Data Engineering Jobs in the Midlands

Data Engineering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 151 119 169
Rank change year-on-year -32 +50 +19
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 186 246 210
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.54% 2.70% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.80% 2.03%
Number of salaries quoted 112 69 132
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,000 £46,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,400 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,000 £80,000 £87,250
England median annual salary £70,000 £76,383 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.36% -4.52% +18.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,825 8,779 10,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.53% 96.51% 94.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7,184 4,440 6,901
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,975 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +7.75%
75th Percentile £62,342 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
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 Engineering 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 -38 118 £60,733 +10.42% 22
East Midlands +7 66 £45,000 -18.18% 8
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 8 (4.30%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.15%) Apache
3 3 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.23%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 102 (54.84%) Azure
2 58 (31.18%) AWS
3 55 (29.57%) GCP
4 33 (17.74%) Power Platform
5 24 (12.90%) Snowflake
6 23 (12.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 19 (10.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.53%) Matillion
10 12 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.23%) GitHub
12 5 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.15%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (2.15%) dbt
13 4 (2.15%) SaaS
14 3 (1.61%) Azure Stack
14 3 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.61%) iPaaS
14 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.08%) Broadband
1 2 (1.08%) LAN
1 2 (1.08%) WAN
1 2 (1.08%) Wireless
2 1 (0.54%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.54%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (50.54%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (25.27%) BigQuery
3 45 (24.19%) SQL Server
4 43 (23.12%) Looker
5 41 (22.04%) Data Lake
6 33 (17.74%) Power BI
7 23 (12.37%) Metadata
8 22 (11.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (9.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 16 (8.60%) Big Data
11 15 (8.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (8.06%) Star Schema
12 13 (6.99%) Relational Database
13 12 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (3.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 6 (3.23%) Power Query
16 5 (2.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 4 (2.15%) Delta Lake
17 4 (2.15%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (8.60%) GitLab
2 4 (2.15%) Git
3 3 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.61%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.08%) JIRA
5 1 (0.54%) Toad
General
1 56 (30.11%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (12.37%) Finance
3 22 (11.83%) Social Skills
4 16 (8.60%) Retail
5 10 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.30%) Billing
7 7 (3.76%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.61%) Advertising
8 3 (1.61%) Games
8 3 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.08%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.54%) German Language
10 1 (0.54%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.54%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Law
10 1 (0.54%) Legal
10 1 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 88 (47.31%) Data Engineer
2 31 (16.67%) Architect
3 28 (15.05%) Data Architect
4 21 (11.29%) Data Manager
5 19 (10.22%) Engineering Manager
5 19 (10.22%) Principal Data Engineer
5 19 (10.22%) Principal Engineer
6 18 (9.68%) Platform Engineer
7 16 (8.60%) Senior
8 11 (5.91%) Lead
8 11 (5.91%) Senior Data Engineer
9 9 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (4.30%) Azure Data Engineer
11 7 (3.76%) DBA
12 6 (3.23%) Administrator
13 5 (2.69%) Developer
13 5 (2.69%) Head of Business Intelligence
13 5 (2.69%) Head of Engineering
14 4 (2.15%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 4 (2.15%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.23%) PySpark
2 4 (2.15%) Pandas
3 1 (0.54%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 49 (26.34%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (15.59%) Data Structures
3 21 (11.29%) Management Information System
4 12 (6.45%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.84%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (4.30%) NHS
6 8 (4.30%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (3.76%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.76%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.23%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.69%) Reference Data
10 4 (2.15%) IoT
10 4 (2.15%) PMI
10 4 (2.15%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.15%) Replication
11 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.08%) Fibre Optics
11 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.91%) Linux
2 4 (2.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (52.15%) Data Modelling
2 79 (42.47%) ETL
3 74 (39.78%) Analytics
4 73 (39.25%) Problem-Solving
5 68 (36.56%) Data Pipeline
6 59 (31.72%) Data Science
7 57 (30.65%) DevOps
8 52 (27.96%) Agile
8 52 (27.96%) Business Intelligence
9 50 (26.88%) CI/CD
10 48 (25.81%) Data Governance
11 45 (24.19%) Mentoring
12 44 (23.66%) Data Architecture
12 44 (23.66%) Platform Engineering
13 39 (20.97%) Data Integration
14 31 (16.67%) Data Management
15 28 (15.05%) Machine Learning
16 25 (13.44%) DataOps
17 22 (11.83%) Artificial Intelligence
17 22 (11.83%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 76 (40.86%) SQL
2 46 (24.73%) Python
3 15 (8.06%) T-SQL
4 6 (3.23%) VBA
5 5 (2.69%) C#
5 5 (2.69%) R
6 3 (1.61%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.54%) Java
7 1 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (12.90%) Degree
2 14 (7.53%) DBS Check
3 9 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (3.76%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.15%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.61%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.61%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.61%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (33.87%) Data Quality
2 45 (24.19%) GDPR
3 14 (7.53%) QA
4 8 (4.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.54%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 14 (7.53%) Terraform
2 1 (0.54%) Ansible
2 1 (0.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (23.12%) Google
2 39 (20.97%) Databricks
2 39 (20.97%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.91%) Informatica
4 9 (4.84%) Oracle
5 3 (1.61%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.54%) Cognos