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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 158 131 185
Rank change year-on-year -27 +54 +1
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 189 216 200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.45% 2.52% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 2.62% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 116 70 118
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,125 £46,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,921 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -16.98% +10.42%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,125 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +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 10,426 8,254 10,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 79.81% 96.48% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7,458 4,379 6,963
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,276 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +5.82%
75th Percentile £62,374 £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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -48 120 £59,300 +7.82% 19
East Midlands +10 67 £45,000 -21.74% 11
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 (4.23%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.12%) Apache
3 3 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.17%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 101 (53.44%) Azure
2 57 (30.16%) AWS
3 53 (28.04%) GCP
4 34 (17.99%) Power Platform
5 25 (13.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 23 (12.17%) Snowflake
7 21 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 16 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.41%) Matillion
10 12 (6.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.65%) GitHub
11 5 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.12%) dbt
12 4 (2.12%) SaaS
13 3 (1.59%) Azure Stack
13 3 (1.59%) iPaaS
13 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
14 2 (1.06%) Azure Storage
14 2 (1.06%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.06%) Broadband
1 2 (1.06%) LAN
1 2 (1.06%) WAN
1 2 (1.06%) Wireless
2 1 (0.53%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.53%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (49.74%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (24.34%) BigQuery
3 45 (23.81%) SQL Server
4 43 (22.75%) Looker
5 41 (21.69%) Data Lake
6 34 (17.99%) Power BI
7 24 (12.70%) Metadata
8 21 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (8.99%) Big Data
9 17 (8.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 15 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (7.94%) Star Schema
11 12 (6.35%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (6.35%) Relational Database
12 10 (5.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 8 (4.23%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 6 (3.17%) Power Query
15 5 (2.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 4 (2.12%) Delta Lake
16 4 (2.12%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (7.94%) GitLab
2 4 (2.12%) Git
3 3 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.06%) JIRA
5 1 (0.53%) Toad
General
1 57 (30.16%) Analytical Skills
2 24 (12.70%) Finance
3 21 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 15 (7.94%) Retail
5 10 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.23%) Billing
6 8 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.59%) Advertising
7 3 (1.59%) Games
7 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.06%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.53%) German Language
9 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Law
9 1 (0.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (45.50%) Data Engineer
2 33 (17.46%) Architect
3 30 (15.87%) Data Architect
4 20 (10.58%) Data Manager
5 19 (10.05%) Principal Data Engineer
5 19 (10.05%) Principal Engineer
6 18 (9.52%) Engineering Manager
6 18 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (7.94%) Senior
8 11 (5.82%) Lead
9 10 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Senior Data Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) Developer
12 6 (3.17%) Administrator
12 6 (3.17%) DBA
12 6 (3.17%) Head of Business Intelligence
13 5 (2.65%) Azure Developer
13 5 (2.65%) Head of Engineering
14 4 (2.12%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.17%) PySpark
2 4 (2.12%) Pandas
3 1 (0.53%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 49 (25.93%) Self-Motivation
2 29 (15.34%) Data Structures
3 22 (11.64%) Management Information System
4 12 (6.35%) Product Ownership
5 9 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.76%) NHS
6 8 (4.23%) Algorithms
6 8 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 8 (4.23%) Renewable Energy
7 6 (3.17%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.17%) Reference Data
8 4 (2.12%) IoT
8 4 (2.12%) PMI
8 4 (2.12%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.12%) Replication
9 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.06%) Fibre Optics
10 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.82%) Linux
2 4 (2.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (50.79%) Data Modelling
2 79 (41.80%) ETL
3 75 (39.68%) Analytics
3 75 (39.68%) Problem-Solving
4 67 (35.45%) Data Pipeline
5 59 (31.22%) Data Science
6 57 (30.16%) DevOps
7 52 (27.51%) Agile
7 52 (27.51%) Business Intelligence
8 50 (26.46%) CI/CD
9 49 (25.93%) Data Governance
10 44 (23.28%) Mentoring
10 44 (23.28%) Platform Engineering
11 43 (22.75%) Data Architecture
12 40 (21.16%) Data Integration
13 34 (17.99%) Data Management
14 28 (14.81%) Machine Learning
15 27 (14.29%) DataOps
16 23 (12.17%) Data Analytics
17 22 (11.64%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 76 (40.21%) SQL
2 45 (23.81%) Python
3 15 (7.94%) T-SQL
4 6 (3.17%) VBA
5 5 (2.65%) C#
5 5 (2.65%) R
6 2 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.53%) Java
7 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (12.17%) Degree
2 14 (7.41%) DBS Check
3 9 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.17%) Azure Certification
5 4 (2.12%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.59%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.59%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.59%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.06%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (34.92%) Data Quality
2 46 (24.34%) GDPR
3 14 (7.41%) QA
4 9 (4.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.53%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 15 (7.94%) Terraform
2 1 (0.53%) Ansible
2 1 (0.53%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 43 (22.75%) Google
2 38 (20.11%) Databricks
3 37 (19.58%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.82%) Informatica
5 8 (4.23%) Oracle
6 3 (1.59%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.53%) Cognos