Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Senior Data Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Leeds is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 128 167
Rank change year-on-year +65 +39 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 17 6 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 2.19% 0.27% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% 0.28% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 17 4 10
10th Percentile £47,000 £38,961 £57,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £44,903 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £49,136 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +27.20% -19.78% +3.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £51,926 £67,500
90th Percentile - £55,270 £71,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £62,500 £49,136 £61,250
% change year-on-year +27.20% -19.78% -3.92%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 729 2,161 2,879
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 96.00% 95.17%
Number of salaries quoted 507 1,562 1,728
10th Percentile £28,650 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,025 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £69,979 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,056 £86,250
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Leeds

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in Leeds

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Leeds

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

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

1 17 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (88.24%) AWS
3 14 (82.35%) Social Skills
3 14 (82.35%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (76.47%) Data Engineering
5 12 (70.59%) Analytics
6 11 (64.71%) ETL
7 10 (58.82%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (58.82%) Data Architecture
7 10 (58.82%) Data Lake
8 9 (52.94%) Mentoring
8 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
8 9 (52.94%) Data Strategy
8 9 (52.94%) Data Extraction
9 8 (47.06%) SQL
9 8 (47.06%) R
10 7 (41.18%) Data Security
10 7 (41.18%) Python
10 7 (41.18%) Apache Spark
11 6 (35.29%) Data Science
12 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (29.41%) Azure
12 5 (29.41%) Data Quality
13 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
13 4 (23.53%) Apache
13 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
13 4 (23.53%) Migration
13 4 (23.53%) Serverless
13 4 (23.53%) Databricks
13 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (41.18%) Apache Spark
2 4 (23.53%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
3 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (23.53%) Serverless
4 3 (17.65%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Data Lake
2 5 (29.41%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (17.65%) MongoDB
4 3 (17.65%) MySQL
5 1 (5.88%) Power BI
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (82.35%) Social Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (82.35%) Data Pipeline
3 13 (76.47%) Data Engineering
4 12 (70.59%) Analytics
5 11 (64.71%) ETL
6 10 (58.82%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (58.82%) Data Architecture
7 9 (52.94%) Data Extraction
7 9 (52.94%) Data Strategy
7 9 (52.94%) Mentoring
8 7 (41.18%) Data Security
9 6 (35.29%) Data Science
10 4 (23.53%) Data Migration
10 4 (23.53%) Migration
11 3 (17.65%) Agile
11 3 (17.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
11 3 (17.65%) Open Source
11 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
11 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) R
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Databricks
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Palantir