Data Engineer Job Trends in Telford

Data Engineer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Data Engineer salary in Telford is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 5 6 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Telford 5.32% 11.76% -
As % of the Job Titles category 5.38% 12.50% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - £48,000 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +83.33% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 93 48 57
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.94% 94.12% 98.28%
Number of salaries quoted 71 34 46
10th Percentile £25,250 £37,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £28,875 £45,313 £30,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +27.17% -17.62%
75th Percentile £50,000 £68,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £62,500 £77,625 £66,250
Shropshire median annual salary £45,000 £49,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.16% +8.89% -14.29%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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 Telford.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Telford

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Telford

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Telford.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Telford

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Telford region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Data Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) ETL
2 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Pentaho
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SAS
2 4 (80.00%) Talend
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Bash
3 3 (60.00%) Cloudera
3 3 (60.00%) Community of Practice
3 3 (60.00%) Data Acquisition
3 3 (60.00%) Informatica
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (20.00%) Business Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 4 (80.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Composer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Run
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Data Integration
2 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) ETL
3 3 (60.00%) Community of Practice
3 3 (60.00%) Data Acquisition
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Business Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Data Virtualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) Talend
2 3 (60.00%) Cloudera
2 3 (60.00%) Informatica
3 1 (20.00%) Denodo
3 1 (20.00%) Google