Data Engineering Jobs in the Midlands

Data Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 158 124
Rank change year-on-year -47 -34 +47
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 54 170 256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.76% 1.45% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.76% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 41 100 73
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,492 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -18.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £98,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,539 9,665 9,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.49% 82.42% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,675 7,138 4,622
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £34,834 £38,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £78,200
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
West Midlands -26 35 £56,250 -7.38% 28
East Midlands +6 19 £65,000 +54.78% 18
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 8 (14.81%) Apache Spark
2 7 (12.96%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (7.41%) Luigi
4 3 (5.56%) Apache
5 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (18.52%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (57.41%) Azure
2 18 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 17 (31.48%) Power Platform
3 17 (31.48%) Snowflake
4 9 (16.67%) GCP
5 8 (14.81%) AWS
6 5 (9.26%) dbt
7 4 (7.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (7.41%) Pulumi
8 2 (3.70%) Datadog
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.85%) GitHub
9 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (31.48%) Data Warehouse
1 17 (31.48%) Power BI
2 15 (27.78%) Relational Database
3 9 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (16.67%) BigQuery
4 7 (12.96%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (12.96%) Big Data
4 7 (12.96%) Data Lake
5 6 (11.11%) NoSQL
5 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
6 3 (5.56%) Tableau
7 2 (3.70%) Data Mining
7 2 (3.70%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.70%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.85%) Metadata
8 1 (1.85%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.85%) PowerCenter
8 1 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.85%) JIRA
1 1 (1.85%) Toad
General
1 27 (50.00%) Finance
2 19 (35.19%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
4 11 (20.37%) Marketing
5 10 (18.52%) Manufacturing
6 8 (14.81%) Public Sector
7 3 (5.56%) Banking
7 3 (5.56%) Law
7 3 (5.56%) Retail Banking
8 2 (3.70%) Retail
9 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.85%) Legal
9 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (46.30%) Data Engineer
2 14 (25.93%) Senior
3 13 (24.07%) Lead
4 12 (22.22%) Data Scientist
4 12 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (14.81%) Architect
6 6 (11.11%) Data Architect
7 5 (9.26%) Lead Architect
7 5 (9.26%) Lead Data Architect
8 3 (5.56%) Consultant
8 3 (5.56%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
9 2 (3.70%) Data Manager
9 2 (3.70%) ERP Consultant
9 2 (3.70%) Product Consultant
9 2 (3.70%) Senior Data Scientist
9 2 (3.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.70%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) Dask
1 4 (7.41%) Kafka
1 4 (7.41%) Polars
1 4 (7.41%) PySpark
2 2 (3.70%) .NET
2 2 (3.70%) NumPy
2 2 (3.70%) Pandas
2 2 (3.70%) SciPy
3 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.85%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.85%) React
3 1 (1.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 6 (11.11%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.41%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (66.67%) Analytics
2 26 (48.15%) Artificial Intelligence
3 24 (44.44%) Machine Learning
4 23 (42.59%) Business Intelligence
4 23 (42.59%) Data Pipeline
5 22 (40.74%) ETL
6 19 (35.19%) Data Analysis
6 19 (35.19%) Data Science
7 18 (33.33%) Data Modelling
8 15 (27.78%) Computer Science
8 15 (27.78%) Mathematics
8 15 (27.78%) Migration
9 14 (25.93%) Actionable Insight
9 14 (25.93%) Data Migration
9 14 (25.93%) Decision-Making
10 13 (24.07%) Customer Experience
11 12 (22.22%) Data Architecture
11 12 (22.22%) Deep Learning
11 12 (22.22%) Generative AI
11 12 (22.22%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 36 (66.67%) SQL
2 30 (55.56%) Python
3 16 (29.63%) Java
4 14 (25.93%) R
5 12 (22.22%) C++
6 3 (5.56%) C#
6 3 (5.56%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.85%) Bash
7 1 (1.85%) Go
7 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (24.07%) Degree
2 4 (7.41%) DBS Check
3 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.37%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.56%) GDPR
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.26%) Terraform
2 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.85%) Grafana
3 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (29.63%) Databricks
2 14 (25.93%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.85%) IBM
4 1 (1.85%) Informatica
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle