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 31 July 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 298 307 335
Rank change year-on-year +9 +28 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 137 89 138
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.59% 0.73% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.79% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 109 57 125
10th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% - -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -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 21,551 11,245 19,223
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 91.67% 94.77%
Number of salaries quoted 14,787 7,343 13,537
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £50,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +3.57% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +27 37 £85,000 +13.33% 10
West London - 3 - - 3
South London - 1 - -
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 July 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 72 (52.55%) Analytics
2 64 (46.72%) Python
3 63 (45.99%) SQL
4 61 (44.53%) Data Pipeline
5 57 (41.61%) Data Engineering
6 52 (37.96%) AI
7 51 (37.23%) Data Modelling
8 50 (36.50%) Azure
9 45 (32.85%) ETL
10 36 (26.28%) Data Quality
11 35 (25.55%) CI/CD
12 29 (21.17%) AWS
13 28 (20.44%) Databricks
13 28 (20.44%) DevOps
14 26 (18.98%) Agile
14 26 (18.98%) PySpark
15 25 (18.25%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (18.25%) Data Warehouse
16 23 (16.79%) Apache Spark
16 23 (16.79%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (16.79%) Data Science
17 22 (16.06%) Data Governance
17 22 (16.06%) Decision-Making
17 22 (16.06%) SaaS
18 21 (15.33%) Apache Airflow
19 20 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
19 20 (14.60%) Power BI
19 20 (14.60%) Power Platform
20 19 (13.87%) Terraform
21 18 (13.14%) Data Architecture

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 23 (16.79%) Apache Spark
2 21 (15.33%) Apache Airflow
3 15 (10.95%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (36.50%) Azure
2 29 (21.17%) AWS
3 23 (16.79%) Azure Data Factory
4 22 (16.06%) SaaS
5 20 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (14.60%) Power Platform
6 17 (12.41%) GCP
7 16 (11.68%) dbt
8 9 (6.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (5.11%) Snowflake
10 6 (4.38%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.38%) Dagster
10 6 (4.38%) GitHub
10 6 (4.38%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.38%) Serverless
11 5 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.92%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.92%) Azure Key Vault
12 4 (2.92%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (2.92%) Cloud Composer
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.38%) Broadband
2 1 (0.73%) 4G
2 1 (0.73%) 5G
2 1 (0.73%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (18.25%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (14.60%) Power BI
3 15 (10.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (7.30%) BigQuery
4 10 (7.30%) Delta Lake
4 10 (7.30%) Metadata
4 10 (7.30%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.57%) Big Data
5 9 (6.57%) Data Lake
6 8 (5.84%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (5.84%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.11%) Spark SQL
7 7 (5.11%) Tableau
8 6 (4.38%) Hadoop
8 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (3.65%) Relational Database
9 5 (3.65%) Semantic Layer
10 4 (2.92%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.92%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (5.84%) Git
2 4 (2.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.73%) JIRA
General
1 29 (21.17%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.52%) Finance
3 18 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.84%) Law
5 7 (5.11%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.46%) Marketing
7 2 (1.46%) Retail
8 1 (0.73%) Aviation
8 1 (0.73%) Banking
8 1 (0.73%) Billing
8 1 (0.73%) Front Office
8 1 (0.73%) Legal
8 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.73%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (18.98%) PySpark
2 13 (9.49%) Kafka
3 3 (2.19%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.46%) Node.js
4 2 (1.46%) Pandas
5 1 (0.73%) .NET
5 1 (0.73%) Celery
5 1 (0.73%) D3.js
5 1 (0.73%) JDBC
5 1 (0.73%) LDAP
5 1 (0.73%) OAuth
5 1 (0.73%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.73%) ODBC
5 1 (0.73%) pgvector
5 1 (0.73%) PostGIS
5 1 (0.73%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.73%) Spring
5 1 (0.73%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.84%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.92%) Anti-Piracy
2 4 (2.92%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.92%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.92%) Social Media
3 3 (2.19%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.46%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.46%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.73%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.73%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.73%) IoT
5 1 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.73%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.73%) PropTech
5 1 (0.73%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.73%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.73%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.46%) Linux
2 1 (0.73%) Unix
2 1 (0.73%) Windows
2 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (52.55%) Analytics
2 61 (44.53%) Data Pipeline
3 57 (41.61%) Data Engineering
4 52 (37.96%) AI
5 51 (37.23%) Data Modelling
6 45 (32.85%) ETL
7 35 (25.55%) CI/CD
8 28 (20.44%) DevOps
9 26 (18.98%) Agile
10 25 (18.25%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (16.79%) Data Science
12 22 (16.06%) Data Governance
12 22 (16.06%) Decision-Making
13 18 (13.14%) Data Architecture
13 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (13.14%) Mentoring
14 17 (12.41%) Machine Learning
15 14 (10.22%) Fintech
16 13 (9.49%) Visualisation
17 12 (8.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 64 (46.72%) Python
2 63 (45.99%) SQL
3 12 (8.76%) Scala
4 8 (5.84%) Java
5 4 (2.92%) C++
5 4 (2.92%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.19%) Bash
7 2 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.46%) R
8 1 (0.73%) Bicep
8 1 (0.73%) C#
8 1 (0.73%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (8.76%) Degree
2 11 (8.03%) SC Cleared
2 11 (8.03%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.84%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.46%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.73%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (26.28%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.65%) QA
3 2 (1.46%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (4.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (13.87%) Terraform
2 6 (4.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.73%) Ansible
3 1 (0.73%) CASB
3 1 (0.73%) Grafana
3 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (20.44%) Databricks
2 17 (12.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.46%) iManage
3 2 (1.46%) Intapp
4 1 (0.73%) Cognizant
4 1 (0.73%) Dell
4 1 (0.73%) Google
4 1 (0.73%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.73%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.73%) SAP