Data Engineer Jobs in London

Data Engineer
England > London

The median Data Engineer salary in London is £90,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 123 96
Rank change year-on-year +5 -27 +26
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 361 590 1,158
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.78% 2.49% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.07% 2.65% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 289 480 939
10th Percentile £53,600 £46,200 £55,000
25th Percentile £68,750 £57,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% +13.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £91,991 £106,250
90th Percentile £138,750 £113,875 £140,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,742 22,276 32,688
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.14% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,310 16,685 24,119
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Central London +12 59 £82,500 +17.86% 27
West London +20 4 £61,250 +11.36% 8
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, 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 London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 294 (81.44%) Python
2 209 (57.89%) Data Engineering
3 198 (54.85%) SQL
4 180 (49.86%) Azure
5 178 (49.31%) AWS
6 162 (44.88%) Finance
7 149 (41.27%) Agile
8 148 (41.00%) CI/CD
9 142 (39.34%) PySpark
10 140 (38.78%) DevOps
11 137 (37.95%) ETL
12 119 (32.96%) Terraform
13 118 (32.69%) Apache Airflow
14 117 (32.41%) dbt
15 116 (32.13%) Java
16 109 (30.19%) Analytics
16 109 (30.19%) Data Pipeline
17 107 (29.64%) Docker
18 103 (28.53%) Kubernetes
19 102 (28.25%) Software Engineering
20 101 (27.98%) Databricks
21 100 (27.70%) Data Modelling
22 99 (27.42%) Serverless
23 94 (26.04%) Amazon Athena
24 91 (25.21%) Apache Spark
25 90 (24.93%) Data Warehouse
25 90 (24.93%) Asset Management
26 88 (24.38%) Front Office
26 88 (24.38%) AWS Lambda
26 88 (24.38%) Dremio

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 118 (32.69%) Apache Airflow
2 91 (25.21%) Apache Spark
3 81 (22.44%) Apache
4 6 (1.66%) SAS
5 5 (1.39%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.39%) SPSS
2 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 180 (49.86%) Azure
2 178 (49.31%) AWS
3 117 (32.41%) dbt
4 99 (27.42%) Serverless
5 88 (24.38%) AWS Lambda
6 77 (21.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 67 (18.56%) Amazon ECS
7 67 (18.56%) OpenShift
8 62 (17.17%) GCP
8 62 (17.17%) Power Platform
9 35 (9.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 33 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
11 31 (8.59%) Snowflake
12 28 (7.76%) Amazon S3
13 18 (4.99%) Dagster
14 14 (3.88%) Microsoft Purview
15 11 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (3.05%) Amazon Kinesis
16 9 (2.49%) Azure Functions
16 9 (2.49%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.39%) Internet
2 2 (0.55%) Multicast
3 1 (0.28%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (26.04%) Amazon Athena
2 90 (24.93%) Data Warehouse
3 88 (24.38%) Dremio
4 84 (23.27%) Apache Iceberg
5 72 (19.94%) Data Lake
6 67 (18.56%) Apache Arrow
6 67 (18.56%) Apache Ignite
7 61 (16.90%) Power BI
8 33 (9.14%) SQL Server
9 21 (5.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 20 (5.54%) Amazon Redshift
11 17 (4.71%) Big Data
12 16 (4.43%) Tableau
13 15 (4.16%) Hadoop
14 14 (3.88%) Metadata
15 12 (3.32%) BigQuery
15 12 (3.32%) DynamoDB
15 12 (3.32%) NoSQL
16 11 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
16 11 (3.05%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 68 (18.84%) Artifactory
2 18 (4.99%) Git
3 10 (2.77%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.39%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.55%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.55%) JIRA
5 2 (0.55%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) GitLab
6 1 (0.28%) kappa
6 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
General
1 162 (44.88%) Finance
2 88 (24.38%) Front Office
3 77 (21.33%) Social Skills
4 48 (13.30%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (9.14%) Banking
6 25 (6.93%) Law
7 18 (4.99%) Marketing
8 15 (4.16%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.05%) Legal
11 10 (2.77%) Telecoms
12 9 (2.49%) Advertising
13 5 (1.39%) Electronics
13 5 (1.39%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.83%) Retail
16 2 (0.55%) Health Technology
16 2 (0.55%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (39.34%) PySpark
2 86 (23.82%) Kafka
3 67 (18.56%) J2EE
4 19 (5.26%) Pandas
5 17 (4.71%) NumPy
5 17 (4.71%) SciPy
6 15 (4.16%) ARM Templates
7 8 (2.22%) pytest
7 8 (2.22%) Spark Streaming
8 7 (1.94%) JSON
9 5 (1.39%) OAuth
9 5 (1.39%) XML
10 4 (1.11%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (1.11%) Flask
10 4 (1.11%) Great Expectations
11 3 (0.83%) FastAPI
11 3 (0.83%) REST
11 3 (0.83%) RESTful
12 2 (0.55%) .NET
12 2 (0.55%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.14%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.88%) Equities
2 14 (3.88%) Fixed Income
3 9 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (1.66%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.66%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.39%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.39%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.11%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (0.83%) Data Fabric
8 3 (0.83%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.83%) PKI
8 3 (0.83%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.55%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.39%) Linux
2 2 (0.55%) Unix
3 1 (0.28%) Windows
3 1 (0.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (57.89%) Data Engineering
2 149 (41.27%) Agile
3 148 (41.00%) CI/CD
4 140 (38.78%) DevOps
5 137 (37.95%) ETL
6 109 (30.19%) Analytics
6 109 (30.19%) Data Pipeline
7 102 (28.25%) Software Engineering
8 100 (27.70%) Data Modelling
9 90 (24.93%) Asset Management
10 76 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
11 70 (19.39%) Open Source
12 67 (18.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 63 (17.45%) Data Science
14 59 (16.34%) Business Intelligence
15 48 (13.30%) Artificial Intelligence
16 47 (13.02%) Roadmaps
17 43 (11.91%) Mentoring
18 41 (11.36%) Data Governance
19 38 (10.53%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 294 (81.44%) Python
2 198 (54.85%) SQL
3 116 (32.13%) Java
4 67 (18.56%) Go
5 42 (11.63%) Scala
6 23 (6.37%) T-SQL
7 16 (4.43%) PowerShell
8 15 (4.16%) C#
9 14 (3.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (3.32%) R
11 9 (2.49%) SPARQL
12 5 (1.39%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.83%) Bash
14 3 (0.83%) C++
14 3 (0.83%) Cypher
14 3 (0.83%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.83%) Perl
14 3 (0.83%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 58 (16.07%) Degree
2 27 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
2 27 (7.48%) Security Cleared
3 25 (6.93%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.43%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.49%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.66%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.11%) SnowPro
9 3 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.83%) CCSK
9 3 (0.83%) CCSP
9 3 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.83%) CISSP
10 2 (0.55%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.28%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (15.24%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.49%) QA
3 7 (1.94%) GDPR
4 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 107 (29.64%) Docker
2 5 (1.39%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 119 (32.96%) Terraform
2 103 (28.53%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.39%) Oozie
4 3 (0.83%) CASB
4 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.28%) Ansible
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 101 (27.98%) Databricks
2 40 (11.08%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.82%) Google
4 7 (1.94%) Oracle
5 6 (1.66%) Cloudera
5 6 (1.66%) SAP
6 5 (1.39%) Palantir
6 5 (1.39%) Vertica
7 4 (1.11%) Foundry
7 4 (1.11%) Informatica
7 4 (1.11%) Talend
8 3 (0.83%) Refinitiv
8 3 (0.83%) Symantec
8 3 (0.83%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.55%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.28%) Adobe
10 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.28%) Charles River
10 1 (0.28%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.28%) Tealium