Data Engineer Jobs in London

Data Engineer
England > London

The median Data Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 102 120
Rank change year-on-year -23 +18 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 584 1,161 2,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.47% 3.37% 3.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.63% 3.55% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 473 946 1,127
10th Percentile £45,850 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,013 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,500 £140,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,236 32,746 65,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 94.99% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,670 24,087 34,614
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +19 81 £70,000 -12.50% 15
South London +22 25 £65,000 - 3
West London +1 7 £55,000 -26.67% 4
North London -1 4 £71,250 +1.79%
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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.

1 380 (65.07%) SQL
2 370 (63.36%) Python
3 266 (45.55%) Azure
4 249 (42.64%) ETL
5 217 (37.16%) Data Pipeline
6 207 (35.45%) AWS
7 189 (32.36%) Data Engineering
8 169 (28.94%) Data Modelling
9 164 (28.08%) Data Warehouse
10 161 (27.57%) Analytics
11 134 (22.95%) Data Science
12 128 (21.92%) Databricks
13 123 (21.06%) Finance
14 120 (20.55%) GCP
15 119 (20.38%) Social Skills
16 105 (17.98%) Power Platform
17 104 (17.81%) Business Intelligence
18 103 (17.64%) Power BI
19 101 (17.29%) DevOps
20 96 (16.44%) Agile
21 91 (15.58%) Data Lake
22 90 (15.41%) Data Integration
23 88 (15.07%) PySpark
24 85 (14.55%) CI/CD
25 83 (14.21%) Azure Data Factory
25 83 (14.21%) Data Quality
26 82 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
27 74 (12.67%) Apache Spark
28 71 (12.16%) SQL Server
29 68 (11.64%) Apache Airflow

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 74 (12.67%) Apache Spark
2 68 (11.64%) Apache Airflow
3 51 (8.73%) Apache
4 5 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.34%) Luigi
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.51%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.34%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 266 (45.55%) Azure
2 207 (35.45%) AWS
3 120 (20.55%) GCP
4 105 (17.98%) Power Platform
5 83 (14.21%) Azure Data Factory
6 59 (10.10%) dbt
7 56 (9.59%) Snowflake
8 49 (8.39%) Amazon S3
9 48 (8.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 45 (7.71%) Azure DevOps
11 44 (7.53%) Serverless
12 29 (4.97%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (3.94%) GitHub
14 20 (3.42%) Amazon EMR
15 14 (2.40%) AWS Step Functions
16 13 (2.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (2.23%) Prefect
17 12 (2.05%) PowerApps
18 11 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
19 10 (1.71%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.40%) Structured Cabling
2 10 (1.71%) Network Security
3 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.17%) Firewall
4 1 (0.17%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (28.08%) Data Warehouse
2 103 (17.64%) Power BI
3 91 (15.58%) Data Lake
4 71 (12.16%) SQL Server
5 61 (10.45%) Big Data
6 56 (9.59%) NoSQL
7 53 (9.08%) BigQuery
8 52 (8.90%) Hadoop
9 39 (6.68%) Azure SQL Database
10 37 (6.34%) Amazon Redshift
11 35 (5.99%) Tableau
12 30 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
12 30 (5.14%) Relational Database
13 28 (4.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 21 (3.60%) Data Vault
15 17 (2.91%) Apache Hive
16 16 (2.74%) Delta Lake
16 16 (2.74%) Looker
17 15 (2.57%) Amazon Athena
18 14 (2.40%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (6.34%) Git
2 18 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.05%) JIRA
4 11 (1.88%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.03%) GitLab
6 5 (0.86%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.17%) Ant
7 1 (0.17%) GoCD
7 1 (0.17%) Gradle
7 1 (0.17%) JUnit
7 1 (0.17%) Maven
7 1 (0.17%) Mockito
7 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.17%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 123 (21.06%) Finance
2 119 (20.38%) Social Skills
3 64 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (7.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (7.19%) Banking
6 26 (4.45%) Retail
7 19 (3.25%) Legal
8 18 (3.08%) Law
9 15 (2.57%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.40%) Games
11 11 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.37%) Marketing
12 8 (1.37%) Publishing
12 8 (1.37%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.20%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.03%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.86%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.86%) Music Industry
16 4 (0.68%) Front Office
16 4 (0.68%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (15.07%) PySpark
2 46 (7.88%) Kafka
3 28 (4.79%) Pandas
4 16 (2.74%) .NET
5 12 (2.05%) Apache Beam
6 10 (1.71%) Flask
7 9 (1.54%) Spark Streaming
8 8 (1.37%) Apache Avro
8 8 (1.37%) JSON
8 8 (1.37%) REST
8 8 (1.37%) XML
9 7 (1.20%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.03%) Lambda Expressions
10 6 (1.03%) NumPy
11 5 (0.86%) pytest
12 4 (0.68%) Anaconda
12 4 (0.68%) HTML
12 4 (0.68%) Plotly
12 4 (0.68%) SQLAlchemy
13 3 (0.51%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.62%) Greenfield Project
2 22 (3.77%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.60%) Data Structures
4 17 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.40%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.05%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (1.71%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
10 8 (1.37%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.03%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.86%) Blog
12 5 (0.86%) Equities
12 5 (0.86%) IoT
12 5 (0.86%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 3 (0.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.45%) Linux
2 16 (2.74%) Unix
3 9 (1.54%) Windows
4 4 (0.68%) Android
4 4 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.68%) CentOS
4 4 (0.68%) Solaris
4 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.68%) zOS
5 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (42.64%) ETL
2 217 (37.16%) Data Pipeline
3 189 (32.36%) Data Engineering
4 169 (28.94%) Data Modelling
5 161 (27.57%) Analytics
6 134 (22.95%) Data Science
7 104 (17.81%) Business Intelligence
8 101 (17.29%) DevOps
9 96 (16.44%) Agile
10 90 (15.41%) Data Integration
11 85 (14.55%) CI/CD
12 82 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (11.13%) Visualisation
14 58 (9.93%) Machine Learning
15 52 (8.90%) Mentoring
15 52 (8.90%) Platform Engineering
16 51 (8.73%) Computer Science
17 49 (8.39%) Data Analytics
18 48 (8.22%) Data Architecture
19 47 (8.05%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 380 (65.07%) SQL
2 370 (63.36%) Python
3 51 (8.73%) Java
4 33 (5.65%) Scala
5 27 (4.62%) T-SQL
6 22 (3.77%) C#
7 16 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 13 (2.23%) R
9 10 (1.71%) U-SQL
10 8 (1.37%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.20%) VB
12 6 (1.03%) JavaScript
13 5 (0.86%) VBA
14 3 (0.51%) C++
14 3 (0.51%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.51%) Rust
14 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.34%) Bash
15 2 (0.34%) Go
Qualifications
1 64 (10.96%) Degree
2 33 (5.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.23%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.05%) Master's Degree
5 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.20%) CISSP
7 4 (0.68%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.68%) CISM
8 3 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.51%) CCSK
8 3 (0.51%) CCSP
8 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.51%) PhD
8 3 (0.51%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.51%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (14.21%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.05%) QA
3 11 (1.88%) GDPR
4 6 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.68%) NIST
5 4 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 47 (8.05%) Docker
2 8 (1.37%) HDFS
3 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 63 (10.79%) Terraform
2 48 (8.22%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.03%) logstash
4 4 (0.68%) Ansible
5 3 (0.51%) Argo
5 3 (0.51%) CASB
5 3 (0.51%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.34%) Grafana
6 2 (0.34%) Marathon
6 2 (0.34%) Mesos
7 1 (0.17%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Podman
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 128 (21.92%) Databricks
2 59 (10.10%) Microsoft
3 47 (8.05%) Google
4 22 (3.77%) Oracle
5 13 (2.23%) Informatica
6 12 (2.05%) Cloudera
7 11 (1.88%) YouTube
8 10 (1.71%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.20%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.86%) Splunk
11 4 (0.68%) Qualys
12 3 (0.51%) Netskope
12 3 (0.51%) SAP
12 3 (0.51%) Symantec
12 3 (0.51%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.34%) Facebook
13 2 (0.34%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.34%) SnapLogic
13 2 (0.34%) Snowplow
13 2 (0.34%) Teradata