Senior Data Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 481 498 480
Rank change year-on-year +17 -18 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 170 350 561
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.41% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.43% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 128 274 444
10th Percentile £52,500 £35,000 £57,128
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £67,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £86,250 £97,290
90th Percentile £94,500 £100,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,900 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.98% -8.88% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 41,506 80,486 84,681
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.46% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,507 60,251 53,657
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 -4 71 £80,000 - 102
South East +123 35 £70,000 +13.36% 52
North of England +46 35 £62,500 - 33
Yorkshire +83 17 £62,500 +13.64% 13
Midlands +74 17 £65,000 -7.14% 18
North West -12 14 £61,750 -1.20% 16
East Midlands +55 10 £65,000 - 6
West Midlands +38 7 £65,000 -7.14% 11
South West +95 6 £55,000 - 17
North East +48 4 £67,500 -15.63% 5
East of England +52 3 £81,250 +6.56% 16
Senior Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 124 (72.94%) Python
2 122 (71.76%) SQL
3 95 (55.88%) Azure
4 92 (54.12%) Data Pipeline
5 91 (53.53%) Data Engineering
6 82 (48.24%) ETL
7 76 (44.71%) Data Modelling
8 71 (41.76%) Databricks
9 66 (38.82%) CI/CD
10 62 (36.47%) AWS
11 61 (35.88%) Analytics
12 60 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
13 55 (32.35%) Business Intelligence
14 54 (31.76%) Social Skills
15 53 (31.18%) Data Quality
16 51 (30.00%) Agile
17 50 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
17 50 (29.41%) Mentoring
18 47 (27.65%) Finance
19 45 (26.47%) Azure Data Factory
20 41 (24.12%) Data Lake
21 38 (22.35%) Apache Spark
22 37 (21.76%) Data Architecture
22 37 (21.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
23 34 (20.00%) Power Platform
23 34 (20.00%) Power BI
24 32 (18.82%) Scala
24 32 (18.82%) Data Science
25 31 (18.24%) DevOps
25 31 (18.24%) Analytical Skills

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 38 (22.35%) Apache Spark
2 28 (16.47%) Apache Airflow
3 22 (12.94%) Apache
4 9 (5.29%) Luigi
5 6 (3.53%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 95 (55.88%) Azure
2 62 (36.47%) AWS
3 45 (26.47%) Azure Data Factory
4 37 (21.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 34 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 25 (14.71%) GCP
7 19 (11.18%) Amazon S3
7 19 (11.18%) Snowflake
8 17 (10.00%) Serverless
9 16 (9.41%) GitHub
10 14 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (8.24%) dbt
11 13 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (7.06%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (4.71%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (3.53%) PowerApps
15 5 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.18%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (24.12%) Data Lake
3 34 (20.00%) Power BI
4 25 (14.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (11.18%) Big Data
6 18 (10.59%) SQL Server
7 14 (8.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 13 (7.65%) Hadoop
9 12 (7.06%) NoSQL
10 11 (6.47%) BigQuery
10 11 (6.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (5.88%) Relational Database
11 10 (5.88%) Tableau
12 9 (5.29%) Metadata
13 7 (4.12%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 6 (3.53%) Apache Hive
14 6 (3.53%) MySQL
15 5 (2.94%) Delta Lake
15 5 (2.94%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 11 (6.47%) Git
2 9 (5.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.53%) CircleCI
4 4 (2.35%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.18%) JIRA
5 2 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.59%) GitLab
6 1 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.59%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 47 (27.65%) Finance
3 31 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.47%) Banking
4 11 (6.47%) Marketing
5 10 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (4.12%) Law
7 6 (3.53%) Automotive
7 6 (3.53%) Legal
8 5 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.94%) Retail
9 4 (2.35%) Electronics
9 4 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.35%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Advertising
11 1 (0.59%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.59%) Games
11 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (16.47%) PySpark
2 24 (14.12%) Kafka
3 17 (10.00%) .NET
4 8 (4.71%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (2.94%) OAuth
6 4 (2.35%) Dask
6 4 (2.35%) Polars
7 3 (1.76%) Great Expectations
7 3 (1.76%) JSON
7 3 (1.76%) PyArrow
7 3 (1.76%) XML
8 2 (1.18%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (1.18%) Apache Beam
8 2 (1.18%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.18%) pytest
9 1 (0.59%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.59%) Pandas
9 1 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 9 (5.29%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.94%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.35%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.76%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.76%) PKI
7 3 (1.76%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.76%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.18%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.18%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.59%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.59%) Online Games
9 1 (0.59%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.53%) Linux
2 3 (1.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (54.12%) Data Pipeline
2 91 (53.53%) Data Engineering
3 82 (48.24%) ETL
4 76 (44.71%) Data Modelling
5 66 (38.82%) CI/CD
6 61 (35.88%) Analytics
7 60 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (32.35%) Business Intelligence
9 51 (30.00%) Agile
10 50 (29.41%) Mentoring
11 37 (21.76%) Data Architecture
12 32 (18.82%) Data Science
13 31 (18.24%) DevOps
14 30 (17.65%) Machine Learning
15 29 (17.06%) Data Governance
16 27 (15.88%) Migration
17 26 (15.29%) Software Engineering
18 23 (13.53%) Visualisation
19 22 (12.94%) Data Strategy
20 20 (11.76%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 124 (72.94%) Python
2 122 (71.76%) SQL
3 32 (18.82%) Scala
4 30 (17.65%) C#
4 30 (17.65%) Java
5 9 (5.29%) PowerShell
5 9 (5.29%) R
6 8 (4.71%) SPARQL
7 7 (4.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (4.12%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.35%) Go
8 4 (2.35%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.18%) Bash
9 2 (1.18%) Bicep
9 2 (1.18%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.18%) Perl
10 1 (0.59%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (16.47%) Degree
2 24 (14.12%) Azure Certification
3 8 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (4.71%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.71%) Security Cleared
4 7 (4.12%) DBS Check
5 5 (2.94%) AWS Certification
6 4 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.76%) CCSK
7 3 (1.76%) CCSP
7 3 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.76%) CISSP
8 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (31.18%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.18%) GDPR
4 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 12 (7.06%) Docker
2 5 (2.94%) Apache Flume
3 3 (1.76%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 22 (12.94%) Terraform
2 14 (8.24%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.94%) Oozie
4 3 (1.76%) CASB
4 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.59%) Ansible
Vendors
1 71 (41.76%) Databricks
2 25 (14.71%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.12%) Cloudera
4 6 (3.53%) Oracle
5 5 (2.94%) SAP
6 4 (2.35%) Informatica
7 3 (1.76%) Palantir
7 3 (1.76%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.76%) Symantec
7 3 (1.76%) Talend
7 3 (1.76%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.18%) Google
8 2 (1.18%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.18%) Teradata
9 1 (0.59%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.59%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.59%) Facebook
9 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud