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 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 181 161
Rank change year-on-year +62 -20 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 164 46 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.24% 0.89% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.34% 0.98% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 139 39 97
10th Percentile £39,250 £46,650 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +9.09% +3.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £67,750 £70,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +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 12,280 4,708 11,254
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 91.60% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,913 2,740 8,443
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,863 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +3.16% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £60,741
90th Percentile £81,250 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

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 20 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 20 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 +58 126 £65,000 +8.33% 34
East Midlands -17 38 £52,500 -8.70% 15
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 71 (43.29%) SQL
2 61 (37.20%) Python
3 57 (34.76%) Azure
4 49 (29.88%) Data Engineering
5 48 (29.27%) Data Pipeline
5 48 (29.27%) ETL
6 45 (27.44%) AWS
7 39 (23.78%) Databricks
8 38 (23.17%) Analytics
9 34 (20.73%) Business Intelligence
10 29 (17.68%) Power BI
10 29 (17.68%) Power Platform
10 29 (17.68%) Snowflake
11 28 (17.07%) Agile
12 25 (15.24%) Data Modelling
13 22 (13.41%) Data Warehouse
13 22 (13.41%) Mentoring
14 18 (10.98%) Data Integration
15 17 (10.37%) AI
16 16 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
16 16 (9.76%) Security Cleared
16 16 (9.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (9.15%) CI/CD
18 14 (8.54%) SC Cleared
19 13 (7.93%) Data Governance
19 13 (7.93%) Microsoft
20 12 (7.32%) PySpark
20 12 (7.32%) SAS
21 10 (6.10%) Data Transformation
21 10 (6.10%) Innovative Thinking

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 12 (7.32%) SAS
2 5 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 57 (34.76%) Azure
2 45 (27.44%) AWS
3 29 (17.68%) Power Platform
3 29 (17.68%) Snowflake
4 16 (9.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (4.27%) Azure Stack
5 7 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 5 (3.05%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.44%) SaaS
8 3 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.83%) dbt
8 3 (1.83%) GCP
8 3 (1.83%) Serverless
9 2 (1.22%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.22%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.61%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.61%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.44%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (1.83%) Wireless
3 2 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.61%) Broadband
4 1 (0.61%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (17.68%) Power BI
2 22 (13.41%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (9.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 9 (5.49%) Delta Lake
5 8 (4.88%) Data Lake
6 7 (4.27%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (2.44%) Big Data
8 4 (2.44%) Pentaho
9 3 (1.83%) Metadata
9 3 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.22%) BigQuery
10 2 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.22%) SAP BW
10 2 (1.22%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.61%) DB2
11 1 (0.61%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.61%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.05%) Git
2 1 (0.61%) Selenium
2 1 (0.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (16.46%) Public Sector
2 16 (9.76%) Finance
3 10 (6.10%) Social Skills
4 7 (4.27%) Automotive
5 4 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.44%) Law
5 4 (2.44%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.83%) Marketing
7 2 (1.22%) Legal
7 2 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.22%) Retail
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.61%) Games
8 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.32%) PySpark
2 3 (1.83%) EDI
3 2 (1.22%) REST
4 1 (0.61%) .NET
4 1 (0.61%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.61%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.61%) JSON
4 1 (0.61%) Middleware
4 1 (0.61%) SOAP
4 1 (0.61%) Streamlit
4 1 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.66%) Driving Licence
2 4 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.83%) NHS
4 2 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.61%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.61%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.61%) iPad
5 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.61%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.61%) Replication
5 1 (0.61%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (29.88%) Data Engineering
2 48 (29.27%) Data Pipeline
2 48 (29.27%) ETL
3 38 (23.17%) Analytics
4 34 (20.73%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (17.07%) Agile
6 25 (15.24%) Data Modelling
7 22 (13.41%) Mentoring
8 18 (10.98%) Data Integration
9 17 (10.37%) AI
10 15 (9.15%) CI/CD
11 13 (7.93%) Data Governance
12 10 (6.10%) Data Transformation
12 10 (6.10%) Innovative Thinking
13 8 (4.88%) Decision-Making
14 7 (4.27%) Data Architecture
14 7 (4.27%) Migration
15 6 (3.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 6 (3.66%) Machine Learning
16 5 (3.05%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 71 (43.29%) SQL
2 61 (37.20%) Python
3 4 (2.44%) Bash
4 3 (1.83%) Scala
4 3 (1.83%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.61%) Bicep
5 1 (0.61%) C#
5 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.54%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.05%) DV Cleared
4 3 (1.83%) CITP
5 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.61%) City & Guilds
6 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.88%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.66%) GDPR
3 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 6 (3.66%) Terraform
2 1 (0.61%) Control-M
Vendors
1 39 (23.78%) Databricks
2 13 (7.93%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.05%) Informatica
3 5 (3.05%) Talend
4 4 (2.44%) Cloudera
4 4 (2.44%) Oracle
5 3 (1.83%) Google
5 3 (1.83%) Planon
5 3 (1.83%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.22%) SAP
7 1 (0.61%) BMC
7 1 (0.61%) BT
7 1 (0.61%) IBM