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 17 May 2025.

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

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 208 164 175
Rank change year-on-year -44 +11 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 47 157 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.66% 1.31% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 1.38% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 40 98 103
10th Percentile £46,700 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £35,313 £45,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% +6.19% -12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £61,875
90th Percentile £67,625 £71,125 £72,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% +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 6,607 11,337 8,175
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 94.39% 89.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2,820 8,397 4,580
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,250 £28,738
25th Percentile £32,500 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%

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 17 May 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 17 May 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
East Midlands +3 25 £57,500 +21.05% 19
West Midlands -33 22 £60,000 +4.35% 50
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 30 (63.83%) SQL
1 30 (63.83%) Data Pipeline
2 29 (61.70%) ETL
3 28 (59.57%) Business Intelligence
3 28 (59.57%) Azure
4 27 (57.45%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (48.94%) Analytics
6 21 (44.68%) Data Engineering
6 21 (44.68%) Databricks
7 20 (42.55%) Power Platform
7 20 (42.55%) Python
8 19 (40.43%) Power BI
9 17 (36.17%) Data Modelling
10 16 (34.04%) Data Quality
11 15 (31.91%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (29.79%) Visualisation
13 13 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
13 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
14 12 (25.53%) Data Lake
15 11 (23.40%) Data Integration
15 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
15 11 (23.40%) Finance
15 11 (23.40%) Migration
15 11 (23.40%) Snowflake
16 10 (21.28%) Decision-Making
16 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
16 10 (21.28%) AWS
16 10 (21.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 10 (21.28%) Data Ingestion

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 7 (14.89%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.64%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (8.51%) Luigi
4 3 (6.38%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (59.57%) Azure
2 20 (42.55%) Power Platform
3 15 (31.91%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (23.40%) Snowflake
5 10 (21.28%) AWS
6 8 (17.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (12.77%) GCP
8 5 (10.64%) dbt
9 4 (8.51%) Pulumi
9 4 (8.51%) Serverless
10 3 (6.38%) Azure Functions
11 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
12 1 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
12 1 (2.13%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (2.13%) Datadog
12 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (57.45%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (40.43%) Power BI
3 12 (25.53%) Data Lake
4 11 (23.40%) SQL Server
5 10 (21.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (14.89%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (14.89%) Big Data
6 7 (14.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (10.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (8.51%) BigQuery
8 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
9 3 (6.38%) Data Mining
9 3 (6.38%) Power Query
9 3 (6.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
10 2 (4.26%) HDInsight
10 2 (4.26%) PowerPivot
11 1 (2.13%) Spark SQL
11 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.13%) Toad
General
1 13 (27.66%) Analytical Skills
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Finance
3 5 (10.64%) Law
4 3 (6.38%) Retail
5 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Advertising
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.02%) PySpark
2 4 (8.51%) Dask
2 4 (8.51%) Polars
3 2 (4.26%) .NET
3 2 (4.26%) NumPy
3 2 (4.26%) Pandas
4 1 (2.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Cloud Native
1 5 (10.64%) Legacy Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Replication
2 2 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.26%) IoT
3 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.13%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.13%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (63.83%) Data Pipeline
2 29 (61.70%) ETL
3 28 (59.57%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (48.94%) Analytics
5 21 (44.68%) Data Engineering
6 17 (36.17%) Data Modelling
7 14 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (29.79%) Visualisation
8 11 (23.40%) Data Integration
8 11 (23.40%) Migration
9 10 (21.28%) Data Ingestion
9 10 (21.28%) Decision-Making
10 9 (19.15%) CI/CD
10 9 (19.15%) Data Migration
11 8 (17.02%) Data Analysis
11 8 (17.02%) Data Governance
11 8 (17.02%) Machine Learning
12 7 (14.89%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (14.89%) DevOps
13 6 (12.77%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 30 (63.83%) SQL
2 20 (42.55%) Python
3 5 (10.64%) T-SQL
4 3 (6.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (4.26%) C#
6 1 (2.13%) Java
6 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.13%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) DBS Check
2 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (34.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (44.68%) Databricks
2 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.13%) Informatica
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle
3 1 (2.13%) SnapLogic