Data Engineer Jobs in London

Data Engineer
England > London

The median Data Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 102 120
Rank change year-on-year -23 +18 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 575 1,161 2,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.45% 3.37% 3.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.60% 3.55% 3.53%
Number of salaries quoted 468 946 1,127
10th Percentile £45,750 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £65,013 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,498 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,875 £140,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 22,079 32,746 65,001
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 94.99% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,593 24,087 34,614
10th Percentile £38,000 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 7 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 +21 79 £70,000 -12.50% 15
South London +20 25 £65,000 - 2
West London +1 7 £55,000 -26.67% 4
North London -1 4 £71,250 +1.79%
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 374 (65.04%) SQL
2 362 (62.96%) Python
3 260 (45.22%) Azure
4 246 (42.78%) ETL
5 212 (36.87%) Data Pipeline
6 203 (35.30%) AWS
7 186 (32.35%) Data Engineering
8 168 (29.22%) Data Modelling
9 160 (27.83%) Data Warehouse
10 157 (27.30%) Analytics
11 131 (22.78%) Data Science
12 125 (21.74%) Databricks
13 119 (20.70%) GCP
13 119 (20.70%) Finance
14 118 (20.52%) Social Skills
15 101 (17.57%) Power Platform
16 99 (17.22%) Business Intelligence
16 99 (17.22%) DevOps
16 99 (17.22%) Power BI
17 94 (16.35%) Agile
18 89 (15.48%) Data Integration
18 89 (15.48%) Data Lake
19 86 (14.96%) PySpark
20 84 (14.61%) CI/CD
21 81 (14.09%) Azure Data Factory
21 81 (14.09%) Data Quality
22 80 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
23 74 (12.87%) Apache Spark
24 71 (12.35%) SQL Server
25 65 (11.30%) Apache Airflow

Data Engineer Skill Set
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 74 (12.87%) Apache Spark
2 65 (11.30%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (8.52%) Apache
4 5 (0.87%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.35%) Luigi
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.17%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.52%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.35%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 260 (45.22%) Azure
2 203 (35.30%) AWS
3 119 (20.70%) GCP
4 101 (17.57%) Power Platform
5 81 (14.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 56 (9.74%) dbt
7 54 (9.39%) Snowflake
8 48 (8.35%) Amazon S3
9 47 (8.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 44 (7.65%) Serverless
11 43 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
12 29 (5.04%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (4.00%) GitHub
14 18 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
15 13 (2.26%) AWS Step Functions
15 13 (2.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 12 (2.09%) PowerApps
17 11 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (1.91%) Prefect
18 10 (1.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.43%) Structured Cabling
2 9 (1.57%) Network Security
3 4 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.17%) Firewall
4 1 (0.17%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (27.83%) Data Warehouse
2 99 (17.22%) Power BI
3 89 (15.48%) Data Lake
4 71 (12.35%) SQL Server
5 61 (10.61%) Big Data
6 56 (9.74%) NoSQL
7 52 (9.04%) BigQuery
7 52 (9.04%) Hadoop
8 37 (6.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 37 (6.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 35 (6.09%) Tableau
10 29 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
10 29 (5.04%) Relational Database
11 28 (4.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (3.65%) Data Vault
13 17 (2.96%) Apache Hive
14 16 (2.78%) Looker
15 15 (2.61%) Delta Lake
16 14 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
16 14 (2.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (6.26%) Git
2 18 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 12 (2.09%) JIRA
4 11 (1.91%) CircleCI
5 6 (1.04%) GitLab
6 5 (0.87%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.17%) Ant
7 1 (0.17%) GoCD
7 1 (0.17%) Gradle
7 1 (0.17%) JUnit
7 1 (0.17%) Maven
7 1 (0.17%) Mockito
7 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.17%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 119 (20.70%) Finance
2 118 (20.52%) Social Skills
3 61 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (7.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 42 (7.30%) Banking
6 26 (4.52%) Retail
7 19 (3.30%) Legal
8 16 (2.78%) Law
9 15 (2.61%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.43%) Games
11 10 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.39%) Marketing
12 8 (1.39%) Publishing
12 8 (1.39%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.22%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.04%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.87%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.87%) Music Industry
16 4 (0.70%) Electronics
16 4 (0.70%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (14.96%) PySpark
2 46 (8.00%) Kafka
3 28 (4.87%) Pandas
4 16 (2.78%) .NET
5 12 (2.09%) Apache Beam
6 10 (1.74%) Flask
7 9 (1.57%) Spark Streaming
8 8 (1.39%) Apache Avro
8 8 (1.39%) JSON
8 8 (1.39%) REST
8 8 (1.39%) XML
9 7 (1.22%) AWS CDK
10 6 (1.04%) NumPy
11 5 (0.87%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (0.87%) pytest
12 4 (0.70%) Anaconda
12 4 (0.70%) HTML
12 4 (0.70%) Plotly
12 4 (0.70%) SQLAlchemy
13 3 (0.52%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.70%) Greenfield Project
2 22 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.65%) Data Structures
4 17 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
5 16 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.43%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.43%) Public Cloud
7 12 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.91%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.74%) Driving Licence
9 10 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
10 8 (1.39%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.04%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.87%) Blog
12 5 (0.87%) Equities
12 5 (0.87%) IoT
12 5 (0.87%) Product Ownership
13 4 (0.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 3 (0.52%) Music Streaming
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.52%) Linux
2 16 (2.78%) Unix
3 9 (1.57%) Windows
4 4 (0.70%) Android
4 4 (0.70%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.70%) CentOS
4 4 (0.70%) Solaris
4 4 (0.70%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.70%) zOS
5 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (42.78%) ETL
2 212 (36.87%) Data Pipeline
3 186 (32.35%) Data Engineering
4 168 (29.22%) Data Modelling
5 157 (27.30%) Analytics
6 131 (22.78%) Data Science
7 99 (17.22%) Business Intelligence
7 99 (17.22%) DevOps
8 94 (16.35%) Agile
9 89 (15.48%) Data Integration
10 84 (14.61%) CI/CD
11 80 (13.91%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (11.13%) Visualisation
13 56 (9.74%) Machine Learning
14 51 (8.87%) Mentoring
15 50 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
16 49 (8.52%) Computer Science
17 48 (8.35%) Data Architecture
18 46 (8.00%) Data Analytics
18 46 (8.00%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 374 (65.04%) SQL
2 362 (62.96%) Python
3 49 (8.52%) Java
4 33 (5.74%) Scala
5 27 (4.70%) T-SQL
6 22 (3.83%) C#
7 15 (2.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 12 (2.09%) R
9 9 (1.57%) U-SQL
10 8 (1.39%) PowerShell
11 7 (1.22%) VB
12 6 (1.04%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.52%) C++
13 3 (0.52%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.52%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.52%) Rust
13 3 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.52%) VBA
14 2 (0.35%) C
14 2 (0.35%) Go
Qualifications
1 61 (10.61%) Degree
2 30 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.26%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.09%) Master's Degree
5 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.22%) CISSP
7 4 (0.70%) AWS Certification
7 4 (0.70%) CISM
8 3 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.52%) CCSK
8 3 (0.52%) CCSP
8 3 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.52%) PhD
8 3 (0.52%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.52%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.35%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.35%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (14.09%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.09%) QA
3 11 (1.91%) GDPR
4 6 (1.04%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.70%) NIST
5 4 (0.70%) Solvency II
System Software
1 47 (8.17%) Docker
2 8 (1.39%) HDFS
3 3 (0.52%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 63 (10.96%) Terraform
2 48 (8.35%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.04%) logstash
4 4 (0.70%) Ansible
5 3 (0.52%) Argo
5 3 (0.52%) CASB
5 3 (0.52%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.35%) Grafana
6 2 (0.35%) Marathon
6 2 (0.35%) Mesos
7 1 (0.17%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Podman
7 1 (0.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 125 (21.74%) Databricks
2 58 (10.09%) Microsoft
3 47 (8.17%) Google
4 22 (3.83%) Oracle
5 13 (2.26%) Informatica
6 12 (2.09%) Cloudera
7 11 (1.91%) YouTube
8 10 (1.74%) Alteryx
9 7 (1.22%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.87%) Splunk
11 4 (0.70%) Qualys
12 3 (0.52%) Netskope
12 3 (0.52%) SAP
12 3 (0.52%) Symantec
12 3 (0.52%) Zscaler
13 2 (0.35%) Facebook
13 2 (0.35%) MuleSoft
13 2 (0.35%) NEC
13 2 (0.35%) SnapLogic
13 2 (0.35%) Snowplow