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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 304 339
Rank change year-on-year -11 +35 -45
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 131 87 128
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.54% 0.72% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.79% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 109 58 113
10th Percentile £67,500 £66,375 £62,500
25th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year - +6.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,375 £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 22,367 11,026 18,601
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 91.55% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 15,323 7,174 12,560
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +1.40% -1.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,250 £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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +19 30 £85,000 +13.33% 4
West London - 3 £70,500 - 4
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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 (48.85%) Analytics
2 55 (41.98%) SQL
3 54 (41.22%) Python
4 52 (39.69%) AI
4 52 (39.69%) Data Pipeline
5 49 (37.40%) Data Engineering
6 45 (34.35%) Azure
7 43 (32.82%) Data Modelling
8 37 (28.24%) ETL
9 33 (25.19%) Data Quality
10 32 (24.43%) CI/CD
11 27 (20.61%) DevOps
12 25 (19.08%) Data Science
12 25 (19.08%) Databricks
13 24 (18.32%) PySpark
14 22 (16.79%) Data Warehouse
14 22 (16.79%) Decision-Making
14 22 (16.79%) SaaS
15 21 (16.03%) Business Intelligence
16 20 (15.27%) Agile
16 20 (15.27%) Azure Data Factory
17 19 (14.50%) AWS
17 19 (14.50%) Azure DevOps
17 19 (14.50%) Mentoring
18 18 (13.74%) Apache Spark
19 16 (12.21%) Microsoft
19 16 (12.21%) Power BI
19 16 (12.21%) Power Platform
20 15 (11.45%) Data Governance
20 15 (11.45%) Terraform

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 (13.74%) Apache Spark
2 14 (10.69%) Apache
3 12 (9.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.76%) GeoServer
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (34.35%) Azure
2 22 (16.79%) SaaS
3 20 (15.27%) Azure Data Factory
4 19 (14.50%) AWS
4 19 (14.50%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (12.21%) Power Platform
6 13 (9.92%) GCP
7 11 (8.40%) dbt
8 7 (5.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 7 (5.34%) GitHub
9 6 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (4.58%) Snowflake
10 4 (3.05%) Amazon S3
10 4 (3.05%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (3.05%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (3.05%) Serverless
11 3 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.29%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.29%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.53%) Broadband
2 1 (0.76%) 4G
2 1 (0.76%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.79%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (12.21%) Power BI
3 14 (10.69%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (7.63%) Delta Lake
5 9 (6.87%) Big Data
5 9 (6.87%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.11%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.34%) Data Lake
7 7 (5.34%) Spark SQL
8 6 (4.58%) BigQuery
8 6 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (4.58%) Hadoop
8 6 (4.58%) Tableau
9 5 (3.82%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (3.82%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (3.82%) Star Schema
10 4 (3.05%) Metadata
10 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
12 2 (1.53%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (5.34%) Git
2 4 (3.05%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.53%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.76%) JIRA
General
1 24 (18.32%) Finance
1 24 (18.32%) Social Skills
2 13 (9.92%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (3.82%) Retail
4 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (3.05%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.29%) Marketing
6 2 (1.53%) Law
7 1 (0.76%) Aviation
7 1 (0.76%) Banking
7 1 (0.76%) Billing
7 1 (0.76%) Front Office
7 1 (0.76%) Legal
7 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (18.32%) PySpark
2 15 (11.45%) Terraform
3 8 (6.11%) Kafka
4 3 (2.29%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.53%) Node.js
6 1 (0.76%) .NET
6 1 (0.76%) D3.js
6 1 (0.76%) Pandas
6 1 (0.76%) pgvector
6 1 (0.76%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.11%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.05%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.29%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.76%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.76%) Clustering
5 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.76%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.76%) IoT
5 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.76%) PropTech
5 1 (0.76%) Replication
5 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.76%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Linux
1 1 (0.76%) Windows
1 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (48.85%) Analytics
2 52 (39.69%) AI
2 52 (39.69%) Data Pipeline
3 49 (37.40%) Data Engineering
4 43 (32.82%) Data Modelling
5 37 (28.24%) ETL
6 32 (24.43%) CI/CD
7 27 (20.61%) DevOps
8 25 (19.08%) Data Science
9 22 (16.79%) Decision-Making
10 21 (16.03%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (15.27%) Agile
12 19 (14.50%) Mentoring
13 15 (11.45%) Data Governance
14 14 (10.69%) Data Architecture
14 14 (10.69%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (10.69%) Machine Learning
15 12 (9.16%) Fintech
15 12 (9.16%) Observability
15 12 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 55 (41.98%) SQL
2 54 (41.22%) Python
3 9 (6.87%) Scala
4 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.29%) Bash
6 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.53%) Java
6 2 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.53%) R
7 1 (0.76%) Bicep
7 1 (0.76%) C#
7 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (6.87%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) Azure Certification
2 8 (6.11%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.11%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.53%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (25.19%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.82%) QA
3 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (3.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.76%) CASB
Vendors
1 25 (19.08%) Databricks
2 16 (12.21%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.53%) iManage
3 2 (1.53%) Intapp
4 1 (0.76%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.76%) Cognizant
4 1 (0.76%) FactSet
4 1 (0.76%) Google
4 1 (0.76%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.76%) Refinitiv
4 1 (0.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (0.76%) SAP