Data Engineer Jobs in Central London

Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Data Engineer salary in Central London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 137 132
Rank change year-on-year +29 -5 -27
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 80 124 192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.13% 2.26% 2.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.24% 2.35% 2.51%
Number of salaries quoted 70 109 161
10th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £47,913
25th Percentile £50,625 £56,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -3.45%
75th Percentile £81,250 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £102,700 £105,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 3,567 5,281 7,635
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.02% 96.19% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 2,826 4,427 6,487
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,625 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £111,250 £108,750
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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 +27 79 £70,000 -6.67% 4
City of Westminster - 9 £30,500 -
Data Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, 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 54 (67.50%) SQL
2 49 (61.25%) Python
3 40 (50.00%) ETL
4 39 (48.75%) Azure
5 30 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (32.50%) Data Modelling
7 25 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
8 23 (28.75%) AWS
8 23 (28.75%) Data Engineering
9 22 (27.50%) PySpark
10 20 (25.00%) Data Science
11 17 (21.25%) Databricks
11 17 (21.25%) Finance
12 15 (18.75%) Agile
12 15 (18.75%) DevOps
12 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
13 14 (17.50%) Snowflake
13 14 (17.50%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (15.00%) CI/CD
14 12 (15.00%) Data Integration
15 11 (13.75%) Migration
15 11 (13.75%) Analytics
16 10 (12.50%) Structured Cabling
16 10 (12.50%) DBS Check
16 10 (12.50%) Driving Licence
16 10 (12.50%) Telecoms
16 10 (12.50%) Data Architecture
17 9 (11.25%) GCP
17 9 (11.25%) dbt
18 8 (10.00%) Data Lake

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 8 (10.00%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.50%) Apache
2 6 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (2.50%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 39 (48.75%) Azure
2 23 (28.75%) AWS
3 14 (17.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 14 (17.50%) Snowflake
4 9 (11.25%) dbt
4 9 (11.25%) GCP
5 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 6 (7.50%) Serverless
6 5 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (31.25%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 8 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.50%) Power BI
3 6 (7.50%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.25%) Spark SQL
5 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.00%) Data Vault
6 3 (3.75%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.50%) Big Data
7 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.50%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.50%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.50%) Tableau
8 1 (1.25%) Metadata
8 1 (1.25%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) Git
2 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 17 (21.25%) Finance
2 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.00%) Music Industry
6 1 (1.25%) Front Office
6 1 (1.25%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (27.50%) PySpark
2 4 (5.00%) Pandas
3 2 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (1.25%) .NET
4 1 (1.25%) Anaconda
4 1 (1.25%) Flask
4 1 (1.25%) JSON
4 1 (1.25%) Kafka
4 1 (1.25%) Plotly
4 1 (1.25%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.50%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.50%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) PMI
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (50.00%) ETL
2 30 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
3 26 (32.50%) Data Modelling
4 23 (28.75%) Data Engineering
5 20 (25.00%) Data Science
6 15 (18.75%) Agile
6 15 (18.75%) DevOps
7 12 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 12 (15.00%) Data Integration
8 11 (13.75%) Analytics
8 11 (13.75%) Migration
9 10 (12.50%) Data Architecture
10 8 (10.00%) Data Migration
10 8 (10.00%) Test Automation
11 7 (8.75%) Data Transformation
12 6 (7.50%) Visualisation
13 5 (6.25%) Decision-Making
13 5 (6.25%) Machine Learning
14 4 (5.00%) Data Strategy
14 4 (5.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (67.50%) SQL
2 49 (61.25%) Python
3 3 (3.75%) C#
4 2 (2.50%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.25%) C++
5 1 (1.25%) Java
5 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.25%) R
5 1 (1.25%) Scala
5 1 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (12.50%) DBS Check
2 3 (3.75%) Degree
3 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Terraform
2 1 (1.25%) Ansible
2 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (21.25%) Databricks
2 5 (6.25%) Alteryx
3 2 (2.50%) Informatica
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.50%) NEC
3 2 (2.50%) Oracle
3 2 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.25%) Brio
4 1 (1.25%) Google