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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 152 118
Rank change year-on-year -52 -34 +52
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 50 186 244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.71% 1.54% 2.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 1.89% 2.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39 112 69
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,400 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% +6.18% -18.52%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,500 £102,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +10.71% -9.68% -3.13%

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 6,464 9,853 8,748
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.56% 81.48% 96.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,601 7,187 4,437
10th Percentile £27,384 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,437 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
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 21 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 21 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 31 £57,500 -5.32% 55
East Midlands -10 19 £65,000 +44.44% 25
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 7 (14.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (8.00%) Luigi
4 1 (2.00%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 29 (58.00%) Azure
2 17 (34.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 17 (34.00%) Snowflake
3 15 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (18.00%) GCP
5 8 (16.00%) AWS
6 5 (10.00%) dbt
7 4 (8.00%) Pulumi
8 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (4.00%) Datadog
10 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
10 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (30.00%) Power BI
3 12 (24.00%) Relational Database
4 9 (18.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 9 (18.00%) BigQuery
5 6 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (12.00%) Data Lake
5 6 (12.00%) NoSQL
6 5 (10.00%) Big Data
6 5 (10.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.00%) Data Mining
7 2 (4.00%) Metadata
8 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
8 1 (2.00%) PowerCenter
8 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.00%) Spark SQL
8 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (2.00%) Toad
General
1 27 (54.00%) Finance
2 19 (38.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
4 10 (20.00%) Marketing
5 9 (18.00%) Manufacturing
6 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (6.00%) Banking
7 3 (6.00%) Law
7 3 (6.00%) Retail Banking
8 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.00%) Retail
9 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.00%) Legal
9 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Data Engineer
2 14 (28.00%) Senior
3 13 (26.00%) Lead
4 11 (22.00%) Data Scientist
4 11 (22.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (16.00%) Architect
6 6 (12.00%) Data Architect
7 5 (10.00%) Lead Architect
7 5 (10.00%) Lead Data Architect
8 3 (6.00%) Data Manager
8 3 (6.00%) Data Science Manager
8 3 (6.00%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Consultant
9 2 (4.00%) Lead Data Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Lead Data Scientist
9 2 (4.00%) Senior Data Scientist
9 2 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.00%) PySpark
2 4 (8.00%) Dask
2 4 (8.00%) Kafka
2 4 (8.00%) Polars
3 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (2.00%) React
3 1 (2.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (16.00%) Cloud Native
3 6 (12.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Code
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (64.00%) Analytics
2 24 (48.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 21 (42.00%) Machine Learning
4 20 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (38.00%) Business Intelligence
5 19 (38.00%) Data Analysis
5 19 (38.00%) Data Modelling
5 19 (38.00%) ETL
6 15 (30.00%) Data Science
6 15 (30.00%) Migration
7 14 (28.00%) Data Migration
7 14 (28.00%) Decision-Making
8 13 (26.00%) Customer Experience
8 13 (26.00%) Data Architecture
9 12 (24.00%) Deep Learning
9 12 (24.00%) Generative AI
9 12 (24.00%) Mathematics
10 11 (22.00%) Data Governance
10 11 (22.00%) Software Engineering
10 11 (22.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 34 (68.00%) SQL
2 25 (50.00%) Python
3 12 (24.00%) Java
4 11 (22.00%) R
5 9 (18.00%) C++
6 3 (6.00%) C#
6 3 (6.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Degree
2 4 (8.00%) DBS Check
3 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.00%) Grafana
2 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (34.00%) Databricks
2 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.00%) Informatica
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle