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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 164 175
Rank change year-on-year +66 +11 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 203 70 112
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.32% 1.25% 1.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.42% 1.35% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 150 60 80
10th Percentile £45,425 £49,600 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,625 £55,000 £45,001
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £66,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% +15.22% +7.48%
75th Percentile £76,875 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,375 £78,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.67%

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 14,318 5,171 9,517
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 92.34% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 9,993 3,266 5,379
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,119
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,813 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 16 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 16 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 +55 151 £70,000 +7.69% 89
East Midlands -8 52 £50,000 -25.93% 41
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 76 (37.44%) Analytics
2 70 (34.48%) Azure
3 66 (32.51%) Python
4 63 (31.03%) SQL
5 50 (24.63%) AWS
6 47 (23.15%) Data Engineering
7 45 (22.17%) Data Pipeline
8 44 (21.67%) ETL
9 35 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
10 33 (16.26%) AI
11 32 (15.76%) Data Modelling
11 32 (15.76%) Decision-Making
11 32 (15.76%) Power BI
11 32 (15.76%) Power Platform
12 31 (15.27%) Microsoft
13 28 (13.79%) SC Cleared
13 28 (13.79%) Security Cleared
14 23 (11.33%) Data Quality
14 23 (11.33%) Mentoring
15 22 (10.84%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
17 19 (9.36%) Data Integration
17 19 (9.36%) Snowflake
18 18 (8.87%) Agile
18 18 (8.87%) DevOps
18 18 (8.87%) PySpark
19 17 (8.37%) Data Security
19 17 (8.37%) Databricks
20 15 (7.39%) CI/CD
20 15 (7.39%) Data Transformation

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 (6.40%) SAS
2 10 (4.93%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.97%) Apache
3 4 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 70 (34.48%) Azure
2 50 (24.63%) AWS
3 32 (15.76%) Power Platform
4 22 (10.84%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (9.36%) Snowflake
6 9 (4.43%) Azure Stack
6 9 (4.43%) GCP
7 7 (3.45%) Serverless
8 6 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.96%) Azure AI
8 6 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.96%) dbt
9 5 (2.46%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (2.46%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.46%) Dagster
10 4 (1.97%) Google Ads
10 4 (1.97%) Meta Ads
10 4 (1.97%) Prefect
11 3 (1.48%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.97%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (1.97%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (15.76%) Power BI
2 21 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (6.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.91%) Delta Lake
6 11 (5.42%) Elasticsearch
7 8 (3.94%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (3.45%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.96%) QlikView
10 5 (2.46%) Big Data
10 5 (2.46%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.46%) Spark SQL
10 5 (2.46%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.97%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.48%) Parquet
12 3 (1.48%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.48%) Tableau
13 2 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 10 (4.93%) Git
2 3 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 28 (13.79%) Public Sector
2 21 (10.34%) Finance
3 18 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (7.39%) Social Skills
5 8 (3.94%) Marketing
6 7 (3.45%) Automotive
7 4 (1.97%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.97%) Retail
7 4 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.48%) Law
9 2 (0.99%) Games
10 1 (0.49%) Billing
10 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.87%) PySpark
2 13 (6.40%) Kafka
3 11 (5.42%) Keycloak
4 7 (3.45%) REST
5 5 (2.46%) Terraform
6 4 (1.97%) EDI
7 2 (0.99%) .NET
7 2 (0.99%) RESTful
8 1 (0.49%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.49%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.49%) JSON
8 1 (0.49%) Middleware
8 1 (0.49%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.49%) React
8 1 (0.49%) SOAP
8 1 (0.49%) Streamlit
8 1 (0.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.40%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (2.96%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.46%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.97%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.97%) NHS
4 4 (1.97%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.48%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.99%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.49%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (37.44%) Analytics
2 47 (23.15%) Data Engineering
3 45 (22.17%) Data Pipeline
4 44 (21.67%) ETL
5 35 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
6 33 (16.26%) AI
7 32 (15.76%) Data Modelling
7 32 (15.76%) Decision-Making
8 23 (11.33%) Mentoring
9 19 (9.36%) Data Integration
10 18 (8.87%) Agile
10 18 (8.87%) DevOps
11 17 (8.37%) Data Security
12 15 (7.39%) CI/CD
12 15 (7.39%) Data Transformation
13 13 (6.40%) Data Governance
13 13 (6.40%) ERP
13 13 (6.40%) Workflow
14 11 (5.42%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (5.42%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 66 (32.51%) Python
2 63 (31.03%) SQL
3 12 (5.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (5.42%) Go
5 8 (3.94%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.97%) Java
7 3 (1.48%) Bash
8 2 (0.99%) C#
8 2 (0.99%) C++
9 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (13.79%) SC Cleared
1 28 (13.79%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.39%) DV Cleared
3 11 (5.42%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.99%) CITP
4 2 (0.99%) Degree
5 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.49%) Docker
Vendors
1 31 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 17 (8.37%) Databricks
3 8 (3.94%) Google
4 3 (1.48%) Informatica
4 3 (1.48%) SAP
5 2 (0.99%) Cloudera
5 2 (0.99%) Oracle
5 2 (0.99%) Planon
5 2 (0.99%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.99%) Talend