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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 113 173
Rank change year-on-year +6 +60 -33
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 52 72 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.18% 1.91% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 2.08% 1.53%
Number of salaries quoted 33 64 62
10th Percentile £52,100 £52,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £60,250 £57,188 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £77,500 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -7.46% -1.47%
75th Percentile £135,000 £95,625 £99,375
90th Percentile £154,500 £125,000 £109,750
London median annual salary £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +15.15% -2.94% +1.49%

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 2,303 3,466 4,767
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.68% 91.81% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,570 2,631 3,919
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 £97,500 £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 30 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 30 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 +30 50 £85,000 +9.68% 24
City of Westminster -8 6 - - 2
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 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
2 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 37 (71.15%) Azure
2 15 (28.85%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (26.92%) AWS
4 13 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 12 (23.08%) GCP
6 10 (19.23%) Power Platform
7 9 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (15.38%) GitHub
8 8 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (11.54%) Serverless
10 5 (9.62%) PaaS
11 4 (7.69%) dbt
12 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Purview
13 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
13 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
13 2 (3.85%) Azure Machine Learning
13 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
14 1 (1.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
14 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (32.69%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (19.23%) Data Lake
2 10 (19.23%) Power BI
3 6 (11.54%) Metadata
4 4 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 4 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.69%) Tableau
5 3 (5.77%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (3.85%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.85%) Data Mining
6 2 (3.85%) Delta Lake
6 2 (3.85%) Looker
6 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.85%) Parquet
6 2 (3.85%) Power Query
6 2 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.92%) Neo4j
7 1 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Git
General
1 19 (36.54%) Finance
1 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Banking
4 5 (9.62%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.77%) Law
6 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Front Office
6 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Marketing
6 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.92%) Games
7 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Data Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) Lead
3 5 (9.62%) Data Scientist
3 5 (9.62%) Head of Engineering
3 5 (9.62%) Senior
4 3 (5.77%) Developer
4 3 (5.77%) Lead Data Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) Software Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Analytics Developer
5 2 (3.85%) Architect
5 2 (3.85%) Data Manager
5 2 (3.85%) Head of Data Science
5 2 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Principal Software Engineer
6 1 (1.92%) Data Analytics Manager
6 1 (1.92%) Head of Architecture
6 1 (1.92%) Python Developer
6 1 (1.92%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) PySpark
2 4 (7.69%) Plotly
3 2 (3.85%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.92%) .NET
4 1 (1.92%) Apache Avro
4 1 (1.92%) Flask
4 1 (1.92%) NumPy
4 1 (1.92%) Pandas
4 1 (1.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 4 (7.69%) Reinsurance
2 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.92%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.92%) FMCG
4 1 (1.92%) Life Science
4 1 (1.92%) Online Games
4 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.92%) Replication
4 1 (1.92%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (53.85%) Analytics
2 21 (40.38%) Data Science
2 21 (40.38%) DevOps
3 16 (30.77%) CI/CD
3 16 (30.77%) Data Analytics
4 15 (28.85%) ETL
4 15 (28.85%) Machine Learning
5 13 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 13 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 12 (23.08%) Data Transformation
7 11 (21.15%) Data Governance
7 11 (21.15%) Data Modelling
7 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (19.23%) Release Management
8 10 (19.23%) Roadmaps
8 10 (19.23%) Visualisation
9 9 (17.31%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (15.38%) BCP
10 8 (15.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (50.00%) Python
2 20 (38.46%) SQL
3 4 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (7.69%) Java
4 3 (5.77%) Go
4 3 (5.77%) Scala
4 3 (5.77%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.85%) C++
5 2 (3.85%) Rust
6 1 (1.92%) C#
6 1 (1.92%) Cypher
6 1 (1.92%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (11.54%) Degree
2 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.92%) PhD
4 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (21.15%) Terraform
2 4 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (46.15%) Databricks
2 20 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.77%) Google
4 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.92%) Confluent
5 1 (1.92%) Dell
5 1 (1.92%) Informatica