Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the West Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
England > West Midlands

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the West Midlands is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 241 266
Rank change year-on-year -4 +25 -30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 18 12 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.21% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.23% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 13
10th Percentile £28,000 £55,650 £48,840
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £79,500 £75,750 £100,000
90th Percentile £82,800 £78,300 £117,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 8,050 5,197 7,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 89.93% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5,794 3,200 4,854
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £29,256
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £38,000
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 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the West Midlands

Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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 -11 14 £70,000 +16.67% 2
Warwickshire +8 2 £73,000 -
Coventry - 1 £75,000 - 1
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 9 (50.00%) Python
2 9 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) Azure
4 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps
4 5 (27.78%) GCP
4 5 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (22.22%) Databricks
5 4 (22.22%) PySpark
5 4 (22.22%) Terraform
5 4 (22.22%) Data Lake
5 4 (22.22%) Snowflake
5 4 (22.22%) High Availability
5 4 (22.22%) Big Data
5 4 (22.22%) Analytics
5 4 (22.22%) ETL
5 4 (22.22%) Git
6 3 (16.67%) Agile
6 3 (16.67%) Data Management
6 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 3 (16.67%) C#
6 3 (16.67%) Apache
6 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 3 (16.67%) Finance
6 3 (16.67%) Data Governance

Senior 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 3 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (55.56%) AWS
2 6 (33.33%) Azure
3 5 (27.78%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (27.78%) GCP
4 4 (22.22%) Snowflake
5 3 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (16.67%) dbt
5 3 (16.67%) GitHub
5 3 (16.67%) iPaaS
5 3 (16.67%) SaaS
6 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 2 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.56%) 3GPP
2 1 (5.56%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (22.22%) Big Data
2 4 (22.22%) Data Lake
3 3 (16.67%) Delta Lake
3 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (11.11%) BigQuery
4 2 (11.11%) Power BI
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
1 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Automotive
2 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) PySpark
2 3 (16.67%) Pandas
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 6 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (27.78%) DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Analytics
4 4 (22.22%) ETL
4 4 (22.22%) High Availability
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 3 (16.67%) Data Management
5 3 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.11%) Break/Fix
6 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 2 (11.11%) Validation
6 2 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Databricks
2 3 (16.67%) SnapLogic
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft