Data Engineer Jobs in London

Data Engineer
England > London

The median Data Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 100 127
Rank change year-on-year -27 +27 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 585 1,194 2,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.49% 3.33% 3.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.65% 3.51% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 473 972 1,126
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £113,500 £140,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,100 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.28% +0.14% +12.51%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,087 34,033 62,964
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.02% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 24,925 34,921
10th Percentile £38,454 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Central London +12 80 £70,000 -9.68% 8
South London +25 26 £65,000 - 2
West London +2 7 £55,000 -26.67% 3
North London 0 4 £71,250 +1.79% 1
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 384 (65.64%) SQL
2 377 (64.44%) Python
3 258 (44.10%) Azure
4 256 (43.76%) ETL
5 216 (36.92%) Data Pipeline
6 215 (36.75%) AWS
7 189 (32.31%) Data Engineering
8 167 (28.55%) Data Modelling
9 164 (28.03%) Analytics
10 163 (27.86%) Data Warehouse
11 135 (23.08%) Data Science
12 129 (22.05%) GCP
13 123 (21.03%) Databricks
14 118 (20.17%) Social Skills
15 116 (19.83%) Finance
16 102 (17.44%) Power Platform
17 100 (17.09%) Power BI
17 100 (17.09%) DevOps
18 96 (16.41%) Business Intelligence
19 92 (15.73%) Agile
19 92 (15.73%) Data Lake
20 91 (15.56%) Data Integration
21 86 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
21 86 (14.70%) Data Quality
22 84 (14.36%) PySpark
23 83 (14.19%) CI/CD
24 77 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
25 76 (12.99%) Apache Spark
26 69 (11.79%) Terraform
27 67 (11.45%) Apache Airflow

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 76 (12.99%) Apache Spark
2 67 (11.45%) Apache Airflow
3 57 (9.74%) Apache
4 5 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.34%) Luigi
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.51%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.34%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 258 (44.10%) Azure
2 215 (36.75%) AWS
3 129 (22.05%) GCP
4 102 (17.44%) Power Platform
5 77 (13.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 61 (10.43%) Snowflake
7 59 (10.09%) dbt
8 52 (8.89%) Amazon S3
9 49 (8.38%) Serverless
10 44 (7.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 42 (7.18%) Azure DevOps
12 34 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (3.59%) GitHub
14 16 (2.74%) Amazon EMR
15 13 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
15 13 (2.22%) PowerApps
16 12 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 11 (1.88%) Amazon Kinesis
17 11 (1.88%) Power Automate
18 10 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.39%) Structured Cabling
2 9 (1.54%) Network Security
3 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.17%) Firewall
4 1 (0.17%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (27.86%) Data Warehouse
2 100 (17.09%) Power BI
3 92 (15.73%) Data Lake
4 67 (11.45%) SQL Server
5 64 (10.94%) Big Data
6 60 (10.26%) BigQuery
7 56 (9.57%) NoSQL
8 54 (9.23%) Hadoop
9 42 (7.18%) Amazon Redshift
10 37 (6.32%) Tableau
11 35 (5.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 27 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
12 27 (4.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 24 (4.10%) Relational Database
14 20 (3.42%) Data Vault
15 18 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
16 17 (2.91%) Apache Hive
17 16 (2.74%) Looker
18 15 (2.56%) Delta Lake
19 13 (2.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (6.15%) Git
2 17 (2.91%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.05%) JIRA
4 10 (1.71%) CircleCI
5 5 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.85%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) Ant
6 1 (0.17%) Gradle
6 1 (0.17%) JUnit
6 1 (0.17%) Maven
6 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.17%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 118 (20.17%) Social Skills
2 116 (19.83%) Finance
3 61 (10.43%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.52%) Banking
5 35 (5.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.27%) Retail
7 18 (3.08%) Legal
8 15 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.39%) Games
10 13 (2.22%) Law
11 9 (1.54%) Front Office
11 9 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.54%) Marketing
12 8 (1.37%) Publishing
12 8 (1.37%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.20%) Health Technology
13 7 (1.20%) Public Sector
14 6 (1.03%) Investment Banking
15 5 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.85%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (14.36%) PySpark
2 49 (8.38%) Kafka
3 35 (5.98%) Pandas
4 17 (2.91%) .NET
5 15 (2.56%) Apache Beam
6 10 (1.71%) Flask
7 9 (1.54%) JSON
7 9 (1.54%) NumPy
7 9 (1.54%) Spark Streaming
7 9 (1.54%) XML
8 8 (1.37%) Apache Avro
8 8 (1.37%) REST
9 7 (1.20%) AWS CDK
10 5 (0.85%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (0.85%) pytest
10 5 (0.85%) SciPy
11 4 (0.68%) Anaconda
11 4 (0.68%) gRPC
11 4 (0.68%) HTML
11 4 (0.68%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.27%) Greenfield Project
2 22 (3.76%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.25%) Data Structures
4 18 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
6 14 (2.39%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.22%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.88%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.71%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
11 8 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
11 8 (1.37%) Reinsurance
12 6 (1.03%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.85%) Blog
13 5 (0.85%) Equities
13 5 (0.85%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 4 (0.68%) IoT
14 4 (0.68%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.27%) Linux
2 15 (2.56%) Unix
3 8 (1.37%) Windows
4 4 (0.68%) Android
4 4 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.68%) CentOS
4 4 (0.68%) Solaris
4 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.68%) zOS
5 1 (0.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (43.76%) ETL
2 216 (36.92%) Data Pipeline
3 189 (32.31%) Data Engineering
4 167 (28.55%) Data Modelling
5 164 (28.03%) Analytics
6 135 (23.08%) Data Science
7 100 (17.09%) DevOps
8 96 (16.41%) Business Intelligence
9 92 (15.73%) Agile
10 91 (15.56%) Data Integration
11 86 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
12 83 (14.19%) CI/CD
13 65 (11.11%) Visualisation
14 59 (10.09%) Machine Learning
15 52 (8.89%) Computer Science
16 51 (8.72%) Platform Engineering
17 50 (8.55%) Mentoring
18 49 (8.38%) Data Architecture
19 48 (8.21%) Data Analytics
20 47 (8.03%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 384 (65.64%) SQL
2 377 (64.44%) Python
3 47 (8.03%) Java
4 38 (6.50%) Scala
5 29 (4.96%) T-SQL
6 23 (3.93%) C#
7 16 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (2.56%) R
9 9 (1.54%) U-SQL
10 8 (1.37%) VB
11 7 (1.20%) JavaScript
11 7 (1.20%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.51%) Bash
12 3 (0.51%) C++
12 3 (0.51%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.51%) Ruby
12 3 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.34%) Rust
13 2 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (11.45%) Degree
2 35 (5.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.56%) Master's Degree
4 12 (2.05%) DBS Check
5 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.20%) CISSP
7 4 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.68%) CISM
7 4 (0.68%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.68%) Security Cleared
8 3 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.51%) CCSK
8 3 (0.51%) CCSP
8 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.51%) PhD
9 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (14.70%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.05%) QA
3 11 (1.88%) GDPR
4 6 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.68%) NIST
5 4 (0.68%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
System Software
1 48 (8.21%) Docker
2 8 (1.37%) HDFS
3 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 69 (11.79%) Terraform
2 44 (7.52%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.03%) logstash
4 4 (0.68%) Ansible
5 3 (0.51%) Argo
5 3 (0.51%) CASB
5 3 (0.51%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.34%) Marathon
6 2 (0.34%) Mesos
7 1 (0.17%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Podman
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 123 (21.03%) Databricks
2 59 (10.09%) Microsoft
3 47 (8.03%) Google
4 20 (3.42%) Oracle
5 15 (2.56%) Informatica
6 13 (2.22%) Cloudera
7 11 (1.88%) YouTube
8 10 (1.71%) Alteryx
9 8 (1.37%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.85%) Splunk
11 4 (0.68%) Qualys
12 3 (0.51%) Netskope
12 3 (0.51%) SAP
12 3 (0.51%) Symantec
12 3 (0.51%) Teradata
12 3 (0.51%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.34%) Facebook
13 2 (0.34%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.34%) SnapLogic
13 2 (0.34%) Snowplow