Data Engineering Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 141 102
Rank change year-on-year -22 -39 +43
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 31 118 197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.72% 1.58% 3.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 1.91% 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 24 85 58
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £52,000 £41,984
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,733 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.32% +10.42% -1.35%
75th Percentile £67,813 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £94,500 £104,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% -3.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,935 6,173 6,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.21% 82.47% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,636 4,565 3,157
10th Percentile £28,911 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,525 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 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 -12 14 £45,000 -31.19% 20
Solihull +11 5 - - 2
Wolverhampton +10 4 £90,000 +28.57% 3
Coventry -5 3 £57,500 - 3
Worcestershire +24 1 £55,000 -42.11% 3
Shropshire +17 1 £80,000 +45.45% 6
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:

Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 24 (77.42%) Azure
2 17 (54.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 14 (45.16%) Power Platform
4 8 (25.81%) Snowflake
5 6 (19.35%) AWS
6 5 (16.13%) GCP
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (3.23%) Datadog
8 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.23%) ADSL2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (45.16%) Power BI
2 12 (38.71%) Relational Database
3 8 (25.81%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (19.35%) NoSQL
5 5 (16.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (16.13%) BigQuery
5 5 (16.13%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.45%) Data Mining
6 2 (6.45%) Metadata
7 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.23%) Spark SQL
7 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) ER Studio
General
1 18 (58.06%) Finance
2 16 (51.61%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (32.26%) Marketing
4 9 (29.03%) Manufacturing
5 8 (25.81%) Public Sector
6 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
7 3 (9.68%) Banking
7 3 (9.68%) Retail Banking
8 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (6.45%) Retail
9 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Lead
2 11 (35.48%) Data Scientist
3 7 (22.58%) Architect
4 6 (19.35%) Data Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) Senior
5 5 (16.13%) Data Architect
5 5 (16.13%) Lead Architect
5 5 (16.13%) Lead Data Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Consultant
7 2 (6.45%) Lead Data Scientist
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Scientist
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.45%) Technical Leader
8 1 (3.23%) ERP Consultant
8 1 (3.23%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Product Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) Kafka
2 2 (6.45%) PySpark
3 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.23%) React
3 1 (3.23%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Data Structures
1 5 (16.13%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (83.87%) Analytics
2 20 (64.52%) Artificial Intelligence
3 18 (58.06%) Data Analysis
4 17 (54.84%) Business Intelligence
5 13 (41.94%) Decision-Making
5 13 (41.94%) Machine Learning
6 12 (38.71%) Data Science
6 12 (38.71%) Mathematics
7 11 (35.48%) Actionable Insight
7 11 (35.48%) ETL
7 11 (35.48%) Migration
7 11 (35.48%) Software Engineering
7 11 (35.48%) Statistical Modelling
8 10 (32.26%) Computer Science
8 10 (32.26%) Customer Experience
8 10 (32.26%) Data Migration
8 10 (32.26%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (29.03%) Customer-Centricity
9 9 (29.03%) Generative AI
9 9 (29.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (70.97%) SQL
2 16 (51.61%) Python
3 12 (38.71%) Java
4 11 (35.48%) R
5 9 (29.03%) C++
6 3 (9.68%) C#
6 3 (9.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Grafana
1 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) Databricks
3 5 (16.13%) Google