Data Engineer Job Trends, Salaries & Skill Sets in Stoke-on-Trent

Data Engineer
Staffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

The median Data Engineer salary in Stoke-on-Trent is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 December 2025.

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

	6 months to 9 Dec 2025	Same period 2024	Same period 2023
Rank	19	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer	2	0	0
As % of all permanent jobs in Stoke-on-Trent	1.43%	-	-
As % of the Job Titles category	1.50%	-	-
Number of salaries quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£66,250	-	-
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£67,500	-	-
75^th Percentile	£68,750	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Staffordshire median annual salary	£65,000	£50,000	-
% change year-on-year	+30.00%	-	-

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Stoke-on-Trent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent. 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 Stoke-on-Trent with a recognized job title	133	147	112
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title	95.00%	98.00%	94.12%
Number of salaries quoted	68	107	107
10^th Percentile	£26,000	£27,900	£23,300
25^th Percentile	£30,000	£32,500	£28,125
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£35,000	£37,500	£42,500
Median % change year-on-year	-6.67%	-11.76%	-
75^th Percentile	£45,000	£50,375	£52,000
90^th Percentile	£63,975	£65,000	£64,250
Staffordshire median annual salary	£42,500	£42,500	£40,500
% change year-on-year	-	+4.94%	-10.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

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 Stoke-on-Trent.

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Stoke-on-Trent.

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 7 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent

For the 6 months to 9 December 2025, 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 Stoke-on-Trent region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1	2 (100.00%)	Azure
1	2 (100.00%)	CI/CD
1	2 (100.00%)	Data Modelling
1	2 (100.00%)	Data Warehouse
1	2 (100.00%)	Python
1	2 (100.00%)	Requirements Gathering
1	2 (100.00%)	SQL

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent 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:

Cloud Services
1	2 (100.00%)	Azure

Database & Business Intelligence
1	2 (100.00%)	Data Warehouse

General
1	2 (100.00%)	Retail

Processes & Methodologies
1	2 (100.00%)	CI/CD
1	2 (100.00%)	Data Modelling
1	2 (100.00%)	Requirements Gathering

Programming Languages
1	2 (100.00%)	Python
1	2 (100.00%)	SQL

Data EngineerStaffordshire > Stoke-on-Trent

All Permanent IT Job VacanciesStoke-on-Trent

Data EngineerJob Vacancy Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Data EngineerSalary Trend in Stoke-on-Trent

Data Engineer Skill SetTop 7 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent

Data Engineer Skill SetCo-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stoke-on-Trent by Category