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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 295 325
Rank change year-on-year +10 +30 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 135 93 183
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.62% 0.76% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.84% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 111 56 160
10th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £60,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,313 £97,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £99,375 £115,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -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 20,332 11,131 22,775
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 90.98% 94.38%
Number of salaries quoted 14,001 7,096 16,864
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £37,284
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +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 6 months to 30 June 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 30 June 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 +22 40 £90,000 +24.14%
West London - 4 - -
South London - 3 £60,000 -
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 30 June 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 64 (47.41%) Python
2 61 (45.19%) Analytics
3 60 (44.44%) SQL
4 59 (43.70%) Data Engineering
5 56 (41.48%) Data Pipeline
6 44 (32.59%) Azure
6 44 (32.59%) Data Modelling
7 43 (31.85%) AI
8 42 (31.11%) ETL
9 35 (25.93%) Data Quality
10 31 (22.96%) CI/CD
11 30 (22.22%) AWS
12 26 (19.26%) Agile
13 25 (18.52%) Databricks
13 25 (18.52%) Decision-Making
14 23 (17.04%) PySpark
15 22 (16.30%) Data Science
15 22 (16.30%) DevOps
16 21 (15.56%) Apache Airflow
16 21 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
17 20 (14.81%) Terraform
18 19 (14.07%) Apache Spark
18 19 (14.07%) Business Intelligence
18 19 (14.07%) Data Architecture
18 19 (14.07%) Infrastructure as Code
19 18 (13.33%) Data Governance
20 17 (12.59%) Data Warehouse
20 17 (12.59%) GCP
21 16 (11.85%) Power BI
21 16 (11.85%) Power Platform

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 21 (15.56%) Apache Airflow
2 19 (14.07%) Apache Spark
3 13 (9.63%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 44 (32.59%) Azure
2 30 (22.22%) AWS
3 21 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (12.59%) GCP
5 16 (11.85%) Power Platform
5 16 (11.85%) SaaS
6 15 (11.11%) dbt
7 12 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (5.19%) Snowflake
10 6 (4.44%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.44%) Dagster
10 6 (4.44%) GitHub
10 6 (4.44%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.44%) Serverless
11 5 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.96%) Cloud Composer
13 3 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (2.22%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.93%) Broadband
2 1 (0.74%) 4G
2 1 (0.74%) 5G
2 1 (0.74%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.59%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (11.85%) Power BI
3 11 (8.15%) BigQuery
3 11 (8.15%) Metadata
4 10 (7.41%) Data Lake
5 9 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (6.67%) Big Data
5 9 (6.67%) NoSQL
6 8 (5.93%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.19%) Delta Lake
7 7 (5.19%) Spark SQL
7 7 (5.19%) SQL Server
7 7 (5.19%) Tableau
8 6 (4.44%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.70%) Hadoop
9 5 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.96%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.96%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 6 (4.44%) Git
2 5 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.74%) JIRA
3 1 (0.74%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (20.74%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.78%) Finance
3 18 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.93%) Law
5 7 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.22%) Banking
7 3 (2.22%) Retail
8 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.48%) Marketing
8 2 (1.48%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.74%) Aviation
9 1 (0.74%) Billing
9 1 (0.74%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.74%) Front Office
9 1 (0.74%) Legal
9 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.04%) PySpark
2 13 (9.63%) Kafka
3 3 (2.22%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.48%) .NET
4 2 (1.48%) Celery
4 2 (1.48%) Node.js
4 2 (1.48%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.74%) Akka
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.74%) D3.js
5 1 (0.74%) JDBC
5 1 (0.74%) LDAP
5 1 (0.74%) OAuth
5 1 (0.74%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.74%) ODBC
5 1 (0.74%) Pandas
5 1 (0.74%) PostGIS
5 1 (0.74%) Spring
5 1 (0.74%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.93%) Cloud Native
2 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 4 (2.96%) Anti-Piracy
3 4 (2.96%) Data Structures
3 4 (2.96%) Social Media
4 3 (2.22%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.48%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (0.74%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.74%) Clustering
6 1 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.74%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.74%) PropTech
6 1 (0.74%) Replication
6 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.22%) Linux
2 1 (0.74%) Unix
2 1 (0.74%) Windows
2 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (45.19%) Analytics
2 59 (43.70%) Data Engineering
3 56 (41.48%) Data Pipeline
4 44 (32.59%) Data Modelling
5 43 (31.85%) AI
6 42 (31.11%) ETL
7 31 (22.96%) CI/CD
8 26 (19.26%) Agile
9 25 (18.52%) Decision-Making
10 22 (16.30%) Data Science
10 22 (16.30%) DevOps
11 19 (14.07%) Business Intelligence
11 19 (14.07%) Data Architecture
11 19 (14.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (13.33%) Data Governance
13 15 (11.11%) Machine Learning
14 14 (10.37%) Fintech
14 14 (10.37%) Mentoring
14 14 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (9.63%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 64 (47.41%) Python
2 60 (44.44%) SQL
3 11 (8.15%) Scala
4 8 (5.93%) Java
5 4 (2.96%) Bash
5 4 (2.96%) C++
5 4 (2.96%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.22%) R
7 2 (1.48%) C#
7 2 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.74%) Bicep
8 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.74%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.74%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (8.89%) Degree
2 10 (7.41%) SC Cleared
2 10 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.48%) GDPR
2 2 (1.48%) QA
3 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (5.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (14.81%) Terraform
2 7 (5.19%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.74%) Ansible
3 1 (0.74%) CASB
3 1 (0.74%) Grafana
3 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (18.52%) Databricks
2 11 (8.15%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.48%) iManage
3 2 (1.48%) Intapp
4 1 (0.74%) Cognizant
4 1 (0.74%) Dell
4 1 (0.74%) Google
4 1 (0.74%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.74%) OpenAI