Data Engineer Job Trends in Staffordshire

Data Engineer
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The median Data Engineer salary in Staffordshire is £64,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 55 41
Rank change year-on-year -10 -14 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 7 10 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.73% 1.87% 1.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 2.05% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 9
10th Percentile £30,000 - -
25th Percentile £37,938 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £50,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.00% +42.86% -41.67%
75th Percentile £68,125 £57,500 -
90th Percentile £68,750 £57,750 £38,250
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 825 488 431
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.03% 91.39% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 409 328 381
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,611 £25,822
25th Percentile £30,580 £32,500 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £55,000 £53,704 £52,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £63,825 £60,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +6.06% -5.71%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Staffordshire.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Staffordshire

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Staffordshire

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Burton-upon-Trent - 4 £46,750 -
Stoke-on-Trent - 2 £67,500 -
Lichfield - 1 - -
Data Engineer
West Midlands

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire

For the 6 months to 14 January 2026, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Staffordshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
5 2 (28.57%) .NET
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Bicep
5 2 (28.57%) C#
5 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
5 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
5 2 (28.57%) Data Science
5 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (28.57%) Databricks
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) GDPR
5 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
5 2 (28.57%) Metadata
5 2 (28.57%) Metadata Management
5 2 (28.57%) Power BI
5 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
5 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Metadata
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 2 (28.57%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 2 (28.57%) Data Science
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 2 (28.57%) Metadata Management
4 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Scala
2 2 (28.57%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
2 2 (28.57%) GDPR
3 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft