Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in London is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 317 295 344
Rank change year-on-year -22 +49 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 140 95 108
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.54% 0.81% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.89% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 100 65 90
10th Percentile £62,250 £67,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £74,375 £72,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £97,188
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,250 £100,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 23,914 10,723 17,624
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 90.93% 95.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,022 6,937 10,885
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -0.68% -2.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,000 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £119,071
England median annual salary £59,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.73% - -8.33%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +8 20 £87,500 +2.94% 25
West London - 4 £70,500 - 2
South London - 2 £65,000 - 1
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 October 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 63 (45.00%) Analytics
2 61 (43.57%) Data Pipeline
3 59 (42.14%) SQL
4 54 (38.57%) Azure
4 54 (38.57%) Python
5 53 (37.86%) AI
5 53 (37.86%) Data Modelling
6 52 (37.14%) Data Engineering
7 39 (27.86%) CI/CD
8 36 (25.71%) Data Quality
8 36 (25.71%) ETL
9 35 (25.00%) DevOps
10 32 (22.86%) Data Science
11 31 (22.14%) Databricks
12 29 (20.71%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (18.57%) Azure Data Factory
14 26 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
14 26 (18.57%) PySpark
15 25 (17.86%) AWS
16 23 (16.43%) Microsoft
17 22 (15.71%) Apache Spark
17 22 (15.71%) Power BI
17 22 (15.71%) Power Platform
18 21 (15.00%) Agile
19 20 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
19 20 (14.29%) Lakehouse
20 19 (13.57%) Decision-Making
21 18 (12.86%) Data Governance
21 18 (12.86%) Mentoring

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 22 (15.71%) Apache Spark
2 14 (10.00%) Apache
3 12 (8.57%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 6 (4.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 54 (38.57%) Azure
2 26 (18.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 26 (18.57%) Azure DevOps
3 25 (17.86%) AWS
4 22 (15.71%) Power Platform
5 17 (12.14%) dbt
6 16 (11.43%) GCP
7 15 (10.71%) SaaS
8 11 (7.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (6.43%) Azure Databricks
9 9 (6.43%) Snowflake
10 8 (5.71%) Serverless
11 6 (4.29%) GitHub
11 6 (4.29%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (4.29%) SuccessFactors
12 5 (3.57%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.57%) Azure Logic Apps
12 5 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (2.86%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.43%) Broadband
2 1 (0.71%) 4G
2 1 (0.71%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (20.71%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (15.71%) Power BI
3 20 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (10.00%) Delta Lake
5 13 (9.29%) Big Data
6 11 (7.86%) SQL Server
7 9 (6.43%) Data Lake
8 8 (5.71%) NoSQL
8 8 (5.71%) Spark SQL
8 8 (5.71%) Tableau
9 7 (5.00%) BigQuery
9 7 (5.00%) Hadoop
9 7 (5.00%) Metadata
10 6 (4.29%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 6 (4.29%) Star Schema
11 5 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (3.57%) Semantic Layer
12 4 (2.86%) Amazon Athena
12 4 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (9.29%) Git
2 7 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.43%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.71%) GitLab
4 1 (0.71%) JIRA
General
1 33 (23.57%) Finance
2 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.00%) Retail
5 6 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.14%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Advertising
8 1 (0.71%) Aviation
8 1 (0.71%) Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Billing
8 1 (0.71%) Front Office
8 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.71%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.57%) PySpark
2 13 (9.29%) Terraform
3 8 (5.71%) Kafka
4 4 (2.86%) YAML
5 3 (2.14%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.43%) Node.js
7 1 (0.71%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.71%) JSON
7 1 (0.71%) Pandas
7 1 (0.71%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.86%) Cloud Native
2 3 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.43%) Blog
3 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.43%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.43%) Reinsurance
3 2 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.71%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.71%) Clustering
4 1 (0.71%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.71%) Educational Technology
4 1 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.71%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.71%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (45.00%) Analytics
2 61 (43.57%) Data Pipeline
3 53 (37.86%) AI
3 53 (37.86%) Data Modelling
4 52 (37.14%) Data Engineering
5 39 (27.86%) CI/CD
6 36 (25.71%) ETL
7 35 (25.00%) DevOps
8 32 (22.86%) Data Science
9 28 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
10 21 (15.00%) Agile
11 20 (14.29%) Lakehouse
12 19 (13.57%) Decision-Making
13 18 (12.86%) Data Governance
13 18 (12.86%) Mentoring
14 16 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 13 (9.29%) Data Architecture
16 13 (9.29%) Machine Learning
16 13 (9.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 59 (42.14%) SQL
2 54 (38.57%) Python
3 13 (9.29%) Scala
4 5 (3.57%) R
5 4 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.14%) Bash
6 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.71%) Bicep
8 1 (0.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (7.86%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.00%) Degree
5 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.43%) PhD
6 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (25.71%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.57%) QA
3 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (4.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.71%) CASB
Vendors
1 31 (22.14%) Databricks
2 23 (16.43%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.29%) SAP
4 2 (1.43%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.71%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.71%) FactSet
5 1 (0.71%) Google
5 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.71%) Refinitiv
5 1 (0.71%) Salesforce