Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in England

Senior Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in England is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 June 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 453 512
Rank change year-on-year +51 +59 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 345 183 360
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.46% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.51% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 290 142 296
10th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £65,875 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £95,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -9.38%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 78,099 35,564 89,585
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.06% 89.90% 94.60%
Number of salaries quoted 54,949 20,661 66,315
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,926 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% +9.52% -13.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in England

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

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 16 June 2026. 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 +19 133 £85,000 +6.25% 28
North of England +39 113 £75,000 +22.45% 12
North West +59 74 £70,400 +4.30% 6
Midlands +19 46 £70,000 +7.69% 10
Yorkshire -24 31 £80,000 +33.33% 6
West Midlands +2 29 £70,000 +12.00% 3
South East -19 25 £67,500 -3.57% 17
East Midlands -14 17 £65,000 -7.14% 7
East of England -10 13 £75,000 -9.09% 2
North East -39 8 £95,000 +52.00%
South West -55 7 £87,500 +59.09% 8
Senior Data Engineer
UK

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 June 2026, Senior Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 153 (44.35%) SQL
2 150 (43.48%) Python
3 132 (38.26%) Analytics
4 120 (34.78%) Data Engineering
5 119 (34.49%) Azure
6 108 (31.30%) Data Pipeline
7 97 (28.12%) AI
8 95 (27.54%) Data Modelling
8 95 (27.54%) ETL
9 82 (23.77%) AWS
10 79 (22.90%) Databricks
11 72 (20.87%) Agile
12 71 (20.58%) Data Quality
13 62 (17.97%) CI/CD
14 48 (13.91%) Business Intelligence
14 48 (13.91%) Decision-Making
14 48 (13.91%) Mentoring
15 45 (13.04%) Power BI
15 45 (13.04%) Power Platform
16 43 (12.46%) DevOps
17 41 (11.88%) Data Governance
17 41 (11.88%) Data Warehouse
17 41 (11.88%) Machine Learning
17 41 (11.88%) Terraform
18 40 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
18 40 (11.59%) Data Science
18 40 (11.59%) PySpark
19 39 (11.30%) Apache Airflow
20 38 (11.01%) dbt
21 35 (10.14%) Data Architecture

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 39 (11.30%) Apache Airflow
2 25 (7.25%) Apache Spark
3 17 (4.93%) Apache
4 3 (0.87%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 119 (34.49%) Azure
2 82 (23.77%) AWS
3 45 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 40 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
5 38 (11.01%) dbt
6 33 (9.57%) Snowflake
7 32 (9.28%) GCP
8 21 (6.09%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (6.09%) SaaS
9 18 (5.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 13 (3.77%) GitHub
11 12 (3.48%) Dagster
11 12 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (3.19%) Serverless
13 10 (2.90%) Amazon S3
13 10 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (2.32%) Azure Stack
15 7 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (2.03%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (1.74%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.06%) Broadband
2 1 (0.29%) 4G
2 1 (0.29%) 5G
2 1 (0.29%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.29%) LTE
2 1 (0.29%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (13.04%) Power BI
2 41 (11.88%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (7.83%) Data Lake
3 27 (7.83%) SQL Server
4 23 (6.67%) BigQuery
5 20 (5.80%) Metadata
6 17 (4.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (3.48%) NoSQL
8 11 (3.19%) Delta Lake
8 11 (3.19%) Spark SQL
9 10 (2.90%) Big Data
9 10 (2.90%) Tableau
10 8 (2.32%) Relational Database
11 7 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (2.03%) Star Schema
12 6 (1.74%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.74%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 16 (4.64%) Git
2 9 (2.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.16%) JIRA
4 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
General
1 59 (17.10%) Social Skills
2 44 (12.75%) Finance
3 29 (8.41%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.09%) Law
5 12 (3.48%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.61%) Marketing
8 8 (2.32%) Retail
9 6 (1.74%) Automotive
10 5 (1.45%) Banking
11 4 (1.16%) Games
11 4 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.87%) Advertising
12 3 (0.87%) Digital Health
12 3 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.58%) Telecoms
14 1 (0.29%) Billing
14 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.29%) Front Office
14 1 (0.29%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.59%) PySpark
2 24 (6.96%) Kafka
3 6 (1.74%) Pandas
4 4 (1.16%) Great Expectations
4 4 (1.16%) Node.js
5 2 (0.58%) .NET
5 2 (0.58%) Akka
5 2 (0.58%) Celery
5 2 (0.58%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.29%) JDBC
6 1 (0.29%) LDAP
6 1 (0.29%) NumPy
6 1 (0.29%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.29%) ODBC
6 1 (0.29%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.29%) REST
6 1 (0.29%) SciPy
6 1 (0.29%) Spring
6 1 (0.29%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.29%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (3.19%) Cloud Native
2 8 (2.32%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (2.03%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.03%) Sports Betting
4 6 (1.74%) Anti-Piracy
4 6 (1.74%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.74%) Social Media
5 3 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (0.87%) Reinsurance
5 3 (0.87%) Video\Live Streaming
6 2 (0.58%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.58%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.58%) Online Gambling
6 2 (0.58%) Over-the-Top Content
6 2 (0.58%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.29%) IoT
7 1 (0.29%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.29%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.45%) Linux
2 2 (0.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (38.26%) Analytics
2 120 (34.78%) Data Engineering
3 108 (31.30%) Data Pipeline
4 97 (28.12%) AI
5 95 (27.54%) Data Modelling
5 95 (27.54%) ETL
6 72 (20.87%) Agile
7 62 (17.97%) CI/CD
8 48 (13.91%) Business Intelligence
8 48 (13.91%) Decision-Making
8 48 (13.91%) Mentoring
9 43 (12.46%) DevOps
10 41 (11.88%) Data Governance
10 41 (11.88%) Machine Learning
11 40 (11.59%) Data Science
12 35 (10.14%) Data Architecture
13 30 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
13 30 (8.70%) Observability
14 28 (8.12%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (8.12%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 153 (44.35%) SQL
2 150 (43.48%) Python
3 17 (4.93%) Java
4 15 (4.35%) Scala
5 9 (2.61%) Bash
6 7 (2.03%) C++
7 4 (1.16%) PowerShell
8 3 (0.87%) Bicep
8 3 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.87%) R
9 2 (0.58%) C#
9 2 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.58%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.29%) Go
10 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (5.22%) Security Cleared
2 13 (3.77%) Degree
3 12 (3.48%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.45%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.16%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (20.58%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.03%) QA
3 3 (0.87%) GDPR
4 2 (0.58%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (4.06%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (11.88%) Terraform
2 10 (2.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.87%) Grafana
3 3 (0.87%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.58%) Ansible
5 1 (0.29%) CASB
5 1 (0.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 79 (22.90%) Databricks
2 33 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.74%) SAP
4 5 (1.45%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.16%) Google
6 2 (0.58%) iManage
6 2 (0.58%) Intapp
7 1 (0.29%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.29%) Dell
7 1 (0.29%) Mapbox
7 1 (0.29%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.29%) Splunk