Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Kent

Senior Data Engineer
South East > Kent

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Kent is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 101 -
Rank change year-on-year +33 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 5 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Kent 0.13% 0.34% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.36% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 £27,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £30,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 -
90th Percentile - £63,150 -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £61,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.36% -11.79% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Kent

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Kent. 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 Kent with a recognized job title 538 1,384 985
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 71.73% 92.89% 85.73%
Number of salaries quoted 323 1,029 549
10th Percentile £25,250 £25,250 £26,950
25th Percentile £30,375 £31,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £42,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -8.60% +3.33%
75th Percentile £59,158 £58,750 £60,899
90th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £72,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Kent

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Kent

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in Kent

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent

For the 6 months to 4 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 Kent region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Design

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Design
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL