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 £70,400 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 255 304
Rank change year-on-year +12 +49 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 91 38 71
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.48% 0.48% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.53% 0.44%
Number of salaries quoted 83 38 59
10th Percentile £60,000 £47,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £54,063 £49,102
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,400 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.64% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,750 £90,000
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 17,675 7,136 16,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 90.48% 95.01%
Number of salaries quoted 12,049 3,769 12,914
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +2.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -12.01%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +51 58 £70,000 +11.11% 14
Yorkshire -34 26 £80,000 +33.33% 10
North East -33 7 £100,000 +48.15% 1
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 18 May 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 41 (45.05%) SQL
2 33 (36.26%) Python
3 32 (35.16%) Azure
4 29 (31.87%) Analytics
5 22 (24.18%) AWS
5 22 (24.18%) Data Engineering
6 21 (23.08%) Agile
6 21 (23.08%) Data Modelling
7 20 (21.98%) Databricks
8 18 (19.78%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (18.68%) AI
9 17 (18.68%) Data Quality
9 17 (18.68%) ETL
10 15 (16.48%) Terraform
11 14 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (14.29%) CI/CD
12 13 (14.29%) Mentoring
13 11 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (12.09%) Data Lake
13 11 (12.09%) Decision-Making
13 11 (12.09%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (12.09%) Power BI
13 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
14 10 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (10.99%) GCP
14 10 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (10.99%) Machine Learning
14 10 (10.99%) Observability
14 10 (10.99%) SQL Server
15 9 (9.89%) Apache Airflow

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 (9.89%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.40%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.30%) Apache
4 2 (2.20%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 32 (35.16%) Azure
2 22 (24.18%) AWS
3 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
4 10 (10.99%) GCP
5 9 (9.89%) dbt
6 8 (8.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (7.69%) Snowflake
8 6 (6.59%) GitHub
9 5 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (5.49%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (3.30%) SaaS
12 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
12 2 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (2.20%) Serverless
13 1 (1.10%) AWS Step Functions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (12.09%) Data Lake
2 11 (12.09%) Power BI
3 10 (10.99%) SQL Server
4 7 (7.69%) BigQuery
5 4 (4.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (4.40%) Flink
6 3 (3.30%) Metadata
6 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.30%) Tableau
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (2.20%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.20%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.20%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.10%) Big Data
8 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.10%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Git
2 2 (2.20%) JIRA
General
1 17 (18.68%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.99%) Finance
3 5 (5.49%) Retail
4 4 (4.40%) Law
4 4 (4.40%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.30%) Advertising
5 3 (3.30%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Digital Health
6 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.20%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.10%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.69%) Kafka
2 6 (6.59%) PySpark
3 4 (4.40%) Great Expectations
3 4 (4.40%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.49%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.40%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.20%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (31.87%) Analytics
2 22 (24.18%) Data Engineering
3 21 (23.08%) Agile
3 21 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 18 (19.78%) Data Pipeline
5 17 (18.68%) AI
5 17 (18.68%) ETL
6 13 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 13 (14.29%) Mentoring
7 11 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (12.09%) Decision-Making
7 11 (12.09%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (10.99%) Infrastructure as Code
8 10 (10.99%) Machine Learning
8 10 (10.99%) Observability
9 9 (9.89%) Business Strategy
9 9 (9.89%) Data Architecture
10 8 (8.79%) Data Governance
10 8 (8.79%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.05%) SQL
2 33 (36.26%) Python
3 6 (6.59%) Java
4 5 (5.49%) Bash
5 2 (2.20%) Scala
6 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.10%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (18.68%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.40%) QA
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (16.48%) Terraform
2 2 (2.20%) Grafana
2 2 (2.20%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (21.98%) Databricks
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.49%) Salesforce
2 5 (5.49%) SAP
3 2 (2.20%) Google
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle
4 1 (1.10%) Palantir