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 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 309 322
Rank change year-on-year +22 +13 -29
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 131 74 190
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.63% 0.62% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.68% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 108 44 161
10th Percentile £61,250 £68,250 £60,000
25th Percentile £76,563 £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 £96,563 £100,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,625 £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 19,340 10,834 22,418
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 90.05% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 13,252 6,895 16,798
10th Percentile £40,000 £40,903 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £93,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.48% +9.52% -13.65%

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 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 30 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 +32 41 £90,000 +24.14% 4
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 30 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 60 (45.80%) Analytics
1 60 (45.80%) Python
2 58 (44.27%) Data Engineering
3 56 (42.75%) Data Pipeline
3 56 (42.75%) SQL
4 48 (36.64%) Azure
5 44 (33.59%) ETL
6 40 (30.53%) AI
7 38 (29.01%) Data Modelling
8 32 (24.43%) Data Quality
9 30 (22.90%) CI/CD
10 28 (21.37%) Decision-Making
11 26 (19.85%) AWS
12 24 (18.32%) Agile
12 24 (18.32%) Databricks
13 23 (17.56%) Data Science
13 23 (17.56%) DevOps
14 22 (16.79%) PySpark
15 21 (16.03%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (13.74%) Business Intelligence
16 18 (13.74%) Data Governance
16 18 (13.74%) Data Warehouse
17 17 (12.98%) Data Architecture
18 16 (12.21%) Apache Airflow
18 16 (12.21%) Apache Spark
19 15 (11.45%) Power BI
19 15 (11.45%) Power Platform
20 14 (10.69%) Degree
20 14 (10.69%) Machine Learning
20 14 (10.69%) Mentoring

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 16 (12.21%) Apache Airflow
1 16 (12.21%) Apache Spark
2 11 (8.40%) Apache
3 1 (0.76%) GeoServer
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (36.64%) Azure
2 26 (19.85%) AWS
3 21 (16.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (11.45%) Power Platform
5 13 (9.92%) SaaS
6 12 (9.16%) GCP
7 10 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (7.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (7.63%) dbt
8 7 (5.34%) Serverless
8 7 (5.34%) Snowflake
9 6 (4.58%) Amazon S3
9 6 (4.58%) GitHub
9 6 (4.58%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (3.82%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.82%) Dagster
11 4 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.05%) Cloud Composer
12 3 (2.29%) Azure Storage
13 2 (1.53%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.34%) Broadband
2 1 (0.76%) 4G
2 1 (0.76%) 5G
2 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.74%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (11.45%) Power BI
3 12 (9.16%) Metadata
4 9 (6.87%) Data Lake
4 9 (6.87%) SQL Server
5 7 (5.34%) Azure SQL Database
5 7 (5.34%) Big Data
5 7 (5.34%) BigQuery
5 7 (5.34%) Delta Lake
5 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.58%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.58%) Spark SQL
7 4 (3.05%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (3.05%) Tableau
8 3 (2.29%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Git
2 3 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.76%) JIRA
3 1 (0.76%) TeamCity
General
1 23 (17.56%) Finance
2 20 (15.27%) Social Skills
3 18 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.11%) Law
4 8 (6.11%) Public Sector
5 5 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.05%) Retail
7 3 (2.29%) Banking
7 3 (2.29%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.29%) Marketing
8 2 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.76%) Aviation
9 1 (0.76%) Billing
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Front Office
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.79%) PySpark
2 12 (9.16%) Kafka
3 2 (1.53%) .NET
3 2 (1.53%) Celery
3 2 (1.53%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.76%) Akka
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Beam
4 1 (0.76%) D3.js
4 1 (0.76%) JDBC
4 1 (0.76%) LDAP
4 1 (0.76%) Node.js
4 1 (0.76%) OAuth
4 1 (0.76%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.76%) ODBC
4 1 (0.76%) Pandas
4 1 (0.76%) PostGIS
4 1 (0.76%) Spring
4 1 (0.76%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.58%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.05%) Anti-Piracy
2 4 (3.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.05%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.05%) Social Media
3 3 (2.29%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.53%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.53%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (0.76%) Clustering
5 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.76%) IoT
5 1 (0.76%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.76%) Replication
5 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.76%) Taxonomies
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.29%) Linux
2 1 (0.76%) Unix
2 1 (0.76%) Windows
2 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (45.80%) Analytics
2 58 (44.27%) Data Engineering
3 56 (42.75%) Data Pipeline
4 44 (33.59%) ETL
5 40 (30.53%) AI
6 38 (29.01%) Data Modelling
7 30 (22.90%) CI/CD
8 28 (21.37%) Decision-Making
9 24 (18.32%) Agile
10 23 (17.56%) Data Science
10 23 (17.56%) DevOps
11 18 (13.74%) Business Intelligence
11 18 (13.74%) Data Governance
12 17 (12.98%) Data Architecture
13 14 (10.69%) Machine Learning
13 14 (10.69%) Mentoring
14 13 (9.92%) Fintech
14 13 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
15 12 (9.16%) Computer Science
15 12 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 60 (45.80%) Python
2 56 (42.75%) SQL
3 9 (6.87%) Java
3 9 (6.87%) Scala
4 4 (3.05%) Bash
4 4 (3.05%) C++
4 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.05%) R
5 2 (1.53%) C#
5 2 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (10.69%) Degree
2 8 (6.11%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.11%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.29%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (24.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.53%) GDPR
3 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 5 (3.82%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (10.69%) Terraform
2 5 (3.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.76%) Ansible
3 1 (0.76%) CASB
3 1 (0.76%) Control-M
3 1 (0.76%) Grafana
3 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (18.32%) Databricks
2 12 (9.16%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.53%) iManage
3 2 (1.53%) Intapp
4 1 (0.76%) BMC
4 1 (0.76%) Cognizant
4 1 (0.76%) Dell
4 1 (0.76%) Google
4 1 (0.76%) IBM
4 1 (0.76%) Mapbox
4 1 (0.76%) OpenAI
4 1 (0.76%) Talend