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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 157 176
Rank change year-on-year +51 +19 -18
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 216 73 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.37% 1.30% 1.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.40% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 157 58 78
10th Percentile £44,450 £48,800 £35,875
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £77,500 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,800 £76,625 £78,625
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 14,612 5,212 9,367
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 92.71% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 10,209 3,243 5,051
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,550 £35,700
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.20%
75th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,450 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,852 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -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 26 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 26 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 +56 162 £70,000 +7.69% 88
East Midlands -8 54 £60,000 -11.11% 48
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 81 (37.50%) Analytics
2 74 (34.26%) Azure
3 69 (31.94%) Python
4 68 (31.48%) SQL
5 51 (23.61%) Data Engineering
6 50 (23.15%) Data Pipeline
7 49 (22.69%) ETL
8 47 (21.76%) AWS
9 36 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 36 (16.67%) Data Modelling
9 36 (16.67%) Decision-Making
10 35 (16.20%) AI
10 35 (16.20%) Microsoft
11 32 (14.81%) Power BI
11 32 (14.81%) Power Platform
12 29 (13.43%) SC Cleared
12 29 (13.43%) Security Cleared
13 26 (12.04%) Data Quality
13 26 (12.04%) Mentoring
14 25 (11.57%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (10.19%) Data Warehouse
16 21 (9.72%) PySpark
17 20 (9.26%) Agile
17 20 (9.26%) CI/CD
17 20 (9.26%) DevOps
18 19 (8.80%) Data Integration
18 19 (8.80%) Data Security
18 19 (8.80%) Snowflake
19 17 (7.87%) Data Transformation
19 17 (7.87%) 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 (6.02%) SAS
2 11 (5.09%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.85%) Apache
4 3 (1.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 74 (34.26%) Azure
2 47 (21.76%) AWS
3 32 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 25 (11.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (8.80%) Snowflake
6 9 (4.17%) Azure Stack
6 9 (4.17%) GCP
7 7 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.24%) dbt
7 7 (3.24%) Serverless
8 6 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.78%) Azure AI
8 6 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (2.31%) Amazon EMR
9 5 (2.31%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (2.31%) Dagster
10 4 (1.85%) GitHub
10 4 (1.85%) Google Ads
10 4 (1.85%) Meta Ads
10 4 (1.85%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.85%) Structured Cabling
1 4 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (14.81%) Power BI
2 22 (10.19%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (6.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 14 (6.48%) Delta Lake
4 14 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (3.70%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.78%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.78%) QlikView
7 6 (2.78%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (2.31%) Big Data
8 5 (2.31%) Spark SQL
9 4 (1.85%) Parquet
9 4 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (1.85%) Star Schema
10 3 (1.39%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.39%) Tableau
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 13 (6.02%) Git
2 4 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (0.46%) GitLab
3 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 29 (13.43%) Public Sector
2 22 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
2 22 (10.19%) Finance
3 17 (7.87%) Social Skills
4 8 (3.70%) Marketing
5 7 (3.24%) Automotive
6 6 (2.78%) Retail
7 4 (1.85%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 2 (0.93%) Games
8 2 (0.93%) Law
9 1 (0.46%) Billing
9 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.72%) PySpark
2 14 (6.48%) Kafka
3 12 (5.56%) Keycloak
4 7 (3.24%) REST
5 6 (2.78%) Terraform
6 4 (1.85%) EDI
7 2 (0.93%) .NET
7 2 (0.93%) RESTful
8 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.46%) FastAPI
8 1 (0.46%) JSON
8 1 (0.46%) Middleware
8 1 (0.46%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.46%) React
8 1 (0.46%) SOAP
8 1 (0.46%) Streamlit
8 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (3.24%) Cloud Native
3 5 (2.31%) Data Structures
4 4 (1.85%) Driving Licence
4 4 (1.85%) NHS
4 4 (1.85%) Sports Betting
5 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
6 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.93%) Online Gambling
7 1 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.46%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.46%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (37.50%) Analytics
2 51 (23.61%) Data Engineering
3 50 (23.15%) Data Pipeline
4 49 (22.69%) ETL
5 36 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 36 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 36 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 35 (16.20%) AI
7 26 (12.04%) Mentoring
8 20 (9.26%) Agile
8 20 (9.26%) CI/CD
8 20 (9.26%) DevOps
9 19 (8.80%) Data Integration
9 19 (8.80%) Data Security
10 17 (7.87%) Data Transformation
11 15 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (6.94%) Data Governance
12 14 (6.48%) ETL Development
12 14 (6.48%) Workflow
13 13 (6.02%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 69 (31.94%) Python
2 68 (31.48%) SQL
3 12 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 12 (5.56%) Go
4 8 (3.70%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.85%) Java
6 2 (0.93%) Bash
6 2 (0.93%) C#
6 2 (0.93%) C++
7 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.46%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (13.43%) SC Cleared
1 29 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.41%) DV Cleared
3 12 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (0.93%) CITP
4 2 (0.93%) Degree
5 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.46%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (12.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.93%) GDPR
2 2 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.46%) Docker
Vendors
1 35 (16.20%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.87%) Databricks
3 8 (3.70%) Google
4 3 (1.39%) Oracle
4 3 (1.39%) SAP
5 2 (0.93%) Informatica
5 2 (0.93%) Planon
5 2 (0.93%) Salesforce
5 2 (0.93%) Talend
6 1 (0.46%) Cloudera