Data Engineer Jobs in London

Data Engineer
England > London

The median Data Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 102 120
Rank change year-on-year -44 +18 +34
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 486 877 2,602
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.34% 3.23% 3.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 3.40% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 400 782 1,163
10th Percentile £52,500 £57,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £66,750 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £68,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.21% +3.57% +7.69%

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 19,628 25,813 71,873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 95.17% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13,829 20,517 35,752
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 +28 77 £70,000 -8.20% 11
South London - 13 £65,000 -
West London -2 9 £72,500 - 5
North London +4 1 £45,000 -35.71%
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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.

1 308 (63.37%) SQL
2 306 (62.96%) Python
3 292 (60.08%) Azure
4 202 (41.56%) Data Engineering
5 183 (37.65%) ETL
6 169 (34.77%) AWS
7 168 (34.57%) Analytics
8 167 (34.36%) Data Pipeline
9 146 (30.04%) Finance
10 140 (28.81%) Data Warehouse
11 136 (27.98%) Business Intelligence
12 130 (26.75%) Databricks
13 129 (26.54%) Data Modelling
14 122 (25.10%) Data Lake
15 120 (24.69%) PySpark
16 113 (23.25%) Power Platform
17 112 (23.05%) Power BI
18 109 (22.43%) Azure Data Factory
19 105 (21.60%) GCP
20 102 (20.99%) Social Skills
21 97 (19.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
21 97 (19.96%) Agile
22 84 (17.28%) Data Science
23 74 (15.23%) DevOps
24 73 (15.02%) dbt
25 71 (14.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
26 68 (13.99%) Apache Airflow
27 66 (13.58%) Data Quality
28 65 (13.37%) CI/CD
29 64 (13.17%) Problem-Solving

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 68 (13.99%) Apache Airflow
2 38 (7.82%) Apache Spark
3 28 (5.76%) Apache
4 5 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.41%) Apache Pig
5 2 (0.41%) Confluence
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.41%) SAS
6 1 (0.21%) Luigi
Applications
1 17 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.62%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.41%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.21%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 292 (60.08%) Azure
2 169 (34.77%) AWS
3 113 (23.25%) Power Platform
4 109 (22.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 105 (21.60%) GCP
6 97 (19.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 73 (15.02%) dbt
8 50 (10.29%) Snowflake
9 39 (8.02%) Dagster
10 36 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
11 30 (6.17%) Amazon S3
11 30 (6.17%) Serverless
12 16 (3.29%) Amazon EMR
13 15 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (2.88%) GitHub
15 13 (2.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 12 (2.47%) Fivetran
17 10 (2.06%) AWS Step Functions
17 10 (2.06%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
17 10 (2.06%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.06%) Network Security
2 5 (1.03%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (0.41%) PPP
4 1 (0.21%) Firewall
4 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (28.81%) Data Warehouse
2 122 (25.10%) Data Lake
3 112 (23.05%) Power BI
4 58 (11.93%) SQL Server
5 46 (9.47%) Amazon Athena
6 45 (9.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 40 (8.23%) NoSQL
8 36 (7.41%) BigQuery
9 32 (6.58%) Big Data
9 32 (6.58%) Dremio
10 27 (5.56%) Relational Database
11 26 (5.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 24 (4.94%) Tableau
13 21 (4.32%) Hadoop
14 20 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
15 18 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (2.67%) Data Vault
16 13 (2.67%) Looker
17 12 (2.47%) MongoDB
17 12 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (5.14%) Git
2 11 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.03%) CircleCI
3 5 (1.03%) GitLab
4 4 (0.82%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.41%) Flyway
5 2 (0.41%) JIRA
5 2 (0.41%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.41%) MLflow
5 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.21%) GoCD
6 1 (0.21%) Mockito
6 1 (0.21%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.21%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.21%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.21%) TeamCity
General
1 146 (30.04%) Finance
2 102 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 71 (14.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 51 (10.49%) Banking
5 49 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
6 33 (6.79%) Front Office
7 20 (4.12%) Legal
8 19 (3.91%) Retail
9 17 (3.50%) Law
10 10 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.85%) Publishing
12 8 (1.65%) Marketing
13 6 (1.23%) Health Technology
14 5 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.82%) Games
15 4 (0.82%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.82%) Music Industry
16 3 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
17 2 (0.41%) Presentation Skills
17 2 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (24.69%) PySpark
2 43 (8.85%) Pandas
3 34 (7.00%) NumPy
4 32 (6.58%) SciPy
5 28 (5.76%) Kafka
6 8 (1.65%) HTML
7 6 (1.23%) .NET
7 6 (1.23%) JSON
7 6 (1.23%) Lambda Expressions
7 6 (1.23%) XML
8 5 (1.03%) REST
9 3 (0.62%) Apache Beam
9 3 (0.62%) CSS
9 3 (0.62%) SOAP
9 3 (0.62%) Spark Streaming
10 2 (0.41%) Dropwizard
10 2 (0.41%) LangChain
10 2 (0.41%) pytest
10 2 (0.41%) PyTorch
10 2 (0.41%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
2 16 (3.29%) Algorithms
2 16 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (2.88%) Data Structures
3 14 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (2.06%) Cloud Native
6 9 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.03%) Blog
7 5 (1.03%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 4 (0.82%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.82%) IoT
8 4 (0.82%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.62%) Equities
9 3 (0.62%) iPad
9 3 (0.62%) NHS
9 3 (0.62%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.62%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.41%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 18 (3.70%) Linux
2 15 (3.09%) Unix
3 9 (1.85%) Windows
4 4 (0.82%) CentOS
4 4 (0.82%) Solaris
4 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.82%) zOS
5 3 (0.62%) Android
5 3 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (41.56%) Data Engineering
2 183 (37.65%) ETL
3 168 (34.57%) Analytics
4 167 (34.36%) Data Pipeline
5 136 (27.98%) Business Intelligence
6 129 (26.54%) Data Modelling
7 97 (19.96%) Agile
8 84 (17.28%) Data Science
9 74 (15.23%) DevOps
10 65 (13.37%) CI/CD
11 64 (13.17%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (12.76%) Visualisation
13 54 (11.11%) Software Engineering
14 53 (10.91%) Mentoring
15 52 (10.70%) Data Architecture
16 51 (10.49%) Data Integration
17 47 (9.67%) Fintech
18 46 (9.47%) Data Visualisation
19 44 (9.05%) Asset Management
20 42 (8.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 308 (63.37%) SQL
2 306 (62.96%) Python
3 63 (12.96%) Java
4 28 (5.76%) T-SQL
5 22 (4.53%) PowerShell
6 17 (3.50%) Scala
7 15 (3.09%) VBA
8 14 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (2.67%) C#
9 13 (2.67%) R
10 10 (2.06%) U-SQL
11 9 (1.85%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.23%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.03%) Go
13 5 (1.03%) Rust
14 3 (0.62%) Bash
15 2 (0.41%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.41%) SOQL
15 2 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 52 (10.70%) Degree
2 28 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (2.26%) Master's Degree
3 11 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (1.23%) Azure Certification
4 6 (1.23%) DBS Check
5 4 (0.82%) CISM
5 4 (0.82%) CISSP
6 3 (0.62%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.62%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.41%) PhD
7 2 (0.41%) SnowPro
8 1 (0.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.21%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (13.58%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.26%) GDPR
3 6 (1.23%) QA
4 5 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.82%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (4.12%) Docker
2 3 (0.62%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.41%) HDFS
4 1 (0.21%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 41 (8.44%) Terraform
2 24 (4.94%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.03%) logstash
4 4 (0.82%) Ansible
5 2 (0.41%) Argo
5 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.21%) Grafana
Vendors
1 130 (26.75%) Databricks
2 57 (11.73%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.58%) Google
4 13 (2.67%) Oracle
5 10 (2.06%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.23%) Splunk
7 4 (0.82%) Cloudera
7 4 (0.82%) Qualys
8 3 (0.62%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.41%) Darktrace
9 2 (0.41%) NEC
9 2 (0.41%) RedGate
9 2 (0.41%) Revolut
9 2 (0.41%) StreamSets
9 2 (0.41%) YouTube
10 1 (0.21%) Denodo
10 1 (0.21%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.21%) SnapLogic
10 1 (0.21%) Sparx