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 to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 148 123
Rank change year-on-year +9 -25 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 111 128 171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.53% 1.95% 2.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 2.16% 2.47%
Number of salaries quoted 76 95 108
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,004 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £53,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.33% -3.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £68,125 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £74,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,846 5,918 6,926
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 90.23% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,177 3,357 4,791
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,117 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 -4 47 £65,000 +13.04% 9
Staffordshire -18 30 £57,500 +24.32% 4
Warwickshire +24 9 £73,000 +57.84% 2
Coventry +33 7 £75,000 +41.84% 4
Wolverhampton - 5 £59,250 -
Shropshire -4 4 £57,500 -4.17% 1
Walsall - 2 £42,500 - 1
Solihull -4 1 £85,000 +61.90%
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 64 (57.66%) SQL
2 62 (55.86%) ETL
2 62 (55.86%) Azure
3 57 (51.35%) Data Engineering
4 56 (50.45%) Data Warehouse
5 46 (41.44%) Data Pipeline
6 44 (39.64%) Business Intelligence
7 43 (38.74%) SQL Server
8 42 (37.84%) Analytics
9 41 (36.94%) Python
9 41 (36.94%) Data Science
10 37 (33.33%) Data Modelling
10 37 (33.33%) Agile
11 36 (32.43%) Data Quality
12 35 (31.53%) Power Platform
12 35 (31.53%) Power BI
13 33 (29.73%) DevOps
14 32 (28.83%) Databricks
15 29 (26.13%) Data Lake
15 29 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
15 29 (26.13%) CI/CD
16 28 (25.23%) AWS
17 27 (24.32%) Data Structures
18 25 (22.52%) GCP
18 25 (22.52%) Microsoft
19 24 (21.62%) Snowflake
20 23 (20.72%) Azure Data Factory
20 23 (20.72%) Machine Learning
21 22 (19.82%) Data Integration
21 22 (19.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics

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 (3.60%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.70%) Apache
2 3 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 62 (55.86%) Azure
2 35 (31.53%) Power Platform
3 28 (25.23%) AWS
4 25 (22.52%) GCP
5 24 (21.62%) Snowflake
6 23 (20.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 22 (19.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (12.61%) SaaS
9 11 (9.91%) GitHub
9 11 (9.91%) Matillion
10 9 (8.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (7.21%) Serverless
12 7 (6.31%) Boomi
13 6 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (4.50%) dbt
15 3 (2.70%) Azure Logic Apps
15 3 (2.70%) iPaaS
16 2 (1.80%) Apigee
16 2 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.90%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.90%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (50.45%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (38.74%) SQL Server
3 35 (31.53%) Power BI
4 29 (26.13%) Data Lake
5 20 (18.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 19 (17.12%) BigQuery
6 19 (17.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 16 (14.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (13.51%) Relational Database
9 13 (11.71%) Big Data
10 12 (10.81%) Metadata
10 12 (10.81%) Star Schema
11 9 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (8.11%) Looker
11 9 (8.11%) Tableau
12 8 (7.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (6.31%) Data Mining
14 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 6 (5.41%) Semantic Layer
15 4 (3.60%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 11 (9.91%) GitLab
2 6 (5.41%) Git
3 3 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.90%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.90%) Toad
5 1 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (17.12%) Finance
2 13 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (11.71%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (4.50%) Automotive
6 4 (3.60%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.60%) Retail
7 3 (2.70%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.90%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) GraphQL
1 8 (7.21%) RESTful
2 5 (4.50%) PySpark
3 4 (3.60%) Pandas
4 3 (2.70%) Kafka
5 2 (1.80%) Middleware
6 1 (0.90%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (24.32%) Data Structures
2 20 (18.02%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.21%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (6.31%) NHS
5 6 (5.41%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.70%) CCTV
6 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.80%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (55.86%) ETL
2 57 (51.35%) Data Engineering
3 46 (41.44%) Data Pipeline
4 44 (39.64%) Business Intelligence
5 42 (37.84%) Analytics
6 41 (36.94%) Data Science
7 37 (33.33%) Agile
7 37 (33.33%) Data Modelling
8 33 (29.73%) DevOps
9 29 (26.13%) CI/CD
9 29 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
10 23 (20.72%) Machine Learning
11 22 (19.82%) Data Integration
12 21 (18.92%) Mentoring
13 16 (14.41%) Data Acquisition
14 13 (11.71%) Data Analytics
15 12 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence
15 12 (10.81%) Data Transformation
15 12 (10.81%) Metadata Management
16 11 (9.91%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 64 (57.66%) SQL
2 41 (36.94%) Python
3 21 (18.92%) T-SQL
4 8 (7.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (5.41%) C#
6 4 (3.60%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.70%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.80%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (18.92%) Degree
2 6 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.60%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.70%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (32.43%) Data Quality
2 18 (16.22%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 14 (12.61%) Terraform
2 1 (0.90%) Ansible
2 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (28.83%) Databricks
2 25 (22.52%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.91%) Google
4 10 (9.01%) Informatica
5 9 (8.11%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.60%) Oracle
7 3 (2.70%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.90%) Denodo
8 1 (0.90%) Talend
8 1 (0.90%) YouTube