Data Engineering Jobs in London

Data Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 92 126
Rank change year-on-year -71 +34 +57
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 469 1,300 2,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.99% 3.61% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 3.78% 3.32%
Number of salaries quoted 348 685 805
10th Percentile £54,625 £56,250 £50,477
25th Percentile £63,750 £69,750 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,000 £90,000 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £141,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% +3.33% +15.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,539 34,378 63,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.43% 95.41% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 16,074 24,527 34,294
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
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 London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 25 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 +39 68 £75,000 -11.76% 14
West London -16 12 £92,500 +23.33%
South London -33 8 £67,500 - 3
North London +3 4 £71,250 -1.72%
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 79 (16.84%) Apache Spark
2 71 (15.14%) Apache
3 52 (11.09%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (3.41%) SAS
5 6 (1.28%) Confluence
6 3 (0.64%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.43%) Luigi
7 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.64%) SPSS
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 210 (44.78%) Azure
2 185 (39.45%) AWS
3 100 (21.32%) GCP
4 94 (20.04%) Power Platform
5 77 (16.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 55 (11.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 47 (10.02%) Amazon S3
8 35 (7.46%) dbt
9 34 (7.25%) Snowflake
10 33 (7.04%) GitHub
10 33 (7.04%) Serverless
11 32 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.41%) SaaS
15 12 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
16 10 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (2.13%) Azure Stack
16 10 (2.13%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.85%) Network Security
2 1 (0.21%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 137 (29.21%) Data Warehouse
2 92 (19.62%) Power BI
3 79 (16.84%) Data Lake
4 65 (13.86%) Big Data
5 57 (12.15%) Tableau
6 43 (9.17%) NoSQL
7 40 (8.53%) BigQuery
8 38 (8.10%) Hadoop
9 37 (7.89%) SQL Server
10 33 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (6.82%) Looker
12 27 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
13 25 (5.33%) Relational Database
14 21 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
16 19 (4.05%) DynamoDB
16 19 (4.05%) Metadata
17 17 (3.62%) MySQL
18 16 (3.41%) Apache Hive
19 15 (3.20%) Flink
Development Applications
1 43 (9.17%) Git
2 21 (4.48%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.92%) CircleCI
3 9 (1.92%) JIRA
4 5 (1.07%) ERwin
5 4 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.85%) GitLab
5 4 (0.85%) Snakemake
6 3 (0.64%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.64%) MLflow
7 1 (0.21%) JMeter
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.21%) Postman
7 1 (0.21%) Selenium
7 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.21%) Spinnaker
General
1 113 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 97 (20.68%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (18.12%) Finance
4 38 (8.10%) Banking
5 26 (5.54%) Retail
6 23 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 22 (4.69%) Law
7 22 (4.69%) Legal
8 18 (3.84%) Marketing
9 13 (2.77%) Front Office
9 13 (2.77%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.56%) Investment Banking
10 12 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.35%) Games
12 9 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (1.71%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.28%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.28%) Publishing
15 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 188 (40.09%) Data Engineer
2 110 (23.45%) Senior
3 70 (14.93%) Senior Data Engineer
4 59 (12.58%) Data Manager
5 47 (10.02%) Lead
6 38 (8.10%) Engineering Manager
7 30 (6.40%) Analyst
7 30 (6.40%) Principal Engineer
8 27 (5.76%) Architect
9 25 (5.33%) Developer
10 23 (4.90%) Data Analyst
11 22 (4.69%) Python Engineer
12 21 (4.48%) Data Architect
13 19 (4.05%) Principal Data Engineer
14 17 (3.62%) Azure Data Engineer
14 17 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
15 16 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
15 16 (3.41%) Consultant
16 15 (3.20%) Head of Engineering
17 14 (2.99%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (12.79%) PySpark
2 36 (7.68%) Kafka
3 27 (5.76%) Pandas
4 20 (4.26%) Apache Beam
5 14 (2.99%) NumPy
6 12 (2.56%) .NET
7 11 (2.35%) AngularJS
8 10 (2.13%) PyTorch
9 9 (1.92%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (1.71%) Apache Avro
10 8 (1.71%) Flask
10 8 (1.71%) GraphQL
10 8 (1.71%) Plotly
10 8 (1.71%) React
11 7 (1.49%) RESTful
11 7 (1.49%) SciPy
12 6 (1.28%) Node.js
12 6 (1.28%) Protocol Buffers
12 6 (1.28%) SQLAlchemy
12 6 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.90%) Data Structures
2 21 (4.48%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 19 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (3.84%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.71%) Distributed Applications
9 7 (1.49%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.07%) Blog
11 5 (1.07%) IoT
11 5 (1.07%) Life Science
11 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.85%) NHS
12 4 (0.85%) Omics
12 4 (0.85%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.71%) Linux
2 2 (0.43%) Unix
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (38.38%) Analytics
2 164 (34.97%) ETL
3 152 (32.41%) Data Pipeline
4 150 (31.98%) Data Modelling
5 133 (28.36%) Data Science
6 120 (25.59%) Business Intelligence
7 119 (25.37%) Agile
8 106 (22.60%) Machine Learning
9 101 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
10 98 (20.90%) Visualisation
11 81 (17.27%) DevOps
12 78 (16.63%) CI/CD
13 77 (16.42%) Data Visualisation
14 74 (15.78%) Data Integration
15 64 (13.65%) Data Governance
16 62 (13.22%) Artificial Intelligence
17 59 (12.58%) Data Architecture
18 56 (11.94%) Mentoring
18 56 (11.94%) Roadmaps
19 53 (11.30%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 285 (60.77%) Python
2 282 (60.13%) SQL
3 55 (11.73%) Java
4 37 (7.89%) Scala
5 36 (7.68%) R
6 14 (2.99%) C#
6 14 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (2.56%) MATLAB
8 9 (1.92%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.71%) Go
9 8 (1.71%) JavaScript
9 8 (1.71%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.49%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.07%) C
11 5 (1.07%) C++
12 4 (0.85%) Bash
12 4 (0.85%) VBA
13 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 65 (13.86%) Degree
2 33 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.05%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.13%) PhD
6 7 (1.49%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.49%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.28%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.07%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.64%) PMP
10 2 (0.43%) MCP
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.21%) MCSE
11 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (10.02%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.69%) GDPR
3 19 (4.05%) QA
4 5 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.85%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.64%) SLA
7 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 22 (4.69%) Docker
2 8 (1.71%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 37 (7.89%) Terraform
2 30 (6.40%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.28%) Ansible
4 5 (1.07%) logstash
5 3 (0.64%) Argo
5 3 (0.64%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.21%) Oozie
Vendors
1 104 (22.17%) Databricks
2 49 (10.45%) Google
3 44 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.26%) Oracle
5 15 (3.20%) Cloudera
6 11 (2.35%) Informatica
7 8 (1.71%) Samsung
7 8 (1.71%) Teradata
8 6 (1.28%) SAP
9 5 (1.07%) IBM
9 5 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.85%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.64%) Embarcadero
11 3 (0.64%) SnapLogic
12 2 (0.43%) Cognos
12 2 (0.43%) Facebook
12 2 (0.43%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.43%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.43%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.21%) Remedy