Data Engineer Jobs in Staffordshire

Data Engineer
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Staffordshire is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 55 44
Rank change year-on-year -7 -11 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 33 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 0.48% 3.06% 4.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 3.17% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 3 23 20
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile - £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -2.70%
75th Percentile - £60,000 £53,750
90th Percentile - £63,750 £72,500
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -5.83%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Staffordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Staffordshire. 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 Staffordshire with a recognized job title 468 1,040 493
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 75.61% 96.30% 92.32%
Number of salaries quoted 238 775 382
10th Percentile £26,375 £24,000 £23,500
25th Percentile £28,822 £30,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,750 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £53,688 £55,000 £53,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £67,500
West Midlands median annual salary £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Staffordshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Staffordshire.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Staffordshire

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire

For the 6 months to 28 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 Staffordshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Information Exploitation
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) DataOps
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (100.00%) Retail
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (100.00%) DataOps
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Information Exploitation
1 3 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft