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 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 326 319
Rank change year-on-year +59 -7 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 135 74 193
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 0.57% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.63% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 106 46 156
10th Percentile £63,125 £61,875 £60,000
25th Percentile £73,000 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +1.56% -8.57%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,938 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,375 £115,000
England median annual salary £73,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% -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 17,908 11,690 21,750
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.80% 90.54% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,031 7,579 16,559
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £53,662 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.45%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 +31 45 £81,250 +12.07% 14
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 22 April 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 (46.67%) Python
2 62 (45.93%) SQL
3 53 (39.26%) Data Engineering
4 52 (38.52%) Analytics
5 51 (37.78%) Data Pipeline
6 50 (37.04%) ETL
7 46 (34.07%) Azure
8 34 (25.19%) AI
9 33 (24.44%) Data Modelling
10 29 (21.48%) Decision-Making
11 28 (20.74%) Data Quality
12 26 (19.26%) CI/CD
13 25 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
14 24 (17.78%) AWS
15 23 (17.04%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (17.04%) DevOps
16 21 (15.56%) Data Science
17 20 (14.81%) Agile
17 20 (14.81%) Data Governance
17 20 (14.81%) Power BI
17 20 (14.81%) Power Platform
18 19 (14.07%) Databricks
19 18 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
20 16 (11.85%) Apache Spark
21 15 (11.11%) PySpark
22 14 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
22 14 (10.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
22 14 (10.37%) Data Architecture
22 14 (10.37%) Fintech
22 14 (10.37%) Kafka

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 16 (11.85%) Apache Spark
2 12 (8.89%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (5.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 46 (34.07%) Azure
2 24 (17.78%) AWS
3 20 (14.81%) Power Platform
4 18 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (10.37%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (10.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (9.63%) SaaS
7 10 (7.41%) dbt
8 9 (6.67%) GCP
9 8 (5.93%) Serverless
9 8 (5.93%) Snowflake
10 6 (4.44%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (2.96%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (2.96%) Cloud Composer
11 4 (2.96%) Collibra
11 4 (2.96%) GitHub
11 4 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.96%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.44%) Broadband
2 2 (1.48%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.52%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (14.81%) Power BI
3 14 (10.37%) SQL Server
4 11 (8.15%) Metadata
5 10 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (5.93%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.93%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (5.93%) Big Data
6 8 (5.93%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.19%) BigQuery
7 7 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (4.44%) Delta Lake
8 6 (4.44%) Hadoop
8 6 (4.44%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 6 (4.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (2.96%) Apache Hive
9 4 (2.96%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.96%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.74%) MLflow
2 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (20.74%) Finance
2 13 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (9.63%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.93%) Law
3 8 (5.93%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.70%) Marketing
5 4 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.96%) Retail
6 3 (2.22%) Banking
6 3 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.48%) Publishing
8 1 (0.74%) Games
8 1 (0.74%) Legal
8 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.74%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.11%) PySpark
2 14 (10.37%) Kafka
3 2 (1.48%) .NET
3 2 (1.48%) boto
3 2 (1.48%) Celery
3 2 (1.48%) LDAP
3 2 (1.48%) OAuth
3 2 (1.48%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.48%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (0.74%) Akka
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.74%) D3.js
4 1 (0.74%) JDBC
4 1 (0.74%) ODBC
4 1 (0.74%) Pandas
4 1 (0.74%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.74%) Spring
4 1 (0.74%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
1 5 (3.70%) Social Media
2 4 (2.96%) Anti-Piracy
2 4 (2.96%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.48%) e-Learning
3 2 (1.48%) FMCG
3 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.48%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (0.74%) IoT
4 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.74%) Media Streaming
4 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.74%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (0.74%) PropTech
4 1 (0.74%) Replication
4 1 (0.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.96%) Linux
2 2 (1.48%) Unix
3 1 (0.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (39.26%) Data Engineering
2 52 (38.52%) Analytics
3 51 (37.78%) Data Pipeline
4 50 (37.04%) ETL
5 34 (25.19%) AI
6 33 (24.44%) Data Modelling
7 29 (21.48%) Decision-Making
8 26 (19.26%) CI/CD
9 23 (17.04%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (17.04%) DevOps
10 21 (15.56%) Data Science
11 20 (14.81%) Agile
11 20 (14.81%) Data Governance
12 14 (10.37%) Data Architecture
12 14 (10.37%) Fintech
13 12 (8.89%) Computer Science
14 11 (8.15%) Machine Learning
14 11 (8.15%) Mentoring
15 10 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
16 7 (5.19%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 63 (46.67%) Python
2 62 (45.93%) SQL
3 12 (8.89%) Java
4 10 (7.41%) Scala
5 6 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.70%) C#
7 4 (2.96%) C++
8 3 (2.22%) Bash
9 2 (1.48%) R
10 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.89%) Degree
2 9 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 9 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (20.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.96%) Docker
2 2 (1.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.48%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (8.15%) Terraform
2 5 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.48%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) Control-M
4 1 (0.74%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (14.07%) Databricks
2 11 (8.15%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.22%) Dataiku
4 2 (1.48%) Dell
4 2 (1.48%) iManage
4 2 (1.48%) Intapp
5 1 (0.74%) BMC
5 1 (0.74%) IBM
5 1 (0.74%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.74%) Talend