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 5 December 2025.

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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 370 315
Rank change year-on-year +89 -55 +79
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 101 81 144
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.76% 0.47% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 0.50% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 67 67 108
10th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
25th Percentile £72,500 £66,500 £72,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% +3.03%
75th Percentile £86,250 £95,000 £96,563
90th Percentile £96,000 £100,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year - -9.68% -3.13%

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 12,001 16,146 17,329
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.66% 94.43% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 7,915 9,771 14,135
10th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £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 5 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 5 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 +56 31 £85,000 +6.25% 4
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 79 (78.22%) Python
2 66 (65.35%) SQL
3 55 (54.46%) ETL
4 53 (52.48%) Azure
5 50 (49.50%) Data Pipeline
6 49 (48.51%) Data Engineering
7 44 (43.56%) Data Modelling
8 40 (39.60%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (38.61%) AWS
10 32 (31.68%) DevOps
11 29 (28.71%) CI/CD
12 28 (27.72%) Databricks
12 28 (27.72%) SQL Server
13 27 (26.73%) Decision-Making
14 24 (23.76%) Data Governance
14 24 (23.76%) Microsoft
14 24 (23.76%) Power BI
14 24 (23.76%) Power Platform
15 23 (22.77%) Analytics
15 23 (22.77%) Business Intelligence
16 22 (21.78%) Agile
16 22 (21.78%) Mentoring
16 22 (21.78%) Snowflake
17 18 (17.82%) Azure Data Factory
18 17 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
18 17 (16.83%) Serverless
19 16 (15.84%) AI
19 16 (15.84%) Amazon Redshift
19 16 (15.84%) Data Lake
20 15 (14.85%) Apache Spark

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 (14.85%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.99%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 53 (52.48%) Azure
2 39 (38.61%) AWS
3 24 (23.76%) Power Platform
4 22 (21.78%) Snowflake
5 18 (17.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (16.83%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (16.83%) Serverless
7 15 (14.85%) GCP
8 14 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (11.88%) AWS Step Functions
10 11 (10.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 10 (9.90%) Amazon S3
11 10 (9.90%) dbt
12 9 (8.91%) Collibra
13 8 (7.92%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (7.92%) Fivetran
14 7 (6.93%) Amazon EC2
15 6 (5.94%) SaaS
16 4 (3.96%) Azure Logic Apps
16 4 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (39.60%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (27.72%) SQL Server
3 24 (23.76%) Power BI
4 16 (15.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 16 (15.84%) Data Lake
5 14 (13.86%) Big Data
5 14 (13.86%) Hadoop
6 13 (12.87%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (11.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (10.89%) Apache Hive
9 8 (7.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 8 (7.92%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (6.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (5.94%) Metadata
12 5 (4.95%) DynamoDB
12 5 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (3.96%) Data Vault
13 4 (3.96%) MySQL
13 4 (3.96%) NoSQL
13 4 (3.96%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (7.92%) Git
2 2 (1.98%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.99%) JIRA
3 1 (0.99%) MLflow
General
1 41 (40.59%) Finance
2 22 (21.78%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.91%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (7.92%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.96%) Law
6 4 (3.96%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.96%) Marketing
7 3 (2.97%) Games
7 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.98%) Banking
8 2 (1.98%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.98%) Publishing
8 2 (1.98%) Retail
9 1 (0.99%) Electronics
9 1 (0.99%) Front Office
9 1 (0.99%) Music Industry
9 1 (0.99%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.85%) Kafka
2 10 (9.90%) PySpark
3 8 (7.92%) boto
3 8 (7.92%) Spark Streaming
4 3 (2.97%) AWS CDK
4 3 (2.97%) Django
4 3 (2.97%) LDAP
4 3 (2.97%) OAuth
4 3 (2.97%) OAuth2
4 3 (2.97%) React
5 2 (1.98%) Snowpark
6 1 (0.99%) Faiss
6 1 (0.99%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.99%) JDBC
6 1 (0.99%) LangChain
6 1 (0.99%) ODBC
6 1 (0.99%) Pandas
6 1 (0.99%) REST
6 1 (0.99%) Streamlit
6 1 (0.99%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.88%) Distributed Systems
1 12 (11.88%) Greenfield Project
2 8 (7.92%) e-Learning
3 5 (4.95%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.97%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.98%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.98%) FMCG
5 2 (1.98%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.99%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (0.99%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.99%) Equities
6 1 (0.99%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.99%) Media Streaming
6 1 (0.99%) Online Games
6 1 (0.99%) Social Media
6 1 (0.99%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.97%) Linux
1 3 (2.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (54.46%) ETL
2 50 (49.50%) Data Pipeline
3 49 (48.51%) Data Engineering
4 44 (43.56%) Data Modelling
5 32 (31.68%) DevOps
6 29 (28.71%) CI/CD
7 27 (26.73%) Decision-Making
8 24 (23.76%) Data Governance
9 23 (22.77%) Analytics
9 23 (22.77%) Business Intelligence
10 22 (21.78%) Agile
10 22 (21.78%) Mentoring
11 16 (15.84%) AI
12 13 (12.87%) Data Science
12 13 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (10.89%) ETL Development
13 11 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (9.90%) Data Architecture
14 10 (9.90%) Visualisation
15 8 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 79 (78.22%) Python
2 66 (65.35%) SQL
3 15 (14.85%) Java
3 15 (14.85%) T-SQL
4 12 (11.88%) Scala
5 8 (7.92%) C#
6 5 (4.95%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.99%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (9.90%) Degree
2 6 (5.94%) AWS Certification
2 6 (5.94%) SnowPro
3 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.98%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.98%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.98%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.99%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.85%) Data Quality
2 13 (12.87%) GDPR
3 1 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.99%) QA
System Software
1 8 (7.92%) HDFS
2 4 (3.96%) Docker
3 3 (2.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.94%) Kubernetes
1 6 (5.94%) Terraform
2 3 (2.97%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (27.72%) Databricks
2 24 (23.76%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.92%) Dataiku
4 5 (4.95%) Google
5 4 (3.96%) Dell
6 3 (2.97%) Oracle
7 1 (0.99%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.99%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.99%) Facebook
7 1 (0.99%) NetApp
7 1 (0.99%) Refinitiv
7 1 (0.99%) SAP