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 23 May 2026.

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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 317 326
Rank change year-on-year +43 +9 -28
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 138 72 190
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.66% 0.60% 0.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.67% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 112 42 161
10th Percentile £61,250 £67,750 £60,000
25th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £81,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +1.56% -5.88%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,188 £100,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £117,500
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 19,239 10,730 22,055
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 89.90% 94.26%
Number of salaries quoted 13,165 6,822 16,614
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,457 £57,560 £53,250
% change year-on-year -3.65% +8.09% -12.42%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +24 43 £87,500 +32.08% 10
South London - 5 £60,000 -
West London - 4 £75,000 -
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 23 May 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 63 (45.65%) Python
2 60 (43.48%) SQL
3 58 (42.03%) Analytics
3 58 (42.03%) Data Engineering
4 54 (39.13%) Data Pipeline
5 48 (34.78%) Azure
6 45 (32.61%) ETL
7 38 (27.54%) AI
8 37 (26.81%) Data Modelling
9 30 (21.74%) CI/CD
9 30 (21.74%) Data Quality
10 27 (19.57%) Decision-Making
11 24 (17.39%) Agile
11 24 (17.39%) AWS
11 24 (17.39%) Databricks
11 24 (17.39%) DevOps
12 22 (15.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 22 (15.94%) Data Science
12 22 (15.94%) PySpark
13 19 (13.77%) Data Warehouse
14 18 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (12.32%) Data Governance
16 16 (11.59%) Data Architecture
16 16 (11.59%) Power BI
16 16 (11.59%) Power Platform
17 15 (10.87%) Apache Spark
18 14 (10.14%) Apache Airflow
18 14 (10.14%) Degree
18 14 (10.14%) Machine Learning
19 13 (9.42%) Fintech

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 15 (10.87%) Apache Spark
2 14 (10.14%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (6.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.72%) GeoServer
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (34.78%) Azure
2 24 (17.39%) AWS
3 22 (15.94%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (11.59%) Power Platform
5 13 (9.42%) SaaS
6 11 (7.97%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (7.97%) GCP
7 10 (7.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 8 (5.80%) dbt
9 7 (5.07%) Serverless
10 6 (4.35%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.35%) GitHub
10 6 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.35%) Snowflake
11 5 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.90%) Cloud Composer
12 4 (2.90%) Dagster
13 3 (2.17%) AWS Step Functions
13 3 (2.17%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.07%) Broadband
2 1 (0.72%) 4G
2 1 (0.72%) 5G
2 1 (0.72%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.77%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (11.59%) Power BI
3 12 (8.70%) Metadata
4 10 (7.25%) SQL Server
5 9 (6.52%) Data Lake
6 8 (5.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (5.07%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.07%) Delta Lake
8 6 (4.35%) Big Data
8 6 (4.35%) BigQuery
8 6 (4.35%) NoSQL
8 6 (4.35%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.35%) Spark SQL
9 5 (3.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 4 (2.90%) DynamoDB
10 4 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (2.90%) Tableau
11 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 3 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (2.17%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (3.62%) Git
2 3 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.72%) JIRA
3 1 (0.72%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (17.39%) Finance
2 19 (13.77%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (5.80%) Law
4 8 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 4 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (2.90%) Retail
6 3 (2.17%) Banking
6 3 (2.17%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.17%) Marketing
7 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.45%) Publishing
7 2 (1.45%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.72%) Aviation
8 1 (0.72%) Billing
8 1 (0.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.72%) Front Office
8 1 (0.72%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (15.94%) PySpark
2 12 (8.70%) Kafka
3 2 (1.45%) .NET
3 2 (1.45%) Celery
3 2 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.72%) Akka
4 1 (0.72%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.72%) D3.js
4 1 (0.72%) JDBC
4 1 (0.72%) LDAP
4 1 (0.72%) Node.js
4 1 (0.72%) OAuth
4 1 (0.72%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.72%) ODBC
4 1 (0.72%) Pandas
4 1 (0.72%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.72%) Spring
4 1 (0.72%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.90%) Anti-Piracy
2 4 (2.90%) Cloud Native
2 4 (2.90%) Data Structures
2 4 (2.90%) Social Media
3 3 (2.17%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.45%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.72%) IoT
5 1 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.72%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (0.72%) PropTech
5 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.72%) Replication
5 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.17%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Unix
2 1 (0.72%) Windows
2 1 (0.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.03%) Analytics
1 58 (42.03%) Data Engineering
2 54 (39.13%) Data Pipeline
3 45 (32.61%) ETL
4 38 (27.54%) AI
5 37 (26.81%) Data Modelling
6 30 (21.74%) CI/CD
7 27 (19.57%) Decision-Making
8 24 (17.39%) Agile
8 24 (17.39%) DevOps
9 22 (15.94%) Data Science
10 18 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (12.32%) Data Governance
12 16 (11.59%) Data Architecture
13 14 (10.14%) Machine Learning
14 13 (9.42%) Fintech
14 13 (9.42%) Mentoring
15 12 (8.70%) Computer Science
15 12 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 63 (45.65%) Python
2 60 (43.48%) SQL
3 9 (6.52%) Java
3 9 (6.52%) Scala
4 5 (3.62%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.90%) Bash
5 4 (2.90%) C++
5 4 (2.90%) R
6 2 (1.45%) C#
6 2 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.45%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (10.14%) Degree
2 9 (6.52%) SC Cleared
2 9 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.74%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.72%) GDPR
2 1 (0.72%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (9.42%) Terraform
2 5 (3.62%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Ansible
3 1 (0.72%) Control-M
3 1 (0.72%) Grafana
3 1 (0.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (17.39%) Databricks
2 13 (9.42%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.45%) iManage
3 2 (1.45%) Intapp
4 1 (0.72%) BMC
4 1 (0.72%) Cognizant
4 1 (0.72%) Dell
4 1 (0.72%) Google
4 1 (0.72%) IBM
4 1 (0.72%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.72%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.72%) Talend