Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Central London

Senior Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Central London is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 163 210
Rank change year-on-year +12 +47 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 10 27 35
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.40% 0.72% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.75% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8 26 31
10th Percentile £52,500 - £72,500
25th Percentile £58,125 £28,250 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year - -19.44% +7.46%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £77,875 £105,000 £115,000
London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%

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 2,277 3,593 4,926
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 95.36% 95.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,606 2,786 4,099
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,813 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year - -1.69% +1.72%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
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%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Central London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in Central London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Central London

Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer within the Central London region over the 6 months to 16 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 +22 10 £72,500 - 3
City of Westminster -10 1 - - 1
Senior Data Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) ETL
2 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (60.00%) Analytics
5 5 (50.00%) Data Analytics
5 5 (50.00%) Tableau
5 5 (50.00%) Power BI
5 5 (50.00%) T-SQL
5 5 (50.00%) Finance
5 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (40.00%) Metadata
6 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (40.00%) Agile
6 4 (40.00%) Azure
6 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
6 4 (40.00%) Wealth Management
6 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
6 4 (40.00%) Databricks
6 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
6 4 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (40.00%) GitHub
6 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (40.00%) Coaching
6 4 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
7 3 (30.00%) Migration
7 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse

Senior 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 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) dbt
4 1 (10.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (50.00%) Power BI
3 5 (50.00%) Tableau
4 4 (40.00%) Data Lake
4 4 (40.00%) Metadata
5 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (20.00%) Data Mining
7 1 (10.00%) Data Vault
7 1 (10.00%) Looker
7 1 (10.00%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (10.00%) PowerPivot
7 1 (10.00%) QlikView
7 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (10.00%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) FMCG
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) ETL
2 7 (70.00%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (60.00%) Analytics
4 5 (50.00%) Data Analytics
5 4 (40.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) Coaching
5 4 (40.00%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
5 4 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
5 4 (40.00%) Wealth Management
6 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (30.00%) Migration
7 2 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
7 2 (20.00%) Data Management
7 2 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Databricks
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Alteryx