Data Engineering Jobs in the City of London

Data Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 112 160
Rank change year-on-year +23 +48 -27
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 50 66 70
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.56% 1.97% 1.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 2.15% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 31 59 59
10th Percentile £52,000 £52,500 £44,500
25th Percentile £60,125 £59,375 £61,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £128,750 £97,500 £97,125
90th Percentile £155,000 £125,000 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £90,000 £77,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +16.13% -6.06% -2.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,884 3,067 4,261
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.32% 91.66% 95.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,417 2,382 3,541
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,325 £42,500
25th Percentile £54,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
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 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.00%) Apache
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 35 (70.00%) Azure
2 15 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (26.00%) AWS
3 13 (26.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 12 (24.00%) 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 5 (10.00%) PaaS
7 5 (10.00%) Serverless
8 4 (8.00%) dbt
9 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (4.00%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (2.00%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
11 1 (2.00%) Collibra
11 1 (2.00%) Dagster
11 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 9 (18.00%) Power BI
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%) BigQuery
7 2 (4.00%) Data Mining
7 2 (4.00%) Delta Lake
7 2 (4.00%) Looker
7 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
7 2 (4.00%) Parquet
7 2 (4.00%) Power Query
7 2 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.00%) Neo4j
8 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Git
General
1 18 (36.00%) Finance
1 18 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Banking
4 5 (10.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (6.00%) Law
6 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Front Office
6 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.00%) Games
7 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
7 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%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (6.00%) Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Lead Data Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Analytics Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Head of Data Science
6 2 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Principal Software Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Data Science Leader
7 1 (2.00%) Head of Analytics
7 1 (2.00%) Head of Data Analytics
7 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%) 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
1 4 (8.00%) Reinsurance
2 3 (6.00%) 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 27 (54.00%) Analytics
2 20 (40.00%) Data Science
2 20 (40.00%) DevOps
3 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
4 15 (30.00%) Data Analytics
4 15 (30.00%) ETL
4 15 (30.00%) Machine Learning
5 13 (26.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 12 (24.00%) Data Transformation
6 12 (24.00%) Decision-Making
7 11 (22.00%) Data Modelling
8 10 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 10 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (20.00%) Release Management
8 10 (20.00%) Visualisation
9 9 (18.00%) Roadmaps
10 8 (16.00%) BCP
10 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) Python
2 19 (38.00%) SQL
3 4 (8.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (8.00%) Java
4 3 (6.00%) Go
4 3 (6.00%) Scala
4 3 (6.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.00%) C++
5 2 (4.00%) Rust
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 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (22.00%) Terraform
2 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (48.00%) Databricks
2 19 (38.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) Google
4 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.00%) Confluent
5 1 (2.00%) Dell
5 1 (2.00%) Informatica