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 23 April 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 268 317 310
Rank change year-on-year +49 -7 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 136 74 193
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 0.57% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.63% 0.88%
Number of salaries quoted 107 46 156
10th Percentile £63,500 £61,875 £60,000
25th Percentile £73,250 £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 £88,125 £95,938 £95,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,375 £115,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -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 17,979 11,660 21,858
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 90.54% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 12,087 7,584 16,649
10th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £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 £93,750
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% -10.49%

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 23 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 23 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 +35 45 £80,000 +10.34% 9
South London - 5 £60,000 - 1
West London - 3 £75,000 - 4
East London - 1 £60,000 - 2
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 62 (45.59%) Python
1 62 (45.59%) SQL
2 55 (40.44%) Data Engineering
3 53 (38.97%) Data Pipeline
4 52 (38.24%) Analytics
5 50 (36.76%) ETL
6 47 (34.56%) Azure
7 34 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 33 (24.26%) AI
9 29 (21.32%) Data Quality
10 28 (20.59%) Decision-Making
11 27 (19.85%) CI/CD
12 26 (19.12%) AWS
13 25 (18.38%) Data Warehouse
13 25 (18.38%) DevOps
14 23 (16.91%) Business Intelligence
15 21 (15.44%) Agile
15 21 (15.44%) Data Governance
15 21 (15.44%) Data Science
15 21 (15.44%) Databricks
16 20 (14.71%) Power BI
16 20 (14.71%) Power Platform
17 19 (13.97%) Azure Data Factory
18 17 (12.50%) Apache Spark
19 16 (11.76%) PySpark
20 15 (11.03%) Data Architecture
20 15 (11.03%) Kafka
21 14 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
21 14 (10.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
21 14 (10.29%) Fintech

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 17 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 13 (9.56%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (6.62%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 47 (34.56%) Azure
2 26 (19.12%) AWS
3 20 (14.71%) Power Platform
4 19 (13.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (10.29%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (10.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (9.56%) SaaS
7 9 (6.62%) dbt
7 9 (6.62%) GCP
7 9 (6.62%) Serverless
8 7 (5.15%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.15%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.15%) Snowflake
9 5 (3.68%) AWS Step Functions
9 5 (3.68%) GitHub
9 5 (3.68%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.94%) Cloud Composer
10 4 (2.94%) Dagster
10 4 (2.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.41%) Broadband
2 2 (1.47%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.74%) 4G
3 1 (0.74%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.38%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (14.71%) Power BI
3 13 (9.56%) SQL Server
4 12 (8.82%) Metadata
5 10 (7.35%) Data Lake
6 9 (6.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (6.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (5.88%) Big Data
8 7 (5.15%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.15%) Delta Lake
8 7 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (4.41%) Hadoop
9 6 (4.41%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.68%) Spark SQL
10 5 (3.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (3.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (2.94%) Apache Hive
11 4 (2.94%) MySQL
11 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (4.41%) Git
2 1 (0.74%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.74%) MLflow
2 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (21.32%) Finance
2 15 (11.03%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (10.29%) Social Skills
4 8 (5.88%) Law
4 8 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.68%) Marketing
6 4 (2.94%) Retail
7 3 (2.21%) Banking
7 3 (2.21%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.21%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.47%) Publishing
8 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.74%) Aviation
9 1 (0.74%) Billing
9 1 (0.74%) Games
9 1 (0.74%) Legal
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.76%) PySpark
2 15 (11.03%) Kafka
3 2 (1.47%) .NET
3 2 (1.47%) boto
3 2 (1.47%) Celery
3 2 (1.47%) LDAP
3 2 (1.47%) OAuth
3 2 (1.47%) OAuth2
3 2 (1.47%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.47%) 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 6 (4.41%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.68%) Social Media
3 4 (2.94%) Anti-Piracy
3 4 (2.94%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.21%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (1.47%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.47%) FMCG
5 2 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.74%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.74%) IoT
6 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.74%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.74%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (0.74%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.74%) Replication
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.94%) Linux
2 2 (1.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.44%) Data Engineering
2 53 (38.97%) Data Pipeline
3 52 (38.24%) Analytics
4 50 (36.76%) ETL
5 34 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 33 (24.26%) AI
7 28 (20.59%) Decision-Making
8 27 (19.85%) CI/CD
9 25 (18.38%) DevOps
10 23 (16.91%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (15.44%) Agile
11 21 (15.44%) Data Governance
11 21 (15.44%) Data Science
12 15 (11.03%) Data Architecture
13 14 (10.29%) Fintech
14 12 (8.82%) Computer Science
14 12 (8.82%) Machine Learning
14 12 (8.82%) Mentoring
15 10 (7.35%) Infrastructure as Code
16 9 (6.62%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 62 (45.59%) Python
1 62 (45.59%) SQL
2 12 (8.82%) Java
3 10 (7.35%) Scala
4 6 (4.41%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.94%) C#
5 4 (2.94%) C++
6 3 (2.21%) Bash
7 2 (1.47%) R
8 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.82%) Degree
2 9 (6.62%) SC Cleared
2 9 (6.62%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (21.32%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.94%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.74%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.47%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (8.82%) Terraform
2 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.47%) Ansible
4 1 (0.74%) Control-M
4 1 (0.74%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (15.44%) Databricks
2 11 (8.09%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.47%) Dataiku
3 2 (1.47%) Dell
3 2 (1.47%) iManage
3 2 (1.47%) Intapp
4 1 (0.74%) BMC
4 1 (0.74%) IBM
4 1 (0.74%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.74%) Talend