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 leading to 12 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 330 317
Rank change year-on-year +1 -13 +70
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 72 192 376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.81% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.86% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 43 161 292
10th Percentile £64,500 £60,000 £66,325
25th Percentile £70,625 £62,500 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £96,875 £97,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £99,750 £117,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

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 11,666 22,251 32,572
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.22% 94.14% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,370 16,680 24,004
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +14 11 £72,500 +3.57% 2
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, 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 53 (73.61%) Python
2 48 (66.67%) SQL
3 43 (59.72%) Data Pipeline
4 40 (55.56%) ETL
5 36 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 35 (48.61%) Data Modelling
6 35 (48.61%) Data Engineering
7 34 (47.22%) Azure
8 30 (41.67%) Finance
9 28 (38.89%) AWS
10 26 (36.11%) Agile
11 24 (33.33%) Databricks
12 20 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (27.78%) Mentoring
13 18 (25.00%) Analytics
13 18 (25.00%) Data Governance
14 17 (23.61%) Data Lake
14 17 (23.61%) Apache Airflow
15 16 (22.22%) Machine Learning
15 16 (22.22%) Kafka
15 16 (22.22%) Data Quality
15 16 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
15 16 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
15 16 (22.22%) Social Skills
16 15 (20.83%) Data Transformation
16 15 (20.83%) DevOps
16 15 (20.83%) Apache Spark
16 15 (20.83%) Terraform
16 15 (20.83%) PySpark
17 14 (19.44%) Data Science

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 17 (23.61%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (20.83%) Apache Spark
3 6 (8.33%) Apache
4 5 (6.94%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
Cloud Services
1 34 (47.22%) Azure
2 28 (38.89%) AWS
3 14 (19.44%) Power Platform
4 13 (18.06%) Azure Data Factory
5 12 (16.67%) Amazon S3
5 12 (16.67%) GCP
5 12 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 8 (11.11%) Amazon Kinesis
6 8 (11.11%) GitHub
7 7 (9.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (9.72%) Serverless
8 6 (8.33%) dbt
9 5 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (4.17%) Azure Functions
12 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (23.61%) Data Lake
2 16 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (19.44%) Power BI
4 11 (15.28%) Metadata
5 10 (13.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (13.89%) SQL Server
6 9 (12.50%) Tableau
7 8 (11.11%) NoSQL
8 7 (9.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (9.72%) Hadoop
9 6 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (8.33%) BigQuery
9 6 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (6.94%) Apache Hive
10 5 (6.94%) Big Data
10 5 (6.94%) Neo4j
10 5 (6.94%) Sqoop
11 4 (5.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 3 (4.17%) OLAP
12 3 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (15.28%) Git
2 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.94%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Forms
General
1 30 (41.67%) Finance
2 16 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.89%) Banking
5 9 (12.50%) Marketing
6 7 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
7 5 (6.94%) Law
8 4 (5.56%) Electronics
8 4 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (5.56%) Legal
8 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
8 4 (5.56%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.78%) Music Industry
10 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.39%) Games
10 1 (1.39%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.22%) Kafka
2 15 (20.83%) PySpark
3 8 (11.11%) Spark Streaming
4 5 (6.94%) OAuth
5 4 (5.56%) Great Expectations
6 3 (4.17%) JSON
6 3 (4.17%) pytest
6 3 (4.17%) XML
7 2 (2.78%) .NET
7 2 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (2.78%) GraphQL
7 2 (2.78%) Pandas
8 1 (1.39%) Apache Beam
8 1 (1.39%) ARM Templates
8 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 5 (6.94%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.94%) Distributed Applications
2 5 (6.94%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.56%) Distributed Computing
3 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
4 3 (4.17%) PKI
4 3 (4.17%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.78%) FMCG
5 2 (2.78%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.39%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.39%) Online Games
6 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (59.72%) Data Pipeline
2 40 (55.56%) ETL
3 36 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 35 (48.61%) Data Engineering
4 35 (48.61%) Data Modelling
5 26 (36.11%) Agile
6 20 (27.78%) Mentoring
6 20 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (25.00%) Analytics
7 18 (25.00%) Data Governance
8 16 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (22.22%) Machine Learning
9 15 (20.83%) Data Transformation
9 15 (20.83%) DevOps
10 14 (19.44%) Data Science
11 11 (15.28%) SDLC
12 9 (12.50%) Decision-Making
12 9 (12.50%) Migration
13 8 (11.11%) Data Security
13 8 (11.11%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 53 (73.61%) Python
2 48 (66.67%) SQL
3 11 (15.28%) Java
4 9 (12.50%) Scala
5 8 (11.11%) SPARQL
6 5 (6.94%) T-SQL
7 3 (4.17%) C#
7 3 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.78%) Bash
8 2 (2.78%) Bicep
8 2 (2.78%) Perl
9 1 (1.39%) C++
9 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.39%) Go
9 1 (1.39%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.39%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Degree
2 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (4.17%) AWS Certification
5 3 (4.17%) CCSK
5 3 (4.17%) CCSP
5 3 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.17%) CISSP
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.39%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.39%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.94%) QA
3 3 (4.17%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (11.11%) Docker
2 5 (6.94%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 15 (20.83%) Terraform
2 6 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.94%) Oozie
4 3 (4.17%) CASB
4 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (33.33%) Databricks
2 7 (9.72%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.33%) Cloudera
4 4 (5.56%) SAP
5 3 (4.17%) Symantec
5 3 (4.17%) Talend
5 3 (4.17%) Zscaler
6 2 (2.78%) Refinitiv
7 1 (1.39%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.39%) Facebook
7 1 (1.39%) Google
7 1 (1.39%) Oracle
7 1 (1.39%) Teradata