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 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 275 363 302
Rank change year-on-year +88 -61 +93
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 104 83 150
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.80% 0.48% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.51% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 70 69 114
10th Percentile £67,500 £64,000 £60,150
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,250 £71,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £86,875 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -9.68% -3.13%

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 11,843 16,345 17,638
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.68% 94.56% 94.94%
Number of salaries quoted 7,711 9,943 14,399
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £119,067 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% -

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 30 November 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 30 November 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 +57 31 £85,000 +11.48% 7
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 November 2025, 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 83 (79.81%) Python
2 68 (65.38%) SQL
3 55 (52.88%) Azure
3 55 (52.88%) ETL
4 52 (50.00%) Data Engineering
4 52 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
5 46 (44.23%) Data Modelling
6 42 (40.38%) AWS
7 40 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
8 33 (31.73%) DevOps
9 30 (28.85%) CI/CD
10 28 (26.92%) Databricks
10 28 (26.92%) Decision-Making
10 28 (26.92%) SQL Server
11 25 (24.04%) Agile
11 25 (24.04%) Power BI
11 25 (24.04%) Power Platform
12 24 (23.08%) Analytics
12 24 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (23.08%) Data Governance
12 24 (23.08%) Mentoring
12 24 (23.08%) Microsoft
13 23 (22.12%) Snowflake
14 18 (17.31%) AI
14 18 (17.31%) Azure Data Factory
15 17 (16.35%) Azure DevOps
15 17 (16.35%) Java
15 17 (16.35%) Serverless
16 16 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
16 16 (15.38%) Data Lake

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 (14.42%) Apache Spark
2 5 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.96%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 55 (52.88%) Azure
2 42 (40.38%) AWS
3 25 (24.04%) Power Platform
4 23 (22.12%) Snowflake
5 18 (17.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (16.35%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (16.35%) Serverless
7 16 (15.38%) GCP
8 14 (13.46%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
9 12 (11.54%) dbt
10 11 (10.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (9.62%) Amazon S3
12 9 (8.65%) Collibra
13 8 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (7.69%) Fivetran
14 7 (6.73%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (5.77%) SaaS
16 4 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.88%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (26.92%) SQL Server
3 25 (24.04%) Power BI
4 16 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (15.38%) Data Lake
5 15 (14.42%) Big Data
6 14 (13.46%) Hadoop
7 13 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (11.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (10.58%) Apache Hive
10 8 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (6.73%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (5.77%) Metadata
12 6 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (4.81%) DynamoDB
14 4 (3.85%) Data Vault
14 4 (3.85%) Delta Lake
14 4 (3.85%) MySQL
14 4 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (1.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.96%) JIRA
3 1 (0.96%) MLflow
General
1 41 (39.42%) Finance
2 22 (21.15%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.42%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.65%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.85%) Law
6 4 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.85%) Marketing
6 4 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.88%) Games
7 3 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.92%) Banking
8 2 (1.92%) Publishing
8 2 (1.92%) Retail
9 1 (0.96%) Electronics
9 1 (0.96%) Front Office
9 1 (0.96%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.42%) Kafka
2 10 (9.62%) PySpark
3 8 (7.69%) boto
3 8 (7.69%) Spark Streaming
4 3 (2.88%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.88%) Django
4 3 (2.88%) LDAP
4 3 (2.88%) OAuth
4 3 (2.88%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.88%) React
5 2 (1.92%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.96%) Faiss
6 1 (0.96%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.96%) JDBC
6 1 (0.96%) LangChain
6 1 (0.96%) ODBC
6 1 (0.96%) Pandas
6 1 (0.96%) REST
6 1 (0.96%) Streamlit
6 1 (0.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.54%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (11.54%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (7.69%) e-Learning
3 5 (4.81%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.92%) FMCG
5 2 (1.92%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.96%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.96%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.96%) Equities
6 1 (0.96%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.96%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.96%) Online Games
6 1 (0.96%) Social Media
6 1 (0.96%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.88%) Linux
1 3 (2.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (52.88%) ETL
2 52 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 52 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 46 (44.23%) Data Modelling
4 33 (31.73%) DevOps
5 30 (28.85%) CI/CD
6 28 (26.92%) Decision-Making
7 25 (24.04%) Agile
8 24 (23.08%) Analytics
8 24 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (23.08%) Data Governance
8 24 (23.08%) Mentoring
9 18 (17.31%) AI
10 14 (13.46%) Data Science
10 14 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (11.54%) Data Architecture
12 11 (10.58%) ETL Development
12 11 (10.58%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (9.62%) Visualisation
14 8 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 83 (79.81%) Python
2 68 (65.38%) SQL
3 17 (16.35%) Java
4 15 (14.42%) T-SQL
5 12 (11.54%) Scala
6 8 (7.69%) C#
7 5 (4.81%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.96%) C++
8 1 (0.96%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.96%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.96%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (9.62%) Degree
2 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
2 6 (5.77%) SnowPro
3 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.92%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.92%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 13 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.96%) GRC
3 1 (0.96%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.69%) HDFS
2 5 (4.81%) Docker
3 3 (2.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (6.73%) Kubernetes
1 7 (6.73%) Terraform
2 3 (2.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (26.92%) Databricks
2 24 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.69%) Dataiku
4 5 (4.81%) Google
5 4 (3.85%) Dell
6 3 (2.88%) Oracle
7 2 (1.92%) Foundry
7 2 (1.92%) Palantir
8 1 (0.96%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.96%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.96%) Facebook
8 1 (0.96%) NetApp
8 1 (0.96%) Refinitiv
8 1 (0.96%) SAP