Data Engineer Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 November 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 182 136
Rank change year-on-year +68 -46 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 107 82 86
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.78% 0.94% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.01% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 81 63 76
10th Percentile £51,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,252 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £68,750 £66,250 £65,625
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000

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 5,569 8,157 4,678
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 93.50% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 3,820 4,085 3,685
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

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 November 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 26 November 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 +65 78 £61,250 +11.36% 34
East Midlands +41 29 £67,500 +22.73% 7
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 November 2025, 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 77 (71.96%) SQL
2 56 (52.34%) Azure
3 50 (46.73%) Python
4 47 (43.93%) Data Engineering
5 44 (41.12%) ETL
6 42 (39.25%) Data Warehouse
7 36 (33.64%) Data Modelling
8 35 (32.71%) Databricks
9 32 (29.91%) Data Pipeline
10 31 (28.97%) Business Intelligence
11 25 (23.36%) Power BI
11 25 (23.36%) Power Platform
12 24 (22.43%) Microsoft
13 23 (21.50%) Mentoring
14 22 (20.56%) Agile
15 21 (19.63%) CI/CD
16 19 (17.76%) Azure Data Factory
17 18 (16.82%) Analytics
17 18 (16.82%) Security Cleared
18 16 (14.95%) Decision-Making
19 15 (14.02%) Data Lake
19 15 (14.02%) SQL Server
20 14 (13.08%) Structured Cabling
20 14 (13.08%) Wi-Fi
21 13 (12.15%) AWS
21 13 (12.15%) PySpark
21 13 (12.15%) SaaS
22 12 (11.21%) Data Integration
22 12 (11.21%) Requirements Gathering
23 11 (10.28%) Data Science

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 8 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.54%) SAS
3 3 (2.80%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.87%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (52.34%) Azure
2 25 (23.36%) Power Platform
3 19 (17.76%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (12.15%) AWS
4 13 (12.15%) SaaS
5 11 (10.28%) Snowflake
6 8 (7.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.67%) GCP
8 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.80%) GitHub
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.87%) dbt
9 2 (1.87%) Serverless
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (0.93%) Cloud Run
10 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.08%) Structured Cabling
1 14 (13.08%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.93%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (39.25%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (23.36%) Power BI
3 15 (14.02%) Data Lake
3 15 (14.02%) SQL Server
4 10 (9.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (8.41%) Delta Lake
6 7 (6.54%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (6.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (5.61%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.67%) Big Data
9 4 (3.74%) Pentaho
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.80%) Metadata
10 3 (2.80%) Parquet
10 3 (2.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (2.80%) Tableau
11 2 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.87%) Looker
11 2 (1.87%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Git
2 1 (0.93%) GitLab
2 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 17 (15.89%) Finance
2 16 (14.95%) Retail
3 15 (14.02%) Social Skills
4 13 (12.15%) Legal
5 7 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (5.61%) Automotive
7 5 (4.67%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.74%) Law
9 3 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Games
10 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.15%) PySpark
2 3 (2.80%) Kafka
3 2 (1.87%) .NET
4 1 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.93%) JSON
4 1 (0.93%) Plotly
4 1 (0.93%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.93%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.93%) REST
4 1 (0.93%) Shiny
4 1 (0.93%) Snowpark
4 1 (0.93%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Driving Licence
1 13 (12.15%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.87%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (0.93%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (43.93%) Data Engineering
2 44 (41.12%) ETL
3 36 (33.64%) Data Modelling
4 32 (29.91%) Data Pipeline
5 31 (28.97%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (21.50%) Mentoring
7 22 (20.56%) Agile
8 21 (19.63%) CI/CD
9 18 (16.82%) Analytics
10 16 (14.95%) Decision-Making
11 12 (11.21%) Data Integration
11 12 (11.21%) Requirements Gathering
12 11 (10.28%) Data Science
13 10 (9.35%) AI
13 10 (9.35%) Machine Learning
14 9 (8.41%) DevOps
15 8 (7.48%) Clean Code
15 8 (7.48%) Coaching
15 8 (7.48%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 8 (7.48%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 77 (71.96%) SQL
2 50 (46.73%) Python
3 6 (5.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (5.61%) T-SQL
4 4 (3.74%) Bash
5 3 (2.80%) Scala
6 2 (1.87%) Bicep
6 2 (1.87%) C#
7 1 (0.93%) Java
7 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.93%) PROC SQL
7 1 (0.93%) R
7 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (16.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.74%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.87%) Degree
4 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.93%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) ISO 19650
3 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Apache Flume
2 1 (0.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) Terraform
2 2 (1.87%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.93%) Kibana
3 1 (0.93%) logstash
3 1 (0.93%) Oozie
Vendors
1 35 (32.71%) Databricks
2 24 (22.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.67%) Cloudera
3 5 (4.67%) Informatica
3 5 (4.67%) Oracle
4 4 (3.74%) Talend
5 2 (1.87%) SAP
6 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
6 1 (0.93%) Cognos
6 1 (0.93%) Denodo
6 1 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) JD Edwards
6 1 (0.93%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.93%) Splunk