Data Engineer Jobs in Central London

Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Data Engineer salary in Central London is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 121 132
Rank change year-on-year +16 +11 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 55 78 106
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.34% 2.06% 2.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.55% 2.16% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 41 65 96
10th Percentile £57,500 £28,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £68,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.44% -11.61% +6.90%
75th Percentile £96,000 £77,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £104,000 £111,250
London median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% +13.33%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 2,159 3,607 4,891
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.79% 95.42% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,516 2,783 4,066
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,210
Median % change year-on-year - -0.97% +0.98%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 +15 54 £83,750 +22.71% 15
City of Westminster -6 10 - - 1
Southwark - 1 £31,000 -
Data Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 41 (74.55%) SQL
2 39 (70.91%) Azure
3 31 (56.36%) ETL
4 29 (52.73%) Python
5 28 (50.91%) Databricks
6 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
7 21 (38.18%) AWS
8 20 (36.36%) Analytics
8 20 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 19 (34.55%) Agile
10 18 (32.73%) Data Science
11 17 (30.91%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (29.09%) Data Warehouse
12 16 (29.09%) Data Modelling
13 14 (25.45%) Data Management
13 14 (25.45%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (25.45%) GCP
14 13 (23.64%) Degree
15 12 (21.82%) Computer Science
15 12 (21.82%) Artificial Intelligence
15 12 (21.82%) Data Engineering
15 12 (21.82%) Data Lake
15 12 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
16 11 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
16 11 (20.00%) Scala
17 10 (18.18%) Google
17 10 (18.18%) Law
17 10 (18.18%) DevOps
17 10 (18.18%) Containerisation

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 4 (7.27%) Apache
2 3 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 39 (70.91%) Azure
2 21 (38.18%) AWS
3 20 (36.36%) Azure Data Factory
4 14 (25.45%) GCP
5 8 (14.55%) Power Platform
6 5 (9.09%) Serverless
7 4 (7.27%) dbt
8 3 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (3.64%) GitHub
9 2 (3.64%) Snowflake
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Functions
10 1 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (1.82%) Collibra
10 1 (1.82%) Dagster
10 1 (1.82%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (29.09%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (21.82%) Data Lake
3 8 (14.55%) Power BI
3 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
4 7 (12.73%) Metadata
5 6 (10.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (9.09%) Relational Database
7 4 (7.27%) Tableau
8 3 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (5.45%) Big Data
8 3 (5.45%) Power Query
9 2 (3.64%) Data Mining
9 2 (3.64%) Delta Lake
9 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.64%) Parquet
10 1 (1.82%) Neo4j
10 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.82%) PowerPivot
10 1 (1.82%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.82%) JIRA
General
1 23 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (18.18%) Law
4 7 (12.73%) Finance
5 2 (3.64%) Banking
5 2 (3.64%) Legal
5 2 (3.64%) Marketing
6 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.82%) Front Office
6 1 (1.82%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.55%) ARM Templates
2 7 (12.73%) PySpark
3 2 (3.64%) GraphQL
3 2 (3.64%) pytest
4 1 (1.82%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.82%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.82%) Flask
4 1 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
1 1 (1.82%) FMCG
1 1 (1.82%) Marketing Technology
1 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Unix
2 1 (1.82%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (56.36%) ETL
2 20 (36.36%) Analytics
3 19 (34.55%) Agile
4 18 (32.73%) Data Science
5 17 (30.91%) Data Pipeline
5 17 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (29.09%) Data Modelling
7 14 (25.45%) Data Management
7 14 (25.45%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (21.82%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (21.82%) Computer Science
8 12 (21.82%) Data Engineering
8 12 (21.82%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (18.18%) Containerisation
9 10 (18.18%) Decision-Making
9 10 (18.18%) DevOps
10 9 (16.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 8 (14.55%) Cost Management
11 8 (14.55%) Network Virtualisation
11 8 (14.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 41 (74.55%) SQL
2 29 (52.73%) Python
3 11 (20.00%) Scala
4 8 (14.55%) Java
5 7 (12.73%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.82%) C++
7 1 (1.82%) Cypher
7 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) Degree
2 10 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (16.36%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) Terraform
2 8 (14.55%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Grafana
3 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (50.91%) Databricks
2 10 (18.18%) Google
3 7 (12.73%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.82%) Adobe
4 1 (1.82%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.82%) Informatica
4 1 (1.82%) Tealium