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 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 126 98
Rank change year-on-year +7 -28 +22
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 367 589 1,156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.84% 2.49% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.15% 2.65% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 294 479 937
10th Percentile £53,225 £46,150 £55,000
25th Percentile £69,063 £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 £114,000 £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 11,666 22,251 32,572
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.14% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,370 16,680 24,004
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 12 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 12 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 +13 59 £82,500 +17.86% 32
West London +26 4 £61,250 +11.36% 9
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 299 (81.47%) Python
2 212 (57.77%) Data Engineering
3 201 (54.77%) SQL
4 186 (50.68%) Azure
5 181 (49.32%) AWS
6 166 (45.23%) Finance
7 153 (41.69%) Agile
8 149 (40.60%) CI/CD
9 145 (39.51%) PySpark
10 142 (38.69%) DevOps
11 138 (37.60%) ETL
12 123 (33.51%) Apache Airflow
13 120 (32.70%) dbt
13 120 (32.70%) Java
14 119 (32.43%) Terraform
15 114 (31.06%) Analytics
16 110 (29.97%) Data Pipeline
17 109 (29.70%) Docker
18 105 (28.61%) Kubernetes
18 105 (28.61%) Software Engineering
19 102 (27.79%) Databricks
20 100 (27.25%) Data Modelling
21 99 (26.98%) Serverless
22 97 (26.43%) Amazon Athena
23 93 (25.34%) Asset Management
24 92 (25.07%) Data Warehouse
24 92 (25.07%) Apache Spark
25 91 (24.80%) Dremio
25 91 (24.80%) Front Office
26 88 (23.98%) Kafka

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
1 123 (33.51%) Apache Airflow
2 92 (25.07%) Apache Spark
3 82 (22.34%) Apache
4 6 (1.63%) SAS
5 5 (1.36%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.36%) SPSS
2 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.27%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 186 (50.68%) Azure
2 181 (49.32%) AWS
3 120 (32.70%) dbt
4 99 (26.98%) Serverless
5 88 (23.98%) AWS Lambda
6 78 (21.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 67 (18.26%) Amazon ECS
7 67 (18.26%) OpenShift
8 66 (17.98%) GCP
9 63 (17.17%) Power Platform
10 36 (9.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 34 (9.26%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (8.45%) Snowflake
13 28 (7.63%) Amazon S3
14 21 (5.72%) Dagster
15 14 (3.81%) Microsoft Purview
16 11 (3.00%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (3.00%) Amazon Kinesis
17 9 (2.45%) Azure Functions
17 9 (2.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.36%) Internet
2 2 (0.54%) Multicast
3 1 (0.27%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (26.43%) Amazon Athena
2 92 (25.07%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (24.80%) Dremio
4 87 (23.71%) Apache Iceberg
5 74 (20.16%) Data Lake
6 67 (18.26%) Apache Arrow
6 67 (18.26%) Apache Ignite
7 62 (16.89%) Power BI
8 35 (9.54%) SQL Server
9 22 (5.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 20 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (4.90%) Big Data
12 16 (4.36%) Hadoop
12 16 (4.36%) Tableau
13 14 (3.81%) Metadata
14 12 (3.27%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (3.27%) BigQuery
14 12 (3.27%) DynamoDB
14 12 (3.27%) NoSQL
14 12 (3.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 68 (18.53%) Artifactory
2 18 (4.90%) Git
3 10 (2.72%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.36%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.54%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.54%) JIRA
5 2 (0.54%) MLflow
6 1 (0.27%) GitLab
6 1 (0.27%) kappa
6 1 (0.27%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 166 (45.23%) Finance
2 91 (24.80%) Front Office
3 77 (20.98%) Social Skills
4 48 (13.08%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (10.08%) Banking
6 25 (6.81%) Law
7 18 (4.90%) Marketing
8 15 (4.09%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.27%) Legal
10 10 (2.72%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.45%) Advertising
12 5 (1.36%) Electronics
12 5 (1.36%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.36%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Retail
15 2 (0.54%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.54%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (39.51%) PySpark
2 88 (23.98%) Kafka
3 67 (18.26%) J2EE
4 22 (5.99%) Pandas
5 20 (5.45%) NumPy
5 20 (5.45%) SciPy
6 15 (4.09%) ARM Templates
7 8 (2.18%) pytest
7 8 (2.18%) Spark Streaming
8 7 (1.91%) JSON
9 5 (1.36%) OAuth
9 5 (1.36%) XML
10 4 (1.09%) ActiveMQ
10 4 (1.09%) Flask
10 4 (1.09%) Great Expectations
11 3 (0.82%) FastAPI
11 3 (0.82%) REST
11 3 (0.82%) RESTful
12 2 (0.54%) .NET
12 2 (0.54%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.54%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.36%) Equities
2 16 (4.36%) Fixed Income
3 9 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (1.91%) Data Structures
4 7 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
5 6 (1.63%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.36%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.36%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.36%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.09%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.82%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (0.82%) Data Fabric
8 3 (0.82%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.82%) PKI
8 3 (0.82%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.82%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.54%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.36%) Linux
2 3 (0.82%) Unix
3 1 (0.27%) Windows
3 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (57.77%) Data Engineering
2 153 (41.69%) Agile
3 149 (40.60%) CI/CD
4 142 (38.69%) DevOps
5 138 (37.60%) ETL
6 114 (31.06%) Analytics
7 110 (29.97%) Data Pipeline
8 105 (28.61%) Software Engineering
9 100 (27.25%) Data Modelling
10 93 (25.34%) Asset Management
11 76 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
12 70 (19.07%) Open Source
13 67 (18.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 63 (17.17%) Data Science
15 60 (16.35%) Business Intelligence
16 49 (13.35%) Artificial Intelligence
16 49 (13.35%) Roadmaps
17 44 (11.99%) Mentoring
18 42 (11.44%) Data Governance
19 40 (10.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 299 (81.47%) Python
2 201 (54.77%) SQL
3 120 (32.70%) Java
4 68 (18.53%) Go
5 43 (11.72%) Scala
6 23 (6.27%) T-SQL
7 16 (4.36%) PowerShell
8 15 (4.09%) C#
9 14 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (3.27%) R
11 9 (2.45%) SPARQL
12 5 (1.36%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.36%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.82%) Bash
13 3 (0.82%) C++
13 3 (0.82%) Cypher
13 3 (0.82%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.82%) Perl
13 3 (0.82%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.54%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 61 (16.62%) Degree
2 28 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (7.36%) Security Cleared
4 25 (6.81%) SC Cleared
5 16 (4.36%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.45%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.09%) SnowPro
10 3 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.82%) CCSK
10 3 (0.82%) CCSP
10 3 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.82%) CISSP
11 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.27%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (15.26%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.72%) QA
3 8 (2.18%) GDPR
4 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.54%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 109 (29.70%) Docker
2 5 (1.36%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 119 (32.43%) Terraform
2 105 (28.61%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.36%) Oozie
4 3 (0.82%) CASB
4 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) Ansible
5 1 (0.27%) Grafana
5 1 (0.27%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 102 (27.79%) Databricks
2 40 (10.90%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.72%) Google
4 8 (2.18%) Oracle
5 6 (1.63%) Cloudera
5 6 (1.63%) SAP
6 5 (1.36%) Palantir
6 5 (1.36%) Vertica
7 4 (1.09%) Foundry
7 4 (1.09%) Informatica
7 4 (1.09%) Talend
8 3 (0.82%) Refinitiv
8 3 (0.82%) Symantec
8 3 (0.82%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.54%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.27%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.27%) Charles River
10 1 (0.27%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.27%) Tealium
10 1 (0.27%) Teradata