Data Engineering Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 88 142
Rank change year-on-year -58 +54 +24
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 99 245 152
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.38% 3.62% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 3.73% 2.20%
Number of salaries quoted 67 61 88
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £42,200
25th Percentile £50,750 £44,186 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £77,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,970 6,564 6,912
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.17% 96.89% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,530 3,280 4,756
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £79,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 April 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 -10 55 £59,300 -8.77% 7
Staffordshire -3 15 £35,000 -17.65% 1
Wolverhampton +8 11 £70,000 -
Warwickshire -7 9 £73,000 +21.67% 2
Coventry +14 3 - - 1
Solihull - 1 £60,733 -
Shropshire - 1 £55,000 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £95,000 -
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 3 (3.03%) Apache
1 3 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (54.55%) Azure
2 32 (32.32%) AWS
3 25 (25.25%) GCP
4 21 (21.21%) Snowflake
5 14 (14.14%) Power Platform
6 11 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (11.11%) Matillion
7 9 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 8 (8.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (6.06%) GitHub
10 4 (4.04%) dbt
10 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (4.04%) SaaS
11 3 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (3.03%) iPaaS
12 1 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
12 1 (1.01%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) 3GPP
1 1 (1.01%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (26.26%) SQL Server
3 25 (25.25%) Data Lake
4 20 (20.20%) BigQuery
5 17 (17.17%) Looker
5 17 (17.17%) Metadata
6 14 (14.14%) Power BI
7 12 (12.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 12 (12.12%) Star Schema
8 11 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (10.10%) Relational Database
10 9 (9.09%) Big Data
10 9 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (7.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 5 (5.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (4.04%) Delta Lake
13 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
14 3 (3.03%) Snowflake Schema
14 3 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (12.12%) GitLab
2 4 (4.04%) Git
3 3 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.03%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (2.02%) JIRA
5 1 (1.01%) Toad
General
1 22 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (15.15%) Finance
3 9 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.06%) Retail
6 5 (5.05%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.01%) German Language
8 1 (1.01%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.01%) Law
8 1 (1.01%) Legal
8 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (54.55%) Data Engineer
2 18 (18.18%) Architect
2 18 (18.18%) Data Architect
3 9 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (9.09%) Principal Data Engineer
3 9 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 9 (9.09%) Senior
4 8 (8.08%) Data Manager
5 7 (7.07%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Engineering Manager
6 6 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Administrator
7 4 (4.04%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) DBA
7 4 (4.04%) Lead
7 4 (4.04%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Analyst
8 3 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (3.03%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.04%) Pandas
1 4 (4.04%) PySpark
2 1 (1.01%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.28%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (18.18%) Data Structures
3 14 (14.14%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.07%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (6.06%) NHS
6 5 (5.05%) Algorithms
7 4 (4.04%) Cloud Native
7 4 (4.04%) Public Cloud
7 4 (4.04%) Replication
8 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.01%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.04%) Linux
1 4 (4.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (49.49%) Analytics
2 47 (47.47%) Data Modelling
3 41 (41.41%) ETL
4 40 (40.40%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (37.37%) Data Science
6 36 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
7 29 (29.29%) CI/CD
7 29 (29.29%) DevOps
8 26 (26.26%) Mentoring
9 25 (25.25%) Data Architecture
10 24 (24.24%) Agile
11 21 (21.21%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (21.21%) Data Integration
12 19 (19.19%) Machine Learning
13 18 (18.18%) Data Management
14 17 (17.17%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (14.14%) Data Analytics
15 14 (14.14%) Data Governance
16 11 (11.11%) Data Strategy
16 11 (11.11%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (42.42%) SQL
2 27 (27.27%) Python
3 12 (12.12%) T-SQL
4 5 (5.05%) C#
5 3 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.02%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (17.17%) Degree
2 5 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.04%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.01%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.01%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (35.35%) Data Quality
2 24 (24.24%) GDPR
3 4 (4.04%) QA
4 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.01%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 10 (10.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (20.20%) Databricks
2 17 (17.17%) Google
2 17 (17.17%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.08%) Informatica
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle
4 3 (3.03%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.01%) Cognos