Data Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £58,750 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 172 145 153
Rank change year-on-year -27 +8 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 28 107 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.63% 1.48% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.57% 2.14%
Number of salaries quoted 20 72 94
10th Percentile £45,875 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £38,750 £45,881
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £58,750 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year - +10.33% -3.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,875
90th Percentile £67,625 £77,250 £74,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% +3.57%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 3,992 6,812 5,981
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.37% 94.09% 89.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 5,151 3,348
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £38,966
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the West 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
Birmingham -1 8 £63,750 -1.92% 8
Shropshire +25 7 £55,000 -4.35% 3
Coventry -4 4 £61,250 -18.33% 5
Staffordshire +6 3 £55,000 +22.91% 3
Warwickshire -31 2 £45,000 -38.36% 3
Solihull +6 1 £62,500 -26.47% 1
Worcestershire - 1 £55,000 - 2
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 West Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (71.43%) Analytics
2 19 (67.86%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (67.86%) ETL
3 17 (60.71%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (60.71%) SQL
3 17 (60.71%) Azure
3 17 (60.71%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (50.00%) Python
5 12 (42.86%) Data Modelling
5 12 (42.86%) Data Lake
5 12 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
6 11 (39.29%) Power Platform
6 11 (39.29%) Databricks
6 11 (39.29%) Power BI
7 10 (35.71%) Data Quality
8 9 (32.14%) Validation
8 9 (32.14%) AWS
8 9 (32.14%) Visualisation
8 9 (32.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (28.57%) Data Validation
9 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
9 8 (28.57%) Machine Learning
9 8 (28.57%) DevOps
9 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (28.57%) Data Engineering
9 8 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (28.57%) Data Science
10 7 (25.00%) Serverless
10 7 (25.00%) Data Ingestion

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 4 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (10.71%) Apache
3 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 11 (39.29%) Power Platform
4 9 (32.14%) AWS
4 9 (32.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (25.00%) Serverless
6 4 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (10.71%) Amazon EMR
7 3 (10.71%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (10.71%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) Amazon S3
7 3 (10.71%) Azure Functions
8 2 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Stack
9 1 (3.57%) Azure App Service
9 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (3.57%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (67.86%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (42.86%) Data Lake
3 11 (39.29%) Power BI
4 5 (17.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (17.86%) Relational Database
5 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (10.71%) Big Data
6 3 (10.71%) Data Mining
6 3 (10.71%) DynamoDB
6 3 (10.71%) Hadoop
6 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (7.14%) HDInsight
7 2 (7.14%) MySQL
7 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (7.14%) RDBMS
7 2 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
1 1 (3.57%) kappa
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Retail
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) PySpark
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
2 2 (7.14%) NumPy
2 2 (7.14%) Pandas
2 2 (7.14%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.14%) IoT
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Analytics
2 19 (67.86%) ETL
3 17 (60.71%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (60.71%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (42.86%) Data Modelling
5 9 (32.14%) Validation
5 9 (32.14%) Visualisation
6 8 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
6 8 (28.57%) Data Engineering
6 8 (28.57%) Data Science
6 8 (28.57%) Data Validation
6 8 (28.57%) DevOps
6 8 (28.57%) Machine Learning
7 7 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
7 7 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
7 7 (25.00%) Migration
8 6 (21.43%) Agile
8 6 (21.43%) CI/CD
8 6 (21.43%) Data Governance
8 6 (21.43%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 17 (60.71%) SQL
2 14 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (10.71%) R
4 2 (7.14%) C++
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (35.71%) Data Quality
2 4 (14.29%) GDPR
3 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Databricks
2 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.57%) SAP