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 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 528 524 466
Rank change year-on-year -4 -58 +24
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 166 332 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.39% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.41% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 127 274 425
10th Percentile £52,500 £35,000 £56,738
25th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £87,875 £96,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,875 £115,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% -

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 44,665 81,175 81,176
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 94.55% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,293 60,496 51,517
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +6.54% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,519 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

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 16 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 16 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 -6 70 £80,000 - 136
North of England +17 37 £62,500 - 23
South East +116 32 £70,000 +16.67% 53
Yorkshire +78 17 £60,000 +12.53% 7
North West -37 16 £63,000 -3.08% 14
Midlands +52 14 £65,000 -7.14% 12
East Midlands +33 8 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands +45 6 £60,000 -14.29% 10
South West +98 5 £55,000 - 14
East of England +42 5 £82,500 +10.00% 9
North East +44 4 £67,500 -15.63% 3
Senior Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 117 (70.48%) Python
2 116 (69.88%) SQL
3 91 (54.82%) Data Engineering
3 91 (54.82%) Data Pipeline
4 84 (50.60%) Azure
5 79 (47.59%) ETL
6 72 (43.37%) Data Modelling
7 64 (38.55%) Databricks
8 63 (37.95%) CI/CD
8 63 (37.95%) AWS
9 61 (36.75%) Analytics
10 55 (33.13%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (32.53%) Business Intelligence
12 53 (31.93%) Social Skills
13 51 (30.72%) Data Quality
14 48 (28.92%) Mentoring
14 48 (28.92%) Agile
15 47 (28.31%) Data Warehouse
16 44 (26.51%) Finance
17 40 (24.10%) Data Lake
18 38 (22.89%) Azure Data Factory
19 36 (21.69%) Apache Spark
20 34 (20.48%) Data Architecture
20 34 (20.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
21 32 (19.28%) Power Platform
21 32 (19.28%) Power BI
22 31 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
22 31 (18.67%) DevOps
22 31 (18.67%) Data Science
23 28 (16.87%) Amazon Redshift

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 36 (21.69%) Apache Spark
2 26 (15.66%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (11.45%) Apache
4 9 (5.42%) Luigi
5 7 (4.22%) SharePoint
6 4 (2.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 84 (50.60%) Azure
2 63 (37.95%) AWS
3 38 (22.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 34 (20.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 32 (19.28%) Power Platform
6 21 (12.65%) Amazon S3
7 20 (12.05%) GCP
8 19 (11.45%) Snowflake
9 17 (10.24%) GitHub
9 17 (10.24%) Serverless
10 16 (9.64%) dbt
11 14 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (7.83%) Amazon Kinesis
13 12 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (4.82%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (4.22%) PowerApps
16 6 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
17 5 (3.01%) AWS CloudFormation
18 4 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
18 4 (2.41%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.20%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (28.31%) Data Warehouse
2 40 (24.10%) Data Lake
3 32 (19.28%) Power BI
4 28 (16.87%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (10.24%) Big Data
6 14 (8.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 14 (8.43%) SQL Server
7 11 (6.63%) BigQuery
8 10 (6.02%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (6.02%) Metadata
8 10 (6.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (5.42%) Hadoop
9 9 (5.42%) NoSQL
9 9 (5.42%) Relational Database
9 9 (5.42%) Tableau
10 8 (4.82%) MySQL
11 7 (4.22%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 6 (3.61%) Apache Hive
13 5 (3.01%) Neo4j
13 5 (3.01%) Sqoop
Development Applications
1 11 (6.63%) Git
2 8 (4.82%) Jenkins
3 6 (3.61%) CircleCI
4 5 (3.01%) JIRA
5 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.60%) GitLab
6 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 44 (26.51%) Finance
3 31 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.63%) Marketing
5 9 (5.42%) Banking
5 9 (5.42%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.61%) Automotive
7 6 (3.61%) Law
7 6 (3.61%) Retail
8 5 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.41%) Legal
10 3 (1.81%) Electronics
10 3 (1.81%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.81%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.20%) Music Industry
12 1 (0.60%) Advertising
12 1 (0.60%) Front Office
12 1 (0.60%) Games
12 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.46%) PySpark
2 20 (12.05%) Kafka
3 15 (9.04%) .NET
4 8 (4.82%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (3.01%) OAuth
6 4 (2.41%) Dask
6 4 (2.41%) Great Expectations
6 4 (2.41%) Polars
7 3 (1.81%) JSON
7 3 (1.81%) pytest
7 3 (1.81%) XML
8 2 (1.20%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (1.20%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.20%) Pandas
9 1 (0.60%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.60%) PyArrow
9 1 (0.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.63%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.02%) Cloud Native
3 6 (3.61%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.61%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.01%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.01%) Distributed Applications
4 5 (3.01%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.81%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.81%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.81%) PKI
5 3 (1.81%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.81%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.20%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.20%) FMCG
6 2 (1.20%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.60%) Online Games
7 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.60%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.61%) Linux
2 1 (0.60%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (54.82%) Data Engineering
1 91 (54.82%) Data Pipeline
2 79 (47.59%) ETL
3 72 (43.37%) Data Modelling
4 63 (37.95%) CI/CD
5 61 (36.75%) Analytics
6 55 (33.13%) Problem-Solving
7 54 (32.53%) Business Intelligence
8 48 (28.92%) Agile
8 48 (28.92%) Mentoring
9 34 (20.48%) Data Architecture
10 31 (18.67%) Data Science
10 31 (18.67%) DevOps
11 28 (16.87%) Data Governance
12 27 (16.27%) Machine Learning
12 27 (16.27%) Migration
13 25 (15.06%) Software Engineering
14 24 (14.46%) Decision-Making
14 24 (14.46%) Visualisation
15 20 (12.05%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 117 (70.48%) Python
2 116 (69.88%) SQL
3 28 (16.87%) C#
3 28 (16.87%) Java
3 28 (16.87%) Scala
4 9 (5.42%) T-SQL
5 8 (4.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 8 (4.82%) PowerShell
5 8 (4.82%) R
5 8 (4.82%) SPARQL
6 3 (1.81%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.20%) Bash
7 2 (1.20%) Bicep
7 2 (1.20%) Go
7 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.20%) Perl
8 1 (0.60%) C++
Qualifications
1 26 (15.66%) Degree
2 22 (13.25%) Azure Certification
3 8 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (4.22%) DBS Check
4 7 (4.22%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.22%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.41%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.81%) CCSK
6 3 (1.81%) CCSP
6 3 (1.81%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.81%) CISSP
6 3 (1.81%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.20%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (30.72%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.61%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.01%) QA
4 3 (1.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (6.02%) Docker
2 5 (3.01%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.60%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 23 (13.86%) Terraform
2 9 (5.42%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.01%) Oozie
4 3 (1.81%) CASB
4 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.60%) Ansible
Vendors
1 64 (38.55%) Databricks
2 25 (15.06%) Microsoft
3 7 (4.22%) Cloudera
3 7 (4.22%) SAP
4 4 (2.41%) Oracle
5 3 (1.81%) Informatica
5 3 (1.81%) Palantir
5 3 (1.81%) Symantec
5 3 (1.81%) Talend
5 3 (1.81%) Zscaler
6 2 (1.20%) Google
6 2 (1.20%) Refinitiv
6 2 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.60%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.60%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.60%) Facebook
7 1 (0.60%) Red Hat