Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in London is £83,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 25 March 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 280 331 299
Rank change year-on-year +51 -32 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 122 64 184
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.70% 0.49% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.54% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 90 42 143
10th Percentile £61,250 £53,450 £48,600
25th Percentile £70,438 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 16,066 11,759 20,820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 90.81% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10,725 7,519 16,423
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £39,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £107,500 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in London.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 25 March 2026.

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 25 March 2026. 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 +34 39 £85,000 +17.24% 21
South London - 5 £60,000 -
West London - 3 £75,000 - 2
East London - 1 £60,000 - 1
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 March 2026, Senior Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 66 (54.10%) Python
2 61 (50.00%) SQL
3 51 (41.80%) Data Engineering
4 50 (40.98%) Data Pipeline
4 50 (40.98%) ETL
5 48 (39.34%) Azure
6 46 (37.70%) Analytics
7 37 (30.33%) Data Modelling
8 30 (24.59%) AI
8 30 (24.59%) Decision-Making
9 28 (22.95%) Data Quality
9 28 (22.95%) Data Warehouse
10 25 (20.49%) AWS
11 24 (19.67%) Business Intelligence
11 24 (19.67%) CI/CD
12 22 (18.03%) Agile
12 22 (18.03%) Data Science
12 22 (18.03%) Databricks
12 22 (18.03%) DevOps
12 22 (18.03%) Power BI
12 22 (18.03%) Power Platform
13 21 (17.21%) Data Governance
14 19 (15.57%) Azure Data Factory
14 19 (15.57%) SQL Server
15 18 (14.75%) Apache Spark
16 16 (13.11%) Microsoft
17 14 (11.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 13 (10.66%) Apache Airflow
18 13 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
18 13 (10.66%) Computer Science

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (14.75%) Apache Spark
2 13 (10.66%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (5.74%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 48 (39.34%) Azure
2 25 (20.49%) AWS
3 22 (18.03%) Power Platform
4 19 (15.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (11.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (9.84%) dbt
8 10 (8.20%) GCP
8 10 (8.20%) Snowflake
9 9 (7.38%) SaaS
9 9 (7.38%) Serverless
10 7 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.92%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.92%) Collibra
12 5 (4.10%) AWS Step Functions
12 5 (4.10%) Fivetran
13 4 (3.28%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (3.28%) Cloud Composer
13 4 (3.28%) OpenShift
13 4 (3.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.92%) Broadband
2 4 (3.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (22.95%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (18.03%) Power BI
3 19 (15.57%) SQL Server
4 12 (9.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 11 (9.02%) Metadata
6 10 (8.20%) Big Data
7 9 (7.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (7.38%) Data Lake
8 8 (6.56%) Hadoop
8 8 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (6.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (6.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (5.74%) Apache Hive
9 7 (5.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (5.74%) BigQuery
10 6 (4.92%) Relational Database
11 5 (4.10%) MySQL
12 4 (3.28%) DynamoDB
12 4 (3.28%) NoSQL
12 4 (3.28%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (4.10%) Git
2 1 (0.82%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.82%) MLflow
2 1 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (25.41%) Finance
2 18 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.56%) Law
4 8 (6.56%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.10%) Marketing
6 4 (3.28%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.28%) Retail
7 3 (2.46%) Banking
7 3 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.64%) Publishing
9 1 (0.82%) Front Office
9 1 (0.82%) Games
9 1 (0.82%) Legal
9 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.66%) Kafka
2 8 (6.56%) PySpark
3 4 (3.28%) LDAP
3 4 (3.28%) OAuth
3 4 (3.28%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.46%) boto
4 3 (2.46%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (1.64%) .NET
5 2 (1.64%) Celery
5 2 (1.64%) JDBC
5 2 (1.64%) ODBC
5 2 (1.64%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.82%) Akka
6 1 (0.82%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.82%) Pandas
6 1 (0.82%) Spring
6 1 (0.82%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.82%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.74%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.10%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.10%) Social Media
3 4 (3.28%) Anti-Piracy
3 4 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.46%) e-Learning
4 3 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.64%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.64%) FMCG
5 2 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.82%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.82%) Equities
6 1 (0.82%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.82%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.82%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.82%) Replication
6 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.82%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.92%) Linux
2 4 (3.28%) Unix
3 1 (0.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (41.80%) Data Engineering
2 50 (40.98%) Data Pipeline
2 50 (40.98%) ETL
3 46 (37.70%) Analytics
4 37 (30.33%) Data Modelling
5 30 (24.59%) AI
5 30 (24.59%) Decision-Making
6 24 (19.67%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (19.67%) CI/CD
7 22 (18.03%) Agile
7 22 (18.03%) Data Science
7 22 (18.03%) DevOps
8 21 (17.21%) Data Governance
9 13 (10.66%) Computer Science
10 12 (9.84%) Machine Learning
11 11 (9.02%) Data Architecture
11 11 (9.02%) Mentoring
12 9 (7.38%) Fintech
13 8 (6.56%) Architectural Patterns
13 8 (6.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 66 (54.10%) Python
2 61 (50.00%) SQL
3 13 (10.66%) Java
4 10 (8.20%) Scala
5 7 (5.74%) C#
6 5 (4.10%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.28%) C++
7 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.64%) R
9 1 (0.82%) Bash
9 1 (0.82%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (10.66%) Degree
2 9 (7.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (6.56%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.56%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.82%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.82%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (22.95%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.92%) GDPR
3 1 (0.82%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.82%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.28%) Active Directory
1 4 (3.28%) Docker
2 3 (2.46%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (6.56%) Terraform
2 6 (4.92%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.28%) Ansible
4 1 (0.82%) Control-M
4 1 (0.82%) Grafana
4 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (18.03%) Databricks
2 16 (13.11%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.10%) Dataiku
4 4 (3.28%) Dell
5 2 (1.64%) iManage
5 2 (1.64%) Intapp
6 1 (0.82%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.82%) BMC
6 1 (0.82%) IBM
6 1 (0.82%) Refinitiv
6 1 (0.82%) Talend