Data Engineer Job Trends 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 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 148 158
Rank change year-on-year +25 +10 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 133 60 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.26% 1.24% 1.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.37% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 111 47 89
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,400 -
25th Percentile £55,000 £47,125 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +6.80% -4.72%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -9.77%

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 9,661 4,382 9,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.83% 90.56% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 6,009 2,709 7,656
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,822 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,000 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +8.42% -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,522 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 +61 113 £60,000 +9.09% 45
East Midlands -44 20 £65,000 +20.93% 14
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 March 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 (57.14%) SQL
2 59 (44.36%) Azure
2 59 (44.36%) Python
3 57 (42.86%) ETL
4 55 (41.35%) Data Engineering
5 51 (38.35%) Data Pipeline
6 50 (37.59%) Databricks
7 34 (25.56%) Business Intelligence
8 30 (22.56%) Data Modelling
9 27 (20.30%) Agile
9 27 (20.30%) Power BI
9 27 (20.30%) Power Platform
10 25 (18.80%) AWS
10 25 (18.80%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (18.05%) Analytics
11 24 (18.05%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (16.54%) Mentoring
13 20 (15.04%) CI/CD
13 20 (15.04%) Snowflake
14 17 (12.78%) Data Integration
14 17 (12.78%) Security Cleared
15 16 (12.03%) PySpark
16 14 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 13 (9.77%) SQL Server
18 12 (9.02%) Decision-Making
18 12 (9.02%) Microsoft
19 11 (8.27%) Data Governance
19 11 (8.27%) Data Lake
19 11 (8.27%) Data Quality
19 11 (8.27%) Delta 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 11 (8.27%) SAS
2 6 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.75%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 59 (44.36%) Azure
2 27 (20.30%) Power Platform
3 25 (18.80%) AWS
4 24 (18.05%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (15.04%) Snowflake
6 10 (7.52%) SaaS
7 9 (6.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (3.76%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.01%) GCP
10 3 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.26%) dbt
10 3 (2.26%) Serverless
11 2 (1.50%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.75%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.75%) Cloud Composer
12 1 (0.75%) Cloud Run
12 1 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (4.51%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.75%) Broadband
3 1 (0.75%) DSLAM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.30%) Power BI
2 25 (18.80%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 13 (9.77%) SQL Server
5 11 (8.27%) Data Lake
5 11 (8.27%) Delta Lake
6 6 (4.51%) Pentaho
7 4 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (3.01%) Big Data
7 4 (3.01%) Metadata
7 4 (3.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.50%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.50%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (0.75%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.75%) DB2
9 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.75%) IBM InfoSphere
9 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (0.75%) GitLab
2 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.75%) JIRA
2 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (15.04%) Finance
2 16 (12.03%) Public Sector
3 13 (9.77%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.02%) Automotive
5 7 (5.26%) Legal
6 6 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Retail
9 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.50%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.75%) Games
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.03%) PySpark
2 2 (1.50%) .NET
3 1 (0.75%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.75%) EDI
3 1 (0.75%) JSON
3 1 (0.75%) REST
3 1 (0.75%) Snowpark
3 1 (0.75%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.02%) Driving Licence
2 6 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.26%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.50%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.75%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.75%) iPad
5 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.75%) Replication
5 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (42.86%) ETL
2 55 (41.35%) Data Engineering
3 51 (38.35%) Data Pipeline
4 34 (25.56%) Business Intelligence
5 30 (22.56%) Data Modelling
6 27 (20.30%) Agile
7 24 (18.05%) Analytics
8 22 (16.54%) Mentoring
9 20 (15.04%) CI/CD
10 17 (12.78%) Data Integration
11 12 (9.02%) Decision-Making
12 11 (8.27%) Data Governance
13 10 (7.52%) AI
13 10 (7.52%) Machine Learning
14 9 (6.77%) Data Science
14 9 (6.77%) DevOps
14 9 (6.77%) Migration
15 8 (6.02%) Innovative Thinking
15 8 (6.02%) Visualisation
16 7 (5.26%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 76 (57.14%) SQL
2 59 (44.36%) Python
3 5 (3.76%) Bash
4 4 (3.01%) Scala
4 4 (3.01%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.50%) Bicep
5 2 (1.50%) C#
6 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.75%) R
6 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.77%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.50%) Degree
3 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.75%) CITP
4 1 (0.75%) City & Guilds
4 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.27%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.51%) GDPR
3 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (2.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.01%) Terraform
2 2 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.75%) Control-M
Vendors
1 50 (37.59%) Databricks
2 12 (9.02%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.26%) Talend
4 6 (4.51%) Informatica
4 6 (4.51%) Oracle
5 5 (3.76%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.75%) BMC
6 1 (0.75%) BT
6 1 (0.75%) Denodo
6 1 (0.75%) Google
6 1 (0.75%) IBM
6 1 (0.75%) Planon
6 1 (0.75%) Salesforce