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 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 278 352 297
Rank change year-on-year +74 -55 +109
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 95 94 167
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.77% 0.54% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 0.57% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 67 77 135
10th Percentile £67,500 £64,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,625 £66,250 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +4.94%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £98,500 £100,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £73,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -0.68% -8.75% -

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 11,232 16,454 18,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 95.01% 95.14%
Number of salaries quoted 7,362 10,107 15,114
10th Percentile £35,775 £41,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £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 £120,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% -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 8 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 8 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 +55 22 £85,000 +6.25% 86
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 (87.37%) Python
2 64 (67.37%) SQL
3 62 (65.26%) Data Pipeline
4 61 (64.21%) Data Engineering
5 52 (54.74%) Azure
6 50 (52.63%) ETL
7 49 (51.58%) Data Modelling
8 46 (48.42%) AWS
9 39 (41.05%) Data Warehouse
10 36 (37.89%) DevOps
11 35 (36.84%) CI/CD
12 33 (34.74%) Decision-Making
13 31 (32.63%) Databricks
13 31 (32.63%) Mentoring
14 28 (29.47%) Data Governance
15 27 (28.42%) Agile
15 27 (28.42%) Analytics
16 26 (27.37%) Snowflake
17 25 (26.32%) SQL Server
18 21 (22.11%) Business Intelligence
18 21 (22.11%) Power BI
18 21 (22.11%) Power Platform
19 20 (21.05%) AI
19 20 (21.05%) Data Quality
19 20 (21.05%) Microsoft
20 19 (20.00%) Java
21 17 (17.89%) Apache Spark
21 17 (17.89%) Data Lake
21 17 (17.89%) Data Science
21 17 (17.89%) Serverless

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 (17.89%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.37%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.05%) Apache
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (54.74%) Azure
2 46 (48.42%) AWS
3 26 (27.37%) Snowflake
4 21 (22.11%) Power Platform
5 17 (17.89%) Serverless
6 16 (16.84%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (16.84%) dbt
6 16 (16.84%) GCP
7 14 (14.74%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (13.68%) Azure DevOps
9 11 (11.58%) Amazon S3
9 11 (11.58%) AWS Step Functions
10 10 (10.53%) Amazon Kinesis
10 10 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (8.42%) Collibra
11 8 (8.42%) Fivetran
12 7 (7.37%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (4.21%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (4.21%) GitHub
13 4 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (41.05%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (26.32%) SQL Server
3 21 (22.11%) Power BI
4 17 (17.89%) Data Lake
5 15 (15.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 15 (15.79%) Big Data
6 14 (14.74%) Hadoop
7 13 (13.68%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (11.58%) Apache Hive
9 9 (9.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (8.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (8.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (7.37%) Metadata
12 5 (5.26%) DynamoDB
13 4 (4.21%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (4.21%) Data Vault
13 4 (4.21%) MySQL
13 4 (4.21%) NoSQL
13 4 (4.21%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Git
2 2 (2.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 39 (41.05%) Finance
2 23 (24.21%) Social Skills
3 19 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.47%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (8.42%) Financial Institution
6 6 (6.32%) Law
6 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.21%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.16%) Marketing
8 3 (3.16%) Music Industry
9 2 (2.11%) Banking
9 2 (2.11%) Games
9 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.05%) Electronics
10 1 (1.05%) Front Office
10 1 (1.05%) Retail
10 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.79%) Kafka
2 10 (10.53%) PySpark
3 8 (8.42%) boto
3 8 (8.42%) Spark Streaming
4 3 (3.16%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.16%) Django
4 3 (3.16%) LDAP
4 3 (3.16%) OAuth
4 3 (3.16%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.16%) Pandas
4 3 (3.16%) React
5 2 (2.11%) Great Expectations
5 2 (2.11%) pytest
5 2 (2.11%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.05%) JDBC
6 1 (1.05%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.05%) ODBC
6 1 (1.05%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.05%) REST
6 1 (1.05%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (12.63%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (8.42%) e-Learning
3 7 (7.37%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.21%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.16%) FMCG
6 3 (3.16%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.11%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.05%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.05%) Equities
8 1 (1.05%) Fixed Income
8 1 (1.05%) Media Streaming
8 1 (1.05%) Online Games
8 1 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.16%) Linux
1 3 (3.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (65.26%) Data Pipeline
2 61 (64.21%) Data Engineering
3 50 (52.63%) ETL
4 49 (51.58%) Data Modelling
5 36 (37.89%) DevOps
6 35 (36.84%) CI/CD
7 33 (34.74%) Decision-Making
8 31 (32.63%) Mentoring
9 28 (29.47%) Data Governance
10 27 (28.42%) Agile
10 27 (28.42%) Analytics
11 21 (22.11%) Business Intelligence
12 20 (21.05%) AI
13 17 (17.89%) Data Science
14 14 (14.74%) Data Architecture
15 12 (12.63%) Machine Learning
16 11 (11.58%) ETL Development
16 11 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (11.58%) Visualisation
17 10 (10.53%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 83 (87.37%) Python
2 64 (67.37%) SQL
3 19 (20.00%) Java
4 15 (15.79%) T-SQL
5 12 (12.63%) Scala
6 8 (8.42%) C#
7 2 (2.11%) C++
7 2 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.11%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (10.53%) Degree
2 6 (6.32%) AWS Certification
2 6 (6.32%) SnowPro
3 3 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.11%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.05%) PhD
5 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.05%) Data Quality
2 15 (15.79%) GDPR
3 5 (5.26%) QA
4 2 (2.11%) GRC
5 1 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (8.42%) HDFS
2 5 (5.26%) Docker
3 3 (3.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (9.47%) Terraform
2 7 (7.37%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.16%) Ansible
Vendors
1 31 (32.63%) Databricks
2 20 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.42%) Dataiku
4 5 (5.26%) Google
5 4 (4.21%) Dell
5 4 (4.21%) Foundry
5 4 (4.21%) Palantir
6 3 (3.16%) Oracle
7 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.05%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.05%) Facebook
7 1 (1.05%) NetApp
7 1 (1.05%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.05%) SAP