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 19 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 145 93
Rank change year-on-year +20 -52 +15
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 363 544 1,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.83% 2.18% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 2.45% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 246 415 629
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,140 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -2.94% +3.03%
75th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £122,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £116,500 £142,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% -3.13%

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 12,318 22,170 29,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 95.92% 88.98% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,041 16,134 21,662
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £116,250
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 19 June 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 19 June 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 +11 55 £95,000 +22.58% 217
West London +11 1 £62,500 -30.56% 31
South London -7 1 - - 6
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 89 (24.52%) Apache Airflow
2 84 (23.14%) Apache Spark
3 60 (16.53%) Apache
4 4 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.28%) Luigi
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Trello
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 176 (48.48%) AWS
2 173 (47.66%) Azure
3 90 (24.79%) dbt
4 77 (21.21%) Serverless
5 72 (19.83%) GCP
6 61 (16.80%) Power Platform
7 60 (16.53%) AWS Lambda
8 55 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
9 49 (13.50%) Amazon ECS
10 48 (13.22%) OpenShift
11 44 (12.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 38 (10.47%) Snowflake
13 33 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
14 23 (6.34%) Amazon S3
15 21 (5.79%) GitHub
16 13 (3.58%) Amazon Kinesis
16 13 (3.58%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (3.31%) Azure Functions
18 9 (2.48%) Dagster
18 9 (2.48%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.28%) DNS
1 1 (0.28%) Internet
1 1 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.28%) Network Security
1 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (25.90%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (19.56%) Amazon Athena
3 61 (16.80%) Power BI
4 57 (15.70%) Dremio
5 56 (15.43%) Apache Iceberg
6 48 (13.22%) Apache Arrow
6 48 (13.22%) Apache Ignite
6 48 (13.22%) Data Lake
7 30 (8.26%) NoSQL
8 29 (7.99%) Amazon Redshift
9 28 (7.71%) Metadata
10 24 (6.61%) Big Data
11 22 (6.06%) BigQuery
12 21 (5.79%) Hadoop
12 21 (5.79%) Relational Database
13 18 (4.96%) SQL Server
14 15 (4.13%) Tableau
15 13 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
16 9 (2.48%) Delta Lake
16 9 (2.48%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 51 (14.05%) Artifactory
2 22 (6.06%) Git
3 8 (2.20%) CircleCI
3 8 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.65%) JIRA
5 3 (0.83%) MLflow
6 1 (0.28%) kappa
6 1 (0.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.28%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 162 (44.63%) Finance
2 90 (24.79%) Social Skills
3 64 (17.63%) Front Office
4 53 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
5 43 (11.85%) Banking
6 34 (9.37%) Law
7 30 (8.26%) Public Sector
8 21 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (5.51%) Marketing
10 10 (2.75%) Legal
10 10 (2.75%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.75%) Retail
11 9 (2.48%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.20%) Advertising
13 5 (1.38%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.10%) Electronics
14 4 (1.10%) Music Industry
15 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.83%) Private Banking
15 3 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 199 (54.82%) Data Engineer
2 70 (19.28%) Python Engineer
3 68 (18.73%) Senior
4 62 (17.08%) AWS Engineer
5 60 (16.53%) Lead
6 59 (16.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 49 (13.50%) AWS DevOps
7 49 (13.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 49 (13.50%) Senior Data Engineer
8 31 (8.54%) Azure Engineer
9 25 (6.89%) Lead Data Engineer
10 22 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
11 21 (5.79%) Software Engineer
12 20 (5.51%) Analyst
13 13 (3.58%) Python Data Engineer
14 12 (3.31%) Architect
15 11 (3.03%) Data Manager
16 10 (2.75%) Data Architect
16 10 (2.75%) Developer
16 10 (2.75%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (28.65%) PySpark
2 76 (20.94%) Kafka
3 48 (13.22%) J2EE
4 18 (4.96%) Pandas
5 10 (2.75%) NumPy
6 8 (2.20%) SciPy
7 7 (1.93%) pytest
8 6 (1.65%) React
9 5 (1.38%) Great Expectations
9 5 (1.38%) JSON
9 5 (1.38%) OAuth
9 5 (1.38%) Spark Streaming
10 4 (1.10%) Django
10 4 (1.10%) Plotly
10 4 (1.10%) REST
10 4 (1.10%) Spring
11 3 (0.83%) Flask
11 3 (0.83%) GraphQL
11 3 (0.83%) scikit-learn
11 3 (0.83%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.92%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.89%) Cloud Native
3 18 (4.96%) Data Structures
4 15 (4.13%) FMCG
4 15 (4.13%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 11 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 8 (2.20%) Equities
6 8 (2.20%) Fixed Income
6 8 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.38%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (1.38%) Reinsurance
9 4 (1.10%) Data Fabric
9 4 (1.10%) Derivative
9 4 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.55%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.10%) Linux
2 3 (0.83%) Windows
3 2 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (42.98%) CI/CD
1 156 (42.98%) DevOps
2 141 (38.84%) Analytics
3 131 (36.09%) Agile
4 127 (34.99%) Data Pipeline
5 117 (32.23%) ETL
6 97 (26.72%) Data Modelling
7 95 (26.17%) Software Engineering
8 93 (25.62%) Machine Learning
9 88 (24.24%) Artificial Intelligence
10 85 (23.42%) Data Governance
11 81 (22.31%) Data Science
12 77 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
13 68 (18.73%) Business Intelligence
14 65 (17.91%) Asset Management
15 63 (17.36%) Mentoring
16 62 (17.08%) Decision-Making
17 59 (16.25%) Open Source
18 52 (14.33%) Roadmaps
19 51 (14.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 249 (68.60%) Python
2 175 (48.21%) SQL
3 94 (25.90%) Java
4 51 (14.05%) Go
5 28 (7.71%) Scala
6 17 (4.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 12 (3.31%) C#
8 11 (3.03%) C++
9 10 (2.75%) JavaScript
10 9 (2.48%) T-SQL
11 6 (1.65%) PowerShell
12 5 (1.38%) Bash
12 5 (1.38%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.38%) TypeScript
13 4 (1.10%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.83%) Cypher
15 2 (0.55%) Bicep
15 2 (0.55%) R
15 2 (0.55%) Rust
16 1 (0.28%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 44 (12.12%) Degree
2 32 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.71%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.75%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.93%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.93%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.65%) PhD
8 5 (1.38%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.10%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.83%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.28%) CCSP
12 1 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.28%) CISSP
12 1 (0.28%) FFIEC
12 1 (0.28%) MCSE
12 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (21.21%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.23%) QA
3 18 (4.96%) GDPR
4 10 (2.75%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.55%) GRC
7 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.28%) COBIT
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.28%) NIST
7 1 (0.28%) PMO
7 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (22.87%) Docker
2 6 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.38%) Apache Flume
4 2 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.28%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 105 (28.93%) Terraform
2 81 (22.31%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.38%) Oozie
4 2 (0.55%) Packer
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 93 (25.62%) Databricks
2 60 (16.53%) Microsoft
3 21 (5.79%) Google
4 13 (3.58%) Palantir
5 12 (3.31%) Foundry
6 10 (2.75%) Oracle
7 9 (2.48%) Informatica
8 8 (2.20%) SAP
9 6 (1.65%) Cloudera
10 5 (1.38%) Talend
10 5 (1.38%) Vertica
11 3 (0.83%) Snowplow
11 3 (0.83%) YouTube
12 2 (0.55%) IBM
12 2 (0.55%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.28%) Bloomberg
13 1 (0.28%) Charles River
13 1 (0.28%) Dell
13 1 (0.28%) SimCorp
13 1 (0.28%) Sybase