Senior Data Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 317 312
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +95
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 71 194 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.82% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.87% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 44 157 301
10th Percentile £61,125 £60,000 £67,000
25th Percentile £70,938 £62,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +9.38%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £99,625 £115,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

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 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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 +11 12 £72,500 +3.57% 1
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (74.65%) Python
2 49 (69.01%) SQL
3 42 (59.15%) ETL
4 40 (56.34%) Data Pipeline
5 37 (52.11%) Azure
6 35 (49.30%) Data Modelling
7 33 (46.48%) CI/CD
8 32 (45.07%) Finance
9 31 (43.66%) Data Engineering
10 28 (39.44%) AWS
11 27 (38.03%) Agile
12 25 (35.21%) Databricks
13 21 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (26.76%) Mentoring
15 18 (25.35%) Data Lake
15 18 (25.35%) Business Intelligence
16 16 (22.54%) Data Warehouse
16 16 (22.54%) Machine Learning
16 16 (22.54%) PySpark
16 16 (22.54%) Power Platform
16 16 (22.54%) Kafka
16 16 (22.54%) Analytics
16 16 (22.54%) Power BI
17 15 (21.13%) Apache Spark
17 15 (21.13%) Data Transformation
17 15 (21.13%) Azure Data Factory
17 15 (21.13%) Apache Airflow
18 14 (19.72%) Terraform
18 14 (19.72%) GCP
18 14 (19.72%) Data Governance

Senior 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 15 (21.13%) Apache Airflow
1 15 (21.13%) Apache Spark
2 6 (8.45%) Apache
3 5 (7.04%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 37 (52.11%) Azure
2 28 (39.44%) AWS
3 16 (22.54%) Power Platform
4 15 (21.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (19.72%) GCP
6 11 (15.49%) Amazon S3
6 11 (15.49%) Snowflake
7 8 (11.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (11.27%) Serverless
8 7 (9.86%) Amazon Kinesis
8 7 (9.86%) GitHub
9 6 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (7.04%) dbt
10 5 (7.04%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (4.23%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (2.82%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.82%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.35%) Data Lake
2 16 (22.54%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (22.54%) Power BI
3 12 (16.90%) SQL Server
4 11 (15.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 9 (12.68%) Metadata
5 9 (12.68%) NoSQL
5 9 (12.68%) Tableau
6 8 (11.27%) Hadoop
7 7 (9.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (8.45%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (8.45%) Big Data
8 6 (8.45%) BigQuery
8 6 (8.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (7.04%) Apache Hive
9 5 (7.04%) Neo4j
9 5 (7.04%) Sqoop
10 4 (5.63%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 4 (5.63%) DynamoDB
10 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (15.49%) Git
2 7 (9.86%) Jenkins
3 5 (7.04%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.41%) JIRA
General
1 32 (45.07%) Finance
2 14 (19.72%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (15.49%) Banking
5 9 (12.68%) Marketing
6 7 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (9.86%) Public Sector
7 5 (7.04%) Legal
8 4 (5.63%) Electronics
8 4 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (5.63%) Manufacturing
8 4 (5.63%) Telecoms
9 3 (4.23%) Law
10 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.41%) Games
10 1 (1.41%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.54%) Kafka
1 16 (22.54%) PySpark
2 8 (11.27%) Spark Streaming
3 5 (7.04%) OAuth
4 3 (4.23%) Great Expectations
4 3 (4.23%) JSON
4 3 (4.23%) XML
5 2 (2.82%) .NET
5 2 (2.82%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (2.82%) Apache Beam
5 2 (2.82%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.82%) pytest
6 1 (1.41%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Data Structures
2 5 (7.04%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.04%) Distributed Applications
2 5 (7.04%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (5.63%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (5.63%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.23%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (4.23%) PKI
4 3 (4.23%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.23%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.82%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.41%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.41%) Online Games
6 1 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (59.15%) ETL
2 40 (56.34%) Data Pipeline
3 35 (49.30%) Data Modelling
4 33 (46.48%) CI/CD
5 31 (43.66%) Data Engineering
6 27 (38.03%) Agile
7 21 (29.58%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (26.76%) Mentoring
9 18 (25.35%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (22.54%) Analytics
10 16 (22.54%) Machine Learning
11 15 (21.13%) Data Transformation
12 14 (19.72%) Data Governance
13 12 (16.90%) Data Science
13 12 (16.90%) DevOps
14 11 (15.49%) SDLC
15 10 (14.08%) Migration
16 8 (11.27%) Data Security
16 8 (11.27%) RDF
16 8 (11.27%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (74.65%) Python
2 49 (69.01%) SQL
3 12 (16.90%) Java
4 10 (14.08%) Scala
5 8 (11.27%) SPARQL
6 5 (7.04%) T-SQL
7 4 (5.63%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.23%) C#
8 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.82%) Bash
9 2 (2.82%) Bicep
9 2 (2.82%) Go
9 2 (2.82%) Perl
10 1 (1.41%) C++
10 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.41%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (14.08%) Degree
2 8 (11.27%) SC Cleared
2 8 (11.27%) Security Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.63%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.63%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (4.23%) CCSK
5 3 (4.23%) CCSP
5 3 (4.23%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.23%) CISSP
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.41%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (18.31%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.82%) GDPR
3 1 (1.41%) QA
System Software
1 9 (12.68%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 14 (19.72%) Terraform
2 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.04%) Oozie
4 3 (4.23%) CASB
4 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (35.21%) Databricks
2 8 (11.27%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.45%) Cloudera
4 4 (5.63%) SAP
5 3 (4.23%) Symantec
5 3 (4.23%) Talend
5 3 (4.23%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle
6 2 (2.82%) Refinitiv
6 2 (2.82%) Teradata
7 1 (1.41%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.41%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.41%) Facebook
7 1 (1.41%) Google
7 1 (1.41%) Informatica