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 15 October 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 347 307
Rank change year-on-year +55 -40 +69
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 89 102 173
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.76% 0.57% 0.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.60% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 62 85 146
10th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £93,750 £96,250 £97,500
90th Percentile £98,750 £103,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

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 10,661 17,117 19,424
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 95.22% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 6,951 10,690 15,926
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £41,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +6.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -

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 15 October 2025.

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 15 October 2025. 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 +54 19 £85,000 +6.25% 15
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, 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 77 (86.52%) Python
2 62 (69.66%) Data Pipeline
3 61 (68.54%) SQL
4 60 (67.42%) Data Engineering
5 50 (56.18%) Data Modelling
6 49 (55.06%) Azure
7 48 (53.93%) AWS
8 43 (48.31%) ETL
9 36 (40.45%) Finance
10 33 (37.08%) DevOps
11 32 (35.96%) CI/CD
12 29 (32.58%) Mentoring
12 29 (32.58%) Databricks
12 29 (32.58%) Agile
12 29 (32.58%) Data Warehouse
13 27 (30.34%) Data Governance
14 24 (26.97%) Analytics
14 24 (26.97%) Social Skills
15 23 (25.84%) Snowflake
15 23 (25.84%) Decision-Making
16 21 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
17 20 (22.47%) Power BI
17 20 (22.47%) Power Platform
17 20 (22.47%) SQL Server
18 19 (21.35%) Data Science
19 18 (20.22%) Microsoft
20 17 (19.10%) Business Intelligence
20 17 (19.10%) Data Quality
21 16 (17.98%) Kafka
21 16 (17.98%) AI

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 (17.98%) Apache Spark
2 8 (8.99%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 49 (55.06%) Azure
2 48 (53.93%) AWS
3 23 (25.84%) Snowflake
4 20 (22.47%) Power Platform
5 15 (16.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 15 (16.85%) GCP
5 15 (16.85%) Serverless
6 14 (15.73%) dbt
7 13 (14.61%) Amazon S3
8 12 (13.48%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (10.11%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (8.99%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (8.99%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (6.74%) GitHub
13 5 (5.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (4.49%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (4.49%) Collibra
14 4 (4.49%) Fivetran
14 4 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (32.58%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (22.47%) Power BI
2 20 (22.47%) SQL Server
3 15 (16.85%) Data Lake
4 13 (14.61%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (14.61%) Big Data
5 10 (11.24%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (11.24%) Hadoop
6 9 (10.11%) Metadata
7 7 (7.87%) Apache Hive
7 7 (7.87%) Tableau
8 5 (5.62%) DynamoDB
8 5 (5.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (4.49%) Data Vault
9 4 (4.49%) Delta Lake
9 4 (4.49%) NoSQL
9 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (4.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (4.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Git
2 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 36 (40.45%) Finance
2 24 (26.97%) Social Skills
3 21 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.99%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (6.74%) Law
7 5 (5.62%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.62%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.49%) Marketing
8 4 (4.49%) Music Industry
9 3 (3.37%) Games
10 2 (2.25%) Banking
10 2 (2.25%) Electronics
10 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
11 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.98%) Kafka
2 12 (13.48%) PySpark
3 5 (5.62%) boto
3 5 (5.62%) Spark Streaming
4 4 (4.49%) Great Expectations
4 4 (4.49%) Pandas
4 4 (4.49%) pytest
5 3 (3.37%) AWS CDK
5 3 (3.37%) Django
5 3 (3.37%) React
6 2 (2.25%) JSON
6 2 (2.25%) LDAP
6 2 (2.25%) OAuth
6 2 (2.25%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.25%) Snowpark
6 2 (2.25%) XML
7 1 (1.12%) Faiss
7 1 (1.12%) Hugging Face
7 1 (1.12%) LangChain
7 1 (1.12%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.11%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (10.11%) Greenfield Project
1 9 (10.11%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.62%) Cloud Native
2 5 (5.62%) Data Structures
2 5 (5.62%) e-Learning
3 2 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (2.25%) FMCG
3 2 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.25%) Online Games
3 2 (2.25%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.12%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.25%) Linux
1 2 (2.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (69.66%) Data Pipeline
2 60 (67.42%) Data Engineering
3 50 (56.18%) Data Modelling
4 43 (48.31%) ETL
5 33 (37.08%) DevOps
6 32 (35.96%) CI/CD
7 29 (32.58%) Agile
7 29 (32.58%) Mentoring
8 27 (30.34%) Data Governance
9 24 (26.97%) Analytics
10 23 (25.84%) Decision-Making
11 19 (21.35%) Data Science
12 17 (19.10%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (17.98%) AI
14 15 (16.85%) Data Architecture
14 15 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (15.73%) Machine Learning
15 14 (15.73%) Visualisation
16 11 (12.36%) Data Transformation
17 10 (11.24%) ETL Development
Programming Languages
1 77 (86.52%) Python
2 61 (68.54%) SQL
3 15 (16.85%) Java
4 14 (15.73%) T-SQL
5 10 (11.24%) Scala
6 4 (4.49%) C#
7 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.25%) C++
8 2 (2.25%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.25%) SPARQL
8 2 (2.25%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.12%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (11.24%) Degree
2 6 (6.74%) AWS Certification
2 6 (6.74%) SnowPro
3 5 (5.62%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.37%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.25%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.12%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (19.10%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.61%) GDPR
3 6 (6.74%) QA
4 2 (2.25%) GRC
5 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Docker
2 5 (5.62%) HDFS
3 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (13.48%) Terraform
2 8 (8.99%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (32.58%) Databricks
2 18 (20.22%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.74%) Google
4 4 (4.49%) Dataiku
4 4 (4.49%) Foundry
4 4 (4.49%) Palantir
5 3 (3.37%) Dell
5 3 (3.37%) Oracle
6 2 (2.25%) Facebook
6 2 (2.25%) SAP
6 2 (2.25%) Talend
7 1 (1.12%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.12%) NetApp