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 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 281 363 318
Rank change year-on-year +82 -45 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 112 65 165
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.73% 0.43% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.47% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 78 45 123
10th Percentile £63,000 £62,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £71,375 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile - £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £99,000 £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 13,985 13,748 19,993
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.33% 91.57% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9,305 7,941 16,141
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £39,420
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% -1.83%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 11 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 11 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 +50 35 £85,000 +6.25% 7
South London - 4 £60,000 -
West London 0 2 £75,000 - 2
East London - 1 £60,000 -
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 (64.29%) Python
2 62 (55.36%) SQL
3 57 (50.89%) Data Pipeline
4 56 (50.00%) Azure
5 53 (47.32%) Data Engineering
6 50 (44.64%) ETL
7 45 (40.18%) Data Modelling
8 34 (30.36%) Data Warehouse
9 31 (27.68%) Decision-Making
9 31 (27.68%) DevOps
10 29 (25.89%) Analytics
10 29 (25.89%) AWS
10 29 (25.89%) CI/CD
11 28 (25.00%) Databricks
12 26 (23.21%) Data Governance
13 25 (22.32%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (21.43%) Data Quality
14 24 (21.43%) Microsoft
14 24 (21.43%) SQL Server
15 22 (19.64%) Agile
15 22 (19.64%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (19.64%) Power BI
15 22 (19.64%) Power Platform
16 20 (17.86%) AI
17 18 (16.07%) Apache Spark
17 18 (16.07%) Snowflake
18 17 (15.18%) Mentoring
19 16 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
20 15 (13.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 15 (13.39%) Data Science

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 18 (16.07%) Apache Spark
2 6 (5.36%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.57%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (50.00%) Azure
2 29 (25.89%) AWS
3 22 (19.64%) Azure Data Factory
3 22 (19.64%) Power Platform
4 18 (16.07%) Snowflake
5 16 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (13.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (11.61%) Serverless
8 12 (10.71%) GCP
9 11 (9.82%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (9.82%) AWS Step Functions
9 11 (9.82%) dbt
10 9 (8.04%) Collibra
11 8 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (7.14%) Fivetran
12 6 (5.36%) SaaS
13 5 (4.46%) Amazon S3
14 4 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (2.68%) Azure Storage
15 3 (2.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) Broadband
1 3 (2.68%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (30.36%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (21.43%) SQL Server
3 22 (19.64%) Power BI
4 14 (12.50%) Big Data
4 14 (12.50%) Data Lake
5 12 (10.71%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (10.71%) Hadoop
5 12 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (9.82%) Apache Hive
7 10 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (8.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (8.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (5.36%) Metadata
10 5 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (3.57%) BigQuery
11 4 (3.57%) Delta Lake
11 4 (3.57%) MySQL
11 4 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (2.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Git
2 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.89%) MLflow
3 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
General
1 39 (34.82%) Finance
2 23 (20.54%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.61%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.04%) Financial Institution
4 9 (8.04%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (3.57%) Banking
5 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.57%) Marketing
5 4 (3.57%) Retail
6 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.79%) Law
7 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.79%) Publishing
8 1 (0.89%) Front Office
8 1 (0.89%) Games
8 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.50%) Kafka
2 8 (7.14%) boto
2 8 (7.14%) Spark Streaming
3 6 (5.36%) PySpark
4 3 (2.68%) LDAP
4 3 (2.68%) OAuth
4 3 (2.68%) OAuth2
5 2 (1.79%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.89%) Akka
6 1 (0.89%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.89%) AWS CDK
6 1 (0.89%) Celery
6 1 (0.89%) Faiss
6 1 (0.89%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.89%) LangChain
6 1 (0.89%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.89%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.89%) Spring
6 1 (0.89%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.89%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.71%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (9.82%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (7.14%) e-Learning
4 3 (2.68%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.68%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.79%) FMCG
5 2 (1.79%) Social Media
5 2 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.89%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.89%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.89%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.89%) Equities
6 1 (0.89%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.89%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.89%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (0.89%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.57%) Linux
2 3 (2.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (50.89%) Data Pipeline
2 53 (47.32%) Data Engineering
3 50 (44.64%) ETL
4 45 (40.18%) Data Modelling
5 31 (27.68%) Decision-Making
5 31 (27.68%) DevOps
6 29 (25.89%) Analytics
6 29 (25.89%) CI/CD
7 26 (23.21%) Data Governance
8 25 (22.32%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (19.64%) Agile
10 20 (17.86%) AI
11 17 (15.18%) Mentoring
12 15 (13.39%) Data Science
13 13 (11.61%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (9.82%) Machine Learning
15 10 (8.93%) ETL Development
16 9 (8.04%) Computer Science
17 8 (7.14%) Data Architecture
17 8 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 72 (64.29%) Python
2 62 (55.36%) SQL
3 14 (12.50%) Java
3 14 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 12 (10.71%) Scala
5 9 (8.04%) C#
6 4 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.79%) R
8 1 (0.89%) Bash
8 1 (0.89%) C++
8 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (10.71%) Degree
2 6 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.68%) AWS Certification
3 3 (2.68%) SnowPro
4 2 (1.79%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.79%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.79%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.89%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 13 (11.61%) GDPR
3 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.89%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.14%) HDFS
2 5 (4.46%) Docker
3 3 (2.68%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 7 (6.25%) Terraform
2 3 (2.68%) Ansible
3 1 (0.89%) Control-M
3 1 (0.89%) Grafana
3 1 (0.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (25.00%) Databricks
2 24 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.14%) Dataiku
4 4 (3.57%) Dell
5 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.89%) BMC
5 1 (0.89%) IBM
5 1 (0.89%) NetApp
5 1 (0.89%) Refinitiv
5 1 (0.89%) Talend