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 £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 246 269
Rank change year-on-year +45 +23 +114
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 58 33 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.55% 0.36% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.38% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 54 25 13
10th Percentile £53,750 £50,500 £43,500
25th Percentile £59,063 £61,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,875 £99,500 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -12.50% -

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 9,411 8,578 8,182
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.53% 94.04% 95.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,463 4,051 6,526
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +0.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,742 £67,500 £66,944
90th Percentile £82,192 £80,000 £80,780
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -5.69%

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 January 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 January 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 +41 29 £67,500 +5.88% 8
Yorkshire +1 25 £65,000 +4.00% 8
North East -1 4 £68,750 -17.91% 3
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 January 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 47 (81.03%) SQL
2 39 (67.24%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (55.17%) Data Modelling
3 32 (55.17%) Python
4 25 (43.10%) CI/CD
4 25 (43.10%) Data Engineering
4 25 (43.10%) Data Lake
5 23 (39.66%) Azure
5 23 (39.66%) Data Pipeline
5 23 (39.66%) ETL
6 19 (32.76%) Agile
6 19 (32.76%) AWS
7 17 (29.31%) Data Science
8 16 (27.59%) Mentoring
9 14 (24.14%) Databricks
10 13 (22.41%) Apache Spark
10 13 (22.41%) Data Integration
10 13 (22.41%) Requirements Gathering
11 12 (20.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (20.69%) Analytics
11 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (18.97%) Coaching
12 11 (18.97%) SDLC
12 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (17.24%) Amazon S3
13 10 (17.24%) Apache
13 10 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (17.24%) Clean Code
13 10 (17.24%) Data Security
13 10 (17.24%) Logical Data Model

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 13 (22.41%) Apache Spark
2 10 (17.24%) Apache
3 5 (8.62%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 23 (39.66%) Azure
2 19 (32.76%) AWS
3 10 (17.24%) Amazon S3
3 10 (17.24%) SaaS
4 7 (12.07%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (12.07%) Serverless
5 6 (10.34%) dbt
5 6 (10.34%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.62%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (6.90%) GCP
8 3 (5.17%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (5.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (5.17%) GitHub
9 2 (3.45%) Dagster
9 2 (3.45%) Prefect
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (67.24%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (43.10%) Data Lake
3 12 (20.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (10.34%) Power BI
5 4 (6.90%) MongoDB
6 3 (5.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (5.17%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (5.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.17%) Data Vault
6 3 (5.17%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.17%) MySQL
6 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.45%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (3.45%) Tableau
8 1 (1.72%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.72%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 17 (29.31%) Retail
2 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Finance
4 6 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.34%) Legal
5 5 (8.62%) Tech for Good
6 3 (5.17%) Marketing
6 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
2 2 (3.45%) Client/Server
2 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) Data Modelling
2 25 (43.10%) CI/CD
2 25 (43.10%) Data Engineering
3 23 (39.66%) Data Pipeline
3 23 (39.66%) ETL
4 19 (32.76%) Agile
5 17 (29.31%) Data Science
6 16 (27.59%) Mentoring
7 13 (22.41%) Data Integration
7 13 (22.41%) Requirements Gathering
8 12 (20.69%) Analytics
8 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (18.97%) Coaching
9 11 (18.97%) SDLC
9 11 (18.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (17.24%) Data Security
10 10 (17.24%) Logical Data Model
10 10 (17.24%) Migration
10 10 (17.24%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 47 (81.03%) SQL
2 32 (55.17%) Python
3 3 (5.17%) Java
3 3 (5.17%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (24.14%) Databricks
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.17%) Oracle
3 3 (5.17%) Palantir
4 1 (1.72%) Google