Data Engineering Jobs in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 146 98 145
Rank change year-on-year -48 +47 +35
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 120 179 146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.50% 3.07% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 3.18% 2.01%
Number of salaries quoted 88 58 77
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £44,111
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,984 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,300 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £78,250 £87,500
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
West 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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,464 5,634 7,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.70% 96.74% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,699 3,147 4,804
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £39,842 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
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 Engineering 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 -2 62 £65,400 +0.62% 9
Staffordshire -6 20 £57,500 +35.29% 3
Warwickshire -21 14 £52,000 +2.97% 1
Wolverhampton +14 11 £70,000 - 1
Coventry +15 3 - - 2
Shropshire - 1 £55,000 -
Worcestershire - 1 £95,000 -
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 3 (2.50%) Apache
1 3 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 69 (57.50%) Azure
2 36 (30.00%) AWS
3 25 (20.83%) GCP
4 23 (19.17%) Power Platform
5 21 (17.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (16.67%) Snowflake
7 16 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 11 (9.17%) Matillion
9 9 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 8 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (4.17%) GitHub
11 5 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (3.33%) dbt
12 4 (3.33%) SaaS
13 3 (2.50%) iPaaS
14 2 (1.67%) Azure Stack
14 2 (1.67%) Azure Storage
14 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
15 1 (0.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.83%) 3GPP
1 1 (0.83%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (29.17%) SQL Server
3 30 (25.00%) Data Lake
4 24 (20.00%) Metadata
5 23 (19.17%) Power BI
6 20 (16.67%) BigQuery
7 17 (14.17%) Looker
8 16 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (10.00%) Big Data
10 12 (10.00%) Relational Database
10 12 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 12 (10.00%) Star Schema
11 9 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 5 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 5 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (3.33%) Delta Lake
14 4 (3.33%) NoSQL
15 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.00%) GitLab
2 4 (3.33%) Git
3 3 (2.50%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.67%) JIRA
5 1 (0.83%) Toad
General
1 26 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (16.67%) Finance
3 13 (10.83%) Social Skills
4 10 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (4.17%) Retail
7 3 (2.50%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.67%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.83%) German Language
9 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.83%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (49.17%) Data Engineer
2 18 (15.00%) Architect
2 18 (15.00%) Data Architect
3 10 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (8.33%) Senior
4 9 (7.50%) Azure Data Engineer
4 9 (7.50%) Data Manager
4 9 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (7.50%) Principal Data Engineer
4 9 (7.50%) Principal Engineer
5 7 (5.83%) Developer
5 7 (5.83%) Engineering Manager
6 6 (5.00%) Head of Business Intelligence
6 6 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Azure Developer
7 5 (4.17%) Head of Engineering
7 5 (4.17%) Lead
8 4 (3.33%) Analyst
8 4 (3.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.00%) PySpark
2 4 (3.33%) Pandas
3 1 (0.83%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (23.33%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (15.83%) Management Information System
3 18 (15.00%) Data Structures
4 9 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (7.50%) NHS
5 8 (6.67%) Algorithms
6 6 (5.00%) Onboarding
6 6 (5.00%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.33%) Replication
8 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.33%) Linux
1 4 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (52.50%) Analytics
2 61 (50.83%) Data Modelling
3 55 (45.83%) ETL
4 46 (38.33%) Problem-Solving
5 40 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 39 (32.50%) Data Science
7 38 (31.67%) Business Intelligence
8 37 (30.83%) CI/CD
8 37 (30.83%) DevOps
9 30 (25.00%) Data Architecture
10 28 (23.33%) Data Management
11 27 (22.50%) Agile
12 26 (21.67%) Data Integration
12 26 (21.67%) Mentoring
13 24 (20.00%) Machine Learning
14 21 (17.50%) Data Governance
15 20 (16.67%) Data Analytics
16 18 (15.00%) Data Strategy
16 18 (15.00%) Platform Engineering
17 17 (14.17%) DataOps
Programming Languages
1 52 (43.33%) SQL
2 28 (23.33%) Python
3 15 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 5 (4.17%) C#
5 2 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.67%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.67%) R
6 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 18 (15.00%) Degree
2 7 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.83%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (38.33%) Data Quality
2 28 (23.33%) GDPR
3 6 (5.00%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.33%) QA
5 1 (0.83%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 15 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (0.83%) Ansible
2 1 (0.83%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 25 (20.83%) Databricks
2 24 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (14.17%) Google
4 11 (9.17%) Informatica
5 5 (4.17%) Oracle
6 3 (2.50%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.83%) Cognos