Data Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 June 2025.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 190 194
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 47 170 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.70% 1.18% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 1.26% 1.56%
Number of salaries quoted 41 107 101
10th Percentile £46,000 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £38,125 £45,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +7.62% -13.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £68,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% +3.57%

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 6,156 13,517 7,624
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 94.21% 89.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,822 9,560 4,488
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £60,741 £67,050
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,300
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.94% +0.50%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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
East Midlands +38 27 £65,000 +36.84% 95
West Midlands -30 20 £58,250 +1.30% 111
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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 35 (74.47%) SQL
2 30 (63.83%) Azure
3 29 (61.70%) ETL
4 28 (59.57%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (59.57%) Data Pipeline
5 27 (57.45%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (48.94%) Python
7 22 (46.81%) Data Engineering
8 21 (44.68%) Analytics
9 20 (42.55%) Databricks
9 20 (42.55%) Power Platform
10 19 (40.43%) Power BI
11 17 (36.17%) Data Modelling
12 15 (31.91%) Data Quality
13 13 (27.66%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (27.66%) Visualisation
14 12 (25.53%) AWS
14 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
14 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (23.40%) Data Lake
15 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
16 10 (21.28%) Data Integration
16 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
17 9 (19.15%) Decision-Making
17 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
17 9 (19.15%) Snowflake
17 9 (19.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 9 (19.15%) Migration
18 8 (17.02%) Agile
18 8 (17.02%) Data Migration

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 7 (14.89%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.64%) Apache
2 5 (10.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.13%) Luigi
3 1 (2.13%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 30 (63.83%) Azure
2 20 (42.55%) Power Platform
3 13 (27.66%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (25.53%) AWS
5 9 (19.15%) Snowflake
6 8 (17.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (8.51%) GCP
7 4 (8.51%) SaaS
8 3 (6.38%) Azure Functions
8 3 (6.38%) Serverless
9 2 (4.26%) dbt
9 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.13%) Azure App Service
10 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.13%) Datadog
10 1 (2.13%) GitHub
10 1 (2.13%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (57.45%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (40.43%) Power BI
3 11 (23.40%) Data Lake
3 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
4 9 (19.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 7 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (14.89%) Big Data
6 6 (12.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (6.38%) Data Mining
7 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
7 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
7 3 (6.38%) Relational Database
7 3 (6.38%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (6.38%) Tableau
8 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.26%) BigQuery
8 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
8 2 (4.26%) HDInsight
8 2 (4.26%) PowerPivot
8 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) Toad
General
1 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Law
4 3 (6.38%) Retail
5 1 (2.13%) Advertising
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) PySpark
2 4 (8.51%) Dask
2 4 (8.51%) Kafka
2 4 (8.51%) Polars
3 2 (4.26%) .NET
3 2 (4.26%) NumPy
3 2 (4.26%) Pandas
4 1 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.13%) Plotly
4 1 (2.13%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.13%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Replication
2 3 (6.38%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.38%) Legacy Code
3 2 (4.26%) IoT
3 2 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.13%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (61.70%) ETL
2 28 (59.57%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (59.57%) Data Pipeline
3 22 (46.81%) Data Engineering
4 21 (44.68%) Analytics
5 17 (36.17%) Data Modelling
6 13 (27.66%) Visualisation
7 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (21.28%) Data Integration
9 9 (19.15%) Decision-Making
9 9 (19.15%) Migration
10 8 (17.02%) Agile
10 8 (17.02%) Data Ingestion
10 8 (17.02%) Data Migration
10 8 (17.02%) DevOps
11 7 (14.89%) Data Analysis
11 7 (14.89%) Data Visualisation
12 6 (12.77%) Artificial Intelligence
12 6 (12.77%) Machine Learning
12 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (74.47%) SQL
2 23 (48.94%) Python
3 5 (10.64%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.26%) C#
4 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.26%) Java
5 1 (2.13%) Bash
5 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.13%) PROC SQL
5 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (31.91%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Flume
1 1 (2.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Kibana
1 1 (2.13%) logstash
1 1 (2.13%) Oozie
1 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (42.55%) Databricks
2 12 (25.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) Cloudera
3 2 (4.26%) Informatica
4 1 (2.13%) Cognos
4 1 (2.13%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) SnapLogic