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 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 196 160
Rank change year-on-year +23 -36 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 162 125 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.25% 1.44% 2.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.32% 1.61% 2.26%
Number of salaries quoted 101 103 164
10th Percentile - £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,759 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £74,063
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,750 £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 12,266 7,770 10,645
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 89.57% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 8,941 4,524 7,053
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,500 £27,625
25th Percentile £33,966 £37,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £60,250 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +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 31 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 31 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 +3 118 £57,500 +9.52% 27
East Midlands +11 42 £47,500 -13.64% 9
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 86 (53.09%) Data Engineering
2 85 (52.47%) SQL
3 80 (49.38%) ETL
4 77 (47.53%) Azure
5 76 (46.91%) Data Warehouse
6 71 (43.83%) Data Pipeline
7 62 (38.27%) Python
8 59 (36.42%) Data Modelling
8 59 (36.42%) Analytics
8 59 (36.42%) Data Science
9 58 (35.80%) Business Intelligence
10 55 (33.95%) Data Quality
11 54 (33.33%) SQL Server
12 50 (30.86%) Power Platform
12 50 (30.86%) Power BI
13 49 (30.25%) Agile
14 46 (28.40%) Databricks
15 44 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
15 44 (27.16%) DevOps
16 42 (25.93%) Data Lake
17 39 (24.07%) CI/CD
18 38 (23.46%) Data Structures
19 37 (22.84%) Machine Learning
19 37 (22.84%) AWS
20 35 (21.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
21 34 (20.99%) GCP
21 34 (20.99%) Microsoft
22 33 (20.37%) Data Integration
22 33 (20.37%) Self-Motivation
22 33 (20.37%) Azure Data Factory

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 (8.64%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.09%) Apache
3 3 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 77 (47.53%) Azure
2 50 (30.86%) Power Platform
3 37 (22.84%) AWS
4 35 (21.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 34 (20.99%) GCP
6 33 (20.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (15.43%) Snowflake
8 15 (9.26%) SaaS
9 14 (8.64%) GitHub
9 14 (8.64%) Matillion
10 12 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 11 (6.79%) Serverless
12 8 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (4.32%) Boomi
14 6 (3.70%) Amazon S3
15 5 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
16 4 (2.47%) Amazon Kinesis
16 4 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
16 4 (2.47%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.23%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.62%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.62%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (46.91%) Data Warehouse
2 54 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 50 (30.86%) Power BI
4 42 (25.93%) Data Lake
5 29 (17.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 28 (17.28%) BigQuery
7 27 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 22 (13.58%) Big Data
9 19 (11.73%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (11.73%) Looker
10 15 (9.26%) Metadata
10 15 (9.26%) Relational Database
10 15 (9.26%) Star Schema
11 12 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (7.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (4.94%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 8 (4.94%) Tableau
13 7 (4.32%) Data Mining
14 6 (3.70%) NoSQL
14 6 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 13 (8.02%) GitLab
2 6 (3.70%) Git
3 3 (1.85%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.62%) Toad
4 1 (0.62%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
1 28 (17.28%) Finance
2 26 (16.05%) Social Skills
3 8 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 8 (4.94%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (4.32%) Public Sector
4 7 (4.32%) Retail
5 5 (3.09%) Automotive
6 3 (1.85%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.62%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.62%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.56%) PySpark
2 8 (4.94%) Pandas
3 7 (4.32%) GraphQL
3 7 (4.32%) RESTful
4 4 (2.47%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.85%) Kafka
6 2 (1.23%) Middleware
7 1 (0.62%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.62%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.62%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 38 (23.46%) Data Structures
2 33 (20.37%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 9 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (5.56%) NHS
4 8 (4.94%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (3.09%) IoT
5 5 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.85%) CCTV
7 2 (1.23%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.23%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (53.09%) Data Engineering
2 80 (49.38%) ETL
3 71 (43.83%) Data Pipeline
4 59 (36.42%) Analytics
4 59 (36.42%) Data Modelling
4 59 (36.42%) Data Science
5 58 (35.80%) Business Intelligence
6 49 (30.25%) Agile
7 44 (27.16%) DevOps
7 44 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (24.07%) CI/CD
9 37 (22.84%) Machine Learning
10 33 (20.37%) Data Integration
11 30 (18.52%) Mentoring
12 27 (16.67%) Data Transformation
13 21 (12.96%) Artificial Intelligence
14 20 (12.35%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (11.73%) DataOps
16 18 (11.11%) Change Management
16 18 (11.11%) Data Acquisition
Programming Languages
1 85 (52.47%) SQL
2 62 (38.27%) Python
3 22 (13.58%) T-SQL
4 9 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (4.32%) Java
6 6 (3.70%) C#
7 5 (3.09%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.47%) Scala
9 2 (1.23%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (18.52%) Degree
2 9 (5.56%) DBS Check
3 8 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.32%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.09%) SC Cleared
5 5 (3.09%) Security Cleared
6 3 (1.85%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.23%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (33.95%) Data Quality
2 29 (17.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.62%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (0.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (10.49%) Terraform
2 1 (0.62%) Ansible
2 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 46 (28.40%) Databricks
2 34 (20.99%) Microsoft
3 21 (12.96%) Google
4 10 (6.17%) Informatica
5 9 (5.56%) MuleSoft
6 4 (2.47%) Splunk
7 3 (1.85%) Oracle
7 3 (1.85%) Siemens
7 3 (1.85%) SnapLogic
8 2 (1.23%) SAP
9 1 (0.62%) Denodo
9 1 (0.62%) Sparx
9 1 (0.62%) Talend
9 1 (0.62%) YouTube