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 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 359 313
Rank change year-on-year +75 -46 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 98 73 140
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.74% 0.45% 0.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.48% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 66 59 101
10th Percentile £65,625 £65,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £71,375 £66,500 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -
75th Percentile - £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £98,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 12,046 15,205 17,021
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.69% 93.93% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 8,000 9,094 13,772
10th Percentile £35,750 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,264 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 +64 31 £85,000 +6.25% 4
South London - 2 £57,600 - 4
West London -2 1 £75,000 +3.45% 2
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, 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 76 (77.55%) Python
2 61 (62.24%) SQL
3 53 (54.08%) ETL
4 52 (53.06%) Azure
5 50 (51.02%) Data Pipeline
6 48 (48.98%) Data Engineering
7 44 (44.90%) Data Modelling
8 37 (37.76%) Data Warehouse
9 34 (34.69%) AWS
10 30 (30.61%) DevOps
11 27 (27.55%) Decision-Making
11 27 (27.55%) SQL Server
12 26 (26.53%) CI/CD
12 26 (26.53%) Databricks
13 24 (24.49%) Data Governance
13 24 (24.49%) Power BI
13 24 (24.49%) Power Platform
14 23 (23.47%) Analytics
14 23 (23.47%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (23.47%) Microsoft
15 20 (20.41%) Agile
15 20 (20.41%) Snowflake
16 18 (18.37%) Mentoring
17 17 (17.35%) Serverless
18 16 (16.33%) Apache Spark
18 16 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
19 15 (15.31%) AI
19 15 (15.31%) Big Data
19 15 (15.31%) Data Lake
19 15 (15.31%) Data Quality

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 (16.33%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.02%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 52 (53.06%) Azure
2 34 (34.69%) AWS
3 24 (24.49%) Power Platform
4 20 (20.41%) Snowflake
5 17 (17.35%) Serverless
6 16 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (14.29%) GCP
8 13 (13.27%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (12.24%) AWS Step Functions
9 12 (12.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 9 (9.18%) Collibra
10 9 (9.18%) dbt
11 8 (8.16%) Amazon Kinesis
11 8 (8.16%) Amazon S3
11 8 (8.16%) Fivetran
12 6 (6.12%) SaaS
13 5 (5.10%) Amazon EC2
14 4 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
14 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.06%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (37.76%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (27.55%) SQL Server
3 24 (24.49%) Power BI
4 15 (15.31%) Big Data
4 15 (15.31%) Data Lake
4 15 (15.31%) Hadoop
5 14 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (12.24%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (12.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (11.22%) Apache Hive
8 8 (8.16%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (8.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (7.14%) Metadata
10 6 (6.12%) Delta Lake
11 5 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (4.08%) DynamoDB
12 4 (4.08%) MySQL
12 4 (4.08%) NoSQL
12 4 (4.08%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Git
2 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.02%) JIRA
3 1 (1.02%) MLflow
General
1 38 (38.78%) Finance
2 18 (18.37%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.18%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (8.16%) Financial Institution
6 5 (5.10%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.08%) Marketing
8 3 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.06%) Law
8 3 (3.06%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.06%) Retail
9 2 (2.04%) Games
9 2 (2.04%) Publishing
10 1 (1.02%) Banking
10 1 (1.02%) Electronics
10 1 (1.02%) Front Office
10 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.31%) Kafka
2 10 (10.20%) PySpark
3 8 (8.16%) boto
3 8 (8.16%) Spark Streaming
4 3 (3.06%) AWS CDK
4 3 (3.06%) Django
4 3 (3.06%) LDAP
4 3 (3.06%) OAuth
4 3 (3.06%) OAuth2
4 3 (3.06%) React
5 2 (2.04%) Snowpark
6 1 (1.02%) Faiss
6 1 (1.02%) Hugging Face
6 1 (1.02%) JDBC
6 1 (1.02%) LangChain
6 1 (1.02%) ODBC
6 1 (1.02%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.02%) REST
6 1 (1.02%) Streamlit
6 1 (1.02%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.24%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (12.24%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (8.16%) e-Learning
3 4 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.06%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.04%) FMCG
5 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.04%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.02%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.02%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.02%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.02%) Equities
6 1 (1.02%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.02%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.02%) Online Games
6 1 (1.02%) Social Media
6 1 (1.02%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.06%) Linux
1 3 (3.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.08%) ETL
2 50 (51.02%) Data Pipeline
3 48 (48.98%) Data Engineering
4 44 (44.90%) Data Modelling
5 30 (30.61%) DevOps
6 27 (27.55%) Decision-Making
7 26 (26.53%) CI/CD
8 24 (24.49%) Data Governance
9 23 (23.47%) Analytics
9 23 (23.47%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (20.41%) Agile
11 18 (18.37%) Mentoring
12 15 (15.31%) AI
13 13 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (12.24%) Data Science
15 11 (11.22%) ETL Development
15 11 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
16 9 (9.18%) Data Architecture
16 9 (9.18%) Visualisation
17 7 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 76 (77.55%) Python
2 61 (62.24%) SQL
3 15 (15.31%) Java
4 13 (13.27%) Scala
4 13 (13.27%) T-SQL
5 8 (8.16%) C#
6 5 (5.10%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.02%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.02%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (10.20%) Degree
2 5 (5.10%) AWS Certification
2 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (5.10%) SnowPro
3 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.04%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.02%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.31%) Data Quality
2 13 (13.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 8 (8.16%) HDFS
2 4 (4.08%) Docker
3 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.12%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.12%) Terraform
2 3 (3.06%) Ansible
3 1 (1.02%) Control-M
Vendors
1 26 (26.53%) Databricks
2 23 (23.47%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.16%) Dataiku
4 4 (4.08%) Dell
4 4 (4.08%) Google
5 3 (3.06%) Oracle
6 1 (1.02%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.02%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.02%) BMC
6 1 (1.02%) Facebook
6 1 (1.02%) IBM
6 1 (1.02%) NetApp
6 1 (1.02%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.02%) SAP
6 1 (1.02%) Talend