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 20 May 2026.

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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 325 325
Rank change year-on-year +55 0 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 138 70 187
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.67% 0.57% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.63% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 112 41 158
10th Percentile £61,250 £67,500 £60,000
25th Percentile £76,563 £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 £90,000 £96,250 £100,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £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 19,089 11,122 22,098
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 90.10% 94.21%
Number of salaries quoted 13,045 7,232 16,650
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
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 £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

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 20 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 20 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 +25 45 £85,000 +17.24% 16
South London - 5 £60,000 - 1
West London - 4 £75,000 - 1
East London - 1 £60,000 - 1
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 62 (44.93%) Python
2 61 (44.20%) SQL
3 58 (42.03%) Analytics
4 56 (40.58%) Data Engineering
5 51 (36.96%) Data Pipeline
6 49 (35.51%) Azure
7 46 (33.33%) ETL
8 37 (26.81%) AI
9 35 (25.36%) Data Modelling
10 29 (21.01%) CI/CD
10 29 (21.01%) Data Quality
11 26 (18.84%) Decision-Making
12 25 (18.12%) DevOps
13 24 (17.39%) AWS
14 23 (16.67%) Agile
14 23 (16.67%) Databricks
15 22 (15.94%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (15.94%) Data Science
16 21 (15.22%) PySpark
17 20 (14.49%) Data Warehouse
18 19 (13.77%) Business Intelligence
19 18 (13.04%) Power BI
19 18 (13.04%) Power Platform
20 17 (12.32%) Data Governance
21 16 (11.59%) Data Architecture
22 15 (10.87%) Apache Spark
23 14 (10.14%) SaaS
24 13 (9.42%) Apache Airflow
24 13 (9.42%) Degree
24 13 (9.42%) Fintech

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 15 (10.87%) Apache Spark
2 13 (9.42%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (6.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) GeoServer
Applications
1 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 49 (35.51%) Azure
2 24 (17.39%) AWS
3 22 (15.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 14 (10.14%) SaaS
6 12 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (7.97%) GCP
8 10 (7.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (5.07%) dbt
9 7 (5.07%) Serverless
10 6 (4.35%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.35%) GitHub
10 6 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.35%) Snowflake
11 5 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.90%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (2.90%) Dagster
13 3 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (2.17%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.07%) Broadband
2 1 (0.72%) 4G
2 1 (0.72%) 5G
2 1 (0.72%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.49%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (13.04%) Power BI
3 12 (8.70%) Metadata
4 11 (7.97%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.52%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (5.80%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.07%) Delta Lake
8 6 (4.35%) Big Data
8 6 (4.35%) BigQuery
8 6 (4.35%) NoSQL
8 6 (4.35%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.35%) Spark SQL
8 6 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (2.90%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (2.90%) Tableau
10 3 (2.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (2.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Git
2 3 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.72%) JIRA
3 1 (0.72%) TeamCity
General
1 25 (18.12%) Finance
2 17 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (12.32%) Social Skills
3 8 (5.80%) Law
3 8 (5.80%) Public Sector
4 4 (2.90%) Retail
5 3 (2.17%) Banking
5 3 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.17%) Marketing
6 2 (1.45%) Publishing
6 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.72%) Aviation
7 1 (0.72%) Billing
7 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.72%) Front Office
7 1 (0.72%) Legal
7 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (15.22%) PySpark
2 12 (8.70%) Kafka
3 2 (1.45%) .NET
3 2 (1.45%) Celery
3 2 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.72%) Akka
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.72%) D3.js
4 1 (0.72%) JDBC
4 1 (0.72%) LDAP
4 1 (0.72%) Node.js
4 1 (0.72%) OAuth
4 1 (0.72%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.72%) ODBC
4 1 (0.72%) Pandas
4 1 (0.72%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.72%) Spring
4 1 (0.72%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.90%) Anti-Piracy
2 4 (2.90%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.90%) Social Media
3 3 (2.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.45%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.72%) IoT
5 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.72%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (0.72%) PropTech
5 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.72%) Replication
5 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Unix
2 1 (0.72%) Windows
2 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.03%) Analytics
2 56 (40.58%) Data Engineering
3 51 (36.96%) Data Pipeline
4 46 (33.33%) ETL
5 37 (26.81%) AI
6 35 (25.36%) Data Modelling
7 29 (21.01%) CI/CD
8 26 (18.84%) Decision-Making
9 25 (18.12%) DevOps
10 23 (16.67%) Agile
11 22 (15.94%) Data Science
12 19 (13.77%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (12.32%) Data Governance
14 16 (11.59%) Data Architecture
15 13 (9.42%) Fintech
16 12 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (8.70%) Machine Learning
16 12 (8.70%) Mentoring
17 11 (7.97%) Computer Science
17 11 (7.97%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 62 (44.93%) Python
2 61 (44.20%) SQL
3 9 (6.52%) Java
3 9 (6.52%) Scala
4 6 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.90%) Bash
5 4 (2.90%) C++
5 4 (2.90%) R
6 2 (1.45%) C#
6 2 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (9.42%) Degree
2 9 (6.52%) SC Cleared
2 9 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (21.01%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.72%) GDPR
2 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (9.42%) Terraform
2 5 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Ansible
3 1 (0.72%) Control-M
3 1 (0.72%) Grafana
3 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (16.67%) Databricks
2 13 (9.42%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.45%) iManage
3 2 (1.45%) Intapp
4 1 (0.72%) BMC
4 1 (0.72%) Cognizant
4 1 (0.72%) Dell
4 1 (0.72%) Google
4 1 (0.72%) IBM
4 1 (0.72%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.72%) Talend