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 30 April 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 116 130
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 64 81 120
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.52% 2.14% 2.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.77% 2.25% 2.35%
Number of salaries quoted 50 71 107
10th Percentile £57,500 £28,250 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £50,000 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £70,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -9.68% +10.71%
75th Percentile £97,125 £80,000 £93,375
90th Percentile £101,000 £105,000 £109,000
London median annual salary £92,500 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +23.33% -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 2,309 3,597 5,096
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.91% 95.08% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,832 4,257
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +21 63 £82,500 +17.86% 15
City of Westminster -11 9 - -
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 30 April 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 51 (79.69%) SQL
2 46 (71.88%) Azure
3 37 (57.81%) ETL
4 33 (51.56%) Databricks
5 32 (50.00%) Python
6 31 (48.44%) Social Skills
7 27 (42.19%) Analytics
8 26 (40.63%) Agile
8 26 (40.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (39.06%) AWS
10 23 (35.94%) Data Pipeline
10 23 (35.94%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (31.25%) Data Science
12 18 (28.13%) Degree
13 16 (25.00%) Computer Science
13 16 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (23.44%) Data Modelling
14 15 (23.44%) Data Management
14 15 (23.44%) GCP
14 15 (23.44%) Data Engineering
15 14 (21.88%) Computer Science Degree
15 14 (21.88%) Data Lake
16 13 (20.31%) SQL Server
17 12 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
17 12 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
17 12 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
18 11 (17.19%) Power Platform
18 11 (17.19%) Power BI
18 11 (17.19%) Google

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 (6.25%) Apache
1 4 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 46 (71.88%) Azure
2 26 (40.63%) Azure Data Factory
3 25 (39.06%) AWS
4 15 (23.44%) GCP
5 11 (17.19%) Power Platform
6 8 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (10.94%) Serverless
8 5 (7.81%) GitHub
9 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (6.25%) dbt
10 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
11 2 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (3.13%) WhatsApp
12 1 (1.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.56%) Fivetran
12 1 (1.56%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (21.88%) Data Lake
3 13 (20.31%) SQL Server
4 11 (17.19%) Power BI
5 10 (15.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (12.50%) Relational Database
7 6 (9.38%) Tableau
8 5 (7.81%) Metadata
9 4 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (6.25%) Big Data
10 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (4.69%) Power Query
11 2 (3.13%) Data Mining
11 2 (3.13%) Delta Lake
11 2 (3.13%) DynamoDB
11 2 (3.13%) Parquet
11 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
12 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 1 (1.56%) QlikView
12 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 31 (48.44%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (17.19%) Finance
4 9 (14.06%) Law
5 3 (4.69%) Front Office
5 3 (4.69%) Legal
6 2 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.13%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) ARM Templates
1 8 (12.50%) PySpark
2 2 (3.13%) Flask
2 2 (3.13%) GraphQL
2 2 (3.13%) pytest
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Avro
3 1 (1.56%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.56%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
2 1 (1.56%) Unix
2 1 (1.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (57.81%) ETL
2 27 (42.19%) Analytics
3 26 (40.63%) Agile
4 23 (35.94%) Data Pipeline
4 23 (35.94%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (31.25%) Data Science
6 16 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 16 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (23.44%) Data Engineering
7 15 (23.44%) Data Management
7 15 (23.44%) Data Modelling
8 12 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
8 12 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
9 10 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (15.63%) Containerisation
9 10 (15.63%) DevOps
10 9 (14.06%) Data Integration
10 9 (14.06%) Roadmaps
11 8 (12.50%) CI/CD
11 8 (12.50%) Cost Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (79.69%) SQL
2 32 (50.00%) Python
3 11 (17.19%) Java
4 10 (15.63%) Scala
5 9 (14.06%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.69%) C#
7 2 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.56%) C++
8 1 (1.56%) Cypher
8 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (28.13%) Degree
2 14 (21.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (15.63%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
2 8 (12.50%) Terraform
3 1 (1.56%) Ansible
3 1 (1.56%) Grafana
3 1 (1.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (51.56%) Databricks
2 11 (17.19%) Google
3 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.56%) Adobe
4 1 (1.56%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.56%) Informatica
4 1 (1.56%) Tealium