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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 118 104
Rank change year-on-year -26 -14 +79
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 488 762 2,821
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.35% 2.81% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 2.96% 3.88%
Number of salaries quoted 351 561 837
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £67,125 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £83,500
Median % change year-on-year - +1.80% +7.74%
75th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £121,250 £142,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,750 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -5.67% -6.25% +14.29%

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 18,545 25,706 72,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 89.42% 94.78% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 12,808 20,124 35,328
10th Percentile £39,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +5.71% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,732
90th Percentile £120,000 £116,250 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

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 26 July 2024.

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 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 +40 80 £82,500 +3.13% 10
West London -4 17 £71,250 +39.02% 4
South London -36 9 £67,500 - 6
North London - 1 £70,000 -
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 62 (12.70%) Apache Airflow
2 40 (8.20%) Apache Spark
3 30 (6.15%) Apache
4 24 (4.92%) SAS
5 5 (1.02%) Apache Pulsar
6 4 (0.82%) Confluence
7 3 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pig
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.61%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.61%) SPSS
3 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 244 (50.00%) Azure
2 195 (39.96%) AWS
3 114 (23.36%) GCP
4 96 (19.67%) Power Platform
5 67 (13.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 66 (13.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 61 (12.50%) dbt
8 54 (11.07%) Amazon S3
9 36 (7.38%) Snowflake
10 32 (6.56%) Dagster
11 28 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (5.12%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (4.92%) GitHub
14 19 (3.89%) Serverless
15 15 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (2.87%) Fivetran
17 9 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 9 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (1.84%) SaaS
18 7 (1.43%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.20%) Firewall
1 1 (0.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (29.92%) Data Warehouse
2 95 (19.47%) Power BI
3 84 (17.21%) Data Lake
4 65 (13.32%) Tableau
5 56 (11.48%) Amazon Athena
6 49 (10.04%) Big Data
7 44 (9.02%) Amazon Redshift
7 44 (9.02%) NoSQL
8 39 (7.99%) DynamoDB
9 38 (7.79%) Dremio
10 35 (7.17%) BigQuery
11 33 (6.76%) Amazon QuickSight
12 26 (5.33%) Looker
13 24 (4.92%) Data Mining
14 23 (4.71%) Azure SQL Database
15 22 (4.51%) SQL Server
16 20 (4.10%) Relational Database
17 18 (3.69%) Hadoop
18 14 (2.87%) Delta Lake
19 12 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 35 (7.17%) Git
2 13 (2.66%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.23%) JIRA
4 5 (1.02%) GitLab
4 5 (1.02%) MLflow
5 4 (0.82%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.82%) CircleCI
5 4 (0.82%) ERwin
6 3 (0.61%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.61%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.20%) JMeter
7 1 (0.20%) Mockito
7 1 (0.20%) Postman
7 1 (0.20%) Selenium
7 1 (0.20%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.20%) SpecFlow
General
1 133 (27.25%) Finance
2 108 (22.13%) Social Skills
3 94 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (12.70%) Banking
5 42 (8.61%) Front Office
6 40 (8.20%) Legal
7 38 (7.79%) Law
8 34 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (3.89%) Retail
10 15 (3.07%) Financial Institution
11 12 (2.46%) Publishing
12 11 (2.25%) Marketing
13 10 (2.05%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.23%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.82%) Music Industry
15 4 (0.82%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.61%) Local Government
16 3 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 202 (41.39%) Data Engineer
2 130 (26.64%) Senior
3 72 (14.75%) Senior Data Engineer
4 50 (10.25%) Analyst
5 47 (9.63%) Data Manager
6 44 (9.02%) Python Engineer
7 43 (8.81%) Lead
8 38 (7.79%) Data Analyst
9 36 (7.38%) Python Data Engineer
10 32 (6.56%) Developer
11 29 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
12 28 (5.74%) Azure Data Engineer
12 28 (5.74%) Principal Engineer
13 27 (5.53%) Engineering Manager
13 27 (5.53%) Software Engineer
14 25 (5.12%) Architect
15 21 (4.30%) Principal Data Engineer
16 19 (3.89%) Data Architect
16 19 (3.89%) Lead Data Engineer
17 17 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (16.39%) PySpark
2 46 (9.43%) Pandas
3 42 (8.61%) NumPy
4 39 (7.99%) SciPy
5 26 (5.33%) Kafka
6 12 (2.46%) .NET
7 8 (1.64%) HTML
7 8 (1.64%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.64%) XML
8 7 (1.43%) Apache Beam
8 7 (1.43%) RabbitMQ
8 7 (1.43%) TensorFlow
9 6 (1.23%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.23%) CSS
9 6 (1.23%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.23%) gRPC
9 6 (1.23%) Protocol Buffers
9 6 (1.23%) Web Services
10 5 (1.02%) JSON
10 5 (1.02%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 34 (6.97%) Onboarding
2 25 (5.12%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.71%) Algorithms
4 20 (4.10%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
6 12 (2.46%) Greenfield Project
7 9 (1.84%) Fixed Income
8 8 (1.64%) IoT
9 7 (1.43%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.23%) Blog
11 5 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (0.82%) PropTech
13 3 (0.61%) Data Fabric
13 3 (0.61%) Hedge funds
14 2 (0.41%) Equities
14 2 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
14 2 (0.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.02%) Linux
2 3 (0.61%) Unix
3 2 (0.41%) VMS
4 1 (0.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.20%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 203 (41.60%) Analytics
2 173 (35.45%) Data Modelling
3 168 (34.43%) ETL
4 141 (28.89%) Agile
5 136 (27.87%) Business Intelligence
6 123 (25.20%) Data Science
7 111 (22.75%) Visualisation
8 108 (22.13%) Data Pipeline
9 96 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
10 93 (19.06%) Data Visualisation
11 84 (17.21%) Data Architecture
12 81 (16.60%) Software Engineering
13 73 (14.96%) Machine Learning
14 69 (14.14%) Computer Science
14 69 (14.14%) Data Management
15 62 (12.70%) Decision-Making
15 62 (12.70%) DevOps
16 61 (12.50%) Mentoring
17 60 (12.30%) Artificial Intelligence
17 60 (12.30%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 280 (57.38%) Python
2 275 (56.35%) SQL
3 94 (19.26%) Java
4 50 (10.25%) R
5 36 (7.38%) Scala
6 20 (4.10%) MATLAB
7 17 (3.48%) Go
8 14 (2.87%) C#
8 14 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.87%) T-SQL
9 10 (2.05%) PowerShell
10 7 (1.43%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.23%) C++
11 6 (1.23%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.02%) TypeScript
13 4 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.61%) Rust
15 2 (0.41%) Bash
16 1 (0.20%) Ruby
16 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 71 (14.55%) Degree
2 27 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (3.69%) Master's Degree
4 9 (1.84%) Azure Certification
5 6 (1.23%) PhD
6 5 (1.02%) DBS Check
6 5 (1.02%) SC Cleared
6 5 (1.02%) Security Cleared
7 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.41%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.41%) MCP
7 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.20%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (11.07%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.69%) GDPR
3 11 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.84%) QA
5 4 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 30 (6.15%) Docker
2 2 (0.41%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 42 (8.61%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.74%) Terraform
3 6 (1.23%) Ansible
4 5 (1.02%) logstash
5 4 (0.82%) Grafana
5 4 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.41%) Argo
6 2 (0.41%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 100 (20.49%) Databricks
2 44 (9.02%) Google
3 42 (8.61%) Microsoft
4 26 (5.33%) Oracle
5 6 (1.23%) Alteryx
5 6 (1.23%) Cloudera
5 6 (1.23%) Informatica
5 6 (1.23%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.02%) OpenAI
6 5 (1.02%) SAP
7 3 (0.61%) Embarcadero
7 3 (0.61%) Hortonworks
7 3 (0.61%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.41%) Samsung
8 2 (0.41%) StreamSets
8 2 (0.41%) Teradata
9 1 (0.20%) Denodo
9 1 (0.20%) Facebook
9 1 (0.20%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.20%) Pega