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 23 November 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 294 364 296
Rank change year-on-year +70 -68 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 97 86 159
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.75% 0.49% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.83% 0.51% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 67 70 125
10th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,375 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £98,500 £100,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £77,500
% change year-on-year -3.45% -6.45% -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 11,713 16,794 17,925
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.76% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 7,588 10,285 14,624
10th Percentile £35,750 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £118,750 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £54,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.22% -4.17% -

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 23 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 23 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 +63 29 £85,000 +6.25% 7
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 81 (83.51%) Python
2 63 (64.95%) SQL
3 55 (56.70%) Data Pipeline
3 55 (56.70%) ETL
4 54 (55.67%) Azure
4 54 (55.67%) Data Engineering
5 46 (47.42%) Data Modelling
6 43 (44.33%) AWS
7 40 (41.24%) Data Warehouse
8 34 (35.05%) DevOps
9 31 (31.96%) CI/CD
10 29 (29.90%) Decision-Making
11 28 (28.87%) Databricks
11 28 (28.87%) Mentoring
12 27 (27.84%) SQL Server
13 25 (25.77%) Agile
13 25 (25.77%) Data Governance
14 24 (24.74%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (24.74%) Power BI
14 24 (24.74%) Power Platform
14 24 (24.74%) Snowflake
15 23 (23.71%) Analytics
16 22 (22.68%) Microsoft
17 20 (20.62%) AI
18 19 (19.59%) Java
19 17 (17.53%) Azure Data Factory
19 17 (17.53%) Data Quality
19 17 (17.53%) GCP
19 17 (17.53%) Serverless
20 16 (16.49%) Azure DevOps

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 (15.46%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.03%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 54 (55.67%) Azure
2 43 (44.33%) AWS
3 24 (24.74%) Power Platform
3 24 (24.74%) Snowflake
4 17 (17.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (17.53%) GCP
4 17 (17.53%) Serverless
5 16 (16.49%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (14.43%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (13.40%) dbt
8 11 (11.34%) Amazon S3
8 11 (11.34%) AWS Step Functions
8 11 (11.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (9.28%) Collibra
10 8 (8.25%) Amazon Kinesis
10 8 (8.25%) Fivetran
11 7 (7.22%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.15%) SaaS
13 4 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (41.24%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (27.84%) SQL Server
3 24 (24.74%) Power BI
4 16 (16.49%) Data Lake
5 15 (15.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (15.46%) Big Data
6 14 (14.43%) Hadoop
7 13 (13.40%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (11.34%) Apache Hive
8 11 (11.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (8.25%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (8.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (6.19%) Metadata
10 6 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (5.15%) DynamoDB
12 4 (4.12%) Data Vault
12 4 (4.12%) Delta Lake
12 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
12 4 (4.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Git
2 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) JIRA
3 1 (1.03%) MLflow
General
1 41 (42.27%) Finance
2 23 (23.71%) Social Skills
3 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.28%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (8.25%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.12%) Law
7 4 (4.12%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.12%) Marketing
8 3 (3.09%) Games
8 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.06%) Banking
9 2 (2.06%) Music Industry
9 2 (2.06%) Retail
10 1 (1.03%) Electronics
10 1 (1.03%) Front Office
10 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.46%) Kafka
2 10 (10.31%) PySpark
3 8 (8.25%) boto
3 8 (8.25%) Spark Streaming
4 3 (3.09%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.09%) Django
4 3 (3.09%) LDAP
4 3 (3.09%) OAuth
4 3 (3.09%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.09%) React
5 2 (2.06%) Pandas
5 2 (2.06%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.03%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.03%) JDBC
6 1 (1.03%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.03%) LangChain
6 1 (1.03%) ODBC
6 1 (1.03%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.03%) REST
6 1 (1.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (12.37%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (8.25%) e-Learning
3 5 (5.15%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.06%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.06%) FMCG
5 2 (2.06%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.03%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.03%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.03%) Equities
6 1 (1.03%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.03%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.03%) Online Games
6 1 (1.03%) Social Media
6 1 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Linux
1 3 (3.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (56.70%) Data Pipeline
1 55 (56.70%) ETL
2 54 (55.67%) Data Engineering
3 46 (47.42%) Data Modelling
4 34 (35.05%) DevOps
5 31 (31.96%) CI/CD
6 29 (29.90%) Decision-Making
7 28 (28.87%) Mentoring
8 25 (25.77%) Agile
8 25 (25.77%) Data Governance
9 24 (24.74%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (23.71%) Analytics
11 20 (20.62%) AI
12 14 (14.43%) Data Science
13 13 (13.40%) Data Architecture
14 11 (11.34%) ETL Development
14 11 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (10.31%) Visualisation
16 8 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 81 (83.51%) Python
2 63 (64.95%) SQL
3 19 (19.59%) Java
4 15 (15.46%) T-SQL
5 12 (12.37%) Scala
6 8 (8.25%) C#
7 4 (4.12%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.06%) C++
8 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.03%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (10.31%) Degree
2 6 (6.19%) AWS Certification
2 6 (6.19%) SnowPro
3 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.06%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.06%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) PhD
5 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.53%) Data Quality
2 13 (13.40%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) GRC
3 2 (2.06%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 8 (8.25%) HDFS
2 5 (5.15%) Docker
3 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (7.22%) Kubernetes
1 7 (7.22%) Terraform
2 3 (3.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (28.87%) Databricks
2 22 (22.68%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.25%) Dataiku
4 5 (5.15%) Google
5 4 (4.12%) Dell
5 4 (4.12%) Foundry
5 4 (4.12%) Palantir
6 3 (3.09%) Oracle
7 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.03%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.03%) Facebook
7 1 (1.03%) NetApp
7 1 (1.03%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.03%) SAP