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 £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 153 213
Rank change year-on-year +21 +60 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 11 29 25
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.54% 0.87% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.90% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 20
10th Percentile £52,500 - £68,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £28,250 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -18.84% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £85,000 £107,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -22.22% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 1,901 3,207 4,489
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 95.96% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,450 2,543 3,759
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £73,750 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -1.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £74,744
% change year-on-year - -3.00% +3.10%

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 14 May 2025.

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 14 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 City of London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) ETL
2 9 (81.82%) SQL
3 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
3 8 (72.73%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (63.64%) Analytics
5 6 (54.55%) Finance
5 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
6 5 (45.45%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
6 5 (45.45%) Azure
6 5 (45.45%) T-SQL
6 5 (45.45%) Tableau
6 5 (45.45%) Data Analytics
6 5 (45.45%) Power BI
6 5 (45.45%) Data Lake
6 5 (45.45%) Databricks
7 4 (36.36%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
7 4 (36.36%) GitHub
7 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
7 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
7 4 (36.36%) Coaching
7 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
7 4 (36.36%) Agile
7 4 (36.36%) Wealth Management
7 4 (36.36%) Metadata
8 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
8 3 (27.27%) Migration
8 3 (27.27%) Python

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 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
1 5 (45.45%) Azure Data Factory
1 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
2 4 (36.36%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (9.09%) AWS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) dbt
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (45.45%) Data Lake
3 5 (45.45%) Power BI
3 5 (45.45%) Tableau
4 4 (36.36%) Metadata
5 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (18.18%) Data Mining
7 1 (9.09%) Data Vault
7 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
7 1 (9.09%) Looker
7 1 (9.09%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (9.09%) PowerPivot
7 1 (9.09%) QlikView
7 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (9.09%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) GraphQL
1 2 (18.18%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) FMCG
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) ETL
2 8 (72.73%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (63.64%) Analytics
4 5 (45.45%) Data Analytics
5 4 (36.36%) Agile
5 4 (36.36%) Coaching
5 4 (36.36%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
5 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 4 (36.36%) Waterfall
5 4 (36.36%) Wealth Management
6 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
6 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
6 3 (27.27%) Migration
7 2 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
7 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
7 2 (18.18%) Critical Thinking
7 2 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (18.18%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) T-SQL
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Databricks
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Alteryx