Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the North of England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 September 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 196 240 241
Rank change year-on-year +44 +1 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 159 65 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.69% 0.69% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.78% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 126 62 84
10th Percentile £57,500 £52,625 £46,625
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £53,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,938 £82,188
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 21,584 8,297 14,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 87.87% 95.06%
Number of salaries quoted 15,777 4,555 9,010
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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 the North of England.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in the North of England.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 3 September 2026. 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
North West +50 99 £75,000 +11.11% 26
Yorkshire -37 44 £75,000 +25.00% 9
North East -45 16 £82,500 +6.45% 9
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 3 September 2026, 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 North of England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 59 (37.11%) Analytics
2 55 (34.59%) SQL
3 53 (33.33%) Python
4 49 (30.82%) Azure
4 49 (30.82%) Data Engineering
5 33 (20.75%) AWS
6 30 (18.87%) Data Pipeline
7 26 (16.35%) AI
7 26 (16.35%) ETL
8 25 (15.72%) Terraform
9 23 (14.47%) CI/CD
9 23 (14.47%) Data Quality
10 20 (12.58%) Decision-Making
11 19 (11.95%) Data Modelling
11 19 (11.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 19 (11.95%) Platform Engineering
12 18 (11.32%) Business Strategy
12 18 (11.32%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (11.32%) GCP
12 18 (11.32%) Mentoring
13 17 (10.69%) Business Intelligence
13 17 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (10.06%) SQL Server
15 15 (9.43%) Databricks
16 14 (8.81%) Agile
16 14 (8.81%) Observability
17 13 (8.18%) Data Architecture
17 13 (8.18%) dbt
17 13 (8.18%) DevOps
17 13 (8.18%) Migration

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 12 (7.55%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.89%) Apache
4 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 49 (30.82%) Azure
2 33 (20.75%) AWS
3 18 (11.32%) GCP
4 13 (8.18%) dbt
4 13 (8.18%) Snowflake
5 12 (7.55%) GitHub
6 11 (6.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (6.92%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.92%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.77%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.14%) Serverless
10 4 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.26%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (1.26%) Google Ads
11 2 (1.26%) Google Analytics
11 2 (1.26%) Google Data Studio
11 2 (1.26%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.32%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (10.06%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.55%) BigQuery
4 11 (6.92%) Power BI
5 10 (6.29%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.66%) Data Lake
7 8 (5.03%) Metadata
8 5 (3.14%) Big Data
9 4 (2.52%) Flink
10 2 (1.26%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.26%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.26%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.26%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.26%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.26%) Tableau
11 1 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.63%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Git
2 1 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 29 (18.24%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.55%) Finance
3 8 (5.03%) Retail
4 7 (4.40%) Law
5 6 (3.77%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.52%) Marketing
7 3 (1.89%) Advertising
7 3 (1.89%) Games
8 2 (1.26%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.63%) Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.72%) Terraform
2 11 (6.92%) Kafka
2 11 (6.92%) PySpark
3 5 (3.14%) Pandas
4 4 (2.52%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.63%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.66%) Onboarding
2 7 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.89%) Sports Betting
4 2 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.63%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.63%) Online Gambling
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (37.11%) Analytics
2 49 (30.82%) Data Engineering
3 30 (18.87%) Data Pipeline
4 26 (16.35%) AI
4 26 (16.35%) ETL
5 23 (14.47%) CI/CD
6 20 (12.58%) Decision-Making
7 19 (11.95%) Data Modelling
7 19 (11.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (11.95%) Platform Engineering
8 18 (11.32%) Business Strategy
8 18 (11.32%) Mentoring
9 17 (10.69%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (8.81%) Agile
10 14 (8.81%) Observability
11 13 (8.18%) Data Architecture
11 13 (8.18%) DevOps
11 13 (8.18%) Migration
12 11 (6.92%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (34.59%) SQL
2 53 (33.33%) Python
3 9 (5.66%) Bash
4 6 (3.77%) Java
5 3 (1.89%) Scala
6 2 (1.26%) Bicep
6 2 (1.26%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.63%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (2.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.89%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.47%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.52%) QA
3 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (3.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.26%) Grafana
1 2 (1.26%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (9.43%) Databricks
2 8 (5.03%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.77%) Google
4 5 (3.14%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.14%) SAP
5 3 (1.89%) Informatica
6 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow