Data Engineer Jobs in Central London

Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Data Engineer salary in Central London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 133 135
Rank change year-on-year +20 +2 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 80 117 196
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.11% 2.22% 2.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.21% 2.31% 2.55%
Number of salaries quoted 70 104 167
10th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £57,813 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +10.34% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £113,875 £105,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,615 5,070 7,679
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.23% 96.19% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,833 4,231 6,436
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 3 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
City of London +37 79 £70,000 -8.20% 14
City of Westminster - 9 £30,500 -
Data Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 Central London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (68.75%) SQL
2 49 (61.25%) Python
3 40 (50.00%) ETL
4 39 (48.75%) Azure
5 31 (38.75%) Data Pipeline
6 27 (33.75%) Data Modelling
7 25 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (28.75%) PySpark
9 22 (27.50%) AWS
9 22 (27.50%) Data Engineering
10 19 (23.75%) Data Science
11 17 (21.25%) Databricks
12 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
12 16 (20.00%) Finance
13 15 (18.75%) Agile
13 15 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
14 14 (17.50%) DevOps
15 13 (16.25%) Snowflake
16 12 (15.00%) CI/CD
16 12 (15.00%) Analytics
16 12 (15.00%) Data Integration
17 11 (13.75%) Migration
18 10 (12.50%) Telecoms
18 10 (12.50%) Data Architecture
18 10 (12.50%) Structured Cabling
18 10 (12.50%) DBS Check
18 10 (12.50%) Driving Licence
19 9 (11.25%) GCP
19 9 (11.25%) dbt
20 8 (10.00%) Data Lake

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 8 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.50%) Apache
2 6 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (2.50%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.75%) Azure
2 22 (27.50%) AWS
3 15 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 13 (16.25%) Snowflake
5 9 (11.25%) dbt
5 9 (11.25%) GCP
6 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (7.50%) Serverless
8 5 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (1.25%) IaaS
11 1 (1.25%) PaaS
11 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 8 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.75%) Power BI
4 6 (7.50%) Relational Database
5 5 (6.25%) Spark SQL
6 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (5.00%) Data Vault
7 3 (3.75%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.50%) Big Data
8 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
8 2 (2.50%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.50%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (2.50%) Tableau
9 1 (1.25%) Metadata
9 1 (1.25%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Git
2 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 16 (20.00%) Finance
1 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Telecoms
3 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Music Industry
5 1 (1.25%) Front Office
5 1 (1.25%) Games
5 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.75%) PySpark
2 4 (5.00%) Pandas
3 2 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (1.25%) .NET
4 1 (1.25%) Anaconda
4 1 (1.25%) Flask
4 1 (1.25%) JSON
4 1 (1.25%) Kafka
4 1 (1.25%) Plotly
4 1 (1.25%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.50%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.00%) ETL
2 31 (38.75%) Data Pipeline
3 27 (33.75%) Data Modelling
4 22 (27.50%) Data Engineering
5 19 (23.75%) Data Science
6 15 (18.75%) Agile
7 14 (17.50%) DevOps
8 12 (15.00%) Analytics
8 12 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 12 (15.00%) Data Integration
9 11 (13.75%) Migration
10 10 (12.50%) Data Architecture
11 8 (10.00%) Data Migration
11 8 (10.00%) Test Automation
12 7 (8.75%) Data Transformation
13 6 (7.50%) Visualisation
14 5 (6.25%) Decision-Making
15 4 (5.00%) Data Management
15 4 (5.00%) Data Strategy
15 4 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 55 (68.75%) SQL
2 49 (61.25%) Python
3 3 (3.75%) C#
4 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.25%) C++
5 1 (1.25%) Java
5 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.25%) R
5 1 (1.25%) Scala
5 1 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) DBS Check
2 3 (3.75%) Degree
3 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Terraform
2 1 (1.25%) Ansible
2 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (21.25%) Databricks
2 4 (5.00%) Alteryx
3 2 (2.50%) Informatica
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.50%) NEC
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle
3 2 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.25%) Brio
4 1 (1.25%) Google