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 13 October 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 149 182
Rank change year-on-year +53 +33 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 235 79 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.50% 1.43% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.54% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 175 60 73
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £41,254
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% +2.80%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,375 £78,250
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 14,447 5,145 8,792
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.15% 92.97% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 10,087 3,151 4,542
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £29,510
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,750 £36,250
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 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,522 £55,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year +8.22% -2.65% -5.83%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +55 176 £70,000 +14.29% 54
East Midlands -5 59 £65,000 -3.70% 27
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 October 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 91 (38.72%) Analytics
2 79 (33.62%) SQL
3 72 (30.64%) Azure
4 70 (29.79%) Python
5 62 (26.38%) Data Engineering
6 60 (25.53%) Data Pipeline
7 55 (23.40%) ETL
8 50 (21.28%) Data Modelling
9 49 (20.85%) Decision-Making
10 41 (17.45%) AWS
11 40 (17.02%) Data Quality
11 40 (17.02%) Microsoft
12 38 (16.17%) Business Intelligence
13 37 (15.74%) AI
14 34 (14.47%) Power BI
14 34 (14.47%) Power Platform
15 31 (13.19%) Security Cleared
16 30 (12.77%) SC Cleared
17 27 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
18 26 (11.06%) Data Transformation
19 25 (10.64%) Mentoring
20 24 (10.21%) PySpark
21 23 (9.79%) CI/CD
21 23 (9.79%) Data Integration
21 23 (9.79%) Data Warehouse
21 23 (9.79%) DevOps
22 22 (9.36%) Git
23 21 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
24 19 (8.09%) Databricks
25 18 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement

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 (5.53%) SAS
2 11 (4.68%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.70%) Apache
4 3 (1.28%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 72 (30.64%) Azure
2 41 (17.45%) AWS
3 34 (14.47%) Power Platform
4 27 (11.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (7.23%) Snowflake
6 9 (3.83%) Azure Stack
7 8 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (3.40%) dbt
7 8 (3.40%) GCP
8 7 (2.98%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (2.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (2.98%) Serverless
9 6 (2.55%) Amazon Kinesis
9 6 (2.55%) Azure AI
9 6 (2.55%) GitHub
10 5 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
11 4 (1.70%) Dagster
11 4 (1.70%) Google Ads
11 4 (1.70%) Meta Ads
11 4 (1.70%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.70%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (1.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.47%) Power BI
2 23 (9.79%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.96%) Delta Lake
5 13 (5.53%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (5.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (5.11%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (2.98%) SQL Server
8 6 (2.55%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.55%) QlikView
9 5 (2.13%) Big Data
9 5 (2.13%) BigQuery
9 5 (2.13%) Spark SQL
10 4 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.70%) Parquet
10 4 (1.70%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.28%) Tableau
12 2 (0.85%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (9.36%) Git
2 4 (1.70%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.28%) GitLab
4 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 32 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (10.64%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.21%) Finance
4 15 (6.38%) Social Skills
5 11 (4.68%) Retail
6 8 (3.40%) Marketing
7 7 (2.98%) Automotive
8 4 (1.70%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.70%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.28%) Games
10 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.85%) Law
11 1 (0.43%) Billing
11 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.21%) PySpark
2 15 (6.38%) Kafka
3 13 (5.53%) Keycloak
4 7 (2.98%) REST
5 6 (2.55%) Terraform
6 2 (0.85%) .NET
6 2 (0.85%) EDI
6 2 (0.85%) RESTful
7 1 (0.43%) AWS CDK
7 1 (0.43%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.43%) JSON
7 1 (0.43%) React
7 1 (0.43%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (3.40%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.98%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 4 (1.70%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.28%) NHS
6 3 (1.28%) Sports Betting
7 2 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.43%) Online Gambling
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (38.72%) Analytics
2 62 (26.38%) Data Engineering
3 60 (25.53%) Data Pipeline
4 55 (23.40%) ETL
5 50 (21.28%) Data Modelling
6 49 (20.85%) Decision-Making
7 38 (16.17%) Business Intelligence
8 37 (15.74%) AI
9 26 (11.06%) Data Transformation
10 25 (10.64%) Mentoring
11 23 (9.79%) CI/CD
11 23 (9.79%) Data Integration
11 23 (9.79%) DevOps
12 21 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (7.66%) Data Security
14 17 (7.23%) ETL Development
15 16 (6.81%) Agile
15 16 (6.81%) Translating Business Requirements
16 15 (6.38%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 79 (33.62%) SQL
2 70 (29.79%) Python
3 13 (5.53%) Go
4 12 (5.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (3.40%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.70%) Java
7 2 (0.85%) C#
7 2 (0.85%) C++
8 1 (0.43%) Bash
8 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 30 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 17 (7.23%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.53%) Azure Certification
5 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.43%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (17.02%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.28%) QA
3 2 (0.85%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (1.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.09%) Databricks
3 7 (2.98%) Google
4 4 (1.70%) SAP
5 3 (1.28%) Oracle
5 3 (1.28%) Talend
6 1 (0.43%) Denodo
6 1 (0.43%) Informatica