Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Senior Data Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the City of London is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 149 212 236
Rank change year-on-year +63 +24 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 29 26 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.86% 0.55% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.57% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 28 21 48
10th Percentile - £70,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £80,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £85,000 £83,750
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +1.49% +11.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £107,500 £107,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £116,250
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £90,000 £83,750
% change year-on-year -22.22% +7.46% +4.69%

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 3,223 4,537 6,818
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.92% 96.37% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 2,565 3,811 5,675
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,441 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +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 £74,744 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.00% +3.10% +3.57%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the City of London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in the City of London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 City of London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 12 (41.38%) Snowflake
3 11 (37.93%) AWS
4 10 (34.48%) Structured Cabling
4 10 (34.48%) SQL
4 10 (34.48%) Telecoms
4 10 (34.48%) DBS Check
4 10 (34.48%) Driving Licence
4 10 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
5 8 (27.59%) Data Engineering
5 8 (27.59%) Azure
5 8 (27.59%) ETL
6 7 (24.14%) Agile
7 6 (20.69%) Finance
7 6 (20.69%) Apache Spark
7 6 (20.69%) dbt
8 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
8 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
8 5 (17.24%) DevOps
8 5 (17.24%) Databricks
8 5 (17.24%) Apache
9 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
9 4 (13.79%) Data Integration
9 4 (13.79%) Git
9 4 (13.79%) Music Industry
9 4 (13.79%) Bitbucket
9 4 (13.79%) Terraform
9 4 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native

Senior 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 6 (20.69%) Apache Spark
2 5 (17.24%) Apache
3 4 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (41.38%) Snowflake
2 11 (37.93%) AWS
3 8 (27.59%) Azure
4 6 (20.69%) dbt
5 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (3.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (10.34%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (6.90%) Data Vault
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.45%) Power BI
4 1 (3.45%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Bitbucket
1 4 (13.79%) Git
General
1 10 (34.48%) Telecoms
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Music Industry
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) PySpark
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) Pandas
2 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Driving Licence
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (34.48%) Data Pipeline
2 8 (27.59%) Data Engineering
2 8 (27.59%) ETL
3 7 (24.14%) Agile
4 5 (17.24%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.24%) DevOps
5 4 (13.79%) Data Integration
5 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
5 4 (13.79%) Data Science
6 3 (10.34%) Change Data Capture
6 3 (10.34%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (10.34%) Data Transformation
6 3 (10.34%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 3 (10.34%) Decision-Making
6 3 (10.34%) Task Automation
6 3 (10.34%) Test Automation
7 2 (6.90%) Migration
8 1 (3.45%) Analytics
8 1 (3.45%) Data Analytics
8 1 (3.45%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) SQL
3 1 (3.45%) C#
3 1 (3.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) DBS Check
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Atlassian