Data Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 96 115
Rank change year-on-year -55 +19 +41
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 16 31 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.42% 1.66% 2.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 1.69% 2.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7 29 51
10th Percentile £45,750 £41,250 £46,250
25th Percentile £46,875 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £64,125 £55,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £70,250 £66,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 3,597 1,829 2,899
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.39% 97.70% 97.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,585 1,140 1,804
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,500 £37,977
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £75,790
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the East Midlands

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Nottinghamshire -15 10 £57,000 +16.92% 3
Derbyshire - 3 £50,000 - 1
Northamptonshire -53 2 - - 8
Leicestershire +2 1 £62,500 +13.64%
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, 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 East Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 12 (75.00%) Python
3 11 (68.75%) Data Engineering
4 10 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (50.00%) Databricks
5 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
6 7 (43.75%) Data Governance
6 7 (43.75%) Data Quality
7 6 (37.50%) Azure
7 6 (37.50%) DBS Check
7 6 (37.50%) Data Structures
7 6 (37.50%) Linux
7 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
8 5 (31.25%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (31.25%) Data Extraction
8 5 (31.25%) AWS
8 5 (31.25%) Data Transformation
8 5 (31.25%) Data Lake
8 5 (31.25%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (25.00%) Analytics
9 4 (25.00%) Apache Spark
9 4 (25.00%) Agile
9 4 (25.00%) ETL
9 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (18.75%) Finance
10 3 (18.75%) Migration
10 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
10 3 (18.75%) Big Data
10 3 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East 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 4 (25.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (12.50%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) AWS
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (6.25%) GCP
5 1 (6.25%) Matillion
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (62.50%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (31.25%) Data Lake
3 3 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (18.75%) Big Data
4 2 (12.50%) Power BI
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
5 1 (6.25%) Data Mining
5 1 (6.25%) Looker
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Analysis Services
5 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
5 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 1 (6.25%) Spotfire
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Data Structures
2 5 (31.25%) Renewable Energy
3 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.25%) Legacy Code
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Data Engineering
2 10 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 7 (43.75%) Data Governance
5 5 (31.25%) Data Cleansing
5 5 (31.25%) Data Extraction
5 5 (31.25%) Data Transformation
6 4 (25.00%) Agile
6 4 (25.00%) Analytics
6 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (25.00%) ETL
7 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
7 3 (18.75%) Migration
7 3 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 2 (12.50%) Data Science
8 2 (12.50%) DevOps
8 2 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
8 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (12.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
2 12 (75.00%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Databricks
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Google
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle