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 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 352 304
Rank change year-on-year +58 -48 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 90 118 213
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.76% 0.62% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.65% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 60 101 184
10th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
25th Percentile £71,250 £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 £94,063 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,125 £115,000 £120,000
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 10,794 18,141 21,407
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.13% 95.44% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7,022 11,576 17,684
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £73,000
Median % change year-on-year - -0.68% +4.29%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £119,071 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer 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 September 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 September 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 +49 15 £85,000 +13.33% 12
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 15 September 2025, Senior Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 74 (82.22%) Python
2 59 (65.56%) Data Pipeline
3 57 (63.33%) Data Engineering
3 57 (63.33%) SQL
4 53 (58.89%) Data Modelling
5 49 (54.44%) Azure
6 48 (53.33%) AWS
7 40 (44.44%) CI/CD
8 39 (43.33%) ETL
9 36 (40.00%) Finance
10 32 (35.56%) DevOps
10 32 (35.56%) Mentoring
11 30 (33.33%) Databricks
12 29 (32.22%) Agile
12 29 (32.22%) Data Warehouse
13 28 (31.11%) Data Governance
14 25 (27.78%) Analytics
15 22 (24.44%) Decision-Making
15 22 (24.44%) Power Platform
15 22 (24.44%) Power BI
16 19 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
16 19 (21.11%) Kafka
16 19 (21.11%) Snowflake
16 19 (21.11%) Social Skills
17 18 (20.00%) Data Science
18 17 (18.89%) Apache Spark
18 17 (18.89%) Business Intelligence
19 16 (17.78%) SQL Server
19 16 (17.78%) Data Quality
19 16 (17.78%) Visualisation

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (18.89%) Apache Spark
2 9 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.11%) Apache
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 49 (54.44%) Azure
2 48 (53.33%) AWS
3 22 (24.44%) Power Platform
4 19 (21.11%) Snowflake
5 16 (17.78%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (17.78%) Serverless
6 15 (16.67%) GCP
7 12 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 12 (13.33%) dbt
8 11 (12.22%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (7.78%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (7.78%) AWS Step Functions
10 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (6.67%) GitHub
12 5 (5.56%) Azure Functions
12 5 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (4.44%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (32.22%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (24.44%) Power BI
3 16 (17.78%) SQL Server
4 15 (16.67%) Data Lake
5 12 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (13.33%) Big Data
6 10 (11.11%) Metadata
7 9 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (8.89%) Azure SQL Database
8 8 (8.89%) Hadoop
9 7 (7.78%) Tableau
10 5 (5.56%) Apache Hive
11 4 (4.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 4 (4.44%) Data Vault
11 4 (4.44%) Delta Lake
11 4 (4.44%) DynamoDB
11 4 (4.44%) NoSQL
11 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
12 3 (3.33%) OLAP
13 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Git
2 4 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.11%) JIRA
General
1 36 (40.00%) Finance
2 19 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (21.11%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 9 (10.00%) Law
5 8 (8.89%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (7.78%) Marketing
7 5 (5.56%) Financial Institution
7 5 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.44%) Music Industry
9 3 (3.33%) Games
9 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.33%) Legal
10 2 (2.22%) Banking
10 2 (2.22%) Electronics
10 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.11%) Kafka
2 15 (16.67%) PySpark
3 8 (8.89%) Spark Streaming
4 5 (5.56%) boto
5 4 (4.44%) Great Expectations
5 4 (4.44%) Pandas
5 4 (4.44%) pytest
6 3 (3.33%) AWS CDK
6 3 (3.33%) Django
6 3 (3.33%) JSON
6 3 (3.33%) React
6 3 (3.33%) XML
7 2 (2.22%) Snowpark
8 1 (1.11%) Faiss
8 1 (1.11%) GraphQL
8 1 (1.11%) Hugging Face
8 1 (1.11%) Lambda Expressions
8 1 (1.11%) LangChain
8 1 (1.11%) REST
8 1 (1.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.89%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.78%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.56%) e-Learning
5 4 (4.44%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (3.33%) PKI
6 3 (3.33%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.33%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (2.22%) FMCG
7 2 (2.22%) Online Games
8 1 (1.11%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.11%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (65.56%) Data Pipeline
2 57 (63.33%) Data Engineering
3 53 (58.89%) Data Modelling
4 40 (44.44%) CI/CD
5 39 (43.33%) ETL
6 32 (35.56%) DevOps
6 32 (35.56%) Mentoring
7 29 (32.22%) Agile
8 28 (31.11%) Data Governance
9 25 (27.78%) Analytics
10 22 (24.44%) Decision-Making
11 18 (20.00%) Data Science
12 17 (18.89%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (17.78%) Visualisation
14 15 (16.67%) Data Architecture
14 15 (16.67%) Data Transformation
14 15 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (14.44%) Artificial Intelligence
15 13 (14.44%) Machine Learning
16 11 (12.22%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 74 (82.22%) Python
2 57 (63.33%) SQL
3 13 (14.44%) Java
4 10 (11.11%) Scala
5 8 (8.89%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.33%) Shell Script
6 3 (3.33%) SPARQL
7 2 (2.22%) C++
7 2 (2.22%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.11%) C#
8 1 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.11%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.11%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (11.11%) Degree
2 6 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.67%) SnowPro
3 3 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 3 (3.33%) CCSK
3 3 (3.33%) CCSP
3 3 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (3.33%) CISSP
4 2 (2.22%) DV Cleared
4 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.11%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.78%) Data Quality
2 10 (11.11%) GDPR
3 6 (6.67%) QA
4 2 (2.22%) GRC
5 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (7.78%) Docker
2 5 (5.56%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (14.44%) Terraform
2 6 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.33%) CASB
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (33.33%) Databricks
2 14 (15.56%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.67%) Google
4 4 (4.44%) Foundry
4 4 (4.44%) Palantir
5 3 (3.33%) Oracle
5 3 (3.33%) Symantec
5 3 (3.33%) Talend
5 3 (3.33%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.22%) Facebook
6 2 (2.22%) SAP
7 1 (1.11%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.11%) Dataiku