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 26 July 2024.

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

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 315 384
Rank change year-on-year -21 +69 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 141 268 781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.68% 0.99% 1.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 1.04% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 126 242 318
10th Percentile £62,500 £63,200 £61,500
25th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £97,188 £103,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £120,000 £97,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%

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 19,628 25,813 71,873
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 95.17% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 13,829 20,517 35,752
10th Percentile £38,500 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £117,500 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 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 +28 15 £75,000 -9.09%
West London -6 5 £71,250 -1.72% 3
South London - 1 £28,001 -
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, 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 95 (67.38%) SQL
2 90 (63.83%) Azure
3 89 (63.12%) Python
4 72 (51.06%) Data Engineering
5 52 (36.88%) Data Warehouse
6 48 (34.04%) Databricks
7 46 (32.62%) Data Pipeline
8 45 (31.91%) Finance
8 45 (31.91%) AWS
9 44 (31.21%) ETL
10 43 (30.50%) Business Intelligence
10 43 (30.50%) Power Platform
10 43 (30.50%) Power BI
11 40 (28.37%) Data Lake
12 39 (27.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 34 (24.11%) Social Skills
14 32 (22.70%) Snowflake
14 32 (22.70%) Azure Data Factory
14 32 (22.70%) Analytics
15 30 (21.28%) PySpark
16 29 (20.57%) Data Modelling
17 27 (19.15%) Data Science
17 27 (19.15%) Mentoring
18 25 (17.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 24 (17.02%) dbt
19 24 (17.02%) DevOps
19 24 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
20 23 (16.31%) Agile
21 22 (15.60%) Apache Airflow
22 20 (14.18%) CI/CD

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 22 (15.60%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (10.64%) Apache
3 14 (9.93%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.71%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 90 (63.83%) Azure
2 45 (31.91%) AWS
3 43 (30.50%) Power Platform
4 39 (27.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 32 (22.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 32 (22.70%) Snowflake
6 24 (17.02%) dbt
7 18 (12.77%) GCP
8 15 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (7.80%) Amazon S3
10 10 (7.09%) Amazon EMR
10 10 (7.09%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
11 8 (5.67%) Fivetran
12 7 (4.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (4.96%) Dagster
13 6 (4.26%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (3.55%) GitHub
14 5 (3.55%) Serverless
15 4 (2.84%) Amazon EventBridge
15 4 (2.84%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.09%) Network Security
2 3 (2.13%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (1.42%) PPP
4 1 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (36.88%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (30.50%) Power BI
3 40 (28.37%) Data Lake
4 18 (12.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 14 (9.93%) Tableau
6 13 (9.22%) NoSQL
7 12 (8.51%) Data Vault
8 11 (7.80%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (7.09%) BigQuery
9 10 (7.09%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 10 (7.09%) SQL Server
10 9 (6.38%) Delta Lake
11 8 (5.67%) Big Data
11 8 (5.67%) MongoDB
12 6 (4.26%) Hadoop
13 5 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (3.55%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (2.84%) Metadata
14 4 (2.84%) Semantic Layer
15 3 (2.13%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 10 (7.09%) Git
2 4 (2.84%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.13%) CircleCI
3 3 (2.13%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.71%) JIRA
4 1 (0.71%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 45 (31.91%) Finance
2 34 (24.11%) Social Skills
3 25 (17.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 12 (8.51%) Legal
5 9 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.38%) Law
6 7 (4.96%) Publishing
6 7 (4.96%) Retail
7 5 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (2.84%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.84%) Music Industry
9 3 (2.13%) Banking
9 3 (2.13%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.42%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.71%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.71%) Automotive
11 1 (0.71%) Games
11 1 (0.71%) Marketing
11 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (21.28%) PySpark
2 6 (4.26%) Pandas
3 5 (3.55%) Kafka
4 3 (2.13%) Apache Beam
5 2 (1.42%) .NET
5 2 (1.42%) Apache Avro
5 2 (1.42%) Dropwizard
5 2 (1.42%) HTML
5 2 (1.42%) JSON
5 2 (1.42%) Lambda Expressions
5 2 (1.42%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (1.42%) XML
6 1 (0.71%) CSS
6 1 (0.71%) LAMP
6 1 (0.71%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.80%) Greenfield Project
2 10 (7.09%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.42%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.71%) Data Fabric
6 1 (0.71%) FMCG
6 1 (0.71%) IoT
6 1 (0.71%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.71%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.71%) PropTech
6 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.09%) Linux
2 8 (5.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (51.06%) Data Engineering
2 46 (32.62%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (31.21%) ETL
4 43 (30.50%) Business Intelligence
5 32 (22.70%) Analytics
6 29 (20.57%) Data Modelling
7 27 (19.15%) Data Science
7 27 (19.15%) Mentoring
8 24 (17.02%) DevOps
8 24 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (16.31%) Agile
10 20 (14.18%) CI/CD
11 19 (13.48%) Visualisation
12 18 (12.77%) Data Analytics
13 16 (11.35%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (11.35%) Data Governance
13 16 (11.35%) Data Visualisation
13 16 (11.35%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (8.51%) Master Data Management
14 12 (8.51%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 95 (67.38%) SQL
2 89 (63.12%) Python
3 12 (8.51%) Java
4 11 (7.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (7.09%) U-SQL
6 7 (4.96%) T-SQL
7 5 (3.55%) Scala
8 2 (1.42%) C#
8 2 (1.42%) VB
9 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.71%) R
9 1 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (7.09%) Degree
1 10 (7.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.13%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.42%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.71%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.71%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.71%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.48%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.71%) QA
System Software
1 9 (6.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.42%) HDFS
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 17 (12.06%) Terraform
2 15 (10.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 48 (34.04%) Databricks
2 14 (9.93%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.38%) Oracle
4 6 (4.26%) Google
5 3 (2.13%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.42%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.71%) Denodo
7 1 (0.71%) Informatica
7 1 (0.71%) Teradata
7 1 (0.71%) YouTube