Data Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 149 149
Rank change year-on-year -24 0 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 20 113 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.49% 1.45% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 1.54% 2.12%
Number of salaries quoted 18 79 88
10th Percentile £54,250 £34,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £36,250 £45,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -5.83%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £68,750 £70,750 £72,500
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 3,723 7,339 5,520
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.58% 94.44% 90.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,633 5,465 3,256
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,344 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 28 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 28 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 +6 7 £63,750 -1.92% 45
Shropshire +17 4 £60,000 - 67
Staffordshire -7 3 £55,000 -4.35% 32
Worcestershire +25 1 £55,000 +46.67% 30
Coventry -11 1 £62,500 -16.67% 32
Solihull - 1 £62,500 - 1
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 17 (85.00%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (80.00%) Azure
2 16 (80.00%) Analytics
3 15 (75.00%) ETL
4 14 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (65.00%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (60.00%) SQL
7 11 (55.00%) Python
7 11 (55.00%) Power Platform
7 11 (55.00%) Power BI
8 10 (50.00%) Data Lake
8 10 (50.00%) Databricks
8 10 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
9 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
10 7 (35.00%) Migration
10 7 (35.00%) Data Quality
10 7 (35.00%) AWS
10 7 (35.00%) Visualisation
10 7 (35.00%) PySpark
10 7 (35.00%) DevOps
11 6 (30.00%) Data Engineering
11 6 (30.00%) Kimball Methodology
11 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
12 5 (25.00%) Validation
12 5 (25.00%) Data Migration
12 5 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
12 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
12 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving

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 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (80.00%) Azure
2 11 (55.00%) Power Platform
3 10 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 7 (35.00%) AWS
6 4 (20.00%) Serverless
7 3 (15.00%) Azure Functions
8 2 (10.00%) GCP
8 2 (10.00%) Snowflake
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
9 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
9 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (5.00%) Azure App Service
9 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (65.00%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (55.00%) Power BI
3 10 (50.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (15.00%) Data Mining
5 3 (15.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 3 (15.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (10.00%) Big Data
6 2 (10.00%) HDInsight
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
7 1 (5.00%) Metadata
7 1 (5.00%) Pentaho
7 1 (5.00%) Power Query
7 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (5.00%) Spark SQL
7 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Advertising
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) PySpark
2 2 (10.00%) NumPy
2 2 (10.00%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) IoT
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (80.00%) Analytics
3 15 (75.00%) ETL
4 14 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (35.00%) DevOps
5 7 (35.00%) Migration
5 7 (35.00%) Visualisation
6 6 (30.00%) Data Engineering
6 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (30.00%) Kimball Methodology
7 5 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
7 5 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (25.00%) Data Migration
7 5 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (25.00%) Validation
8 4 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
8 4 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 4 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) SQL
2 11 (55.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Databricks
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft