Senior Data Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 466 514
Rank change year-on-year -28 +48 +82
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 348 561 852
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.41% 0.61% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.66% 0.68%
Number of salaries quoted 272 444 365
10th Percentile £35,000 £57,128 £58,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £67,375 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £86,250 £97,290 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £72,950 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.81% - +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 80,172 84,782 125,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,024 53,688 75,723
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +7 194 £80,000 -8.57% 62
North of England +84 74 £62,500 +4.17% 10
North West +62 58 £62,500 +50.99% 8
Midlands -2 25 £70,000 +21.74% 7
South East -23 21 £61,750 -5.73% 10
West Midlands +22 19 £70,000 +21.74% 4
South West -38 18 £55,000 -24.14% 4
Yorkshire +91 10 £55,000 -8.33% 1
East of England - 8 £76,250 - 7
North East 0 6 £80,000 +18.52% 1
East Midlands -10 5 - - 3
Senior Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 211 (60.63%) Python
2 197 (56.61%) SQL
3 149 (42.82%) Azure
4 142 (40.80%) ETL
5 128 (36.78%) Data Pipeline
6 125 (35.92%) AWS
7 119 (34.20%) Data Engineering
8 100 (28.74%) Data Modelling
8 100 (28.74%) Data Warehouse
9 91 (26.15%) Databricks
10 88 (25.29%) Finance
11 84 (24.14%) Analytics
12 82 (23.56%) Agile
13 75 (21.55%) DevOps
14 71 (20.40%) Data Lake
15 68 (19.54%) Social Skills
16 62 (17.82%) PySpark
16 62 (17.82%) Business Intelligence
17 61 (17.53%) Data Science
18 58 (16.67%) Power Platform
18 58 (16.67%) Power BI
19 57 (16.38%) GCP
20 56 (16.09%) Azure Data Factory
20 56 (16.09%) CI/CD
21 52 (14.94%) Apache Spark
22 47 (13.51%) SQL Server
23 44 (12.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
24 43 (12.36%) NoSQL
25 42 (12.07%) Terraform
26 41 (11.78%) Snowflake

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 52 (14.94%) Apache Spark
2 37 (10.63%) Apache
2 37 (10.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Pig
3 1 (0.29%) Luigi
3 1 (0.29%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 149 (42.82%) Azure
2 125 (35.92%) AWS
3 58 (16.67%) Power Platform
4 57 (16.38%) GCP
5 56 (16.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 44 (12.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 41 (11.78%) Snowflake
8 35 (10.06%) Amazon S3
9 32 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
10 28 (8.05%) dbt
11 24 (6.90%) Serverless
12 21 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (5.46%) GitHub
14 11 (3.16%) Amazon EMR
15 10 (2.87%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (2.59%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
17 8 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
18 6 (1.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.05%) Structured Cabling
2 10 (2.87%) Wi-Fi
3 9 (2.59%) Network Security
4 4 (1.15%) FTP
5 1 (0.29%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.29%) 5G
5 1 (0.29%) LAN
5 1 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.29%) WAN
5 1 (0.29%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (28.74%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (20.40%) Data Lake
3 58 (16.67%) Power BI
4 47 (13.51%) SQL Server
5 43 (12.36%) NoSQL
6 35 (10.06%) Big Data
6 35 (10.06%) Hadoop
7 26 (7.47%) Tableau
8 23 (6.61%) Azure SQL Database
8 23 (6.61%) BigQuery
8 23 (6.61%) Data Vault
9 20 (5.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 19 (5.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (5.17%) Delta Lake
12 16 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
13 14 (4.02%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (4.02%) DynamoDB
14 12 (3.45%) Relational Database
15 11 (3.16%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 10 (2.87%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (6.61%) Git
2 13 (3.74%) JIRA
3 11 (3.16%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.87%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.15%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.15%) GitLab
5 4 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 88 (25.29%) Finance
2 68 (19.54%) Social Skills
3 34 (9.77%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.47%) Telecoms
5 24 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (4.31%) Retail
7 9 (2.59%) Banking
8 8 (2.30%) Games
8 8 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (2.30%) Retail Banking
9 7 (2.01%) Law
10 6 (1.72%) Legal
11 4 (1.15%) Music Industry
12 3 (0.86%) Agriculture
12 3 (0.86%) Automotive
12 3 (0.86%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.86%) Front Office
12 3 (0.86%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (17.82%) PySpark
2 25 (7.18%) Pandas
3 20 (5.75%) Kafka
4 14 (4.02%) Apache Beam
5 11 (3.16%) .NET
6 9 (2.59%) AWS CDK
7 8 (2.30%) Apache Avro
7 8 (2.30%) JSON
7 8 (2.30%) Spark Streaming
7 8 (2.30%) XML
8 4 (1.15%) RESTful
9 3 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.86%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.86%) pytest
10 2 (0.57%) Lambda Expressions
11 1 (0.29%) gRPC
11 1 (0.29%) MXNet
11 1 (0.29%) scikit-learn
11 1 (0.29%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.29%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.60%) Data Structures
2 15 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
2 15 (4.31%) Reinsurance
3 13 (3.74%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.45%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.16%) Driving Licence
5 11 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.59%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.30%) Distributed Applications
8 8 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.44%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.44%) Blog
9 5 (1.44%) NHS
10 4 (1.15%) CCTV
10 4 (1.15%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.86%) Genomics
11 3 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.17%) Linux
2 9 (2.59%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) Android
3 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.29%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (40.80%) ETL
2 128 (36.78%) Data Pipeline
3 119 (34.20%) Data Engineering
4 100 (28.74%) Data Modelling
5 84 (24.14%) Analytics
6 82 (23.56%) Agile
7 75 (21.55%) DevOps
8 62 (17.82%) Business Intelligence
9 61 (17.53%) Data Science
10 56 (16.09%) CI/CD
11 41 (11.78%) Machine Learning
12 39 (11.21%) Visualisation
13 36 (10.34%) Data Analytics
13 36 (10.34%) Data Integration
13 36 (10.34%) Mentoring
14 35 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
15 33 (9.48%) Data Management
16 31 (8.91%) Data Strategy
17 30 (8.62%) Containerisation
18 28 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 211 (60.63%) Python
2 197 (56.61%) SQL
3 25 (7.18%) Java
4 17 (4.89%) Scala
5 16 (4.60%) C#
6 13 (3.74%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (2.59%) U-SQL
9 8 (2.30%) PL/SQL
9 8 (2.30%) VB
10 3 (0.86%) Bash
10 3 (0.86%) C
11 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.57%) R
11 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.29%) Korn
12 1 (0.29%) PHP
12 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (6.61%) Degree
2 14 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (3.45%) DBS Check
4 9 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.72%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.44%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.44%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.44%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (0.86%) CCSK
7 3 (0.86%) CCSP
7 3 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.86%) CISSP
7 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (11.49%) Data Quality
2 11 (3.16%) QA
3 4 (1.15%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 29 (8.33%) Docker
2 8 (2.30%) HDFS
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (12.07%) Terraform
2 29 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.44%) Ansible
4 3 (0.86%) CASB
5 2 (0.57%) Marathon
5 2 (0.57%) Mesos
6 1 (0.29%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
6 1 (0.29%) Grafana
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.29%) Podman
6 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 91 (26.15%) Databricks
2 39 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.33%) Oracle
4 24 (6.90%) Informatica
5 18 (5.17%) Google
6 11 (3.16%) Cloudera
7 8 (2.30%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.44%) Splunk
9 4 (1.15%) YouTube
10 3 (0.86%) Netskope
10 3 (0.86%) SAP
10 3 (0.86%) SnapLogic
10 3 (0.86%) Symantec
10 3 (0.86%) Teradata
10 3 (0.86%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.57%) Dataiku
11 2 (0.57%) TIBCO
12 1 (0.29%) Apple
12 1 (0.29%) Denodo
12 1 (0.29%) Salesforce