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 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 356 307
Rank change year-on-year +70 -49 +76
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 96 68 142
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.70% 0.43% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.46% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 65 54 100
10th Percentile £67,050 £65,000 £60,450
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% -
75th Percentile - £92,813 £100,000
90th Percentile £96,500 £97,500 £112,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 12,441 14,745 16,938
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.76% 93.26% 95.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,234 8,645 13,674
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,500 £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 £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

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 29 December 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 29 December 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 +62 30 £85,000 +6.25% 47
South London - 2 £57,600 - 5
West London -7 1 £75,000 +3.45% 2
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 December 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 71 (73.96%) Python
2 58 (60.42%) SQL
3 52 (54.17%) Azure
4 50 (52.08%) Data Pipeline
4 50 (52.08%) ETL
5 44 (45.83%) Data Engineering
6 43 (44.79%) Data Modelling
7 34 (35.42%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (32.29%) AWS
9 30 (31.25%) DevOps
10 28 (29.17%) Decision-Making
11 27 (28.13%) SQL Server
12 26 (27.08%) CI/CD
12 26 (27.08%) Databricks
13 24 (25.00%) Power BI
13 24 (25.00%) Power Platform
14 23 (23.96%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (23.96%) Data Governance
15 22 (22.92%) Analytics
15 22 (22.92%) Microsoft
16 20 (20.83%) Agile
17 18 (18.75%) Snowflake
18 16 (16.67%) Apache Spark
18 16 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (16.67%) Mentoring
19 15 (15.63%) AI
19 15 (15.63%) Big Data
19 15 (15.63%) Data Lake
19 15 (15.63%) Data Quality
19 15 (15.63%) Hadoop

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 16 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.04%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 52 (54.17%) Azure
2 31 (32.29%) AWS
3 24 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 18 (18.75%) Snowflake
5 16 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 15 (15.63%) Serverless
7 14 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (13.54%) GCP
9 12 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
9 12 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 11 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (9.38%) Collibra
12 8 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
12 8 (8.33%) dbt
12 8 (8.33%) Fivetran
13 6 (6.25%) Amazon S3
13 6 (6.25%) SaaS
14 4 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
15 3 (3.13%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.13%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (35.42%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (28.13%) SQL Server
3 24 (25.00%) Power BI
4 15 (15.63%) Big Data
4 15 (15.63%) Data Lake
4 15 (15.63%) Hadoop
5 12 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (11.46%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (11.46%) Apache Hive
7 8 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 8 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 7 (7.29%) Metadata
9 6 (6.25%) Delta Lake
10 5 (5.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (5.21%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (4.17%) MySQL
11 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
11 4 (4.17%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (3.13%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Git
2 2 (2.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.04%) JIRA
3 1 (1.04%) MLflow
General
1 36 (37.50%) Finance
2 18 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (8.33%) Financial Institution
6 5 (5.21%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.17%) Marketing
8 3 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.13%) Law
8 3 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.13%) Retail
9 2 (2.08%) Publishing
10 1 (1.04%) Banking
10 1 (1.04%) Electronics
10 1 (1.04%) Front Office
10 1 (1.04%) Games
10 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.58%) Kafka
2 9 (9.38%) PySpark
3 8 (8.33%) boto
3 8 (8.33%) Spark Streaming
4 3 (3.13%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.13%) Django
4 3 (3.13%) LDAP
4 3 (3.13%) OAuth
4 3 (3.13%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.13%) React
5 2 (2.08%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.04%) Faiss
6 1 (1.04%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.04%) JDBC
6 1 (1.04%) LangChain
6 1 (1.04%) ODBC
6 1 (1.04%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.04%) REST
6 1 (1.04%) Streamlit
6 1 (1.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (8.33%) e-Learning
3 4 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.08%) FMCG
5 2 (2.08%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.04%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.04%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.04%) Equities
6 1 (1.04%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.04%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.04%) Social Media
6 1 (1.04%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.13%) Linux
1 3 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (52.08%) Data Pipeline
1 50 (52.08%) ETL
2 44 (45.83%) Data Engineering
3 43 (44.79%) Data Modelling
4 30 (31.25%) DevOps
5 28 (29.17%) Decision-Making
6 26 (27.08%) CI/CD
7 23 (23.96%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (23.96%) Data Governance
8 22 (22.92%) Analytics
9 20 (20.83%) Agile
10 16 (16.67%) Mentoring
11 15 (15.63%) AI
12 13 (13.54%) Data Science
12 13 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (10.42%) ETL Development
13 10 (10.42%) Problem-Solving
14 8 (8.33%) Data Architecture
14 8 (8.33%) Visualisation
15 7 (7.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 71 (73.96%) Python
2 58 (60.42%) SQL
3 15 (15.63%) Java
4 13 (13.54%) Scala
4 13 (13.54%) T-SQL
5 8 (8.33%) C#
6 5 (5.21%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (9.38%) Degree
2 5 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.17%) SnowPro
4 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.08%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.08%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.04%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 13 (13.54%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) HDFS
2 4 (4.17%) Docker
3 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.25%) Terraform
2 3 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (1.04%) Control-M
Vendors
1 26 (27.08%) Databricks
2 22 (22.92%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.33%) Dataiku
4 4 (4.17%) Dell
5 3 (3.13%) Google
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle
7 1 (1.04%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.04%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.04%) BMC
7 1 (1.04%) IBM
7 1 (1.04%) NetApp
7 1 (1.04%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.04%) SAP
7 1 (1.04%) Talend