Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in London

Senior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in London is £81,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 338 314
Rank change year-on-year +62 -24 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 116 68 178
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.68% 0.51% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.56% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 84 46 136
10th Percentile £61,250 £58,750 £37,875
25th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% - -8.57%
75th Percentile £87,188 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £112,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -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 15,651 12,141 20,579
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 90.87% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 10,457 7,587 16,364
10th Percentile £37,375 £42,000 £39,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £75,000 £71,920
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% +4.28% -2.15%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £94,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £121,250 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 +32 37 £85,000 +17.24% 16
South London - 5 £60,000 -
West London - 3 £75,000 - 2
East London - 1 £60,000 -
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 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 65 (56.03%) Python
2 58 (50.00%) SQL
3 50 (43.10%) Data Engineering
3 50 (43.10%) Data Pipeline
4 48 (41.38%) ETL
5 47 (40.52%) Azure
6 42 (36.21%) Analytics
7 37 (31.90%) Data Modelling
8 28 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (23.28%) AI
9 27 (23.28%) Data Quality
10 26 (22.41%) AWS
10 26 (22.41%) Decision-Making
11 24 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
12 23 (19.83%) CI/CD
12 23 (19.83%) DevOps
13 22 (18.97%) Agile
13 22 (18.97%) Data Governance
14 21 (18.10%) Data Science
14 21 (18.10%) Databricks
14 21 (18.10%) Power BI
14 21 (18.10%) Power Platform
15 18 (15.52%) Apache Spark
16 17 (14.66%) Azure Data Factory
16 17 (14.66%) SQL Server
17 16 (13.79%) Microsoft
18 14 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
18 14 (12.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 13 (11.21%) Apache Airflow
19 13 (11.21%) dbt

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 18 (15.52%) Apache Spark
2 13 (11.21%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.03%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 47 (40.52%) Azure
2 26 (22.41%) AWS
3 21 (18.10%) Power Platform
4 17 (14.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 14 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (12.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 13 (11.21%) dbt
7 12 (10.34%) Snowflake
8 11 (9.48%) GCP
9 9 (7.76%) Serverless
10 8 (6.90%) SaaS
11 7 (6.03%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (6.03%) Collibra
12 6 (5.17%) Amazon S3
12 6 (5.17%) Fivetran
13 5 (4.31%) AWS Step Functions
14 4 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (3.45%) Cloud Composer
14 4 (3.45%) Dagster
14 4 (3.45%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.17%) Broadband
2 4 (3.45%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (18.10%) Power BI
3 17 (14.66%) SQL Server
4 11 (9.48%) Metadata
4 11 (9.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 10 (8.62%) Big Data
6 9 (7.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (7.76%) Data Lake
7 8 (6.90%) Hadoop
7 8 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (6.03%) Apache Hive
8 7 (6.03%) BigQuery
8 7 (6.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (6.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (4.31%) MySQL
9 5 (4.31%) Relational Database
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (3.45%) DynamoDB
10 4 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Git
2 1 (0.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.86%) MLflow
2 1 (0.86%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (25.86%) Finance
2 19 (16.38%) Social Skills
3 11 (9.48%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.03%) Law
6 5 (4.31%) Marketing
7 4 (3.45%) Banking
7 4 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.45%) Retail
8 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.72%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.72%) Publishing
10 1 (0.86%) Front Office
10 1 (0.86%) Games
10 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.21%) Kafka
2 7 (6.03%) PySpark
3 4 (3.45%) LDAP
3 4 (3.45%) OAuth
3 4 (3.45%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.59%) boto
4 3 (2.59%) Spark Streaming
5 2 (1.72%) Celery
5 2 (1.72%) JDBC
5 2 (1.72%) ODBC
5 2 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.86%) .NET
6 1 (0.86%) Akka
6 1 (0.86%) Apache Beam
6 1 (0.86%) Pandas
6 1 (0.86%) Spring
6 1 (0.86%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.86%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.31%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.31%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.31%) Social Media
3 4 (3.45%) Anti-Piracy
3 4 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.59%) e-Learning
4 3 (2.59%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.72%) FMCG
5 2 (1.72%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.86%) Equities
6 1 (0.86%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.86%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.86%) PropTech
6 1 (0.86%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.31%) Linux
2 4 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (43.10%) Data Engineering
1 50 (43.10%) Data Pipeline
2 48 (41.38%) ETL
3 42 (36.21%) Analytics
4 37 (31.90%) Data Modelling
5 27 (23.28%) AI
6 26 (22.41%) Decision-Making
7 24 (20.69%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (19.83%) CI/CD
8 23 (19.83%) DevOps
9 22 (18.97%) Agile
9 22 (18.97%) Data Governance
10 21 (18.10%) Data Science
11 12 (10.34%) Machine Learning
12 11 (9.48%) Computer Science
12 11 (9.48%) Data Architecture
13 10 (8.62%) Mentoring
14 8 (6.90%) Architectural Patterns
15 7 (6.03%) Fintech
15 7 (6.03%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 65 (56.03%) Python
2 58 (50.00%) SQL
3 13 (11.21%) Java
4 10 (8.62%) Scala
5 7 (6.03%) C#
6 6 (5.17%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.45%) C++
7 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.72%) R
9 1 (0.86%) Bash
9 1 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (10.34%) Degree
2 8 (6.90%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.90%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (23.28%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.03%) GDPR
3 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.86%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.59%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 8 (6.90%) Terraform
2 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (0.86%) Control-M
4 1 (0.86%) Grafana
4 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (18.10%) Databricks
2 16 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.17%) Dataiku
4 5 (4.31%) Dell
5 1 (0.86%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.86%) BMC
5 1 (0.86%) IBM
5 1 (0.86%) NetApp
5 1 (0.86%) Refinitiv
5 1 (0.86%) Talend