Data Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 171 190
Rank change year-on-year +65 +19 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 175 58 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.32% 1.03% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.39% 1.13% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 142 56 90
10th Percentile £42,500 £47,125 £36,125
25th Percentile £55,000 £54,000 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +8.33% +12.15%
75th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,500 £75,000 £78,375
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -6.90%

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 12,576 5,115 12,105
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 90.68% 94.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8,776 3,239 8,334
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £32,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £62,200
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +64 127 £70,000 +16.67% 23
East Midlands +9 48 £52,500 -19.23% 12
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 63 (36.00%) Python
2 61 (34.86%) SQL
3 60 (34.29%) Analytics
4 56 (32.00%) AWS
5 55 (31.43%) Azure
6 48 (27.43%) Data Engineering
7 43 (24.57%) Data Pipeline
7 43 (24.57%) ETL
8 29 (16.57%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (16.00%) Data Modelling
9 28 (16.00%) Power BI
9 28 (16.00%) Power Platform
9 28 (16.00%) Snowflake
10 24 (13.71%) Security Cleared
11 23 (13.14%) AI
11 23 (13.14%) SC Cleared
12 21 (12.00%) Databricks
12 21 (12.00%) Microsoft
13 19 (10.86%) Data Warehouse
13 19 (10.86%) Mentoring
14 18 (10.29%) SAS
15 17 (9.71%) Data Integration
15 17 (9.71%) Decision-Making
16 16 (9.14%) Agile
17 15 (8.57%) Data Quality
18 14 (8.00%) Data Governance
19 13 (7.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 12 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
21 11 (6.29%) CI/CD
22 10 (5.71%) Apache Airflow

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 18 (10.29%) SAS
2 10 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.86%) Apache
4 3 (1.71%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 56 (32.00%) AWS
2 55 (31.43%) Azure
3 28 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 28 (16.00%) Snowflake
4 12 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (4.00%) Azure Stack
6 6 (3.43%) GCP
7 5 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.86%) dbt
8 4 (2.29%) Azure AI
9 3 (1.71%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.71%) Dagster
9 3 (1.71%) Google Ads
9 3 (1.71%) Meta Ads
9 3 (1.71%) Serverless
10 2 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.14%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.29%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (2.29%) Wireless
2 1 (0.57%) Broadband
2 1 (0.57%) DSLAM
2 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.00%) Power BI
2 19 (10.86%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (7.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (4.57%) Delta Lake
5 6 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 6 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.86%) Big Data
6 5 (2.86%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (2.29%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.29%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.71%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.71%) Pentaho
8 3 (1.71%) Spark SQL
8 3 (1.71%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.14%) MySQL
9 2 (1.14%) SAP BW
9 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (5.14%) Git
2 1 (0.57%) Selenium
2 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (17.71%) Public Sector
2 12 (6.86%) Social Skills
3 11 (6.29%) Finance
4 8 (4.57%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.86%) Marketing
5 5 (2.86%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.29%) Law
7 3 (1.71%) Automotive
7 3 (1.71%) Games
8 2 (1.14%) Retail
9 1 (0.57%) Billing
9 1 (0.57%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.14%) PySpark
2 6 (3.43%) Kafka
2 6 (3.43%) REST
3 4 (2.29%) EDI
3 4 (2.29%) Keycloak
4 2 (1.14%) RESTful
5 1 (0.57%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.57%) JSON
5 1 (0.57%) Middleware
5 1 (0.57%) SOAP
5 1 (0.57%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.43%) Driving Licence
2 5 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 4 (2.29%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (2.29%) NHS
3 4 (2.29%) Sports Betting
4 3 (1.71%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.14%) Online Gambling
5 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.57%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.57%) iPad
6 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.57%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.57%) Replication
6 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (34.29%) Analytics
2 48 (27.43%) Data Engineering
3 43 (24.57%) Data Pipeline
3 43 (24.57%) ETL
4 29 (16.57%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (16.00%) Data Modelling
6 23 (13.14%) AI
7 19 (10.86%) Mentoring
8 17 (9.71%) Data Integration
8 17 (9.71%) Decision-Making
9 16 (9.14%) Agile
10 14 (8.00%) Data Governance
11 11 (6.29%) CI/CD
12 10 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (5.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (5.14%) Data Transformation
13 9 (5.14%) Innovative Thinking
13 9 (5.14%) Migration
14 8 (4.57%) Data Security
15 7 (4.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 63 (36.00%) Python
2 61 (34.86%) SQL
3 4 (2.29%) Go
4 3 (1.71%) Bash
4 3 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.14%) Java
6 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (13.71%) Security Cleared
2 23 (13.14%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.57%) DV Cleared
4 4 (2.29%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.14%) CITP
5 2 (1.14%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.14%) Degree
6 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.57%) City & Guilds
6 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.57%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (12.00%) Databricks
1 21 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (3.43%) Google
3 5 (2.86%) Informatica
4 3 (1.71%) Cloudera
4 3 (1.71%) Oracle
4 3 (1.71%) Talend
5 2 (1.14%) Planon
5 2 (1.14%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.14%) SAP
6 1 (0.57%) BT