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 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 348 304
Rank change year-on-year +61 -44 +78
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 94 91 165
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.73% 0.52% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.55% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 66 74 133
10th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,375 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -4.11% -5.81% -3.13%

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 11,650 16,489 18,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.89% 94.85% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 10,094 14,956
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,613 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £53,455 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.17% -

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +53 24 £85,000 +6.25% 46
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 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 83 (88.30%) Python
2 65 (69.15%) SQL
3 58 (61.70%) Data Pipeline
4 57 (60.64%) Data Engineering
5 53 (56.38%) Azure
5 53 (56.38%) ETL
6 48 (51.06%) Data Modelling
7 44 (46.81%) AWS
8 40 (42.55%) Data Warehouse
9 35 (37.23%) DevOps
10 32 (34.04%) CI/CD
11 31 (32.98%) Databricks
12 30 (31.91%) Decision-Making
13 29 (30.85%) Mentoring
14 26 (27.66%) Agile
14 26 (27.66%) Data Governance
14 26 (27.66%) SQL Server
15 25 (26.60%) Analytics
15 25 (26.60%) Snowflake
16 22 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
16 22 (23.40%) Power BI
16 22 (23.40%) Power Platform
17 20 (21.28%) AI
17 20 (21.28%) Microsoft
18 19 (20.21%) Java
19 18 (19.15%) Data Quality
20 17 (18.09%) Data Lake
20 17 (18.09%) GCP
20 17 (18.09%) Serverless
21 16 (17.02%) Apache Spark

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 (17.02%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.06%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 53 (56.38%) Azure
2 44 (46.81%) AWS
3 25 (26.60%) Snowflake
4 22 (23.40%) Power Platform
5 17 (18.09%) GCP
5 17 (18.09%) Serverless
6 16 (17.02%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (15.96%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (14.89%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (14.89%) dbt
9 11 (11.70%) Amazon S3
9 11 (11.70%) AWS Step Functions
10 10 (10.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (9.57%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (9.57%) Collibra
12 8 (8.51%) Fivetran
13 7 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (4.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (42.55%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (27.66%) SQL Server
3 22 (23.40%) Power BI
4 17 (18.09%) Data Lake
5 15 (15.96%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (15.96%) Big Data
6 14 (14.89%) Hadoop
7 13 (13.83%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (11.70%) Apache Hive
9 10 (10.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (8.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (8.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (7.45%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (6.38%) Metadata
13 5 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (5.32%) DynamoDB
14 4 (4.26%) MySQL
14 4 (4.26%) NoSQL
14 4 (4.26%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (4.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Git
2 2 (2.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.06%) JIRA
3 1 (1.06%) MLflow
General
1 40 (42.55%) Finance
2 23 (24.47%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.57%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (8.51%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.26%) Law
7 4 (4.26%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.26%) Marketing
8 3 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.13%) Banking
9 2 (2.13%) Games
9 2 (2.13%) Music Industry
9 2 (2.13%) Retail
10 1 (1.06%) Electronics
10 1 (1.06%) Front Office
10 1 (1.06%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.96%) Kafka
2 11 (11.70%) PySpark
3 8 (8.51%) boto
3 8 (8.51%) Spark Streaming
4 3 (3.19%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.19%) Django
4 3 (3.19%) LDAP
4 3 (3.19%) OAuth
4 3 (3.19%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.19%) React
5 2 (2.13%) Pandas
5 2 (2.13%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.06%) Faiss
6 1 (1.06%) JDBC
6 1 (1.06%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.06%) ODBC
6 1 (1.06%) pytest
6 1 (1.06%) REST
6 1 (1.06%) Streamlit
6 1 (1.06%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (12.77%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (8.51%) e-Learning
3 5 (5.32%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.19%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.19%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.13%) FMCG
6 2 (2.13%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.06%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.06%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.06%) Equities
7 1 (1.06%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.06%) Media Streaming
7 1 (1.06%) Online Games
7 1 (1.06%) Social Media
7 1 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.19%) Linux
1 3 (3.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (61.70%) Data Pipeline
2 57 (60.64%) Data Engineering
3 53 (56.38%) ETL
4 48 (51.06%) Data Modelling
5 35 (37.23%) DevOps
6 32 (34.04%) CI/CD
7 30 (31.91%) Decision-Making
8 29 (30.85%) Mentoring
9 26 (27.66%) Agile
9 26 (27.66%) Data Governance
10 25 (26.60%) Analytics
11 22 (23.40%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (21.28%) AI
13 16 (17.02%) Data Science
14 14 (14.89%) Data Architecture
15 11 (11.70%) ETL Development
15 11 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (11.70%) Visualisation
16 10 (10.64%) Stakeholder Management
17 9 (9.57%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 83 (88.30%) Python
2 65 (69.15%) SQL
3 19 (20.21%) Java
4 15 (15.96%) T-SQL
5 12 (12.77%) Scala
6 8 (8.51%) C#
7 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.13%) C++
8 2 (2.13%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.13%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (10.64%) Degree
2 6 (6.38%) AWS Certification
2 6 (6.38%) SnowPro
3 3 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.06%) PhD
5 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.15%) Data Quality
2 14 (14.89%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) GRC
3 2 (2.13%) QA
4 1 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 8 (8.51%) HDFS
2 5 (5.32%) Docker
3 3 (3.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (9.57%) Terraform
2 7 (7.45%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.19%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (32.98%) Databricks
2 20 (21.28%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.51%) Dataiku
4 5 (5.32%) Google
5 4 (4.26%) Dell
5 4 (4.26%) Foundry
5 4 (4.26%) Palantir
6 3 (3.19%) Oracle
7 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.06%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.06%) Facebook
7 1 (1.06%) NetApp
7 1 (1.06%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.06%) SAP