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 £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 April 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 218 313
Rank change year-on-year -26 +95 +88
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 68 30 65
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.41% 0.47% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.51% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 62 30 50
10th Percentile £60,125 £46,550 £41,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £51,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -5.66% +10.42%
75th Percentile £80,938 £80,000 £84,063
90th Percentile £100,000 £80,250 £87,750
England median annual salary £73,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +4.29% -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 15,111 5,911 15,387
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 91.67% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 9,823 3,786 12,345
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,750 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.71%

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 April 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 April 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 -3 38 £70,000 +16.67% 15
Yorkshire -48 23 £65,000 +4.00% 3
North East -24 7 £100,000 +48.15% 5
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 April 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 38 (55.88%) SQL
2 28 (41.18%) Python
3 27 (39.71%) Data Engineering
4 26 (38.24%) AWS
5 22 (32.35%) Agile
5 22 (32.35%) Data Modelling
6 21 (30.88%) Data Pipeline
7 20 (29.41%) Databricks
8 19 (27.94%) ETL
9 17 (25.00%) Azure
10 16 (23.53%) Analytics
10 16 (23.53%) Data Lake
10 16 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
11 13 (19.12%) Data Quality
11 13 (19.12%) Mentoring
12 11 (16.18%) CI/CD
13 10 (14.71%) Data Science
14 9 (13.24%) Apache Airflow
15 8 (11.76%) AI
15 8 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
15 8 (11.76%) Data Design
15 8 (11.76%) dbt
15 8 (11.76%) GCP
15 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
16 7 (10.29%) Apache Spark
16 7 (10.29%) Coaching
16 7 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
16 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
16 7 (10.29%) Terraform

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 (13.24%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (10.29%) Apache Spark
3 5 (7.35%) Apache
4 2 (2.94%) Confluence
5 1 (1.47%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 26 (38.24%) AWS
2 17 (25.00%) Azure
3 8 (11.76%) dbt
3 8 (11.76%) GCP
4 6 (8.82%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.35%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (7.35%) SaaS
6 4 (5.88%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (5.88%) Serverless
7 3 (4.41%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.94%) Dagster
8 2 (2.94%) GitHub
8 2 (2.94%) Prefect
8 2 (2.94%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.47%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.47%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.53%) Data Lake
1 16 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (8.82%) Power BI
4 5 (7.35%) MongoDB
4 5 (7.35%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.88%) BigQuery
5 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 4 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.94%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.94%) Flink
6 2 (2.94%) MySQL
6 2 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (2.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.94%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.47%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Git
1 2 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 11 (16.18%) Finance
1 11 (16.18%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.41%) Legal
3 3 (4.41%) Tech for Good
4 2 (2.94%) Digital Health
4 2 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.94%) Retail
5 1 (1.47%) Advertising
5 1 (1.47%) Banking
5 1 (1.47%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.88%) Kafka
1 4 (5.88%) PySpark
2 3 (4.41%) Pandas
3 2 (2.94%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.94%) Client/Server
2 2 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.71%) Data Engineering
2 22 (32.35%) Agile
2 22 (32.35%) Data Modelling
3 21 (30.88%) Data Pipeline
4 19 (27.94%) ETL
5 16 (23.53%) Analytics
6 13 (19.12%) Mentoring
7 11 (16.18%) CI/CD
8 10 (14.71%) Data Science
9 8 (11.76%) AI
9 8 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (11.76%) Data Design
9 8 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (10.29%) Coaching
10 7 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (8.82%) Data Integration
11 6 (8.82%) Data Transformation
11 6 (8.82%) Migration
11 6 (8.82%) SDLC
12 5 (7.35%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 38 (55.88%) SQL
2 28 (41.18%) Python
3 4 (5.88%) Java
4 2 (2.94%) Scala
5 1 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.47%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (2.94%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.12%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.94%) QA
3 1 (1.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) Terraform
2 2 (2.94%) Grafana
2 2 (2.94%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (29.41%) Databricks
2 7 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.94%) Oracle
3 2 (2.94%) Palantir
4 1 (1.47%) Google