Senior Data Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 328 297
Rank change year-on-year +7 -31 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 86 189 352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.67% 0.76% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.81% 1.19%
Number of salaries quoted 52 164 289
10th Percentile £67,750 £60,000 £62,900
25th Percentile £71,250 £62,500 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £96,563 £100,000 £105,000
90th Percentile £99,875 £116,750 £125,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -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 11,676 23,404 29,646
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 94.45% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 6,968 17,198 22,317
10th Percentile £40,500 £37,500 £41,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £50,000 £54,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £98,750 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,567
% change year-on-year +4.76% -13.32% +0.95%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 13 June 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 13 June 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 +20 9 £72,500 - 13
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 68 (79.07%) Python
2 57 (66.28%) SQL
3 52 (60.47%) Data Pipeline
4 50 (58.14%) Data Engineering
5 40 (46.51%) Data Modelling
5 40 (46.51%) ETL
5 40 (46.51%) Azure
5 40 (46.51%) CI/CD
6 38 (44.19%) AWS
7 33 (38.37%) Finance
8 32 (37.21%) Agile
9 28 (32.56%) Mentoring
10 26 (30.23%) Databricks
11 22 (25.58%) DevOps
12 21 (24.42%) Analytics
12 21 (24.42%) Data Transformation
12 21 (24.42%) Data Warehouse
12 21 (24.42%) Data Governance
12 21 (24.42%) Data Quality
13 20 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (22.09%) Data Science
14 19 (22.09%) Apache Airflow
14 19 (22.09%) Terraform
14 19 (22.09%) Machine Learning
14 19 (22.09%) Social Skills
15 17 (19.77%) Snowflake
15 17 (19.77%) PySpark
15 17 (19.77%) Kafka
15 17 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
16 16 (18.60%) Apache Spark

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 19 (22.09%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (18.60%) Apache Spark
3 6 (6.98%) Apache
4 5 (5.81%) Luigi
5 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 40 (46.51%) Azure
2 38 (44.19%) AWS
3 17 (19.77%) Snowflake
4 15 (17.44%) Amazon S3
4 15 (17.44%) Power Platform
5 13 (15.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (13.95%) GCP
7 11 (12.79%) dbt
8 9 (10.47%) Amazon Kinesis
9 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (8.14%) GitHub
9 7 (8.14%) Serverless
10 6 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 5 (5.81%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (3.49%) AWS Data Pipeline
13 3 (3.49%) Azure Functions
14 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
14 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.33%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.42%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (18.60%) Data Lake
3 15 (17.44%) Power BI
4 11 (12.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (11.63%) Metadata
6 9 (10.47%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (9.30%) NoSQL
7 8 (9.30%) Tableau
8 7 (8.14%) SQL Server
9 6 (6.98%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (6.98%) BigQuery
9 6 (6.98%) Hadoop
10 5 (5.81%) Apache Hive
10 5 (5.81%) Big Data
10 5 (5.81%) Neo4j
10 5 (5.81%) Sqoop
11 4 (4.65%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (3.49%) OLAP
12 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (2.33%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 12 (13.95%) Git
2 7 (8.14%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.81%) CircleCI
General
1 33 (38.37%) Finance
2 19 (22.09%) Social Skills
3 17 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.63%) Banking
4 10 (11.63%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (9.30%) Marketing
6 6 (6.98%) Law
7 4 (4.65%) Music Industry
8 3 (3.49%) Electronics
8 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.49%) Legal
8 3 (3.49%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.33%) Games
10 1 (1.16%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.77%) Kafka
1 17 (19.77%) PySpark
2 8 (9.30%) Spark Streaming
3 5 (5.81%) Great Expectations
3 5 (5.81%) OAuth
4 4 (4.65%) Pandas
4 4 (4.65%) pytest
5 3 (3.49%) JSON
5 3 (3.49%) XML
6 2 (2.33%) .NET
6 2 (2.33%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (2.33%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.16%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.16%) Lambda Expressions
7 1 (1.16%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.14%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.81%) Algorithms
3 5 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.81%) Distributed Applications
3 5 (5.81%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.49%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (3.49%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.49%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.49%) PKI
4 3 (3.49%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.49%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.33%) FMCG
5 2 (2.33%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.16%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.16%) Online Games
6 1 (1.16%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (60.47%) Data Pipeline
2 50 (58.14%) Data Engineering
3 40 (46.51%) CI/CD
3 40 (46.51%) Data Modelling
3 40 (46.51%) ETL
4 32 (37.21%) Agile
5 28 (32.56%) Mentoring
6 22 (25.58%) DevOps
7 21 (24.42%) Analytics
7 21 (24.42%) Data Governance
7 21 (24.42%) Data Transformation
8 20 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (22.09%) Data Science
9 19 (22.09%) Machine Learning
10 15 (17.44%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (17.44%) Decision-Making
11 12 (13.95%) Artificial Intelligence
12 11 (12.79%) Data Architecture
12 11 (12.79%) SDLC
13 10 (11.63%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 68 (79.07%) Python
2 57 (66.28%) SQL
3 15 (17.44%) Java
4 9 (10.47%) Scala
5 8 (9.30%) SPARQL
6 4 (4.65%) T-SQL
7 3 (3.49%) C#
7 3 (3.49%) C++
7 3 (3.49%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.49%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.33%) Bash
8 2 (2.33%) Bicep
8 2 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.33%) Perl
8 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.16%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (12.79%) Degree
2 7 (8.14%) SC Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (3.49%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.49%) CCSK
4 3 (3.49%) CCSP
4 3 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.49%) CISSP
4 3 (3.49%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.16%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.16%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (24.42%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.14%) QA
3 4 (4.65%) GDPR
4 2 (2.33%) GRC
5 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (9.30%) Docker
2 5 (5.81%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 19 (22.09%) Terraform
2 6 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.81%) Oozie
4 3 (3.49%) CASB
4 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (30.23%) Databricks
2 7 (8.14%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.98%) Cloudera
4 4 (4.65%) Foundry
4 4 (4.65%) Palantir
5 3 (3.49%) SAP
5 3 (3.49%) Symantec
5 3 (3.49%) Talend
5 3 (3.49%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.33%) Google
6 2 (2.33%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.16%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.16%) Facebook