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 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 319 325 420
Rank change year-on-year +6 +95 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 194 395 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.83% 1.08% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 1.13% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 157 309 260
10th Percentile £57,500 £67,400 £63,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £87,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £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 22,018 34,851 62,244
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 95.06% 96.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16,626 25,402 35,153
10th Percentile £38,750 £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 £54,000 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +0.83% +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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +59 29 £70,000 -22.22%
South London +12 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 19 April 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.

1 145 (74.74%) Python
2 129 (66.49%) SQL
3 96 (49.48%) Azure
4 81 (41.75%) AWS
5 77 (39.69%) ETL
6 70 (36.08%) Data Engineering
7 69 (35.57%) Data Pipeline
8 60 (30.93%) Data Warehouse
9 57 (29.38%) Data Modelling
9 57 (29.38%) Databricks
10 55 (28.35%) Finance
11 50 (25.77%) Agile
11 50 (25.77%) Analytics
12 47 (24.23%) Social Skills
13 44 (22.68%) Data Lake
14 43 (22.16%) DevOps
15 41 (21.13%) PySpark
16 40 (20.62%) Data Science
16 40 (20.62%) GCP
17 37 (19.07%) Power Platform
17 37 (19.07%) Apache Spark
17 37 (19.07%) Power BI
17 37 (19.07%) Business Intelligence
18 35 (18.04%) Snowflake
18 35 (18.04%) CI/CD
19 32 (16.49%) Apache
20 31 (15.98%) Apache Airflow
20 31 (15.98%) Azure Data Factory
21 30 (15.46%) NoSQL
22 29 (14.95%) 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 37 (19.07%) Apache Spark
2 32 (16.49%) Apache
3 31 (15.98%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Pig
Cloud Services
1 96 (49.48%) Azure
2 81 (41.75%) AWS
3 40 (20.62%) GCP
4 37 (19.07%) Power Platform
5 35 (18.04%) Snowflake
6 31 (15.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 28 (14.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 22 (11.34%) dbt
9 21 (10.82%) Amazon S3
10 17 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
11 11 (5.67%) Amazon EMR
11 11 (5.67%) GitHub
12 8 (4.12%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
12 8 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.12%) Serverless
13 7 (3.61%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (3.09%) Azure Stack
15 5 (2.58%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.22%) Structured Cabling
2 8 (4.12%) Network Security
3 4 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (30.93%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (22.68%) Data Lake
3 37 (19.07%) Power BI
4 30 (15.46%) NoSQL
5 29 (14.95%) Hadoop
6 24 (12.37%) Big Data
7 22 (11.34%) Tableau
8 19 (9.79%) SQL Server
9 16 (8.25%) BigQuery
10 15 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
11 12 (6.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (6.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 12 (6.19%) Data Vault
12 10 (5.15%) Amazon Athena
12 10 (5.15%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 9 (4.64%) MongoDB
14 8 (4.12%) Apache Hive
14 8 (4.12%) Flink
14 8 (4.12%) Parquet
15 6 (3.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (9.79%) Git
2 10 (5.15%) CircleCI
2 10 (5.15%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.06%) Bitbucket
3 4 (2.06%) JIRA
4 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 55 (28.35%) Finance
2 47 (24.23%) Social Skills
3 25 (12.89%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (7.22%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.64%) Banking
7 8 (4.12%) Retail
7 8 (4.12%) Retail Banking
8 6 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.58%) Law
9 5 (2.58%) Legal
10 4 (2.06%) Games
10 4 (2.06%) Music Industry
11 3 (1.55%) Front Office
12 2 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.03%) Publishing
13 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.52%) Marketing
13 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (21.13%) PySpark
2 17 (8.76%) Pandas
3 16 (8.25%) Kafka
4 14 (7.22%) Apache Beam
5 11 (5.67%) .NET
6 8 (4.12%) Apache Avro
6 8 (4.12%) JSON
6 8 (4.12%) Spark Streaming
6 8 (4.12%) XML
7 5 (2.58%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.55%) pytest
9 2 (1.03%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.52%) Flask
10 1 (0.52%) gRPC
10 1 (0.52%) LAMP
10 1 (0.52%) REST
10 1 (0.52%) RESTful
10 1 (0.52%) Spring
10 1 (0.52%) Spring Boot
10 1 (0.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.70%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (6.19%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.15%) Driving Licence
4 9 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (4.12%) Distributed Applications
5 8 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.58%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.06%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.55%) PKI
8 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.03%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.03%) PropTech
9 2 (1.03%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 17 (8.76%) Linux
2 9 (4.64%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Android
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (39.69%) ETL
2 70 (36.08%) Data Engineering
3 69 (35.57%) Data Pipeline
4 57 (29.38%) Data Modelling
5 50 (25.77%) Agile
5 50 (25.77%) Analytics
6 43 (22.16%) DevOps
7 40 (20.62%) Data Science
8 37 (19.07%) Business Intelligence
9 35 (18.04%) CI/CD
10 27 (13.92%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (12.89%) Visualisation
12 23 (11.86%) Containerisation
12 23 (11.86%) Mentoring
12 23 (11.86%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (10.82%) Data Visualisation
14 20 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (10.31%) Data Analytics
14 20 (10.31%) Data Transformation
14 20 (10.31%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 145 (74.74%) Python
2 129 (66.49%) SQL
3 18 (9.28%) Java
4 15 (7.73%) Scala
5 11 (5.67%) C#
5 11 (5.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (4.12%) U-SQL
6 8 (4.12%) VB
7 5 (2.58%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.55%) Bash
8 3 (1.55%) R
9 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (6.70%) Degree
2 12 (6.19%) DBS Check
3 8 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.06%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.55%) CCSK
6 3 (1.55%) CCSP
6 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.55%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.28%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.61%) QA
3 4 (2.06%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (10.82%) Docker
2 8 (4.12%) HDFS
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 24 (12.37%) Kubernetes
1 24 (12.37%) Terraform
2 3 (1.55%) CASB
3 2 (1.03%) Ansible
3 2 (1.03%) Marathon
3 2 (1.03%) Mesos
4 1 (0.52%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (0.52%) Grafana
4 1 (0.52%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.52%) Podman
4 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (29.38%) Databricks
2 15 (7.73%) Google
2 15 (7.73%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.70%) Oracle
4 11 (5.67%) Cloudera
5 8 (4.12%) Atlassian
6 7 (3.61%) Informatica
7 4 (2.06%) YouTube
8 3 (1.55%) Netskope
8 3 (1.55%) Symantec
8 3 (1.55%) Teradata
8 3 (1.55%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.03%) SAP
10 1 (0.52%) Apple
10 1 (0.52%) Denodo
10 1 (0.52%) New Relic
10 1 (0.52%) Splunk