Market Data Engineer Jobs in London

Market Data Engineer
England > London

The median Market Data Engineer salary in London is £150,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 August 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 404 - 538
Rank change year-on-year - - +392
Permanent jobs requiring a Market Data Engineer 5 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.038% - 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% - 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £62,625
25th Percentile £145,000 - £70,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £150,000 - £86,250
75th Percentile £155,000 - £102,813
90th Percentile - - £110,875
England median annual salary £150,000 - £86,250

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 12,012 19,079 25,092
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.11% 94.93% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 7,391 13,119 20,027
10th Percentile £39,450 £39,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Market Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Market Data Engineer in London

Market Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Market Data Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 2025, Market 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 Market Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
3 2 (40.00%) Multicast
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Reference Data
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (40.00%) Market Data Development
3 2 (40.00%) Business Agility
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering

Market 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (20.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Business Agility
1 2 (40.00%) Data Management
1 2 (40.00%) ETL
1 2 (40.00%) Fintech
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) Low Latency
1 2 (40.00%) Market Data Development
1 2 (40.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (40.00%) SDLC
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (20.00%) C++
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Refinitiv
2 1 (20.00%) Databricks