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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 98 120
Rank change year-on-year -27 +22 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 586 1,148 2,356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.48% 3.38% 3.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.64% 3.55% 3.56%
Number of salaries quoted 477 929 1,139
10th Percentile £46,050 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,250 £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 £91,991 £106,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £114,250 £140,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

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 22,206 32,343 66,180
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 95.12% 96.32%
Number of salaries quoted 16,615 23,852 34,726
10th Percentile £37,500 £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 £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 14 May 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 14 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
Central London +14 79 £70,000 -9.68% 19
South London +25 25 £65,000 - 2
West London -6 6 - - 2
North London 0 4 £71,250 +1.79%
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 (65.53%) SQL
2 372 (63.48%) Python
3 273 (46.59%) Azure
4 249 (42.49%) ETL
5 221 (37.71%) Data Pipeline
6 207 (35.32%) AWS
7 188 (32.08%) Data Engineering
8 167 (28.50%) Data Warehouse
9 166 (28.33%) Data Modelling
10 159 (27.13%) Analytics
11 132 (22.53%) Data Science
12 131 (22.35%) Databricks
13 128 (21.84%) Finance
14 122 (20.82%) GCP
15 115 (19.62%) Social Skills
16 109 (18.60%) Power Platform
16 109 (18.60%) Business Intelligence
17 107 (18.26%) Power BI
18 99 (16.89%) DevOps
19 95 (16.21%) Agile
20 93 (15.87%) Data Lake
21 90 (15.36%) PySpark
22 89 (15.19%) Data Integration
23 84 (14.33%) Azure Data Factory
24 83 (14.16%) CI/CD
25 79 (13.48%) Data Quality
26 78 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
27 73 (12.46%) Apache Spark
28 69 (11.77%) Apache Airflow
28 69 (11.77%) SQL Server

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 73 (12.46%) Apache Spark
2 69 (11.77%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (8.36%) Apache
4 5 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.51%) Luigi
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (3.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.19%) 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
1 273 (46.59%) Azure
2 207 (35.32%) AWS
3 122 (20.82%) GCP
4 109 (18.60%) Power Platform
5 84 (14.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 58 (9.90%) dbt
7 55 (9.39%) Snowflake
8 48 (8.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 47 (8.02%) Amazon S3
10 44 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
11 41 (7.00%) Serverless
12 27 (4.61%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (3.92%) GitHub
14 19 (3.24%) Amazon EMR
15 14 (2.39%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (2.22%) Prefect
17 12 (2.05%) PowerApps
18 11 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
19 10 (1.71%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.39%) Structured Cabling
2 10 (1.71%) Network Security
3 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.34%) PPP
5 1 (0.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (28.50%) Data Warehouse
2 107 (18.26%) Power BI
3 93 (15.87%) Data Lake
4 69 (11.77%) SQL Server
5 59 (10.07%) Big Data
6 58 (9.90%) NoSQL
7 53 (9.04%) BigQuery
8 48 (8.19%) Hadoop
9 38 (6.48%) Azure SQL Database
10 36 (6.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 36 (6.14%) Tableau
11 31 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
12 29 (4.95%) Relational Database
12 29 (4.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (3.41%) Data Vault
14 16 (2.73%) Apache Hive
14 16 (2.73%) Looker
15 14 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
15 14 (2.39%) Delta Lake
15 14 (2.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (6.31%) Git
2 18 (3.07%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.88%) CircleCI
3 11 (1.88%) JIRA
4 6 (1.02%) GitLab
5 5 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.17%) Ant
6 1 (0.17%) GoCD
6 1 (0.17%) Gradle
6 1 (0.17%) JUnit
6 1 (0.17%) Maven
6 1 (0.17%) Mockito
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
1 128 (21.84%) Finance
2 115 (19.62%) Social Skills
3 63 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (8.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (7.00%) Banking
6 25 (4.27%) Retail
7 20 (3.41%) Legal
8 19 (3.24%) Law
9 15 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.39%) Games
11 12 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.37%) Marketing
12 8 (1.37%) Publishing
12 8 (1.37%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.19%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.02%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.85%) Music Industry
16 4 (0.68%) Electronics
16 4 (0.68%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (15.36%) PySpark
2 47 (8.02%) Kafka
3 27 (4.61%) Pandas
4 16 (2.73%) .NET
5 12 (2.05%) Apache Beam
6 10 (1.71%) Flask
7 9 (1.54%) Spark Streaming
8 8 (1.37%) Apache Avro
8 8 (1.37%) JSON
8 8 (1.37%) REST
8 8 (1.37%) XML
9 7 (1.19%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.02%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (0.85%) NumPy
11 5 (0.85%) pytest
12 4 (0.68%) Anaconda
12 4 (0.68%) HTML
12 4 (0.68%) Plotly
12 4 (0.68%) SQLAlchemy
13 3 (0.51%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.61%) Greenfield Project
2 22 (3.75%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.24%) Data Structures
4 16 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 12 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.05%) Public Cloud
8 11 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.88%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.71%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
11 7 (1.19%) Reinsurance
12 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
13 5 (0.85%) Blog
13 5 (0.85%) Equities
13 5 (0.85%) IoT
13 5 (0.85%) Product Ownership
14 4 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 3 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 27 (4.61%) Linux
2 17 (2.90%) Unix
3 9 (1.54%) 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 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (42.49%) ETL
2 221 (37.71%) Data Pipeline
3 188 (32.08%) Data Engineering
4 166 (28.33%) Data Modelling
5 159 (27.13%) Analytics
6 132 (22.53%) Data Science
7 109 (18.60%) Business Intelligence
8 99 (16.89%) DevOps
9 95 (16.21%) Agile
10 89 (15.19%) Data Integration
11 83 (14.16%) CI/CD
12 78 (13.31%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (11.26%) Visualisation
14 55 (9.39%) Machine Learning
15 51 (8.70%) Mentoring
15 51 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
16 49 (8.36%) Data Analytics
17 48 (8.19%) Computer Science
17 48 (8.19%) Data Architecture
18 47 (8.02%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 384 (65.53%) SQL
2 372 (63.48%) Python
3 51 (8.70%) Java
4 32 (5.46%) Scala
5 29 (4.95%) T-SQL
6 23 (3.92%) C#
7 16 (2.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.22%) R
9 10 (1.71%) U-SQL
10 9 (1.54%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.19%) VB
12 6 (1.02%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.02%) VBA
13 4 (0.68%) Rust
14 3 (0.51%) C++
14 3 (0.51%) Go
14 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.34%) Bash
15 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (10.75%) Degree
2 32 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.22%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.05%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.19%) CISSP
7 4 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.68%) CISM
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
8 3 (0.51%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.51%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (13.48%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.88%) GDPR
3 10 (1.71%) QA
4 6 (1.02%) 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
System Software
1 46 (7.85%) Docker
2 8 (1.37%) HDFS
3 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 63 (10.75%) Terraform
2 48 (8.19%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.02%) 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%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 131 (22.35%) Databricks
2 58 (9.90%) Microsoft
3 46 (7.85%) Google
4 21 (3.58%) Oracle
5 12 (2.05%) Cloudera
5 12 (2.05%) Informatica
6 11 (1.88%) YouTube
7 10 (1.71%) Alteryx
8 7 (1.19%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.68%) Qualys
9 4 (0.68%) Splunk
10 3 (0.51%) Netskope
10 3 (0.51%) Symantec
10 3 (0.51%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.34%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.34%) NEC
11 2 (0.34%) SAP
11 2 (0.34%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.34%) Snowplow
11 2 (0.34%) Teradata