Senior Data Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 487 494
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 +97
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 347 557 909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.60% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.66% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 275 442 379
10th Percentile £35,000 £57,093 £58,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,250 £97,155 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,754 84,293 127,933
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.52% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 60,385 53,462 75,679
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London -11 189 £80,000 -7.25% 71
North of England +102 75 £62,500 +4.17% 10
North West +64 59 £62,500 +29.68% 7
Midlands +16 26 £70,000 +19.15% 7
South East -26 21 £61,750 -5.73% 9
West Midlands +23 19 £70,000 +21.74% 6
South West -51 18 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Yorkshire +93 10 £55,000 -10.20% 2
East of England - 8 £76,250 - 9
North East -3 6 £80,000 +18.52% 1
East Midlands -10 6 - - 1
Senior Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 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 England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 209 (60.23%) Python
2 197 (56.77%) SQL
3 152 (43.80%) Azure
4 139 (40.06%) ETL
5 130 (37.46%) Data Pipeline
6 122 (35.16%) AWS
7 120 (34.58%) Data Engineering
8 101 (29.11%) Data Modelling
9 99 (28.53%) Data Warehouse
10 93 (26.80%) Databricks
11 86 (24.78%) Finance
12 82 (23.63%) Agile
12 82 (23.63%) Analytics
13 77 (22.19%) DevOps
14 71 (20.46%) Data Lake
15 69 (19.88%) Social Skills
16 62 (17.87%) PySpark
17 60 (17.29%) Data Science
17 60 (17.29%) Business Intelligence
18 59 (17.00%) CI/CD
18 59 (17.00%) GCP
19 58 (16.71%) Power BI
19 58 (16.71%) Power Platform
20 55 (15.85%) Azure Data Factory
21 51 (14.70%) Apache Spark
22 46 (13.26%) SQL Server
23 44 (12.68%) Terraform
24 43 (12.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
24 43 (12.39%) NoSQL
25 41 (11.82%) Data Quality

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 51 (14.70%) Apache Spark
2 38 (10.95%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (10.09%) Apache
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.29%) Confluence
4 1 (0.29%) Luigi
4 1 (0.29%) nginx
4 1 (0.29%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 152 (43.80%) Azure
2 122 (35.16%) AWS
3 59 (17.00%) GCP
4 58 (16.71%) Power Platform
5 55 (15.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 43 (12.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 40 (11.53%) Snowflake
8 34 (9.80%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (9.22%) Amazon S3
10 28 (8.07%) dbt
11 22 (6.34%) GitHub
11 22 (6.34%) Serverless
12 19 (5.48%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
14 10 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
15 9 (2.59%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (2.59%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
16 7 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.07%) Structured Cabling
2 10 (2.88%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (2.59%) Network Security
4 4 (1.15%) FTP
5 1 (0.29%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.29%) 5G
5 1 (0.29%) LAN
5 1 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.29%) WAN
5 1 (0.29%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (28.53%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (20.46%) Data Lake
3 58 (16.71%) Power BI
4 46 (13.26%) SQL Server
5 43 (12.39%) NoSQL
6 34 (9.80%) Big Data
6 34 (9.80%) Hadoop
7 26 (7.49%) Tableau
8 24 (6.92%) BigQuery
9 23 (6.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 23 (6.63%) Data Vault
10 21 (6.05%) Amazon Redshift
11 19 (5.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (5.19%) Delta Lake
12 18 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (4.03%) DynamoDB
14 12 (3.46%) Amazon Athena
14 12 (3.46%) MongoDB
14 12 (3.46%) Relational Database
15 10 (2.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 22 (6.34%) Git
2 14 (4.03%) JIRA
3 12 (3.46%) Jenkins
4 11 (3.17%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.15%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.15%) GitLab
5 4 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.29%) Spinnaker
General
1 86 (24.78%) Finance
2 69 (19.88%) Social Skills
3 34 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.49%) Telecoms
5 24 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.32%) Retail
7 9 (2.59%) Banking
7 9 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.31%) Games
8 8 (2.31%) Law
8 8 (2.31%) Retail Banking
9 7 (2.02%) Legal
10 4 (1.15%) Music Industry
11 3 (0.86%) Agriculture
11 3 (0.86%) Automotive
11 3 (0.86%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.58%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.58%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.58%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (17.87%) PySpark
2 22 (6.34%) Pandas
3 18 (5.19%) Kafka
4 12 (3.46%) Apache Beam
5 10 (2.88%) .NET
6 9 (2.59%) AWS CDK
7 8 (2.31%) Apache Avro
7 8 (2.31%) Spark Streaming
8 7 (2.02%) JSON
8 7 (2.02%) XML
9 4 (1.15%) RESTful
10 3 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.86%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.86%) pytest
11 2 (0.58%) Lambda Expressions
12 1 (0.29%) gRPC
12 1 (0.29%) MXNet
12 1 (0.29%) scikit-learn
12 1 (0.29%) Spring Boot
12 1 (0.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (4.90%) Data Structures
2 15 (4.32%) Greenfield Project
2 15 (4.32%) Reinsurance
3 13 (3.75%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.75%) Public Cloud
4 11 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (3.17%) Driving Licence
4 11 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (2.59%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.31%) Distributed Applications
7 7 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.44%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.44%) Blog
8 5 (1.44%) NHS
9 4 (1.15%) CCTV
9 4 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (5.48%) Linux
2 10 (2.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) Android
3 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.29%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (40.06%) ETL
2 130 (37.46%) Data Pipeline
3 120 (34.58%) Data Engineering
4 101 (29.11%) Data Modelling
5 82 (23.63%) Agile
5 82 (23.63%) Analytics
6 77 (22.19%) DevOps
7 60 (17.29%) Business Intelligence
7 60 (17.29%) Data Science
8 59 (17.00%) CI/CD
9 40 (11.53%) Machine Learning
10 39 (11.24%) Visualisation
11 37 (10.66%) Data Analytics
11 37 (10.66%) Mentoring
12 35 (10.09%) Data Integration
13 34 (9.80%) Data Management
14 32 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (8.93%) Data Strategy
16 30 (8.65%) Containerisation
16 30 (8.65%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 209 (60.23%) Python
2 197 (56.77%) SQL
3 27 (7.78%) Java
4 16 (4.61%) Scala
5 15 (4.32%) C#
6 14 (4.03%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (2.59%) U-SQL
9 8 (2.31%) PL/SQL
10 7 (2.02%) VB
11 3 (0.86%) C
12 2 (0.58%) Bash
12 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.58%) R
12 2 (0.58%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.29%) Korn
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (6.63%) Degree
2 14 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (3.75%) DBS Check
4 8 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.44%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.44%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.44%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (0.86%) CCSK
7 3 (0.86%) CCSP
7 3 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.86%) CISSP
7 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (11.82%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.17%) QA
3 4 (1.15%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 27 (7.78%) Docker
2 8 (2.31%) HDFS
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 44 (12.68%) Terraform
2 32 (9.22%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.44%) Ansible
4 3 (0.86%) CASB
5 2 (0.58%) Marathon
5 2 (0.58%) Mesos
6 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.29%) Grafana
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.29%) Podman
6 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 93 (26.80%) Databricks
2 39 (11.24%) Microsoft
3 30 (8.65%) Oracle
4 23 (6.63%) Informatica
5 19 (5.48%) Google
6 10 (2.88%) Cloudera
7 7 (2.02%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.44%) Splunk
9 4 (1.15%) YouTube
10 3 (0.86%) Netskope
10 3 (0.86%) SAP
10 3 (0.86%) SnapLogic
10 3 (0.86%) Symantec
10 3 (0.86%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.58%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.58%) Teradata
11 2 (0.58%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.29%) Apple
12 1 (0.29%) Denodo
12 1 (0.29%) Salesforce