Data Engineering Jobs in Central London

Data Engineering
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 127 163
Rank change year-on-year +18 +36 -16
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 50 71 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.13% 1.88% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.05% 1.55%
Number of salaries quoted 31 62 63
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £63,875 £57,500 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.58% -6.06% -2.94%
75th Percentile £138,750 £95,938 £98,750
90th Percentile £155,000 £125,000 £109,500
London median annual salary £96,750 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +17.27% -2.94% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 3,471 4,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.64% 91.83% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,546 2,651 3,984
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Central London

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in Central London

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Central London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Central London

Data Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +21 48 £95,000 +22.58% 30
City of Westminster -7 6 - - 3
Southwark - 1 £90,000 -
Data Engineering
London

Data Engineering
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 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 36 (72.00%) Azure
2 14 (28.00%) AWS
2 14 (28.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (24.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 10 (20.00%) GCP
5 9 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (18.00%) Power Platform
6 8 (16.00%) GitHub
6 8 (16.00%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (12.00%) Serverless
8 5 (10.00%) PaaS
9 4 (8.00%) dbt
10 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (4.00%) Azure Functions
11 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
11 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (2.00%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (2.00%) Azure Stack
12 1 (2.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (18.00%) Power BI
3 8 (16.00%) Data Lake
4 6 (12.00%) Metadata
5 4 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (8.00%) NoSQL
5 4 (8.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.00%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (6.00%) Tableau
7 2 (4.00%) Data Mining
7 2 (4.00%) Delta Lake
7 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.00%) Parquet
7 2 (4.00%) Power Query
8 1 (2.00%) Big Data
8 1 (2.00%) Looker
8 1 (2.00%) Neo4j
8 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Git
General
1 19 (38.00%) Finance
2 17 (34.00%) Social Skills
3 13 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.00%) Banking
5 5 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Law
7 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Front Office
7 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Marketing
7 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.00%) Games
8 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (24.00%) Data Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Lead
3 5 (10.00%) Data Scientist
3 5 (10.00%) Head of Engineering
3 5 (10.00%) Senior
4 3 (6.00%) Lead Data Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Data Manager
5 2 (4.00%) Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Head of Data Science
5 2 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.00%) Data Analytics Manager
6 1 (2.00%) Head of Analytics
6 1 (2.00%) Head of Architecture
6 1 (2.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) PySpark
2 4 (8.00%) Plotly
3 2 (4.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.00%) .NET
4 1 (2.00%) Apache Avro
4 1 (2.00%) Flask
4 1 (2.00%) NumPy
4 1 (2.00%) Pandas
4 1 (2.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.00%) Reinsurance
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.00%) FMCG
4 1 (2.00%) Life Science
4 1 (2.00%) Online Games
4 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.00%) Replication
4 1 (2.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (52.00%) Analytics
2 21 (42.00%) Data Science
2 21 (42.00%) DevOps
3 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (28.00%) Data Analytics
4 14 (28.00%) ETL
4 14 (28.00%) Machine Learning
5 12 (24.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 12 (24.00%) Decision-Making
6 11 (22.00%) Data Governance
6 11 (22.00%) Data Transformation
6 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (20.00%) Data Modelling
7 10 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (20.00%) Release Management
7 10 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 10 (20.00%) Visualisation
8 8 (16.00%) BCP
8 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (16.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (52.00%) Python
2 19 (38.00%) SQL
3 4 (8.00%) Java
4 3 (6.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (6.00%) Go
4 3 (6.00%) Scala
5 2 (4.00%) C++
5 2 (4.00%) Rust
5 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.00%) C#
6 1 (2.00%) Cypher
6 1 (2.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Degree
2 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.00%) PhD
4 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Terraform
2 4 (8.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (48.00%) Databricks
2 20 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) Confluent
4 1 (2.00%) Informatica
4 1 (2.00%) Salesforce