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 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 271 324 318
Rank change year-on-year +53 -6 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 137 72 192
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.68% 0.57% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.64% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 110 43 161
10th Percentile £61,250 £64,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £70,625 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £87,500 £96,875 £97,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 18,650 11,324 22,043
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 90.22% 94.12%
Number of salaries quoted 12,750 7,356 16,680
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +33 47 £83,750 +15.52% 14
South London - 5 £60,000 - 1
West London - 4 £75,000 - 3
East London - 1 £60,000 - 2
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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 60 (43.80%) SQL
2 59 (43.07%) Python
3 55 (40.15%) Analytics
4 51 (37.23%) Data Engineering
5 50 (36.50%) Data Pipeline
6 48 (35.04%) Azure
7 47 (34.31%) ETL
8 35 (25.55%) AI
9 33 (24.09%) Data Modelling
10 28 (20.44%) Data Quality
11 25 (18.25%) Decision-Making
12 24 (17.52%) AWS
12 24 (17.52%) CI/CD
12 24 (17.52%) DevOps
13 23 (16.79%) Agile
14 20 (14.60%) Business Intelligence
14 20 (14.60%) Data Science
14 20 (14.60%) Power BI
14 20 (14.60%) Power Platform
15 19 (13.87%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (13.87%) Data Warehouse
15 19 (13.87%) Databricks
16 18 (13.14%) PySpark
17 16 (11.68%) Data Governance
18 15 (10.95%) Data Architecture
19 14 (10.22%) Apache Spark
19 14 (10.22%) SaaS
20 13 (9.49%) Apache Airflow
20 13 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
20 13 (9.49%) Microsoft

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 14 (10.22%) Apache Spark
2 13 (9.49%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (6.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (35.04%) Azure
2 24 (17.52%) AWS
3 20 (14.60%) Power Platform
4 19 (13.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (10.22%) SaaS
6 13 (9.49%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (8.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (7.30%) GCP
9 7 (5.11%) dbt
9 7 (5.11%) Serverless
10 6 (4.38%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.38%) GitHub
10 6 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.38%) Snowflake
11 5 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.92%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (2.92%) Dagster
12 4 (2.92%) PaaS
13 3 (2.19%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.11%) Broadband
2 1 (0.73%) 4G
2 1 (0.73%) 5G
2 1 (0.73%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.60%) Power BI
2 19 (13.87%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.03%) Metadata
3 11 (8.03%) SQL Server
4 8 (5.84%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 7 (5.11%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (5.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (4.38%) Big Data
6 6 (4.38%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.38%) Delta Lake
7 5 (3.65%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.65%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.65%) Spark SQL
8 4 (2.92%) DynamoDB
8 4 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 3 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (2.19%) SQLite
9 3 (2.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (4.38%) Git
2 2 (1.46%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.73%) JIRA
3 1 (0.73%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (18.98%) Finance
2 16 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (11.68%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.84%) Law
3 8 (5.84%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.19%) Banking
4 3 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.19%) Manufacturing
4 3 (2.19%) Marketing
4 3 (2.19%) Retail
5 2 (1.46%) Publishing
5 2 (1.46%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.73%) Aviation
6 1 (0.73%) Billing
6 1 (0.73%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.73%) Front Office
6 1 (0.73%) Games
6 1 (0.73%) Legal
6 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.14%) PySpark
2 12 (8.76%) Kafka
3 2 (1.46%) .NET
3 2 (1.46%) Celery
3 2 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.73%) Akka
4 1 (0.73%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.73%) D3.js
4 1 (0.73%) JDBC
4 1 (0.73%) LDAP
4 1 (0.73%) Node.js
4 1 (0.73%) OAuth
4 1 (0.73%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.73%) ODBC
4 1 (0.73%) Pandas
4 1 (0.73%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.73%) Spring
4 1 (0.73%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.92%) Anti-Piracy
2 4 (2.92%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.92%) Social Media
3 2 (1.46%) Cloud Native
3 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.46%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (0.73%) IoT
4 1 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.73%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.73%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (0.73%) PropTech
4 1 (0.73%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.73%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.73%) Replication
4 1 (0.73%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.73%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.19%) Linux
2 1 (0.73%) Unix
2 1 (0.73%) Windows
2 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (40.15%) Analytics
2 51 (37.23%) Data Engineering
3 50 (36.50%) Data Pipeline
4 47 (34.31%) ETL
5 35 (25.55%) AI
6 33 (24.09%) Data Modelling
7 25 (18.25%) Decision-Making
8 24 (17.52%) CI/CD
8 24 (17.52%) DevOps
9 23 (16.79%) Agile
10 20 (14.60%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (14.60%) Data Science
11 16 (11.68%) Data Governance
12 15 (10.95%) Data Architecture
13 12 (8.76%) Fintech
13 12 (8.76%) Machine Learning
14 11 (8.03%) Computer Science
14 11 (8.03%) Infrastructure as Code
14 11 (8.03%) Mentoring
15 10 (7.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 60 (43.80%) SQL
2 59 (43.07%) Python
3 9 (6.57%) Java
4 8 (5.84%) Scala
5 7 (5.11%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.92%) Bash
6 4 (2.92%) C++
7 3 (2.19%) R
8 2 (1.46%) C#
8 2 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.73%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.76%) Degree
2 9 (6.57%) SC Cleared
2 9 (6.57%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (20.44%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.73%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.73%) GDPR
2 1 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (9.49%) Terraform
2 4 (2.92%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.73%) Ansible
3 1 (0.73%) Control-M
3 1 (0.73%) Grafana
3 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (13.87%) Databricks
2 13 (9.49%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.46%) iManage
3 2 (1.46%) Intapp
4 1 (0.73%) BMC
4 1 (0.73%) Cognizant
4 1 (0.73%) Dell
4 1 (0.73%) Google
4 1 (0.73%) IBM
4 1 (0.73%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.73%) Talend