Data Engineering Jobs in London

Data Engineering
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 160 87
Rank change year-on-year +39 -73 +30
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 351 478 1,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.72% 2.02% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.83% 2.22% 3.78%
Number of salaries quoted 260 361 660
10th Percentile £52,950 £53,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £82,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.35% +2.99%
75th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £115,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,397 21,536 32,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.18% 91.13% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,220 15,919 23,171
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,477
25th Percentile £56,000 £51,532 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in London

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the London region over the 6 months to 16 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 +7 47 £92,500 +23.33% 44
West London +25 1 £62,500 -32.43% 6
South London -6 1 - - 2
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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
1 110 (31.34%) Apache Airflow
2 93 (26.50%) Apache Spark
3 76 (21.65%) Apache
4 4 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.57%) Confluence
5 2 (0.57%) SAS
6 1 (0.28%) Luigi
6 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.57%) Trello
2 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 177 (50.43%) AWS
2 174 (49.57%) Azure
3 120 (34.19%) dbt
4 93 (26.50%) Serverless
5 78 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
6 74 (21.08%) GCP
7 68 (19.37%) Amazon ECS
8 67 (19.09%) OpenShift
8 67 (19.09%) Power Platform
9 55 (15.67%) Azure Data Factory
10 46 (13.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 37 (10.54%) Snowflake
12 31 (8.83%) Azure DevOps
13 20 (5.70%) Amazon S3
13 20 (5.70%) GitHub
14 18 (5.13%) Dagster
15 12 (3.42%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.85%) Azure Functions
17 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.85%) Internet
2 2 (0.57%) ADSL
3 1 (0.28%) DNS
3 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (27.92%) Amazon Athena
2 93 (26.50%) Data Warehouse
3 88 (25.07%) Dremio
4 86 (24.50%) Apache Iceberg
5 67 (19.09%) Apache Arrow
5 67 (19.09%) Apache Ignite
5 67 (19.09%) Power BI
6 55 (15.67%) Data Lake
7 25 (7.12%) NoSQL
8 24 (6.84%) SQL Server
9 23 (6.55%) Metadata
10 22 (6.27%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (6.27%) BigQuery
11 19 (5.41%) Big Data
12 18 (5.13%) Hadoop
12 18 (5.13%) Tableau
13 17 (4.84%) Relational Database
14 14 (3.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 9 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
16 7 (1.99%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 70 (19.94%) Artifactory
2 21 (5.98%) Git
3 8 (2.28%) CircleCI
3 8 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.99%) JIRA
5 3 (0.85%) MLflow
6 2 (0.57%) GitLab
7 1 (0.28%) kappa
7 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 165 (47.01%) Finance
2 90 (25.64%) Front Office
3 88 (25.07%) Social Skills
4 56 (15.95%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (10.54%) Banking
6 19 (5.41%) Marketing
7 15 (4.27%) Law
7 15 (4.27%) Public Sector
8 9 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.56%) Legal
8 9 (2.56%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.28%) Advertising
10 7 (1.99%) Retail
11 5 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.42%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.14%) Electronics
12 4 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.14%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 207 (58.97%) Data Engineer
2 90 (25.64%) Python Engineer
3 80 (22.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 77 (21.94%) AWS Engineer
5 70 (19.94%) AWS DevOps
5 70 (19.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 51 (14.53%) Lead
7 47 (13.39%) Senior
8 35 (9.97%) Senior Data Engineer
9 29 (8.26%) Azure Engineer
10 26 (7.41%) Lead Data Engineer
11 22 (6.27%) Azure Data Engineer
11 22 (6.27%) Python Data Engineer
12 16 (4.56%) Analyst
13 13 (3.70%) Data Manager
14 11 (3.13%) Software Engineer
15 10 (2.85%) Architect
16 8 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
17 7 (1.99%) Data Architect
17 7 (1.99%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (36.47%) PySpark
2 91 (25.93%) Kafka
3 67 (19.09%) J2EE
4 22 (6.27%) Pandas
5 18 (5.13%) NumPy
6 17 (4.84%) SciPy
7 6 (1.71%) pytest
8 5 (1.42%) JSON
8 5 (1.42%) OAuth
8 5 (1.42%) Plotly
8 5 (1.42%) Spark Streaming
9 4 (1.14%) Great Expectations
9 4 (1.14%) React
9 4 (1.14%) REST
9 4 (1.14%) TensorFlow
10 3 (0.85%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.85%) Flask
10 3 (0.85%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.85%) scikit-learn
10 3 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.83%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.27%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.99%) Equities
3 14 (3.99%) Fixed Income
3 14 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
4 13 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.85%) FMCG
6 7 (1.99%) Distributed Computing
7 6 (1.71%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (1.14%) Low-Code
10 3 (0.85%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.85%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.85%) Replication
11 2 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.57%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.14%) Linux
2 3 (0.85%) Windows
3 2 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (47.86%) CI/CD
2 157 (44.73%) DevOps
3 138 (39.32%) Agile
4 129 (36.75%) Analytics
5 112 (31.91%) Data Pipeline
6 111 (31.62%) Software Engineering
7 107 (30.48%) ETL
8 95 (27.07%) Asset Management
9 88 (25.07%) Data Modelling
10 76 (21.65%) Data Science
10 76 (21.65%) Machine Learning
11 70 (19.94%) Open Source
11 70 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
12 68 (19.37%) Business Intelligence
12 68 (19.37%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 66 (18.80%) Data Governance
14 63 (17.95%) Artificial Intelligence
15 55 (15.67%) Visualisation
16 54 (15.38%) Decision-Making
17 48 (13.68%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 257 (73.22%) Python
2 170 (48.43%) SQL
3 108 (30.77%) Java
4 70 (19.94%) Go
5 24 (6.84%) Scala
6 18 (5.13%) C#
7 16 (4.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (4.27%) T-SQL
9 12 (3.42%) PowerShell
10 10 (2.85%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.71%) Bash
12 5 (1.42%) R
12 5 (1.42%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.14%) C++
13 4 (1.14%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.85%) Cypher
15 2 (0.57%) Bicep
15 2 (0.57%) Rust
16 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
16 1 (0.28%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 52 (14.81%) Degree
2 32 (9.12%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.71%) AWS Certification
8 5 (1.42%) PhD
9 4 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.57%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 1 (0.28%) CCSP
11 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CISSP
11 1 (0.28%) CRISC
11 1 (0.28%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.28%) FFIEC
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (18.23%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.56%) GDPR
3 12 (3.42%) QA
4 9 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.28%) COBIT
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.28%) NIST
6 1 (0.28%) PMO
System Software
1 94 (26.78%) Docker
2 6 (1.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.42%) Apache Flume
4 3 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 117 (33.33%) Terraform
2 92 (26.21%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.42%) Oozie
4 2 (0.57%) Packer
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 89 (25.36%) Databricks
2 71 (20.23%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.13%) Google
4 8 (2.28%) Informatica
5 6 (1.71%) Cloudera
6 5 (1.42%) Oracle
6 5 (1.42%) SAP
7 4 (1.14%) Foundry
7 4 (1.14%) Palantir
8 3 (0.85%) Snowplow
8 3 (0.85%) Talend
8 3 (0.85%) YouTube
9 2 (0.57%) Apple
9 2 (0.57%) Cribl.io
10 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.28%) Charles River
10 1 (0.28%) Facebook
10 1 (0.28%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.28%) SimCorp
10 1 (0.28%) Sybase