Data Engineering Jobs in London

Data Engineering
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 91 125
Rank change year-on-year -71 +34 +59
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 469 1,281 2,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.00% 3.60% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 3.78% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 350 685 807
10th Percentile £54,875 £56,250 £51,227
25th Percentile £64,063 £67,500 £62,181
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £101,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -9.68% - +19.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,460 33,929 63,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.37% 95.38% 96.83%
Number of salaries quoted 16,009 24,266 34,417
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,125 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 +43 68 £75,000 -11.76% 13
West London -14 12 £92,500 +23.33%
South London -31 8 £67,500 - 3
North London +2 4 £71,250 -1.72%
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 77 (16.42%) Apache Spark
2 69 (14.71%) Apache
3 51 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (3.41%) SAS
5 6 (1.28%) Confluence
6 3 (0.64%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.43%) Luigi
7 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.64%) SPSS
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 212 (45.20%) Azure
2 184 (39.23%) AWS
3 98 (20.90%) GCP
4 93 (19.83%) Power Platform
5 78 (16.63%) Azure Data Factory
6 57 (12.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 47 (10.02%) Amazon S3
8 35 (7.46%) dbt
9 34 (7.25%) Snowflake
10 33 (7.04%) Serverless
11 32 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
12 31 (6.61%) GitHub
13 25 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
14 20 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (3.41%) SaaS
16 14 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
18 10 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
18 10 (2.13%) Azure Stack
18 10 (2.13%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.85%) Network Security
2 1 (0.21%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (29.42%) Data Warehouse
2 91 (19.40%) Power BI
3 77 (16.42%) Data Lake
4 63 (13.43%) Big Data
5 55 (11.73%) Tableau
6 41 (8.74%) NoSQL
7 38 (8.10%) BigQuery
7 38 (8.10%) Hadoop
8 37 (7.89%) SQL Server
9 33 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 30 (6.40%) Looker
11 25 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
12 23 (4.90%) Relational Database
13 21 (4.48%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
15 19 (4.05%) DynamoDB
15 19 (4.05%) Metadata
16 16 (3.41%) Apache Hive
17 15 (3.20%) Flink
17 15 (3.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 43 (9.17%) Git
2 19 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.92%) CircleCI
3 9 (1.92%) JIRA
4 5 (1.07%) ERwin
5 4 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.85%) GitLab
5 4 (0.85%) Snakemake
6 3 (0.64%) ER Studio
6 3 (0.64%) MLflow
7 1 (0.21%) JMeter
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.21%) Postman
7 1 (0.21%) Selenium
7 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.21%) Spinnaker
General
1 113 (24.09%) Social Skills
2 96 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (17.91%) Finance
4 36 (7.68%) Banking
5 24 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (5.12%) Retail
6 22 (4.69%) Law
6 22 (4.69%) Legal
7 18 (3.84%) Marketing
8 13 (2.77%) Front Office
8 13 (2.77%) Public Sector
9 12 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 12 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.35%) Games
11 8 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.71%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.28%) Health Technology
12 6 (1.28%) Publishing
13 5 (1.07%) Manufacturing
14 4 (0.85%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 189 (40.30%) Data Engineer
2 112 (23.88%) Senior
3 71 (15.14%) Senior Data Engineer
4 58 (12.37%) Data Manager
5 46 (9.81%) Lead
6 37 (7.89%) Engineering Manager
7 31 (6.61%) Analyst
8 30 (6.40%) Principal Engineer
9 27 (5.76%) Architect
10 25 (5.33%) Developer
11 24 (5.12%) Data Analyst
12 22 (4.69%) Python Engineer
13 21 (4.48%) Data Architect
14 19 (4.05%) Principal Data Engineer
15 18 (3.84%) Azure Data Engineer
15 18 (3.84%) Azure Engineer
16 16 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
16 16 (3.41%) Consultant
17 15 (3.20%) Head of Engineering
18 14 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (13.01%) PySpark
2 34 (7.25%) Kafka
3 27 (5.76%) Pandas
4 20 (4.26%) Apache Beam
5 14 (2.99%) NumPy
6 12 (2.56%) .NET
7 11 (2.35%) AngularJS
8 10 (2.13%) PyTorch
9 9 (1.92%) Spark Streaming
10 8 (1.71%) Apache Avro
10 8 (1.71%) Flask
10 8 (1.71%) GraphQL
10 8 (1.71%) Plotly
10 8 (1.71%) React
11 7 (1.49%) RESTful
11 7 (1.49%) SciPy
12 6 (1.28%) Node.js
12 6 (1.28%) Protocol Buffers
12 6 (1.28%) SQLAlchemy
12 6 (1.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.90%) Data Structures
2 21 (4.48%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
3 20 (4.26%) Algorithms
4 19 (4.05%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.84%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (3.84%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.56%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.71%) Distributed Applications
9 7 (1.49%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.07%) Blog
11 5 (1.07%) IoT
11 5 (1.07%) Life Science
11 5 (1.07%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.85%) NHS
12 4 (0.85%) Omics
12 4 (0.85%) Reference Data
13 3 (0.64%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.71%) Linux
2 2 (0.43%) Unix
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (38.17%) Analytics
2 164 (34.97%) ETL
3 152 (32.41%) Data Modelling
4 150 (31.98%) Data Pipeline
5 133 (28.36%) Data Science
6 119 (25.37%) Business Intelligence
7 118 (25.16%) Agile
8 104 (22.17%) Machine Learning
9 101 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
10 96 (20.47%) Visualisation
11 81 (17.27%) DevOps
12 77 (16.42%) CI/CD
13 75 (15.99%) Data Visualisation
14 72 (15.35%) Data Integration
15 65 (13.86%) Data Governance
16 61 (13.01%) Data Architecture
17 60 (12.79%) Artificial Intelligence
18 56 (11.94%) Mentoring
18 56 (11.94%) Roadmaps
19 54 (11.51%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 286 (60.98%) Python
2 283 (60.34%) SQL
3 54 (11.51%) Java
4 37 (7.89%) Scala
5 36 (7.68%) R
6 14 (2.99%) C#
6 14 (2.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (2.56%) MATLAB
8 9 (1.92%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.71%) Go
9 8 (1.71%) JavaScript
9 8 (1.71%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.49%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.07%) C
11 5 (1.07%) C++
12 4 (0.85%) Bash
12 4 (0.85%) VBA
13 2 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.21%) Google Apps Script
14 1 (0.21%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 65 (13.86%) Degree
2 33 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.05%) Master's Degree
4 11 (2.35%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (2.13%) PhD
6 7 (1.49%) DBS Check
6 7 (1.49%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.28%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.07%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.64%) PMP
10 2 (0.43%) MCP
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.21%) MCSE
11 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (10.02%) Data Quality
2 22 (4.69%) GDPR
3 19 (4.05%) QA
4 5 (1.07%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.85%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.64%) SLA
7 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 22 (4.69%) Docker
2 8 (1.71%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 35 (7.46%) Terraform
2 29 (6.18%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.28%) Ansible
4 5 (1.07%) logstash
5 3 (0.64%) Argo
5 3 (0.64%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.21%) Oozie
Vendors
1 105 (22.39%) Databricks
2 47 (10.02%) Google
3 44 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 20 (4.26%) Oracle
5 15 (3.20%) Cloudera
6 11 (2.35%) Informatica
7 8 (1.71%) Samsung
7 8 (1.71%) Teradata
8 6 (1.28%) SAP
9 5 (1.07%) IBM
9 5 (1.07%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.85%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.64%) Embarcadero
11 3 (0.64%) SnapLogic
12 2 (0.43%) Cognos
12 2 (0.43%) Facebook
12 2 (0.43%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (0.43%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.43%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.21%) Hortonworks