Data Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2026.

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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 179 174
Rank change year-on-year +62 -5 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 158 53 153
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.22% 1.03% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.31% 1.13% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 132 41 95
10th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +1.77% +2.73%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £71,125 £67,500 £72,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -7.14%

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 12,070 4,696 10,890
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 90.83% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,680 2,800 8,268
10th Percentile £29,350 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,688 £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 £60,741
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% -11.18%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +62 129 £65,000 +8.33% 52
East Midlands -27 29 £60,000 +6.67% 22
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 (51.27%) SQL
2 68 (43.04%) Python
3 62 (39.24%) Azure
4 59 (37.34%) Data Engineering
5 58 (36.71%) ETL
6 54 (34.18%) Data Pipeline
7 48 (30.38%) Databricks
8 44 (27.85%) AWS
9 38 (24.05%) Analytics
10 33 (20.89%) Agile
10 33 (20.89%) Business Intelligence
11 31 (19.62%) Data Modelling
12 27 (17.09%) Power BI
12 27 (17.09%) Power Platform
12 27 (17.09%) Snowflake
13 26 (16.46%) Mentoring
14 25 (15.82%) Data Warehouse
15 20 (12.66%) Azure Data Factory
15 20 (12.66%) Data Integration
16 19 (12.03%) CI/CD
17 16 (10.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 15 (9.49%) PySpark
19 14 (8.86%) AI
20 13 (8.23%) Data Governance
20 13 (8.23%) SAS
21 12 (7.59%) Delta Lake
21 12 (7.59%) Microsoft
21 12 (7.59%) Security Cleared
22 11 (6.96%) Data Quality
23 10 (6.33%) Data Lake

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 13 (8.23%) SAS
2 6 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.27%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (39.24%) Azure
2 44 (27.85%) AWS
3 27 (17.09%) Power Platform
3 27 (17.09%) Snowflake
4 20 (12.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (4.43%) SaaS
7 6 (3.80%) Amazon S3
7 6 (3.80%) Azure Stack
8 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.53%) Serverless
9 3 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.90%) dbt
9 3 (1.90%) GCP
10 2 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (1.27%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (0.63%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.63%) Datadog
11 1 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.16%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.90%) Wireless
3 1 (0.63%) Broadband
3 1 (0.63%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.09%) Power BI
2 25 (15.82%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (10.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (7.59%) Delta Lake
5 10 (6.33%) Data Lake
5 10 (6.33%) SQL Server
6 7 (4.43%) Pentaho
7 6 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.53%) Metadata
9 3 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.27%) Big Data
10 2 (1.27%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.27%) Semantic Layer
10 2 (1.27%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.63%) Parquet
11 1 (0.63%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 7 (4.43%) Git
2 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.63%) JIRA
2 1 (0.63%) Selenium
2 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (17.09%) Public Sector
2 18 (11.39%) Finance
3 13 (8.23%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.06%) Automotive
5 5 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.53%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.90%) Law
7 3 (1.90%) Legal
8 2 (1.27%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Marketing
8 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.63%) Games
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.49%) PySpark
2 3 (1.90%) EDI
3 2 (1.27%) .NET
3 2 (1.27%) REST
4 1 (0.63%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.63%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.63%) JSON
4 1 (0.63%) Middleware
4 1 (0.63%) SOAP
4 1 (0.63%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.43%) Driving Licence
2 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.90%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.90%) NHS
4 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.27%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.27%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.63%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.63%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.63%) iPad
5 1 (0.63%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.63%) Replication
5 1 (0.63%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (37.34%) Data Engineering
2 58 (36.71%) ETL
3 54 (34.18%) Data Pipeline
4 38 (24.05%) Analytics
5 33 (20.89%) Agile
5 33 (20.89%) Business Intelligence
6 31 (19.62%) Data Modelling
7 26 (16.46%) Mentoring
8 20 (12.66%) Data Integration
9 19 (12.03%) CI/CD
10 14 (8.86%) AI
11 13 (8.23%) Data Governance
12 10 (6.33%) Innovative Thinking
13 9 (5.70%) Data Transformation
13 9 (5.70%) Decision-Making
14 8 (5.06%) Data Architecture
14 8 (5.06%) Machine Learning
15 7 (4.43%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (4.43%) DevOps
15 7 (4.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 81 (51.27%) SQL
2 68 (43.04%) Python
3 6 (3.80%) Bash
4 4 (2.53%) Scala
4 4 (2.53%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.27%) Bicep
5 2 (1.27%) C#
6 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (7.59%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.70%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.90%) CITP
4 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.27%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.27%) Degree
5 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.63%) City & Guilds
5 1 (0.63%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.96%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.43%) GDPR
3 2 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.43%) Terraform
2 1 (0.63%) Control-M
2 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 48 (30.38%) Databricks
2 12 (7.59%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.06%) Talend
4 7 (4.43%) Informatica
4 7 (4.43%) Oracle
5 6 (3.80%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.90%) Google
6 3 (1.90%) Planon
6 3 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.63%) BMC
7 1 (0.63%) BT
7 1 (0.63%) Denodo
7 1 (0.63%) IBM
7 1 (0.63%) SAP