Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Senior Data Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Leeds is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 125 167
Rank change year-on-year +63 +42 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 17 4 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 2.19% 0.18% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 0.18% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 17 3 10
10th Percentile £47,000 £37,641 £57,375
25th Percentile £56,250 £41,602 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,136 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.11% -19.78% +3.81%
75th Percentile £80,000 £50,068 £67,500
90th Percentile - - £75,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £60,000 £49,136 £61,250
% change year-on-year +22.11% -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 727 2,173 2,832
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.85% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 499 1,579 1,711
10th Percentile £28,400 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,375 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,957 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,695 £84,229 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% -9.09% +7.84%

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 14 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 14 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 12 (70.59%) Data Engineering
5 11 (64.71%) Analytics
5 11 (64.71%) ETL
6 10 (58.82%) Data Lake
7 9 (52.94%) Mentoring
7 9 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (52.94%) SQL
7 9 (52.94%) Data Architecture
8 8 (47.06%) Data Security
8 8 (47.06%) Python
8 8 (47.06%) Data Extraction
8 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (47.06%) Apache Spark
8 8 (47.06%) Data Strategy
9 7 (41.18%) R
10 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (35.29%) Data Science
11 5 (29.41%) Serverless
11 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (29.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (29.41%) Apache
11 5 (29.41%) Data Migration
11 5 (29.41%) Migration
11 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
11 5 (29.41%) Azure
11 5 (29.41%) Data Quality

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 8 (47.06%) Apache Spark
2 5 (29.41%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) Serverless
3 3 (17.65%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (58.82%) Data Lake
2 6 (35.29%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (29.41%) 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 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Tech for Good
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (82.35%) Data Pipeline
3 12 (70.59%) Data Engineering
4 11 (64.71%) Analytics
4 11 (64.71%) ETL
5 9 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (52.94%) Data Architecture
5 9 (52.94%) Mentoring
6 8 (47.06%) Data Extraction
6 8 (47.06%) Data Security
6 8 (47.06%) Data Strategy
7 6 (35.29%) Data Science
8 5 (29.41%) Data Migration
8 5 (29.41%) Migration
9 3 (17.65%) Agile
9 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
9 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
9 3 (17.65%) Open Source
9 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
9 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 8 (47.06%) Python
3 7 (41.18%) R
4 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