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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 292 344
Rank change year-on-year -23 +52 -43
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 142 95 110
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.55% 0.81% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.89% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 107 65 93
10th Percentile £64,000 £67,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £75,000 £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 £97,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,250 £100,000
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 23,928 10,698 17,851
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.04% 95.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,205 6,931 10,984
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £95,000
90th Percentile - £120,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 30 September 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 30 September 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 +11 23 £85,000 - 29
West London - 4 £70,500 - 6
South London - 2 £65,000 - 3
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 September 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 65 (45.77%) Analytics
2 63 (44.37%) Data Pipeline
3 62 (43.66%) SQL
4 57 (40.14%) Python
5 55 (38.73%) AI
6 54 (38.03%) Data Engineering
7 53 (37.32%) Azure
8 52 (36.62%) Data Modelling
9 39 (27.46%) CI/CD
9 39 (27.46%) ETL
10 36 (25.35%) Data Quality
11 35 (24.65%) DevOps
12 31 (21.83%) Data Science
13 30 (21.13%) Databricks
14 29 (20.42%) PySpark
15 28 (19.72%) Data Warehouse
16 27 (19.01%) Business Intelligence
17 26 (18.31%) AWS
17 26 (18.31%) Azure Data Factory
17 26 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
18 22 (15.49%) Agile
18 22 (15.49%) Apache Spark
19 21 (14.79%) Microsoft
19 21 (14.79%) Power BI
19 21 (14.79%) Power Platform
20 20 (14.08%) Decision-Making
20 20 (14.08%) Lakehouse
21 19 (13.38%) Azure SQL Database
21 19 (13.38%) Data Governance
22 18 (12.68%) 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 (15.49%) Apache Spark
2 14 (9.86%) Apache
3 11 (7.75%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.70%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 5 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (37.32%) Azure
2 26 (18.31%) AWS
2 26 (18.31%) Azure Data Factory
2 26 (18.31%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (14.79%) Power Platform
4 17 (11.97%) SaaS
5 16 (11.27%) dbt
5 16 (11.27%) GCP
6 11 (7.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (6.34%) Azure Databricks
8 8 (5.63%) Snowflake
9 7 (4.93%) GitHub
9 7 (4.93%) Serverless
10 6 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (3.52%) Amazon S3
11 5 (3.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (3.52%) SuccessFactors
12 4 (2.82%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.41%) Broadband
2 1 (0.70%) 4G
2 1 (0.70%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (19.72%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (14.79%) Power BI
3 19 (13.38%) Azure SQL Database
4 14 (9.86%) Big Data
4 14 (9.86%) Delta Lake
5 10 (7.04%) Data Lake
5 10 (7.04%) SQL Server
6 9 (6.34%) NoSQL
6 9 (6.34%) Spark SQL
6 9 (6.34%) Tableau
7 8 (5.63%) Hadoop
8 7 (4.93%) Metadata
9 6 (4.23%) BigQuery
9 6 (4.23%) Star Schema
10 5 (3.52%) Elasticsearch
10 5 (3.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 5 (3.52%) Semantic Layer
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (2.82%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (9.15%) Git
2 7 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.41%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.70%) GitLab
4 1 (0.70%) JIRA
General
1 33 (23.24%) Finance
2 25 (17.61%) Social Skills
3 11 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.93%) Retail
5 5 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.41%) Marketing
7 1 (0.70%) Advertising
7 1 (0.70%) Aviation
7 1 (0.70%) Banking
7 1 (0.70%) Billing
7 1 (0.70%) Front Office
7 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.70%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.70%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.42%) PySpark
2 14 (9.86%) Terraform
3 10 (7.04%) Kafka
4 4 (2.82%) YAML
5 3 (2.11%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.41%) Node.js
7 1 (0.70%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.70%) D3.js
7 1 (0.70%) JSON
7 1 (0.70%) Pandas
7 1 (0.70%) pgvector
7 1 (0.70%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.45%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.11%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.41%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.41%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.70%) Blog
5 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.70%) Clustering
5 1 (0.70%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.70%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.70%) IoT
5 1 (0.70%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.70%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (45.77%) Analytics
2 63 (44.37%) Data Pipeline
3 55 (38.73%) AI
4 54 (38.03%) Data Engineering
5 52 (36.62%) Data Modelling
6 39 (27.46%) CI/CD
6 39 (27.46%) ETL
7 35 (24.65%) DevOps
8 31 (21.83%) Data Science
9 27 (19.01%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (15.49%) Agile
11 20 (14.08%) Decision-Making
11 20 (14.08%) Lakehouse
12 19 (13.38%) Data Governance
13 18 (12.68%) Mentoring
14 15 (10.56%) Data Architecture
14 15 (10.56%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (9.86%) Machine Learning
15 14 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 14 (9.86%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 62 (43.66%) SQL
2 57 (40.14%) Python
3 14 (9.86%) Scala
4 5 (3.52%) R
5 4 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.11%) Bash
6 3 (2.11%) Java
6 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.70%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (7.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (7.04%) Azure Certification
3 8 (5.63%) SC Cleared
4 7 (4.93%) Degree
5 2 (1.41%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.70%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (25.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.52%) QA
3 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (4.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (4.93%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.70%) CASB
Vendors
1 30 (21.13%) Databricks
2 21 (14.79%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.52%) SAP
4 2 (1.41%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.70%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.70%) Cognizant
5 1 (0.70%) FactSet
5 1 (0.70%) Google
5 1 (0.70%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.70%) Refinitiv
5 1 (0.70%) Salesforce