Senior Data Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 308 400
Rank change year-on-year -11 +92 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 189 382 639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.80% 1.09% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.14% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 157 300 272
10th Percentile £60,000 £66,925 £65,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £86,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +7.81% +5.96%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £116,000 £120,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,259 33,394 64,825
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.13% 95.02% 96.35%
Number of salaries quoted 16,752 24,563 34,933
10th Percentile £38,138 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in London.

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 +36 29 £70,000 -22.22% 7
South London +1 4 £28,001 -
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Senior Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 139 (73.54%) Python
2 123 (65.08%) SQL
3 99 (52.38%) Azure
4 75 (39.68%) AWS
5 69 (36.51%) ETL
6 68 (35.98%) Data Engineering
6 68 (35.98%) Data Pipeline
7 60 (31.75%) Databricks
8 57 (30.16%) Data Warehouse
9 54 (28.57%) Finance
10 52 (27.51%) Data Modelling
11 47 (24.87%) Agile
12 46 (24.34%) DevOps
12 46 (24.34%) Social Skills
13 44 (23.28%) Data Lake
14 43 (22.75%) Analytics
15 41 (21.69%) PySpark
16 39 (20.63%) GCP
17 38 (20.11%) Data Science
18 37 (19.58%) CI/CD
19 36 (19.05%) Power Platform
19 36 (19.05%) Apache Spark
19 36 (19.05%) Power BI
20 33 (17.46%) Snowflake
21 32 (16.93%) Azure Data Factory
21 32 (16.93%) Business Intelligence
22 31 (16.40%) Apache Airflow
23 30 (15.87%) Apache
23 30 (15.87%) NoSQL
24 27 (14.29%) Hadoop

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 36 (19.05%) Apache Spark
2 31 (16.40%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (15.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 99 (52.38%) Azure
2 75 (39.68%) AWS
3 39 (20.63%) GCP
4 36 (19.05%) Power Platform
5 33 (17.46%) Snowflake
6 32 (16.93%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 23 (12.17%) dbt
9 20 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (9.52%) Amazon S3
11 12 (6.35%) GitHub
12 11 (5.82%) Amazon EMR
13 9 (4.76%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
13 9 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (3.17%) Serverless
16 5 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
16 5 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
17 4 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
17 4 (2.12%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.41%) Structured Cabling
2 9 (4.76%) Network Security
3 4 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (30.16%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (23.28%) Data Lake
3 36 (19.05%) Power BI
4 30 (15.87%) NoSQL
5 27 (14.29%) Hadoop
6 22 (11.64%) Big Data
7 20 (10.58%) Tableau
8 17 (8.99%) SQL Server
9 16 (8.47%) BigQuery
9 16 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
10 14 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
10 14 (7.41%) Data Vault
11 11 (5.82%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (5.29%) MongoDB
13 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 8 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (4.23%) Apache Hive
14 8 (4.23%) Flink
14 8 (4.23%) Parquet
15 6 (3.17%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (8.99%) Git
2 11 (5.82%) CircleCI
3 10 (5.29%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.12%) Bitbucket
4 4 (2.12%) JIRA
5 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.53%) SpecFlow
General
1 54 (28.57%) Finance
2 46 (24.34%) Social Skills
3 22 (11.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 20 (10.58%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.41%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.76%) Banking
7 8 (4.23%) Retail
7 8 (4.23%) Retail Banking
8 7 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.17%) Law
9 6 (3.17%) Legal
10 4 (2.12%) Games
10 4 (2.12%) Music Industry
11 2 (1.06%) Publishing
12 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.53%) Automotive
12 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.53%) Front Office
12 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (21.69%) PySpark
2 14 (7.41%) Kafka
2 14 (7.41%) Pandas
3 12 (6.35%) Apache Beam
4 10 (5.29%) .NET
5 8 (4.23%) Apache Avro
5 8 (4.23%) Spark Streaming
6 7 (3.70%) JSON
6 7 (3.70%) XML
7 5 (2.65%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.59%) pytest
9 2 (1.06%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.53%) Flask
10 1 (0.53%) gRPC
10 1 (0.53%) LAMP
10 1 (0.53%) REST
10 1 (0.53%) RESTful
10 1 (0.53%) Spring
10 1 (0.53%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.41%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.29%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (5.29%) Driving Licence
4 9 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (4.23%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.12%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.12%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.59%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.59%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.59%) PKI
7 3 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.59%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.06%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.06%) PropTech
8 2 (1.06%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.53%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.99%) Linux
2 10 (5.29%) Unix
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (36.51%) ETL
2 68 (35.98%) Data Engineering
2 68 (35.98%) Data Pipeline
3 52 (27.51%) Data Modelling
4 47 (24.87%) Agile
5 46 (24.34%) DevOps
6 43 (22.75%) Analytics
7 38 (20.11%) Data Science
8 37 (19.58%) CI/CD
9 32 (16.93%) Business Intelligence
10 25 (13.23%) Visualisation
11 23 (12.17%) Containerisation
11 23 (12.17%) Platform Engineering
12 22 (11.64%) Mentoring
13 21 (11.11%) Data Analytics
13 21 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
14 19 (10.05%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (10.05%) Problem-Solving
15 17 (8.99%) Data Transformation
15 17 (8.99%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 139 (73.54%) Python
2 123 (65.08%) SQL
3 18 (9.52%) Java
4 13 (6.88%) Scala
5 12 (6.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (5.29%) C#
7 9 (4.76%) U-SQL
8 7 (3.70%) VB
9 6 (3.17%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.53%) Bash
10 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.53%) R
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (6.35%) DBS Check
2 11 (5.82%) Degree
3 9 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (1.59%) CCSK
4 3 (1.59%) CCSP
4 3 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.59%) CISSP
4 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.41%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.17%) QA
3 4 (2.12%) Solvency II
System Software
1 20 (10.58%) Docker
2 8 (4.23%) HDFS
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.76%) Terraform
3 3 (1.59%) CASB
4 2 (1.06%) Ansible
4 2 (1.06%) Marathon
4 2 (1.06%) Mesos
5 1 (0.53%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
5 1 (0.53%) Grafana
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.53%) Podman
5 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 60 (31.75%) Databricks
2 14 (7.41%) Google
2 14 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.41%) Oracle
3 10 (5.29%) Cloudera
4 7 (3.70%) Atlassian
5 6 (3.17%) Informatica
6 4 (2.12%) YouTube
7 3 (1.59%) Netskope
7 3 (1.59%) Symantec
7 3 (1.59%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.06%) SAP
8 2 (1.06%) Teradata
9 1 (0.53%) Apple
9 1 (0.53%) Denodo
9 1 (0.53%) New Relic
9 1 (0.53%) Splunk