lake
22 10 (6.90%) Delta Lake
22 10 (6.90%) Microsoft

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 (7.59%) SAS
2 6 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.38%) Apache
3 2 (1.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 60 (41.38%) Azure
2 36 (24.83%) AWS
3 27 (18.62%) Power Platform
4 23 (15.86%) Snowflake
5 21 (14.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (5.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (5.52%) SaaS
7 5 (3.45%) Amazon S3
8 4 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.76%) dbt
8 4 (2.76%) GCP
9 3 (2.07%) Azure Stack
9 3 (2.07%) Serverless
10 2 (1.38%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.69%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.76%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.38%) Wireless
4 1 (0.69%) Broadband
4 1 (0.69%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (18.62%) Power BI
2 24 (16.55%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (10.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 10 (6.90%) Delta Lake
4 10 (6.90%) SQL Server
5 7 (4.83%) Pentaho
6 6 (4.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.76%) Big Data
7 4 (2.76%) Metadata
8 3 (2.07%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.38%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.38%) Semantic Layer
10 1 (0.69%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.69%) Power Query
10 1 (0.69%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 1 (0.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Git
2 1 (0.69%) GitLab
2 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.69%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) Selenium
2 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (16.55%) Public Sector
2 19 (13.10%) Finance
3 13 (8.97%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.83%) Automotive
5 5 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.07%) Legal
6 3 (2.07%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.38%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.38%) Law
7 2 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.38%) Retail
8 1 (0.69%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.69%) Games
8 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.97%) PySpark
2 3 (2.07%) EDI
3 2 (1.38%) .NET
4 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.69%) JSON
4 1 (0.69%) Middleware
4 1 (0.69%) REST
4 1 (0.69%) SOAP
4 1 (0.69%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.14%) Driving Licence
2 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.38%) NHS
4 2 (1.38%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.38%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.69%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.69%) iPad
5 1 (0.69%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.69%) Replication
5 1 (0.69%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (38.62%) Data Engineering
2 55 (37.93%) ETL
3 50 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
4 32 (22.07%) Agile
4 32 (22.07%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (20.69%) Analytics
6 28 (19.31%) Data Modelling
7 25 (17.24%) Mentoring
8 19 (13.10%) Data Integration
9 18 (12.41%) CI/CD
10 13 (8.97%) AI
11 11 (7.59%) Data Governance
12 9 (6.21%) Data Architecture
12 9 (6.21%) Data Transformation
12 9 (6.21%) Decision-Making
12 9 (6.21%) Machine Learning
13 8 (5.52%) DevOps
13 8 (5.52%) Innovative Thinking
13 8 (5.52%) Migration
14 7 (4.83%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 79 (54.48%) SQL
2 63 (43.45%) Python
3 6 (4.14%) Bash
4 4 (2.76%) Scala
4 4 (2.76%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.38%) Bicep
5 2 (1.38%) C#
6 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.69%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (8.97%) Security Cleared
2 10 (6.90%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.07%) CITP
3 3 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.07%) Degree
4 2 (1.38%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.69%) City & Guilds
5 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.14%) GDPR
3 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.14%) Terraform
2 1 (0.69%) Control-M
2 1 (0.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 48 (33.10%) Databricks
2 10 (6.90%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.52%) Talend
4 7 (4.83%) Informatica
4 7 (4.83%) Oracle
5 6 (4.14%) Cloudera
6 3 (2.07%) Google
6 3 (2.07%) Planon
6 3 (2.07%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.69%) BMC
7 1 (0.69%) BT
7 1 (0.69%) Denodo
7 1 (0.69%) IBM