Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 300 297
Rank change year-on-year +74 -3 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 17 25 26
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.24% 0.21% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.23% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11 16 13
10th Percentile £55,000 £28,000 -
25th Percentile £58,750 £60,688 £51,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £67,500 £79,500 £68,750
90th Percentile - £82,250 £76,150
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

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 6,335 11,010 8,542
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.20% 94.31% 89.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,843 8,239 4,748
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £34,000 £33,750 £37,500
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 £60,741 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in the Midlands

Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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 +55 10 £65,000 - 6
West Midlands +38 7 £65,000 -7.14% 11
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (82.35%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (70.59%) Data Modelling
2 12 (70.59%) Data Engineering
3 10 (58.82%) Data Quality
3 10 (58.82%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (52.94%) Python
4 9 (52.94%) SQL
4 9 (52.94%) Analytics
4 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
5 8 (47.06%) ETL
6 7 (41.18%) Migration
6 7 (41.18%) Data Governance
6 7 (41.18%) Databricks
7 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
7 6 (35.29%) Data Migration
8 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (29.41%) Apache Spark
9 4 (23.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (23.53%) DBS Check
9 4 (23.53%) BigQuery
9 4 (23.53%) GCP
9 4 (23.53%) Big Data
9 4 (23.53%) Azure
9 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
9 4 (23.53%) Linux
9 4 (23.53%) Regression Testing
9 4 (23.53%) Workflow
9 4 (23.53%) Finance
9 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
9 4 (23.53%) Integration Testing

Senior 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 (29.41%) Apache Spark
2 4 (23.53%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (23.53%) Luigi
3 1 (5.88%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
1 4 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (23.53%) dbt
1 4 (23.53%) GCP
1 4 (23.53%) Pulumi
1 4 (23.53%) Snowflake
2 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.88%) AWS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (23.53%) Big Data
2 4 (23.53%) BigQuery
3 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
3 3 (17.65%) Power BI
4 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.88%) Tableau
General
1 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Law
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Dask
1 4 (23.53%) Polars
2 1 (5.88%) Kafka
2 1 (5.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
1 4 (23.53%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (70.59%) Data Engineering
2 12 (70.59%) Data Modelling
3 9 (52.94%) Analytics
4 8 (47.06%) ETL
5 7 (41.18%) Data Governance
5 7 (41.18%) Migration
6 6 (35.29%) Data Migration
6 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
7 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
8 4 (23.53%) Data Architecture
8 4 (23.53%) Data Strategy
8 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (23.53%) Integration Testing
8 4 (23.53%) Regression Testing
8 4 (23.53%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
8 4 (23.53%) Workflow
9 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft