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 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 126 97
Rank change year-on-year +10 -29 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 348 581 1,128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.78% 2.44% 3.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.08% 2.59% 3.58%
Number of salaries quoted 271 474 918
10th Percentile £55,000 £45,225 £55,875
25th Percentile £69,375 £60,000 £66,750
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 £92,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £138,750 £112,500 £140,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +11.54% -10.34% +3.57%

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 11,289 22,453 31,519
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.39% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6,829 16,734 23,288
10th Percentile £41,200 £37,500 £42,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,143 £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 £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +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 28 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 28 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 +16 55 £82,500 +20.44% 23
West London +25 4 £61,250 -27.94% 3
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 287 (82.47%) Python
2 196 (56.32%) Data Engineering
3 191 (54.89%) SQL
4 179 (51.44%) Azure
5 166 (47.70%) AWS
6 147 (42.24%) Finance
7 139 (39.94%) CI/CD
8 135 (38.79%) DevOps
9 133 (38.22%) Agile
10 132 (37.93%) PySpark
11 128 (36.78%) ETL
12 118 (33.91%) Terraform
13 107 (30.75%) Data Pipeline
14 106 (30.46%) Java
15 105 (30.17%) Apache Airflow
16 103 (29.60%) dbt
17 101 (29.02%) Docker
17 101 (29.02%) Analytics
18 99 (28.45%) Data Modelling
18 99 (28.45%) Databricks
19 97 (27.87%) Kubernetes
20 90 (25.86%) Software Engineering
21 87 (25.00%) Serverless
22 86 (24.71%) Apache Spark
23 85 (24.43%) Data Warehouse
24 81 (23.28%) Kafka
24 81 (23.28%) Amazon Athena
25 76 (21.84%) AWS Lambda
25 76 (21.84%) Asset Management
26 74 (21.26%) Front Office

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
1 105 (30.17%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (24.71%) Apache Spark
3 72 (20.69%) Apache
4 6 (1.72%) SAS
5 5 (1.44%) Luigi
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.44%) SPSS
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 179 (51.44%) Azure
2 166 (47.70%) AWS
3 103 (29.60%) dbt
4 87 (25.00%) Serverless
5 76 (21.84%) AWS Lambda
6 72 (20.69%) Azure Data Factory
7 60 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
8 59 (16.95%) GCP
8 59 (16.95%) OpenShift
9 58 (16.67%) Power Platform
10 36 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (9.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 33 (9.48%) Snowflake
12 25 (7.18%) Amazon S3
13 14 (4.02%) Microsoft Purview
14 12 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
14 12 (3.45%) Dagster
15 9 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (2.59%) Azure Functions
16 8 (2.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.44%) Internet
2 2 (0.57%) Multicast
3 1 (0.29%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (24.43%) Data Warehouse
2 81 (23.28%) Amazon Athena
3 71 (20.40%) Apache Iceberg
3 71 (20.40%) Dremio
4 65 (18.68%) Data Lake
5 59 (16.95%) Apache Arrow
5 59 (16.95%) Apache Ignite
6 57 (16.38%) Power BI
7 29 (8.33%) SQL Server
8 19 (5.46%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (4.02%) Big Data
9 14 (4.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 13 (3.74%) BigQuery
10 13 (3.74%) Hadoop
10 13 (3.74%) Metadata
11 12 (3.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 12 (3.45%) Tableau
12 11 (3.16%) NoSQL
12 11 (3.16%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.87%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 60 (17.24%) Artifactory
2 18 (5.17%) Git
3 11 (3.16%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.44%) CircleCI
5 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.57%) JIRA
5 2 (0.57%) MLflow
6 1 (0.29%) GitLab
6 1 (0.29%) kappa
6 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.29%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 147 (42.24%) Finance
2 74 (21.26%) Front Office
3 67 (19.25%) Social Skills
4 47 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (8.62%) Banking
6 29 (8.33%) Law
7 23 (6.61%) Public Sector
8 22 (6.32%) Marketing
9 17 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (3.16%) Legal
10 11 (3.16%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.59%) Advertising
12 6 (1.72%) Electronics
12 6 (1.72%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.15%) Retail
14 3 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.86%) Music Industry
15 2 (0.57%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (37.93%) PySpark
2 81 (23.28%) Kafka
3 59 (16.95%) J2EE
4 15 (4.31%) ARM Templates
5 14 (4.02%) Pandas
6 11 (3.16%) NumPy
6 11 (3.16%) SciPy
7 9 (2.59%) pytest
8 8 (2.30%) Spark Streaming
9 7 (2.01%) JSON
10 5 (1.44%) Great Expectations
10 5 (1.44%) OAuth
10 5 (1.44%) XML
11 4 (1.15%) ActiveMQ
11 4 (1.15%) Flask
11 4 (1.15%) RESTful
12 3 (0.86%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.86%) REST
13 2 (0.57%) AWS CDK
13 2 (0.57%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 26 (7.47%) Product Ownership
2 10 (2.87%) Equities
2 10 (2.87%) Fixed Income
3 9 (2.59%) Data Structures
3 9 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (2.30%) Cloud Native
5 5 (1.44%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.44%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (1.44%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.15%) Reference Data
7 3 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (0.86%) Data Fabric
7 3 (0.86%) PKI
7 3 (0.86%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.44%) Linux
2 1 (0.29%) Unix
2 1 (0.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (56.32%) Data Engineering
2 139 (39.94%) CI/CD
3 135 (38.79%) DevOps
4 133 (38.22%) Agile
5 128 (36.78%) ETL
6 107 (30.75%) Data Pipeline
7 101 (29.02%) Analytics
8 99 (28.45%) Data Modelling
9 90 (25.86%) Software Engineering
10 76 (21.84%) Asset Management
11 70 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (19.25%) Data Science
13 64 (18.39%) Open Source
14 59 (16.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 58 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
16 57 (16.38%) Artificial Intelligence
17 45 (12.93%) Machine Learning
17 45 (12.93%) Mentoring
18 43 (12.36%) Roadmaps
19 41 (11.78%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 287 (82.47%) Python
2 191 (54.89%) SQL
3 106 (30.46%) Java
4 59 (16.95%) Go
5 44 (12.64%) Scala
6 19 (5.46%) T-SQL
7 15 (4.31%) R
8 14 (4.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 12 (3.45%) C#
9 12 (3.45%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.59%) SPARQL
11 6 (1.72%) TypeScript
12 5 (1.44%) C++
12 5 (1.44%) JavaScript
12 5 (1.44%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.86%) Cypher
13 3 (0.86%) Perl
13 3 (0.86%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.57%) Bash
14 2 (0.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 53 (15.23%) Degree
2 30 (8.62%) Security Cleared
3 28 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (4.31%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.59%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.44%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.15%) SnowPro
9 3 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (0.86%) CCSK
9 3 (0.86%) CCSP
9 3 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.86%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.29%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (15.52%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.87%) QA
3 8 (2.30%) GDPR
4 6 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.57%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.29%) GAAP
6 1 (0.29%) GRC
6 1 (0.29%) IFRS
6 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.29%) Solvency II
System Software
1 101 (29.02%) Docker
2 5 (1.44%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 118 (33.91%) Terraform
2 97 (27.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.44%) Oozie
4 3 (0.86%) CASB
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.57%) Ansible
5 2 (0.57%) Grafana
5 2 (0.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 99 (28.45%) Databricks
2 35 (10.06%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.03%) Google
4 9 (2.59%) Palantir
5 8 (2.30%) SAP
6 7 (2.01%) Oracle
7 6 (1.72%) Cloudera
7 6 (1.72%) Informatica
8 5 (1.44%) Foundry
8 5 (1.44%) Talend
8 5 (1.44%) Vertica
9 3 (0.86%) Refinitiv
9 3 (0.86%) Symantec
9 3 (0.86%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.57%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.57%) Splunk
11 1 (0.29%) Charles River
11 1 (0.29%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.29%) Facebook
11 1 (0.29%) SimCorp