Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the North of England is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 319 411
Rank change year-on-year +18 +92 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 35 69 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.39% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.42% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 35 57 22
10th Percentile £47,000 £41,250 £39,544
25th Percentile £54,375 £48,204 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £63,750
90th Percentile - £87,500 £74,625
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 10,578 16,586 15,451
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.99% 94.87% 89.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,737 12,834 8,216
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,265 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,577
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,100 £78,750 £81,250
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 the North of England

Job postings that featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer 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 14 May 2025.

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 14 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
Yorkshire +85 17 £60,000 +12.53% 6
North West -37 14 £63,000 +0.80% 13
North East +43 4 £67,500 -15.63% 4
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 North of England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 26 (74.29%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (74.29%) AWS
3 24 (68.57%) ETL
4 23 (65.71%) SQL
4 23 (65.71%) Data Engineering
5 21 (60.00%) Python
6 19 (54.29%) Analytics
7 18 (51.43%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (48.57%) Mentoring
9 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
10 15 (42.86%) Apache Spark
11 14 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
11 14 (40.00%) Data Lake
11 14 (40.00%) Azure
12 13 (37.14%) Data Quality
13 12 (34.29%) Data Science
14 11 (31.43%) Databricks
14 11 (31.43%) Data Architecture
14 11 (31.43%) Scala
15 10 (28.57%) Apache
15 10 (28.57%) Data Modelling
15 10 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (28.57%) Serverless
16 9 (25.71%) Data Warehouse
17 8 (22.86%) Java
17 8 (22.86%) Data Security
17 8 (22.86%) Data Extraction
17 8 (22.86%) Big Data
17 8 (22.86%) Data Strategy

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (42.86%) Apache Spark
2 10 (28.57%) Apache
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 26 (74.29%) AWS
2 14 (40.00%) Azure
3 10 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (28.57%) Serverless
4 8 (22.86%) Power Platform
5 7 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 5 (14.29%) GCP
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (8.57%) Amazon EMR
8 3 (8.57%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.86%) dbt
10 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
10 1 (2.86%) GitHub
10 1 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 9 (25.71%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (22.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (22.86%) Big Data
3 8 (22.86%) Power BI
4 4 (11.43%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (11.43%) MySQL
5 3 (8.57%) MongoDB
5 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.71%) Hadoop
6 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.86%) Apache Hive
7 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (2.86%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) CircleCI
1 1 (2.86%) GitLab
1 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 14 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Retail
4 3 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.71%) Finance
6 1 (2.86%) Advertising
6 1 (2.86%) Front Office
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
6 1 (2.86%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Kafka
1 4 (11.43%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Data Fabric
2 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.86%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
2 26 (74.29%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (68.57%) ETL
4 23 (65.71%) Data Engineering
5 19 (54.29%) Analytics
6 18 (51.43%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (48.57%) Mentoring
8 12 (34.29%) Data Science
9 11 (31.43%) Data Architecture
10 10 (28.57%) Data Modelling
11 8 (22.86%) Data Extraction
11 8 (22.86%) Data Security
11 8 (22.86%) Data Strategy
12 7 (20.00%) Visualisation
13 6 (17.14%) Agile
13 6 (17.14%) Machine Learning
13 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
14 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
14 5 (14.29%) Data Migration
14 5 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (65.71%) SQL
2 21 (60.00%) Python
3 11 (31.43%) Scala
4 8 (22.86%) Java
5 7 (20.00%) R
6 4 (11.43%) C#
7 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.71%) DBS Check
1 2 (5.71%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (37.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Databricks
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle
3 3 (8.57%) Informatica
3 3 (8.57%) Palantir
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.86%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.86%) Google