Data Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Data Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 146 134
Rank change year-on-year -2 -12 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 118 107 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.47% 1.84% 2.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 2.04% 2.23%
Number of salaries quoted 83 87 99
10th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £38,600
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,759 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £70,625
90th Percentile £73,000 £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
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the West 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 7,573 5,238 7,207
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.54% 89.94% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,594 3,217 4,815
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Data Engineer
Job Locations in the West 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 West 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
Birmingham -14 46 £65,000 +13.04% 17
Staffordshire -10 33 £57,500 +27.78% 3
Warwickshire +14 13 £41,500 -10.27% 3
Coventry +28 7 £75,000 +42.86% 3
Wolverhampton - 4 £55,000 -
Shropshire -8 3 £60,000 -
Walsall - 2 £42,500 -
Worcestershire - 2 £37,500 - 1
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 West Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 67 (56.78%) SQL
2 65 (55.08%) ETL
3 63 (53.39%) Azure
4 61 (51.69%) Data Warehouse
5 59 (50.00%) Data Engineering
6 50 (42.37%) Analytics
7 49 (41.53%) Business Intelligence
8 45 (38.14%) SQL Server
8 45 (38.14%) Data Pipeline
9 42 (35.59%) Power Platform
9 42 (35.59%) Power BI
9 42 (35.59%) Data Quality
10 41 (34.75%) Data Modelling
10 41 (34.75%) Data Science
11 37 (31.36%) Python
11 37 (31.36%) Agile
12 32 (27.12%) DevOps
12 32 (27.12%) Databricks
13 30 (25.42%) Data Lake
13 30 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (24.58%) CI/CD
15 28 (23.73%) Microsoft
16 27 (22.88%) AWS
16 27 (22.88%) Data Structures
17 26 (22.03%) Data Integration
18 25 (21.19%) Machine Learning
18 25 (21.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 25 (21.19%) Azure Data Factory
18 25 (21.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 24 (20.34%) GCP

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (3.39%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.54%) Apache
2 3 (2.54%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (53.39%) Azure
2 42 (35.59%) Power Platform
3 27 (22.88%) AWS
4 25 (21.19%) Azure Data Factory
4 25 (21.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 24 (20.34%) GCP
6 22 (18.64%) Snowflake
7 15 (12.71%) SaaS
8 11 (9.32%) Matillion
9 10 (8.47%) GitHub
10 9 (7.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (5.93%) Boomi
12 7 (5.93%) Serverless
13 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (3.39%) dbt
14 3 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
14 3 (2.54%) iPaaS
15 2 (1.69%) Apigee
15 2 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.85%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.85%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (51.69%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (38.14%) SQL Server
3 42 (35.59%) Power BI
4 30 (25.42%) Data Lake
5 25 (21.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 23 (19.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 18 (15.25%) BigQuery
8 15 (12.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (12.71%) Big Data
8 15 (12.71%) Relational Database
9 14 (11.86%) Metadata
10 12 (10.17%) Star Schema
11 9 (7.63%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (7.63%) Looker
11 9 (7.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 8 (6.78%) Tableau
13 7 (5.93%) Data Mining
14 6 (5.08%) Semantic Layer
15 4 (3.39%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (8.47%) GitLab
2 5 (4.24%) Git
3 3 (2.54%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.85%) Toad
4 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (17.80%) Finance
2 18 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (11.02%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (6.78%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (4.24%) Automotive
6 4 (3.39%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.39%) Retail
7 3 (2.54%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.93%) GraphQL
1 7 (5.93%) RESTful
2 5 (4.24%) PySpark
3 4 (3.39%) Pandas
4 3 (2.54%) Kafka
5 2 (1.69%) Middleware
6 1 (0.85%) ActiveMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.88%) Data Structures
2 20 (16.95%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (7.63%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (7.63%) NHS
4 8 (6.78%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.54%) CCTV
5 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (55.08%) ETL
2 59 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 50 (42.37%) Analytics
4 49 (41.53%) Business Intelligence
5 45 (38.14%) Data Pipeline
6 41 (34.75%) Data Modelling
6 41 (34.75%) Data Science
7 37 (31.36%) Agile
8 32 (27.12%) DevOps
9 30 (25.42%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (24.58%) CI/CD
11 26 (22.03%) Data Integration
12 25 (21.19%) Machine Learning
13 20 (16.95%) Mentoring
14 18 (15.25%) Data Acquisition
15 15 (12.71%) Data Analytics
16 14 (11.86%) Data Transformation
16 14 (11.86%) Metadata Management
17 12 (10.17%) Artificial Intelligence
17 12 (10.17%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 67 (56.78%) SQL
2 37 (31.36%) Python
3 22 (18.64%) T-SQL
4 9 (7.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (5.08%) C#
6 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.54%) Java
8 2 (1.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (20.34%) Degree
2 6 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (4.24%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.54%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (35.59%) Data Quality
2 20 (16.95%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 16 (13.56%) Terraform
2 1 (0.85%) Ansible
2 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (27.12%) Databricks
2 28 (23.73%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.32%) Google
4 10 (8.47%) Informatica
5 9 (7.63%) MuleSoft
6 3 (2.54%) Oracle
6 3 (2.54%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.69%) SAP
8 1 (0.85%) Denodo
8 1 (0.85%) Talend
8 1 (0.85%) YouTube