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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 154 89
Rank change year-on-year +35 -65 +21
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 339 490 1,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.71% 2.06% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 2.28% 3.76%
Number of salaries quoted 244 372 648
10th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £56,250
25th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,750 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.27% -2.94% -
75th Percentile £115,000 £100,000 £120,625
90th Percentile £138,750 £115,000 £142,500
England median annual salary £78,750 £70,000 £76,942
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.02% -3.82%

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 12,045 21,522 31,580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.26% 90.48% 95.32%
Number of salaries quoted 6,842 15,847 22,804
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £42,874
25th Percentile £56,250 £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 £125,000 £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 28 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 28 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 +18 50 £95,000 +22.58% 36
West London +15 1 £62,500 -32.43% 4
South London -11 1 - - 1
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 98 (28.91%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (25.37%) Apache Spark
3 68 (20.06%) Apache
4 4 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.59%) Confluence
5 2 (0.59%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) Luigi
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.59%) Trello
2 1 (0.29%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 168 (49.56%) AWS
2 163 (48.08%) Azure
3 105 (30.97%) dbt
4 85 (25.07%) Serverless
5 70 (20.65%) AWS Lambda
6 67 (19.76%) GCP
7 60 (17.70%) Amazon ECS
8 59 (17.40%) OpenShift
9 58 (17.11%) Power Platform
10 52 (15.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 44 (12.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 36 (10.62%) Snowflake
13 31 (9.14%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (6.19%) Amazon S3
14 21 (6.19%) GitHub
15 13 (3.83%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
16 12 (3.54%) Dagster
17 10 (2.95%) Azure Functions
17 10 (2.95%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) DNS
1 1 (0.29%) Internet
1 1 (0.29%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.29%) Network Security
1 1 (0.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (25.96%) Data Warehouse
2 85 (25.07%) Amazon Athena
3 73 (21.53%) Dremio
4 72 (21.24%) Apache Iceberg
5 59 (17.40%) Apache Arrow
5 59 (17.40%) Apache Ignite
6 58 (17.11%) Power BI
7 50 (14.75%) Data Lake
8 25 (7.37%) Metadata
9 24 (7.08%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (7.08%) NoSQL
10 22 (6.49%) BigQuery
11 19 (5.60%) Big Data
12 18 (5.31%) SQL Server
13 17 (5.01%) Hadoop
13 17 (5.01%) Relational Database
14 12 (3.54%) Tableau
15 10 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
16 8 (2.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (2.06%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 62 (18.29%) Artifactory
2 21 (6.19%) Git
3 8 (2.36%) CircleCI
3 8 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.06%) JIRA
5 2 (0.59%) MLflow
6 1 (0.29%) GitLab
6 1 (0.29%) kappa
6 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.29%) Subversion
General
1 157 (46.31%) Finance
2 78 (23.01%) Social Skills
3 77 (22.71%) Front Office
4 52 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (11.21%) Banking
6 24 (7.08%) Public Sector
7 19 (5.60%) Law
7 19 (5.60%) Marketing
8 12 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.95%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.65%) Legal
11 7 (2.06%) Retail
12 6 (1.77%) Advertising
12 6 (1.77%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.77%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.47%) Electronics
14 3 (0.88%) Music Industry
14 3 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 196 (57.82%) Data Engineer
2 78 (23.01%) Python Engineer
3 72 (21.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 70 (20.65%) AWS Engineer
5 62 (18.29%) AWS DevOps
5 62 (18.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 55 (16.22%) Senior
7 52 (15.34%) Lead
8 40 (11.80%) Senior Data Engineer
9 30 (8.85%) Azure Engineer
10 24 (7.08%) Lead Data Engineer
11 22 (6.49%) Azure Data Engineer
12 17 (5.01%) Analyst
13 16 (4.72%) Python Data Engineer
14 13 (3.83%) Software Engineer
15 11 (3.24%) Data Manager
16 9 (2.65%) Architect
17 7 (2.06%) Data Architect
17 7 (2.06%) Head of Data Analytics
17 7 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (33.04%) PySpark
2 84 (24.78%) Kafka
3 59 (17.40%) J2EE
4 18 (5.31%) Pandas
5 13 (3.83%) NumPy
6 11 (3.24%) SciPy
7 7 (2.06%) pytest
8 5 (1.47%) Great Expectations
8 5 (1.47%) JSON
8 5 (1.47%) OAuth
8 5 (1.47%) Spark Streaming
9 4 (1.18%) Plotly
9 4 (1.18%) React
10 3 (0.88%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.88%) Flask
10 3 (0.88%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.88%) REST
10 3 (0.88%) XML
10 3 (0.88%) YAML
11 2 (0.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.62%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.72%) Cloud Native
3 15 (4.42%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
5 12 (3.54%) FMCG
6 10 (2.95%) Equities
6 10 (2.95%) Fixed Income
7 9 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.77%) Distributed Computing
9 6 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
10 5 (1.47%) Distributed Applications
11 3 (0.88%) Data Fabric
11 3 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
11 3 (0.88%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.88%) Replication
12 2 (0.59%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.59%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.59%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.18%) Linux
2 3 (0.88%) Windows
3 2 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (46.90%) CI/CD
2 155 (45.72%) DevOps
3 130 (38.35%) Agile
4 126 (37.17%) Analytics
5 114 (33.63%) Data Pipeline
6 103 (30.38%) ETL
7 101 (29.79%) Software Engineering
8 87 (25.66%) Data Modelling
9 81 (23.89%) Asset Management
10 80 (23.60%) Machine Learning
11 74 (21.83%) Data Science
12 70 (20.65%) Artificial Intelligence
12 70 (20.65%) Data Governance
13 68 (20.06%) Problem-Solving
14 66 (19.47%) Open Source
15 62 (18.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 61 (17.99%) Business Intelligence
17 55 (16.22%) Decision-Making
18 50 (14.75%) Mentoring
19 47 (13.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 245 (72.27%) Python
2 160 (47.20%) SQL
3 99 (29.20%) Java
4 62 (18.29%) Go
5 26 (7.67%) Scala
6 16 (4.72%) C#
7 14 (4.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (3.24%) JavaScript
9 10 (2.95%) PowerShell
10 9 (2.65%) T-SQL
11 7 (2.06%) C++
12 5 (1.47%) Bash
12 5 (1.47%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.18%) SPARQL
14 3 (0.88%) Cypher
14 3 (0.88%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.59%) Bicep
15 2 (0.59%) R
15 2 (0.59%) Rust
16 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 42 (12.39%) Degree
2 33 (9.73%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.55%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.24%) Azure Certification
6 6 (1.77%) AWS Certification
6 6 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.47%) PhD
8 4 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.59%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.29%) CCSP
10 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) CRISC
10 1 (0.29%) FFIEC
10 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (18.58%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.42%) GDPR
2 15 (4.42%) QA
3 8 (2.36%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.29%) COBIT
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.29%) GRC
5 1 (0.29%) NIST
5 1 (0.29%) PMO
System Software
1 87 (25.66%) Docker
2 5 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.47%) Apache Flume
3 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 114 (33.63%) Terraform
2 85 (25.07%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.47%) Oozie
4 2 (0.59%) Packer
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 87 (25.66%) Databricks
2 59 (17.40%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.31%) Google
4 8 (2.36%) Informatica
5 7 (2.06%) Palantir
6 6 (1.77%) Cloudera
6 6 (1.77%) Foundry
6 6 (1.77%) Oracle
6 6 (1.77%) SAP
7 3 (0.88%) Snowplow
7 3 (0.88%) Talend
7 3 (0.88%) YouTube
8 2 (0.59%) Cribl.io
8 2 (0.59%) Vertica
9 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.29%) Charles River
9 1 (0.29%) Facebook
9 1 (0.29%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.29%) Sybase