Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 614 597 602
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 145 154 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.26% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.29% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 116 127 96
10th Percentile £35,000 £48,200 £43,000
25th Percentile £47,875 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £79,625 £75,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 67,966 52,773 69,497
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 89.23% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 47,979 30,132 42,817
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +82 71 £62,500 +4.17% 11
North West +45 59 £65,000 +34.86% 6
Midlands -4 26 £70,000 +16.67% 6
West Midlands +11 18 £70,000 +19.15% 6
South East -34 17 £66,250 -5.36% 32
South West -42 15 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Scotland -63 8 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Yorkshire +79 7 £53,318 -14.69% 2
East Midlands -14 7 - -
East of England - 6 £75,000 - 10
North East +2 5 £80,000 +18.52% 3
Wales +11 3 £46,131 +6.05% 2
Senior Data Engineer
UK

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 73 (50.34%) SQL
1 73 (50.34%) Python
2 65 (44.83%) ETL
3 58 (40.00%) Azure
4 49 (33.79%) Data Engineering
5 48 (33.10%) Data Modelling
6 46 (31.72%) Data Pipeline
7 44 (30.34%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (28.97%) AWS
9 39 (26.90%) Analytics
10 37 (25.52%) Databricks
11 33 (22.76%) Agile
12 32 (22.07%) Finance
13 30 (20.69%) Data Quality
14 29 (20.00%) SQL Server
15 24 (16.55%) Business Intelligence
15 24 (16.55%) Microsoft
15 24 (16.55%) Data Management
15 24 (16.55%) DevOps
15 24 (16.55%) PySpark
15 24 (16.55%) CI/CD
16 23 (15.86%) Data Integration
17 22 (15.17%) Data Science
17 22 (15.17%) Data Lake
17 22 (15.17%) Big Data
18 21 (14.48%) Machine Learning
18 21 (14.48%) Azure Data Factory
19 20 (13.79%) Social Skills
20 18 (12.41%) Data Analytics
20 18 (12.41%) Informatica

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 17 (11.72%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Luigi
4 1 (0.69%) nginx
4 1 (0.69%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (40.00%) Azure
2 42 (28.97%) AWS
3 21 (14.48%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (11.03%) Power Platform
5 15 (10.34%) Serverless
6 14 (9.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (9.66%) GCP
7 13 (8.97%) Amazon S3
7 13 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (6.90%) Snowflake
9 9 (6.21%) GitHub
10 6 (4.14%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (4.14%) dbt
11 5 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (3.45%) SaaS
12 4 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
12 4 (2.76%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.66%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (4.14%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.76%) FTP
4 1 (0.69%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.69%) 5G
4 1 (0.69%) LAN
4 1 (0.69%) VPN
4 1 (0.69%) WAN
4 1 (0.69%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (30.34%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 22 (15.17%) Big Data
3 22 (15.17%) Data Lake
4 16 (11.03%) Power BI
4 16 (11.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (9.66%) Delta Lake
6 11 (7.59%) Data Vault
7 10 (6.90%) DynamoDB
7 10 (6.90%) NoSQL
8 9 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (6.21%) Hadoop
9 8 (5.52%) Relational Database
10 7 (4.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (4.83%) BigQuery
10 7 (4.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (4.14%) Oracle Database
12 4 (2.76%) Redis
13 3 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (2.07%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 9 (6.21%) JIRA
2 6 (4.14%) Git
3 4 (2.76%) GitLab
4 3 (2.07%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (22.07%) Finance
2 20 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.28%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.83%) Retail
6 4 (2.76%) Games
7 3 (2.07%) Agriculture
7 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.07%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.38%) Automotive
9 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Law
9 1 (0.69%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
9 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.55%) PySpark
2 8 (5.52%) Pandas
3 5 (3.45%) Kafka
4 4 (2.76%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.38%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.38%) RESTful
7 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.69%) Node.js
7 1 (0.69%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.34%) Reinsurance
2 14 (9.66%) Data Structures
3 10 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.83%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.45%) Blog
5 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.76%) CCTV
6 4 (2.76%) NHS
6 4 (2.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (2.07%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.07%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.38%) Genomics
9 1 (0.69%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.69%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.76%) Linux
2 1 (0.69%) Windows
2 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (44.83%) ETL
2 49 (33.79%) Data Engineering
3 48 (33.10%) Data Modelling
4 46 (31.72%) Data Pipeline
5 39 (26.90%) Analytics
6 33 (22.76%) Agile
7 24 (16.55%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (16.55%) CI/CD
7 24 (16.55%) Data Management
7 24 (16.55%) DevOps
8 23 (15.86%) Data Integration
9 22 (15.17%) Data Science
10 21 (14.48%) Machine Learning
11 18 (12.41%) Data Analytics
12 17 (11.72%) Data Governance
12 17 (11.72%) Migration
13 15 (10.34%) Visualisation
14 13 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
14 13 (8.97%) Mentoring
15 12 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 73 (50.34%) Python
1 73 (50.34%) SQL
2 9 (6.21%) Java
3 7 (4.83%) PL/SQL
4 6 (4.14%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.45%) C#
6 4 (2.76%) Scala
7 3 (2.07%) C
8 2 (1.38%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.38%) R
8 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.69%) Bash
9 1 (0.69%) C++
9 1 (0.69%) Korn
9 1 (0.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (7.59%) Degree
2 6 (4.14%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.14%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.07%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.07%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.69%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.69%) GDPR
3 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (4.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (10.34%) Terraform
2 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.07%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (25.52%) Databricks
2 24 (16.55%) Microsoft
3 18 (12.41%) Informatica
3 18 (12.41%) Oracle
4 4 (2.76%) Splunk
5 3 (2.07%) Google
5 3 (2.07%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.38%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.69%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.69%) SAP
7 1 (0.69%) Teradata