Data Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £55,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 174 142
Rank change year-on-year 0 -32 +28
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 157 147 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.30% 1.62% 2.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.80% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 97 103 176
10th Percentile - £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,759 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -11.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £73,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 11,374 8,155 10,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.38% 89.65% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 8,425 4,582 7,032
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,512 £27,571
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 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
West Midlands +10 113 £57,500 +9.52% 26
East Midlands +4 42 £47,500 -13.64% 6
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 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 Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 88 (56.05%) Data Engineering
2 84 (53.50%) SQL
3 80 (50.96%) ETL
4 78 (49.68%) Azure
5 75 (47.77%) Data Warehouse
6 71 (45.22%) Data Pipeline
7 65 (41.40%) Python
8 60 (38.22%) Data Science
9 59 (37.58%) Data Modelling
10 56 (35.67%) Business Intelligence
10 56 (35.67%) Analytics
11 54 (34.39%) SQL Server
12 53 (33.76%) Data Quality
13 48 (30.57%) Agile
14 47 (29.94%) Databricks
14 47 (29.94%) Power Platform
14 47 (29.94%) Power BI
15 44 (28.03%) DevOps
16 43 (27.39%) Problem-Solving
17 42 (26.75%) Data Lake
18 39 (24.84%) CI/CD
19 38 (24.20%) Data Structures
19 38 (24.20%) AWS
20 37 (23.57%) Machine Learning
21 35 (22.29%) GCP
22 33 (21.02%) Self-Motivation
22 33 (21.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
23 32 (20.38%) Microsoft
24 31 (19.75%) Azure Data Factory
24 31 (19.75%) Mentoring

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 14 (8.92%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.18%) Apache
3 3 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 78 (49.68%) Azure
2 47 (29.94%) Power Platform
3 38 (24.20%) AWS
4 35 (22.29%) GCP
5 33 (21.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 31 (19.75%) Azure Data Factory
7 26 (16.56%) Snowflake
8 15 (9.55%) GitHub
9 14 (8.92%) Matillion
9 14 (8.92%) SaaS
10 12 (7.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (7.01%) Serverless
12 8 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (4.46%) Boomi
14 6 (3.82%) Amazon S3
15 5 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (2.55%) Amazon SageMaker
16 4 (2.55%) AWS CodePipeline
16 4 (2.55%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.64%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.64%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (47.77%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (34.39%) SQL Server
3 47 (29.94%) Power BI
4 42 (26.75%) Data Lake
5 29 (18.47%) BigQuery
6 27 (17.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 25 (15.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 21 (13.38%) Big Data
9 20 (12.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (12.10%) Looker
11 16 (10.19%) Relational Database
12 15 (9.55%) Star Schema
13 14 (8.92%) Metadata
14 12 (7.64%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (7.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 8 (5.10%) Tableau
16 7 (4.46%) Data Mining
16 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Analysis Services
17 6 (3.82%) NoSQL
17 6 (3.82%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 14 (8.92%) GitLab
2 7 (4.46%) Git
3 3 (1.91%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.64%) Toad
4 1 (0.64%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (17.20%) Finance
2 26 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (16.56%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (4.46%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (4.46%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.46%) Retail
5 5 (3.18%) Automotive
6 3 (1.91%) Telecoms
7 2 (1.27%) Law
8 1 (0.64%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.73%) PySpark
2 8 (5.10%) Pandas
3 7 (4.46%) GraphQL
3 7 (4.46%) RESTful
4 4 (2.55%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.91%) Kafka
6 2 (1.27%) Hugging Face
6 2 (1.27%) Middleware
6 2 (1.27%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.64%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 38 (24.20%) Data Structures
2 33 (21.02%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.73%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (5.10%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.10%) NHS
4 8 (5.10%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (3.18%) IoT
5 5 (3.18%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.91%) CCTV
7 2 (1.27%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.46%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (56.05%) Data Engineering
2 80 (50.96%) ETL
3 71 (45.22%) Data Pipeline
4 60 (38.22%) Data Science
5 59 (37.58%) Data Modelling
6 56 (35.67%) Analytics
6 56 (35.67%) Business Intelligence
7 48 (30.57%) Agile
8 44 (28.03%) DevOps
9 43 (27.39%) Problem-Solving
10 39 (24.84%) CI/CD
11 37 (23.57%) Machine Learning
12 31 (19.75%) Mentoring
13 30 (19.11%) Data Integration
14 26 (16.56%) Data Transformation
15 22 (14.01%) Artificial Intelligence
16 20 (12.74%) Platform Engineering
17 19 (12.10%) DataOps
18 18 (11.46%) Change Management
19 17 (10.83%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 84 (53.50%) SQL
2 65 (41.40%) Python
3 22 (14.01%) T-SQL
4 9 (5.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (3.82%) C#
5 6 (3.82%) Java
6 4 (2.55%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.55%) Scala
7 3 (1.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (19.11%) Degree
2 9 (5.73%) DBS Check
3 8 (5.10%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.18%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.18%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.55%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (33.76%) Data Quality
2 28 (17.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (1.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (10.19%) Terraform
2 1 (0.64%) Ansible
2 1 (0.64%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (29.94%) Databricks
2 32 (20.38%) Microsoft
3 21 (13.38%) Google
4 10 (6.37%) Informatica
5 9 (5.73%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.55%) Oracle
6 4 (2.55%) Splunk
7 3 (1.91%) Siemens
7 3 (1.91%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.64%) Denodo
8 1 (0.64%) SAP
8 1 (0.64%) Sparx
8 1 (0.64%) Talend
8 1 (0.64%) YouTube