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 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 233 241
Rank change year-on-year +40 +8 +44
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 180 61 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.75% 0.64% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.73% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 139 57 67
10th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £45,950
25th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.11% +6.88%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £84,000 £82,000 £95,000
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 22,234 8,327 12,481
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 87.37% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 16,138 4,354 6,812
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -8.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% -1.79% -6.67%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +48 107 £75,000 +11.11% 37
Yorkshire -16 52 £75,000 +13.21% 15
North East -49 21 £75,000 +11.11% 10
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 11 October 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 77 (42.78%) Analytics
2 63 (35.00%) SQL
3 59 (32.78%) Data Engineering
4 56 (31.11%) Python
5 46 (25.56%) Azure
6 35 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
7 32 (17.78%) ETL
8 30 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 29 (16.11%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (16.11%) CI/CD
10 28 (15.56%) AWS
10 28 (15.56%) Decision-Making
11 26 (14.44%) Data Quality
12 25 (13.89%) Data Modelling
13 24 (13.33%) AI
14 22 (12.22%) Terraform
15 21 (11.67%) SC Cleared
15 21 (11.67%) Security Cleared
16 20 (11.11%) dbt
17 19 (10.56%) Platform Engineering
18 18 (10.00%) Business Strategy
18 18 (10.00%) Data Governance
18 18 (10.00%) Databricks
18 18 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
19 17 (9.44%) Data Warehouse
19 17 (9.44%) GCP
19 17 (9.44%) Lakehouse
19 17 (9.44%) Observability
20 16 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
21 15 (8.33%) PySpark

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 9 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.89%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.56%) Azure
2 28 (15.56%) AWS
3 20 (11.11%) dbt
4 17 (9.44%) GCP
5 14 (7.78%) Snowflake
6 12 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 11 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.11%) GitHub
8 10 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (4.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (3.33%) Amazon S3
12 5 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.78%) Serverless
13 2 (1.11%) Cloud Functions
13 2 (1.11%) Dagster
13 2 (1.11%) Google Ads
13 2 (1.11%) Google Data Studio
13 2 (1.11%) Google Tag Manager
13 2 (1.11%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.44%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (7.78%) Metadata
3 13 (7.22%) BigQuery
4 12 (6.67%) Power BI
4 12 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 10 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 8 (4.44%) Delta Lake
8 6 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
9 5 (2.78%) Big Data
10 2 (1.11%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.11%) Flink
10 2 (1.11%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.11%) Tableau
11 1 (0.56%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.56%) Parquet
11 1 (0.56%) Power Query
11 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.89%) Git
General
1 32 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.11%) Public Sector
3 7 (3.89%) Law
4 6 (3.33%) Retail
5 5 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.78%) Finance
6 4 (2.22%) Marketing
7 3 (1.67%) Games
8 2 (1.11%) Advertising
8 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.22%) Terraform
2 15 (8.33%) PySpark
3 7 (3.89%) Kafka
3 7 (3.89%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (2.22%) Pandas
5 2 (1.11%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.56%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.56%) JSON
6 1 (0.56%) REST
6 1 (0.56%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.89%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.67%) Sports Betting
4 2 (1.11%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.56%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.56%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (42.78%) Analytics
2 59 (32.78%) Data Engineering
3 35 (19.44%) Data Pipeline
4 32 (17.78%) ETL
5 30 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 29 (16.11%) Business Intelligence
6 29 (16.11%) CI/CD
7 28 (15.56%) Decision-Making
8 25 (13.89%) Data Modelling
9 24 (13.33%) AI
10 19 (10.56%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (10.00%) Business Strategy
11 18 (10.00%) Data Governance
11 18 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
12 17 (9.44%) Lakehouse
12 17 (9.44%) Observability
13 16 (8.89%) Infrastructure as Code
14 14 (7.78%) DevOps
15 13 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (7.22%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 63 (35.00%) SQL
2 56 (31.11%) Python
3 9 (5.00%) Bash
4 5 (2.78%) Java
5 3 (1.67%) Scala
6 2 (1.11%) Bicep
6 2 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.11%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 21 (11.67%) SC Cleared
1 21 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.67%) Degree
3 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (14.44%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.22%) QA
3 2 (1.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (2.78%) Docker
Vendors
1 18 (10.00%) Databricks
2 10 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.89%) Oracle
4 6 (3.33%) Google
5 5 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.78%) SAP
6 3 (1.67%) Informatica
7 1 (0.56%) ServiceNow