Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Edinburgh

Senior Data Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Edinburgh is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 107 147
Rank change year-on-year +18 +40 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 5 7 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.54% 0.46% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.48% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 6
10th Percentile - £64,500 £53,750
25th Percentile £53,750 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% -13.04%
75th Percentile £61,250 - £72,500
90th Percentile - £67,500 £75,625
Scotland median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +13.21%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 852 1,457 2,032
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 95.86% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 420 1,029 1,201
10th Percentile £29,375 £32,700 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £91,934 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Edinburgh

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in Edinburgh

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 3 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 Edinburgh region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Unix
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) Data Management
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
3 2 (40.00%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (40.00%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (40.00%) Tech for Good
3 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (40.00%) DataOps
3 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 2 (40.00%) SaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Geospatial Data
1 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Tech for Good
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (80.00%) Machine Learning
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Management
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) DataOps
3 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (20.00%) Batch Processing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Informatica