Data Engineer Jobs 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 6 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 209 187 187
Rank change year-on-year -22 0 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 47 154 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 1.12% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 1.19% 1.59%
Number of salaries quoted 44 97 101
10th Percentile £46,225 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,188 £41,254 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £68,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,500 £78,250 £68,750
England median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% -6.90% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 6,394 12,977 7,346
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 94.30% 89.86%
Number of salaries quoted 3,124 9,051 4,575
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £34,917 £38,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,125 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Data Engineer 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 6 July 2025.

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 6 July 2025. 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 -17 25 £60,000 - 27
East Midlands +37 22 £65,000 +26.21% 18
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 35 (74.47%) SQL
2 33 (70.21%) Azure
3 29 (61.70%) Business Intelligence
4 28 (59.57%) ETL
5 26 (55.32%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (55.32%) Data Pipeline
6 21 (44.68%) Power Platform
6 21 (44.68%) Python
7 20 (42.55%) Data Engineering
7 20 (42.55%) Power BI
8 19 (40.43%) Databricks
8 19 (40.43%) Analytics
9 15 (31.91%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (29.79%) Visualisation
10 14 (29.79%) Data Modelling
10 14 (29.79%) Microsoft
11 13 (27.66%) Data Lake
12 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (25.53%) AWS
12 12 (25.53%) Data Quality
13 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
14 10 (21.28%) Data Integration
14 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
14 10 (21.28%) Decision-Making
15 9 (19.15%) PySpark
15 9 (19.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
15 9 (19.15%) Snowflake
15 9 (19.15%) DevOps
15 9 (19.15%) Agile

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (10.64%) Apache
1 5 (10.64%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (10.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.26%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 33 (70.21%) Azure
2 21 (44.68%) Power Platform
3 15 (31.91%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (25.53%) AWS
5 9 (19.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (19.15%) Snowflake
6 4 (8.51%) SaaS
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Functions
7 3 (6.38%) GCP
7 3 (6.38%) Serverless
8 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
8 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.26%) dbt
8 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (4.26%) GitHub
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (2.13%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.13%) Datadog
9 1 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (55.32%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (42.55%) Power BI
3 13 (27.66%) Data Lake
4 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
5 9 (19.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 6 (12.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (8.51%) Big Data
8 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
9 3 (6.38%) Data Mining
9 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
9 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
9 3 (6.38%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (6.38%) Tableau
10 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
10 2 (4.26%) Metadata
10 2 (4.26%) Power Query
10 2 (4.26%) PowerPivot
10 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.13%) Git
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Law
4 4 (8.51%) Retail
5 1 (2.13%) Advertising
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.15%) PySpark
2 4 (8.51%) Kafka
3 3 (6.38%) .NET
4 2 (4.26%) NumPy
4 2 (4.26%) Pandas
5 1 (2.13%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.13%) ARM Templates
5 1 (2.13%) Dask
5 1 (2.13%) Plotly
5 1 (2.13%) Polars
5 1 (2.13%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.13%) Regular Expression
5 1 (2.13%) Shiny
5 1 (2.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Replication
2 3 (6.38%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.38%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (2.13%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.13%) IoT
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.13%) Linux
1 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (61.70%) Business Intelligence
2 28 (59.57%) ETL
3 26 (55.32%) Data Pipeline
4 20 (42.55%) Data Engineering
5 19 (40.43%) Analytics
6 14 (29.79%) Data Modelling
6 14 (29.79%) Visualisation
7 12 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (21.28%) Data Integration
8 10 (21.28%) Decision-Making
9 9 (19.15%) Agile
9 9 (19.15%) DevOps
10 7 (14.89%) Data Analysis
10 7 (14.89%) Data Ingestion
10 7 (14.89%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (14.89%) Machine Learning
11 6 (12.77%) Artificial Intelligence
11 6 (12.77%) Customer Experience
11 6 (12.77%) Dashboard Development
11 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (74.47%) SQL
2 21 (44.68%) Python
3 6 (12.77%) T-SQL
4 3 (6.38%) C#
5 2 (4.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.26%) Java
5 2 (4.26%) Scala
6 1 (2.13%) Bash
6 1 (2.13%) Bicep
6 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.13%) PROC SQL
6 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.13%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.13%) Apache Flume
1 1 (2.13%) Docker
1 1 (2.13%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) Kibana
2 1 (2.13%) logstash
2 1 (2.13%) Oozie
Vendors
1 19 (40.43%) Databricks
2 14 (29.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) Cloudera
3 2 (4.26%) Informatica
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) Cognos
4 1 (2.13%) JD Edwards
4 1 (2.13%) MicroStrategy
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle
4 1 (2.13%) SnapLogic