Data Engineer Jobs in Birmingham

Data Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Data Engineer salary in Birmingham is £65,000 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 98 84 109
Rank change year-on-year -14 +25 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 52 46 83
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.66% 2.56% 2.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 2.76% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 44 45 75
10th Percentile £28,000 £42,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £55,750
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +3.14% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £79,125 £80,000 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year +9.52% -7.08% +7.62%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 2,969 1,669 3,023
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.58% 92.88% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,354 1,299 2,256
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £33,875
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £84,964 £81,250 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Birmingham.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 12 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 Birmingham region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (51.92%) SQL
2 25 (48.08%) ETL
2 25 (48.08%) Data Pipeline
3 23 (44.23%) Azure
3 23 (44.23%) AWS
4 22 (42.31%) Python
4 22 (42.31%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (40.38%) Data Engineering
6 20 (38.46%) Agile
7 19 (36.54%) Data Science
8 18 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (32.69%) Data Structures
10 16 (30.77%) Analytics
11 15 (28.85%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (28.85%) GCP
12 14 (26.92%) Degree
12 14 (26.92%) Data Integration
13 13 (25.00%) SQL Server
14 12 (23.08%) Power BI
14 12 (23.08%) BigQuery
14 12 (23.08%) Power Platform
15 11 (21.15%) Snowflake
15 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
15 11 (21.15%) SaaS
16 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
17 8 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
17 8 (15.38%) Finance
17 8 (15.38%) Informatica
17 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
17 8 (15.38%) DevOps

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 23 (44.23%) AWS
1 23 (44.23%) Azure
2 15 (28.85%) GCP
3 12 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 11 (21.15%) SaaS
4 11 (21.15%) Snowflake
5 8 (15.38%) GitHub
6 7 (13.46%) Boomi
7 5 (9.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (5.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.77%) Matillion
10 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (1.92%) AWS Data Pipeline
11 1 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.92%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) Structured Cabling
1 2 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.92%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.92%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (42.31%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (28.85%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 12 (23.08%) BigQuery
4 12 (23.08%) Power BI
5 8 (15.38%) Tableau
6 7 (13.46%) Data Mining
7 5 (9.62%) Data Lake
8 3 (5.77%) Big Data
8 3 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (5.77%) Looker
8 3 (5.77%) Star Schema
9 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
10 1 (1.92%) HBase
10 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) GitLab
2 2 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (1.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 11 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Finance
3 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.77%) Retail
4 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (13.46%) GraphQL
1 7 (13.46%) RESTful
2 3 (5.77%) Kafka
3 1 (1.92%) Pandas
3 1 (1.92%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.69%) Data Structures
2 8 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.92%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (48.08%) Data Pipeline
1 25 (48.08%) ETL
2 21 (40.38%) Data Engineering
3 20 (38.46%) Agile
4 19 (36.54%) Data Science
5 18 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (30.77%) Analytics
7 14 (26.92%) Data Integration
8 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (15.38%) Data Modelling
9 8 (15.38%) DevOps
10 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
10 7 (13.46%) Data Acquisition
10 7 (13.46%) Data Ingestion
10 7 (13.46%) Event-Driven
10 7 (13.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 7 (13.46%) Machine Learning
10 7 (13.46%) Mentoring
10 7 (13.46%) Product Roadmap
10 7 (13.46%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 27 (51.92%) SQL
2 22 (42.31%) Python
3 4 (7.69%) Java
4 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.92%) C#
5 1 (1.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (26.92%) Degree
2 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.77%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Databricks
1 8 (15.38%) Informatica
2 7 (13.46%) MuleSoft
3 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.69%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) Oracle
5 1 (1.92%) SnapLogic
5 1 (1.92%) YouTube