Data Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Data Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Data Engineer salary in the City of London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 132 125
Rank change year-on-year +30 -7 -32
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 79 96 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.36% 2.07% 2.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.46% 2.15% 2.60%
Number of salaries quoted 68 83 150
10th Percentile £28,250 £46,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £55,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £79,063 £95,625 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £78,750 £72,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.62% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,208 4,455 6,766
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.85% 96.20% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,545 3,737 5,558
10th Percentile £41,000 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £73,480 £72,500
% change year-on-year -1.33% +1.35% +3.57%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in the City of London

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 City of London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (69.62%) SQL
2 48 (60.76%) Python
3 41 (51.90%) ETL
4 39 (49.37%) Azure
5 32 (40.51%) Data Pipeline
6 28 (35.44%) Data Modelling
7 27 (34.18%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (27.85%) AWS
8 22 (27.85%) Data Engineering
9 21 (26.58%) PySpark
10 20 (25.32%) Data Science
11 17 (21.52%) Finance
12 16 (20.25%) Social Skills
13 15 (18.99%) Databricks
14 14 (17.72%) Snowflake
14 14 (17.72%) Agile
15 13 (16.46%) Data Integration
15 13 (16.46%) DevOps
15 13 (16.46%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (15.19%) Analytics
17 11 (13.92%) Migration
18 10 (12.66%) Telecoms
18 10 (12.66%) Data Architecture
18 10 (12.66%) Structured Cabling
18 10 (12.66%) DBS Check
18 10 (12.66%) Driving Licence
18 10 (12.66%) CI/CD
19 9 (11.39%) dbt
19 9 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
19 9 (11.39%) GCP

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 7 (8.86%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (8.86%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.27%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (2.53%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 39 (49.37%) Azure
2 22 (27.85%) AWS
3 14 (17.72%) Snowflake
4 13 (16.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (11.39%) dbt
5 9 (11.39%) GCP
6 8 (10.13%) Power Platform
7 6 (7.59%) Serverless
8 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.27%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.27%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.66%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (34.18%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (10.13%) Data Lake
2 8 (10.13%) Power BI
2 8 (10.13%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.59%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.33%) Spark SQL
5 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.06%) Data Vault
6 3 (3.80%) Data Mining
6 3 (3.80%) Semantic Layer
6 3 (3.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.53%) Big Data
7 2 (2.53%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.53%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.53%) Tableau
8 1 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Git
2 4 (5.06%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.53%) JIRA
General
1 17 (21.52%) Finance
2 16 (20.25%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.66%) Telecoms
4 9 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Music Industry
6 1 (1.27%) Front Office
6 1 (1.27%) Games
6 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.58%) PySpark
2 4 (5.06%) Pandas
3 2 (2.53%) REST
4 1 (1.27%) .NET
4 1 (1.27%) Anaconda
4 1 (1.27%) Flask
4 1 (1.27%) JSON
4 1 (1.27%) Kafka
4 1 (1.27%) Plotly
4 1 (1.27%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) Driving Licence
2 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.80%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.80%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.53%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.53%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.53%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (51.90%) ETL
2 32 (40.51%) Data Pipeline
3 28 (35.44%) Data Modelling
4 22 (27.85%) Data Engineering
5 20 (25.32%) Data Science
6 14 (17.72%) Agile
7 13 (16.46%) Data Integration
7 13 (16.46%) DevOps
8 12 (15.19%) Analytics
9 11 (13.92%) Migration
10 10 (12.66%) CI/CD
10 10 (12.66%) Data Architecture
11 8 (10.13%) Data Migration
11 8 (10.13%) Test Automation
12 7 (8.86%) Data Transformation
13 6 (7.59%) Visualisation
14 5 (6.33%) Computer Science
14 5 (6.33%) Data Analytics
14 5 (6.33%) Decision-Making
14 5 (6.33%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 55 (69.62%) SQL
2 48 (60.76%) Python
3 3 (3.80%) C#
4 2 (2.53%) R
4 2 (2.53%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.27%) C++
5 1 (1.27%) Java
5 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.27%) Scala
5 1 (1.27%) VB
5 1 (1.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (12.66%) DBS Check
2 5 (6.33%) Degree
3 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.39%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.80%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (8.86%) Terraform
2 1 (1.27%) Ansible
2 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (18.99%) Databricks
2 4 (5.06%) Alteryx
3 2 (2.53%) Informatica
3 2 (2.53%) NEC
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle
3 2 (2.53%) SAP
4 1 (1.27%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.27%) Brio
4 1 (1.27%) Google
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft