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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 93 132
Rank change year-on-year -53 +39 +41
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 112 205 155
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.52% 3.21% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.83% 3.32% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 80 63 90
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,250 £43,400
25th Percentile £52,325 £44,186 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,616 £56,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.03% +1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,250 £79,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +18.52%

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 6,110 6,175 6,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.82% 96.79% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,561 3,191 4,708
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 10 May 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 10 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 0 60 £64,150 -1.31% 9
Staffordshire -9 18 £46,250 +8.82% 2
Wolverhampton +15 12 £70,000 -
Warwickshire -18 9 £73,000 +53.68% 1
Coventry +18 3 - - 3
Solihull - 1 £60,733 -
Shropshire - 1 £55,000 -
Worcestershire - 1 £95,000 - 2
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 (2.68%) Apache
1 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.68%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 64 (57.14%) Azure
2 36 (32.14%) AWS
3 26 (23.21%) GCP
4 21 (18.75%) Snowflake
5 18 (16.07%) Power Platform
6 17 (15.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (9.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 11 (9.82%) Matillion
8 9 (8.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 9 (8.04%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (5.36%) GitHub
10 5 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.57%) dbt
11 4 (3.57%) SaaS
12 3 (2.68%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.68%) iPaaS
13 1 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
13 1 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.89%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) 3GPP
1 1 (0.89%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 28 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 23 (20.54%) Metadata
5 21 (18.75%) BigQuery
6 18 (16.07%) Power BI
7 17 (15.18%) Looker
8 15 (13.39%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (13.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (11.61%) Relational Database
10 12 (10.71%) Star Schema
11 11 (9.82%) Big Data
12 10 (8.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 9 (8.04%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 5 (4.46%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
15 5 (4.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 4 (3.57%) Delta Lake
16 4 (3.57%) NoSQL
17 3 (2.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (11.61%) GitLab
2 4 (3.57%) Git
3 3 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.68%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.79%) JIRA
5 1 (0.89%) Toad
General
1 23 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (15.18%) Finance
3 12 (10.71%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (5.36%) Retail
7 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.79%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.89%) German Language
9 1 (0.89%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.89%) Law
9 1 (0.89%) Legal
9 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (52.68%) Data Engineer
2 18 (16.07%) Architect
2 18 (16.07%) Data Architect
3 11 (9.82%) Senior
4 10 (8.93%) Data Manager
5 9 (8.04%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (8.04%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (8.04%) Principal Data Engineer
5 9 (8.04%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) Azure Data Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
7 7 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (4.46%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 5 (4.46%) Lead
9 4 (3.57%) Administrator
9 4 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 4 (3.57%) DBA
9 4 (3.57%) Security Engineer
10 3 (2.68%) Developer
10 3 (2.68%) Head of Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.36%) PySpark
2 4 (3.57%) Pandas
3 1 (0.89%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (16.07%) Data Structures
2 18 (16.07%) Management Information System
3 9 (8.04%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (7.14%) NHS
5 7 (6.25%) Algorithms
6 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 5 (4.46%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.57%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.57%) Replication
8 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.57%) Linux
1 4 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (51.79%) Analytics
1 58 (51.79%) Data Modelling
2 52 (46.43%) ETL
3 43 (38.39%) Problem-Solving
4 38 (33.93%) Data Science
5 37 (33.04%) Data Pipeline
6 36 (32.14%) CI/CD
6 36 (32.14%) DevOps
7 33 (29.46%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (25.89%) Data Architecture
9 27 (24.11%) Mentoring
10 26 (23.21%) Agile
11 25 (22.32%) Data Integration
12 23 (20.54%) Data Management
13 22 (19.64%) Machine Learning
14 19 (16.96%) Data Governance
15 18 (16.07%) Data Analytics
15 18 (16.07%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (15.18%) Data Strategy
17 15 (13.39%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (42.86%) SQL
2 28 (25.00%) Python
3 15 (13.39%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.46%) C#
5 3 (2.68%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.79%) R
Qualifications
1 17 (15.18%) Degree
2 5 (4.46%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.89%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (37.50%) Data Quality
2 27 (24.11%) GDPR
3 5 (4.46%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.57%) QA
5 1 (0.89%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 14 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (0.89%) Ansible
2 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (20.54%) Databricks
1 23 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.18%) Google
3 11 (9.82%) Informatica
4 6 (5.36%) Oracle
5 3 (2.68%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.89%) Cognos