Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 232 254 262
Rank change year-on-year +22 +8 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 18 23 29
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.25% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.38% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 5
10th Percentile £28,000 - -
25th Percentile £58,563 £51,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -11.11%
75th Percentile £79,000 £71,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,500 £76,625 £84,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%

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 6,800 6,065 6,843
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 90.05% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,148 3,375 4,753
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,850 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,966 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £63,313 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.15% +1.50% +9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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 +6 13 £70,000 +16.67% 3
Warwickshire +44 2 £73,000 -
Coventry +27 1 £75,000 +40.85% 1
Wolverhampton - 1 £63,500 -
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (44.44%) Python
4 7 (38.89%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (38.89%) SQL
4 7 (38.89%) Azure
5 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
6 5 (27.78%) Data Lake
6 5 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
6 5 (27.78%) DevOps
6 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (22.22%) ETL
7 4 (22.22%) Finance
7 4 (22.22%) GCP
7 4 (22.22%) Analytics
7 4 (22.22%) Big Data
7 4 (22.22%) Git
7 4 (22.22%) Snowflake
7 4 (22.22%) Databricks
7 4 (22.22%) PySpark
8 3 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (16.67%) Delta Lake
8 3 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
8 3 (16.67%) Terraform
8 3 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (16.67%) dbt
8 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (16.67%) Onboarding

Senior 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 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 7 (38.89%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (22.22%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) Snowflake
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (16.67%) dbt
5 3 (16.67%) GitHub
5 3 (16.67%) iPaaS
5 3 (16.67%) SaaS
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.56%) 3GPP
2 1 (5.56%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (27.78%) Data Lake
3 4 (22.22%) Big Data
4 3 (16.67%) Delta Lake
4 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
5 2 (11.11%) Power BI
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
6 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
6 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
6 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.11%) Automotive
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) PySpark
2 3 (16.67%) Pandas
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) CI/CD
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) ETL
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 3 (16.67%) Data Management
5 3 (16.67%) High Availability
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.11%) Break/Fix
6 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (11.11%) Data Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Data Governance
6 2 (11.11%) Data Modelling
6 2 (11.11%) Data Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Databricks
2 3 (16.67%) SnapLogic
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft