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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 93 117
Rank change year-on-year -66 +24 +69
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 475 1,233 2,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.01% 3.58% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 3.75% 3.55%
Number of salaries quoted 358 679 786
10th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,221
25th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +6.06% +10.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £121,875 £101,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £142,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +18.52%

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 21,537 32,863 65,398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.17% 95.33% 96.93%
Number of salaries quoted 15,985 23,589 34,129
10th Percentile £37,800 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,750 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,073 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +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 8 May 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 8 May 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 69 £75,000 -11.76% 14
West London -5 12 £92,500 +23.33%
South London -28 8 £67,500 - 3
North London 0 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 75 (15.79%) Apache Spark
2 63 (13.26%) Apache
3 53 (11.16%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (3.79%) SAS
5 6 (1.26%) Confluence
6 3 (0.63%) Apache Pulsar
6 3 (0.63%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.42%) Luigi
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (2.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.63%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.63%) SPSS
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 214 (45.05%) Azure
2 185 (38.95%) AWS
3 97 (20.42%) GCP
4 90 (18.95%) Power Platform
5 78 (16.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 56 (11.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 49 (10.32%) Amazon S3
8 36 (7.58%) dbt
9 35 (7.37%) Snowflake
10 34 (7.16%) Azure DevOps
11 29 (6.11%) Serverless
12 28 (5.89%) GitHub
13 21 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
14 16 (3.37%) SaaS
15 11 (2.32%) Amazon Kinesis
15 11 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (2.11%) Fivetran
17 9 (1.89%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.84%) Network Security
2 1 (0.21%) Firewall
2 1 (0.21%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (29.89%) Data Warehouse
2 88 (18.53%) Power BI
3 70 (14.74%) Data Lake
4 59 (12.42%) Big Data
5 53 (11.16%) Tableau
6 40 (8.42%) NoSQL
7 38 (8.00%) SQL Server
8 37 (7.79%) BigQuery
9 36 (7.58%) Amazon Redshift
9 36 (7.58%) Hadoop
10 26 (5.47%) Looker
11 22 (4.63%) Relational Database
12 21 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 21 (4.42%) DynamoDB
12 21 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
13 20 (4.21%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (4.00%) Metadata
15 18 (3.79%) Flink
16 16 (3.37%) Amazon QuickSight
16 16 (3.37%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 45 (9.47%) Git
2 15 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.11%) CircleCI
4 8 (1.68%) JIRA
5 5 (1.05%) ERwin
5 5 (1.05%) GitLab
6 4 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.84%) Snakemake
7 3 (0.63%) ER Studio
7 3 (0.63%) MLflow
8 1 (0.21%) JMeter
8 1 (0.21%) Mockito
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.21%) Postman
8 1 (0.21%) Selenium
8 1 (0.21%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.21%) Spinnaker
General
1 114 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 97 (20.42%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (17.89%) Finance
4 32 (6.74%) Banking
5 30 (6.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (5.89%) Law
7 26 (5.47%) Legal
8 20 (4.21%) Retail
9 17 (3.58%) Marketing
10 12 (2.53%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.32%) Front Office
11 11 (2.32%) Games
11 11 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.11%) Public Sector
13 9 (1.89%) Retail Banking
14 7 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.26%) Health Technology
15 6 (1.26%) Publishing
16 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
17 4 (0.84%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 189 (39.79%) Data Engineer
2 117 (24.63%) Senior
3 73 (15.37%) Senior Data Engineer
4 58 (12.21%) Data Manager
5 47 (9.89%) Lead
6 37 (7.79%) Engineering Manager
7 34 (7.16%) Analyst
8 31 (6.53%) Principal Engineer
9 26 (5.47%) Data Analyst
10 25 (5.26%) Developer
11 24 (5.05%) Architect
12 21 (4.42%) Azure Data Engineer
12 21 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
12 21 (4.42%) Python Engineer
13 20 (4.21%) Principal Data Engineer
14 18 (3.79%) Data Architect
15 17 (3.58%) Consultant
16 16 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
16 16 (3.37%) Software Engineer
17 14 (2.95%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (13.26%) PySpark
2 30 (6.32%) Kafka
3 23 (4.84%) Pandas
4 17 (3.58%) Apache Beam
5 13 (2.74%) .NET
5 13 (2.74%) NumPy
6 11 (2.32%) AngularJS
7 10 (2.11%) PyTorch
8 9 (1.89%) Spark Streaming
9 8 (1.68%) Apache Avro
9 8 (1.68%) Flask
9 8 (1.68%) GraphQL
9 8 (1.68%) Plotly
9 8 (1.68%) React
10 7 (1.47%) RESTful
10 7 (1.47%) SciPy
11 6 (1.26%) Node.js
11 6 (1.26%) Protocol Buffers
11 6 (1.26%) SQLAlchemy
11 6 (1.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.68%) Data Structures
2 23 (4.84%) Onboarding
3 22 (4.63%) Cloud Native
4 21 (4.42%) Algorithms
4 21 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (4.00%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.79%) Greenfield Project
7 15 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (2.53%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.68%) Distributed Applications
10 7 (1.47%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.26%) IoT
12 5 (1.05%) Blog
12 5 (1.05%) Life Science
12 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.84%) Omics
13 4 (0.84%) Reference Data
14 3 (0.63%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 3 (0.63%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.68%) Linux
2 2 (0.42%) Unix
3 1 (0.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (37.47%) Analytics
2 163 (34.32%) ETL
3 162 (34.11%) Data Modelling
4 144 (30.32%) Data Pipeline
5 134 (28.21%) Data Science
6 122 (25.68%) Business Intelligence
7 117 (24.63%) Agile
8 103 (21.68%) Problem-Solving
9 100 (21.05%) Machine Learning
10 98 (20.63%) Visualisation
11 79 (16.63%) DevOps
12 77 (16.21%) Data Visualisation
13 76 (16.00%) CI/CD
14 68 (14.32%) Data Governance
14 68 (14.32%) Data Integration
15 62 (13.05%) Data Architecture
16 57 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
16 57 (12.00%) Data Management
16 57 (12.00%) Mentoring
17 55 (11.58%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 290 (61.05%) Python
2 288 (60.63%) SQL
3 60 (12.63%) Java
4 37 (7.79%) R
5 34 (7.16%) Scala
6 15 (3.16%) C#
7 14 (2.95%) MATLAB
8 13 (2.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (2.11%) T-SQL
10 9 (1.89%) Go
11 8 (1.68%) JavaScript
11 8 (1.68%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.47%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.05%) C
13 5 (1.05%) C++
14 4 (0.84%) Bash
14 4 (0.84%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.84%) VBA
15 2 (0.42%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 64 (13.47%) Degree
2 29 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (3.16%) Master's Degree
4 12 (2.53%) Azure Certification
5 10 (2.11%) PhD
6 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.47%) DBS Check
8 5 (1.05%) SC Cleared
8 5 (1.05%) Security Cleared
9 4 (0.84%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.63%) PMP
11 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.42%) MCP
12 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.21%) MCSE
12 1 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.11%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.42%) GDPR
3 19 (4.00%) QA
4 7 (1.47%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.84%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.63%) SLA
7 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 26 (5.47%) Docker
2 8 (1.68%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 35 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.53%) Terraform
3 6 (1.26%) Ansible
4 5 (1.05%) logstash
5 3 (0.63%) Argo
5 3 (0.63%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.21%) Oozie
Vendors
1 104 (21.89%) Databricks
2 42 (8.84%) Google
3 41 (8.63%) Microsoft
4 23 (4.84%) Oracle
5 14 (2.95%) Cloudera
6 9 (1.89%) Informatica
7 8 (1.68%) Samsung
8 7 (1.47%) SAP
9 6 (1.26%) Teradata
10 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.84%) IBM
11 4 (0.84%) SnapLogic
12 3 (0.63%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.63%) Embarcadero
12 3 (0.63%) Salesforce
13 2 (0.42%) Cognos
13 2 (0.42%) Facebook
13 2 (0.42%) MicroStrategy
13 2 (0.42%) MuleSoft
14 1 (0.21%) Hortonworks