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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 156 122 171
Rank change year-on-year -34 +49 +22
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 189 240 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.52% 2.67% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 2.76% 1.98%
Number of salaries quoted 116 68 127
10th Percentile £35,000 £35,875 £46,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,188 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -18.52% +12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £78,250 £86,000
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 10,038 8,682 10,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.91% 96.54% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 7,294 4,415 6,905
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £28,925
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £62,238 £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 24 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 24 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 -35 120 £59,300 +7.82% 24
East Midlands +6 67 £45,000 -18.18% 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
1 103 (54.50%) Azure
2 58 (30.69%) AWS
3 55 (29.10%) GCP
4 34 (17.99%) Power Platform
5 25 (13.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 24 (12.70%) Snowflake
7 21 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (8.99%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (7.41%) Matillion
10 12 (6.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (3.17%) GitHub
12 5 (2.65%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.12%) dbt
13 4 (2.12%) SaaS
14 3 (1.59%) Azure Stack
14 3 (1.59%) Cloud Computing
14 3 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
14 3 (1.59%) iPaaS
14 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
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 47 (24.87%) BigQuery
2 47 (24.87%) SQL Server
3 43 (22.75%) Looker
4 42 (22.22%) Data Lake
5 34 (17.99%) Power BI
6 24 (12.70%) Metadata
7 23 (12.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 18 (9.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 17 (8.99%) Big Data
10 15 (7.94%) Amazon Redshift
10 15 (7.94%) Star Schema
11 13 (6.88%) Relational Database
12 12 (6.35%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (6.35%) 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 16 (8.47%) GitLab
2 4 (2.12%) Git
3 3 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.59%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (1.06%) JIRA
5 1 (0.53%) Toad
General
1 57 (30.16%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (13.23%) Finance
3 22 (11.64%) 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 88 (46.56%) Data Engineer
2 32 (16.93%) Architect
3 29 (15.34%) 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 16 (8.47%) Senior
8 11 (5.82%) Lead
8 11 (5.82%) Senior Data Engineer
9 10 (5.29%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
11 7 (3.70%) DBA
11 7 (3.70%) Developer
12 6 (3.17%) Administrator
13 5 (2.65%) Head of Business Intelligence
13 5 (2.65%) Head of Engineering
14 4 (2.12%) Azure Developer
14 4 (2.12%) Cybersecurity Engineer
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 21 (11.11%) 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%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (3.70%) Onboarding
8 6 (3.17%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.65%) Reference Data
10 4 (2.12%) IoT
10 4 (2.12%) PMI
10 4 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 4 (2.12%) Replication
11 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.06%) Fibre Optics
12 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
12 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 80 (42.33%) 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 58 (30.69%) DevOps
7 53 (28.04%) Business Intelligence
8 52 (27.51%) Agile
9 51 (26.98%) CI/CD
10 48 (25.40%) Data Governance
11 44 (23.28%) Mentoring
11 44 (23.28%) Platform Engineering
12 43 (22.75%) Data Architecture
13 39 (20.63%) Data Integration
14 33 (17.46%) Data Management
15 28 (14.81%) Machine Learning
16 26 (13.76%) DataOps
17 22 (11.64%) Data Analytics
17 22 (11.64%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 78 (41.27%) SQL
2 46 (24.34%) Python
3 16 (8.47%) 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 65 (34.39%) Data Quality
2 46 (24.34%) GDPR
3 14 (7.41%) QA
4 8 (4.23%) 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 39 (20.63%) Databricks
2 39 (20.63%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.82%) Informatica
4 8 (4.23%) Oracle
5 3 (1.59%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.53%) Cognos