Data Engineer Job Trends in Wolverhampton

Data Engineer
West Midlands > Wolverhampton

The median Data Engineer salary in Wolverhampton is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 18
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Wolverhampton 0.97% - 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% - 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £55,675
25th Percentile £42,500 - £56,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £59,250
75th Percentile £47,500 - £62,688
90th Percentile - - £64,225
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -3.50%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Wolverhampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wolverhampton. 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 Wolverhampton with a recognized job title 97 59 82
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.17% 90.77% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 29 19 66
10th Percentile £37,900 £30,000 £23,125
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,375 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £65,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £127,500 £79,050 £73,125
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £53,688 £48,500
% change year-on-year -6.87% +10.70% -7.62%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wolverhampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Wolverhampton.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Wolverhampton

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Wolverhampton

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Wolverhampton.

Salary distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Wolverhampton

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 21 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wolverhampton

For the 6 months to 4 February 2026, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Wolverhampton region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wolverhampton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Streamlit
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR