Data Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 September 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 158 169
Rank change year-on-year +54 +11 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 214 73 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.36% 1.30% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.46% 1.41% 1.16%
Number of salaries quoted 155 58 78
10th Percentile £46,217 £50,875 £35,875
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £57,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +15.72% +7.01%
75th Percentile £78,750 £68,750 £69,688
90th Percentile £87,000 £76,625 £79,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.45%

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 14,614 5,195 9,328
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 92.72% 94.84%
Number of salaries quoted 10,187 3,215 4,978
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,400 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,522 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.22% - -8.33%

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 +54 161 £70,000 +7.69% 77
East Midlands -14 53 £65,000 -3.70% 37
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 September 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 (36.92%) Analytics
2 71 (33.18%) Azure
3 67 (31.31%) Python
3 67 (31.31%) SQL
4 51 (23.83%) Data Engineering
5 49 (22.90%) ETL
6 47 (21.96%) Data Pipeline
7 44 (20.56%) AWS
8 36 (16.82%) Business Intelligence
8 36 (16.82%) Data Modelling
8 36 (16.82%) Decision-Making
9 35 (16.36%) Microsoft
10 34 (15.89%) AI
11 32 (14.95%) Power BI
11 32 (14.95%) Power Platform
12 30 (14.02%) SC Cleared
12 30 (14.02%) Security Cleared
13 26 (12.15%) Data Quality
13 26 (12.15%) Mentoring
14 25 (11.68%) Azure Data Factory
15 21 (9.81%) CI/CD
15 21 (9.81%) Data Warehouse
15 21 (9.81%) PySpark
16 20 (9.35%) DevOps
17 19 (8.88%) Agile
18 18 (8.41%) Data Integration
18 18 (8.41%) Data Security
18 18 (8.41%) Snowflake
19 17 (7.94%) Data Transformation
20 16 (7.48%) Databricks

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 (6.07%) SAS
2 11 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.40%) Apache
3 3 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 71 (33.18%) Azure
2 44 (20.56%) AWS
3 32 (14.95%) Power Platform
4 25 (11.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 18 (8.41%) Snowflake
6 9 (4.21%) Azure Stack
6 9 (4.21%) GCP
7 7 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.27%) dbt
7 7 (3.27%) Serverless
8 6 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.80%) Azure AI
8 6 (2.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.34%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (2.34%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (2.34%) Dagster
10 4 (1.87%) GitHub
10 4 (1.87%) Google Ads
10 4 (1.87%) Meta Ads
10 4 (1.87%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.87%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (1.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.95%) Power BI
2 21 (9.81%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (7.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (6.54%) Delta Lake
4 14 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.61%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (3.27%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.80%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.80%) QlikView
8 6 (2.80%) SQL Server
9 5 (2.34%) Big Data
9 5 (2.34%) Spark SQL
10 4 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.87%) Parquet
10 4 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (1.87%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.40%) Relational Database
12 2 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (6.07%) Git
2 4 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.93%) GitLab
General
1 28 (13.08%) Public Sector
2 23 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.28%) Finance
4 16 (7.48%) Social Skills
5 8 (3.74%) Marketing
6 7 (3.27%) Automotive
6 7 (3.27%) Retail
7 4 (1.87%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.87%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.93%) Games
9 2 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Billing
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.81%) PySpark
2 14 (6.54%) Kafka
3 12 (5.61%) Keycloak
4 7 (3.27%) REST
5 6 (2.80%) Terraform
6 3 (1.40%) EDI
7 2 (0.93%) .NET
7 2 (0.93%) RESTful
8 1 (0.47%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.47%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.47%) JSON
8 1 (0.47%) Middleware
8 1 (0.47%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.47%) React
8 1 (0.47%) SOAP
8 1 (0.47%) Streamlit
8 1 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.54%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (3.27%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.34%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.87%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.87%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.40%) NHS
6 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.93%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.47%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.47%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.47%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.47%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (36.92%) Analytics
2 51 (23.83%) Data Engineering
3 49 (22.90%) ETL
4 47 (21.96%) Data Pipeline
5 36 (16.82%) Business Intelligence
5 36 (16.82%) Data Modelling
5 36 (16.82%) Decision-Making
6 34 (15.89%) AI
7 26 (12.15%) Mentoring
8 21 (9.81%) CI/CD
9 20 (9.35%) DevOps
10 19 (8.88%) Agile
11 18 (8.41%) Data Integration
11 18 (8.41%) Data Security
12 17 (7.94%) Data Transformation
13 15 (7.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (7.01%) ETL Development
14 14 (6.54%) Workflow
15 13 (6.07%) Data Governance
15 13 (6.07%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 67 (31.31%) Python
1 67 (31.31%) SQL
2 12 (5.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 12 (5.61%) Go
3 8 (3.74%) JavaScript
4 4 (1.87%) Java
5 2 (0.93%) Bash
5 2 (0.93%) C#
5 2 (0.93%) C++
6 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.47%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 30 (14.02%) SC Cleared
1 30 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.48%) DV Cleared
3 12 (5.61%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.93%) Degree
5 1 (0.47%) CITP
5 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.15%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.40%) QA
3 2 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.47%) Docker
Vendors
1 35 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.48%) Databricks
3 7 (3.27%) Google
4 4 (1.87%) Oracle
5 3 (1.40%) SAP
5 3 (1.40%) Talend
6 2 (0.93%) Informatica
7 1 (0.47%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.47%) Planon
7 1 (0.47%) Salesforce