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 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 264 342 309
Rank change year-on-year +78 -33 +20
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 118 70 169
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.74% 0.48% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.53% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 81 47 128
10th Percentile £61,250 £62,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £70,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £86,250 £88,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £112,500
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 14,633 13,278 19,974
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 91.21% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9,723 7,810 16,070
10th Percentile £36,550 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,906 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 +37 36 £85,000 +6.25% 8
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 27 February 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 72 (61.02%) Python
2 64 (54.24%) SQL
3 58 (49.15%) Data Pipeline
4 55 (46.61%) Azure
4 55 (46.61%) Data Engineering
5 52 (44.07%) ETL
6 45 (38.14%) Data Modelling
7 38 (32.20%) Analytics
8 33 (27.97%) AWS
8 33 (27.97%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (23.73%) Data Governance
9 28 (23.73%) Decision-Making
9 28 (23.73%) DevOps
10 27 (22.88%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (22.88%) CI/CD
11 26 (22.03%) Data Quality
12 25 (21.19%) Databricks
13 24 (20.34%) Power BI
13 24 (20.34%) Power Platform
14 23 (19.49%) AI
15 22 (18.64%) Agile
15 22 (18.64%) SQL Server
16 21 (17.80%) Microsoft
17 20 (16.95%) Apache Spark
17 20 (16.95%) Azure Data Factory
17 20 (16.95%) Data Science
18 17 (14.41%) Snowflake
19 16 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
19 16 (13.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 16 (13.56%) Java

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 20 (16.95%) Apache Spark
2 11 (9.32%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.24%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 55 (46.61%) Azure
2 33 (27.97%) AWS
3 24 (20.34%) Power Platform
4 20 (16.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (14.41%) Snowflake
6 16 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (13.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (12.71%) dbt
7 15 (12.71%) GCP
8 11 (9.32%) Serverless
9 9 (7.63%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (7.63%) Collibra
10 8 (6.78%) AWS Step Functions
10 8 (6.78%) Fivetran
11 6 (5.08%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (4.24%) Amazon S3
12 5 (4.24%) SaaS
13 4 (3.39%) Cloud Composer
13 4 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (3.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.08%) Broadband
2 4 (3.39%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (27.97%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (20.34%) Power BI
3 22 (18.64%) SQL Server
4 13 (11.02%) Big Data
4 13 (11.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (10.17%) Data Lake
6 11 (9.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (9.32%) Hadoop
7 10 (8.47%) Apache Hive
7 10 (8.47%) Metadata
8 9 (7.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (7.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (5.93%) BigQuery
10 6 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (4.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (3.39%) Delta Lake
12 4 (3.39%) MySQL
12 4 (3.39%) Relational Database
12 4 (3.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Git
2 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.85%) MLflow
2 1 (0.85%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (31.36%) Finance
2 24 (20.34%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.93%) Financial Institution
5 6 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (5.08%) Law
6 5 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.39%) Banking
7 4 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.39%) Marketing
7 4 (3.39%) Retail
8 2 (1.69%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.69%) Publishing
9 1 (0.85%) Front Office
9 1 (0.85%) Games
9 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.71%) Kafka
2 7 (5.93%) PySpark
3 6 (5.08%) boto
3 6 (5.08%) Spark Streaming
4 4 (3.39%) LDAP
4 4 (3.39%) OAuth
4 4 (3.39%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.69%) Celery
5 2 (1.69%) JDBC
5 2 (1.69%) ODBC
5 2 (1.69%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.85%) .NET
6 1 (0.85%) Akka
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.85%) Pandas
6 1 (0.85%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.85%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.85%) Spring
6 1 (0.85%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.47%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (8.47%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (5.08%) e-Learning
3 5 (4.24%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.24%) Social Media
4 4 (3.39%) Anti-Piracy
4 4 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.69%) FMCG
6 2 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.85%) Equities
7 1 (0.85%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Media Streaming
7 1 (0.85%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.24%) Linux
2 4 (3.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (49.15%) Data Pipeline
2 55 (46.61%) Data Engineering
3 52 (44.07%) ETL
4 45 (38.14%) Data Modelling
5 38 (32.20%) Analytics
6 28 (23.73%) Data Governance
6 28 (23.73%) Decision-Making
6 28 (23.73%) DevOps
7 27 (22.88%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (22.88%) CI/CD
8 23 (19.49%) AI
9 22 (18.64%) Agile
10 20 (16.95%) Data Science
11 14 (11.86%) Mentoring
12 13 (11.02%) Machine Learning
13 11 (9.32%) Computer Science
14 10 (8.47%) Data Architecture
14 10 (8.47%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (7.63%) ETL Development
16 8 (6.78%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 72 (61.02%) Python
2 64 (54.24%) SQL
3 16 (13.56%) Java
4 13 (11.02%) Scala
5 11 (9.32%) T-SQL
6 9 (7.63%) C#
7 4 (3.39%) C++
7 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.69%) R
9 1 (0.85%) Bash
9 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (11.86%) Degree
2 7 (5.93%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (3.39%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.39%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.85%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.85%) PhD
4 1 (0.85%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (22.03%) Data Quality
2 12 (10.17%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.85%) QA
System Software
1 6 (5.08%) HDFS
2 4 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.93%) Kubernetes
1 7 (5.93%) Terraform
2 4 (3.39%) Ansible
3 1 (0.85%) Control-M
3 1 (0.85%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (21.19%) Databricks
2 21 (17.80%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.78%) Dataiku
4 5 (4.24%) Dell
5 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.85%) BMC
5 1 (0.85%) IBM
5 1 (0.85%) NetApp
5 1 (0.85%) Refinitiv
5 1 (0.85%) Talend