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 3 months leading to 16 April 2026.

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

3 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 224 271
Rank change year-on-year +7 +47 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 72 46 108
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.69% 0.74% 0.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.80% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 61 26 96
10th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £28,250
25th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £75,500 £76,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.58% -0.98% -10.29%
75th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £93,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £117,500
England median annual salary £80,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +14.29% -3.45% -9.38%

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 9,550 5,733 13,169
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 91.89% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,544 3,816 9,863
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,945 £36,260
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £48,750
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 £91,991
90th Percentile £106,250 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 3 months to 16 April 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 3 months to 16 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 3 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +14 25 £90,000 +63.64% 18
West London - 2 - -
South London - 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 16 April 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 63 (48.09%) Python
2 61 (46.56%) SQL
3 52 (39.69%) Data Engineering
3 52 (39.69%) Data Pipeline
4 51 (38.93%) Analytics
5 50 (38.17%) ETL
6 43 (32.82%) Azure
7 34 (25.95%) Data Modelling
8 33 (25.19%) AI
9 30 (22.90%) Decision-Making
10 29 (22.14%) Data Quality
11 27 (20.61%) Data Warehouse
12 26 (19.85%) CI/CD
13 25 (19.08%) AWS
14 23 (17.56%) Business Intelligence
15 22 (16.79%) DevOps
16 21 (16.03%) Data Governance
16 21 (16.03%) Data Science
17 20 (15.27%) Agile
17 20 (15.27%) Databricks
17 20 (15.27%) Power BI
17 20 (15.27%) Power Platform
18 17 (12.98%) Apache Spark
18 17 (12.98%) Azure Data Factory
19 15 (11.45%) Kafka
20 14 (10.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 14 (10.69%) Data Architecture
20 14 (10.69%) SQL Server
21 13 (9.92%) Apache Airflow
21 13 (9.92%) 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 17 (12.98%) Apache Spark
2 13 (9.92%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (6.11%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) GeoServer
Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 43 (32.82%) Azure
2 25 (19.08%) AWS
3 20 (15.27%) Power Platform
4 17 (12.98%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (10.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (9.16%) SaaS
8 10 (7.63%) dbt
9 9 (6.87%) GCP
9 9 (6.87%) Serverless
10 8 (6.11%) Snowflake
11 7 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (4.58%) Amazon S3
13 5 (3.82%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (3.05%) Cloud Composer
14 4 (3.05%) Collibra
14 4 (3.05%) Dagster
14 4 (3.05%) PaaS
15 3 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.58%) Broadband
2 2 (1.53%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (20.61%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (15.27%) Power BI
3 14 (10.69%) SQL Server
4 11 (8.40%) Metadata
5 10 (7.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (6.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (6.87%) Big Data
7 8 (6.11%) Data Lake
7 8 (6.11%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (5.34%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (5.34%) BigQuery
8 7 (5.34%) Hadoop
9 6 (4.58%) Delta Lake
9 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
9 6 (4.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 6 (4.58%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (3.82%) Apache Hive
10 5 (3.82%) MySQL
10 5 (3.82%) NoSQL
11 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Git
2 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.76%) MLflow
2 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (22.14%) Finance
2 13 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (9.92%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.11%) Law
3 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.82%) Marketing
5 4 (3.05%) Financial Institution
5 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.05%) Retail
6 3 (2.29%) Banking
7 2 (1.53%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.53%) Publishing
8 1 (0.76%) Front Office
8 1 (0.76%) Games
8 1 (0.76%) Legal
8 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.45%) Kafka
2 13 (9.92%) PySpark
3 3 (2.29%) boto
3 3 (2.29%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (1.53%) .NET
4 2 (1.53%) Celery
4 2 (1.53%) LDAP
4 2 (1.53%) OAuth
4 2 (1.53%) OAuth2
4 2 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.76%) Akka
5 1 (0.76%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.76%) D3.js
5 1 (0.76%) JDBC
5 1 (0.76%) ODBC
5 1 (0.76%) Pandas
5 1 (0.76%) PostGIS
5 1 (0.76%) Spring
5 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.76%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (3.82%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.82%) Social Media
3 4 (3.05%) Anti-Piracy
3 4 (3.05%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.29%) e-Learning
4 3 (2.29%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.53%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.53%) FMCG
5 2 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.76%) Equities
6 1 (0.76%) IoT
6 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.76%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.76%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (0.76%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.76%) Replication
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.05%) Linux
2 2 (1.53%) Unix
3 1 (0.76%) Windows
3 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (39.69%) Data Engineering
1 52 (39.69%) Data Pipeline
2 51 (38.93%) Analytics
3 50 (38.17%) ETL
4 34 (25.95%) Data Modelling
5 33 (25.19%) AI
6 30 (22.90%) Decision-Making
7 26 (19.85%) CI/CD
8 23 (17.56%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (16.79%) DevOps
10 21 (16.03%) Data Governance
10 21 (16.03%) Data Science
11 20 (15.27%) Agile
12 14 (10.69%) Data Architecture
13 13 (9.92%) Fintech
14 12 (9.16%) Computer Science
14 12 (9.16%) Mentoring
15 11 (8.40%) Machine Learning
16 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure as Code
17 8 (6.11%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 63 (48.09%) Python
2 61 (46.56%) SQL
3 13 (9.92%) Java
4 11 (8.40%) Scala
5 5 (3.82%) C#
5 5 (3.82%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.05%) C++
7 2 (1.53%) Bash
7 2 (1.53%) R
8 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.16%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (6.11%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (22.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.82%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.82%) Docker
2 3 (2.29%) HDFS
3 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (7.63%) Terraform
2 5 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.53%) Ansible
4 1 (0.76%) Control-M
4 1 (0.76%) Grafana
4 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (15.27%) Databricks
2 11 (8.40%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.29%) Dataiku
4 2 (1.53%) Dell
4 2 (1.53%) iManage
4 2 (1.53%) Intapp
5 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.76%) BMC
5 1 (0.76%) IBM
5 1 (0.76%) Mapbox
5 1 (0.76%) Refinitiv
5 1 (0.76%) Talend