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 12 March 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 234 306
Rank change year-on-year -6 +72 +121
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 54 25 51
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.38% 0.36% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.39% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 53 23 36
10th Percentile £57,500 £43,400 £34,625
25th Percentile £62,500 £50,000 £48,028
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,125 £80,313
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
England median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year - -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 12,809 6,382 13,863
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.54% 92.71% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 8,018 3,626 11,280
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £79,600
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.69%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 +13 31 £70,000 +33.33% 11
Yorkshire -40 20 £65,000 +4.00% 6
North East -18 3 £70,000 +12.00% 4
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 12 March 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 34 (62.96%) SQL
2 24 (44.44%) Data Engineering
3 22 (40.74%) Agile
3 22 (40.74%) Data Modelling
4 21 (38.89%) Python
5 20 (37.04%) AWS
6 19 (35.19%) Databricks
6 19 (35.19%) ETL
7 18 (33.33%) Data Lake
8 17 (31.48%) Data Pipeline
9 16 (29.63%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (25.93%) Mentoring
11 12 (22.22%) CI/CD
11 12 (22.22%) Data Science
12 11 (20.37%) Analytics
12 11 (20.37%) Azure
13 10 (18.52%) dbt
14 9 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (16.67%) Apache Spark
14 9 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (16.67%) Data Integration
14 9 (16.67%) Data Quality
14 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
15 8 (14.81%) Coaching
15 8 (14.81%) Data Design
15 8 (14.81%) SDLC
16 7 (12.96%) Apache
16 7 (12.96%) Apache Airflow
16 7 (12.96%) Clean Code
16 7 (12.96%) 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 9 (16.67%) Apache Spark
2 7 (12.96%) Apache
2 7 (12.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.85%) Apache Solr
3 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) AWS
2 11 (20.37%) Azure
3 10 (18.52%) dbt
4 7 (12.96%) Power Platform
4 7 (12.96%) SaaS
5 5 (9.26%) GCP
6 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (7.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 4 (7.41%) Serverless
7 3 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.70%) Dagster
8 2 (3.70%) GitHub
8 2 (3.70%) Prefect
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 16 (29.63%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (12.96%) Power BI
5 3 (5.56%) BigQuery
5 3 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
6 2 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.70%) Data Vault
6 2 (3.70%) MySQL
6 2 (3.70%) Semantic Layer
6 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.70%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.85%) DocumentDB
7 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.56%) Legal
4 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Tech for Good
5 2 (3.70%) Digital Health
5 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.85%) Law
6 1 (1.85%) Marketing
6 1 (1.85%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) Pandas
2 1 (1.85%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.70%) Client/Server
1 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
1 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) Data Engineering
2 22 (40.74%) Agile
2 22 (40.74%) Data Modelling
3 19 (35.19%) ETL
4 17 (31.48%) Data Pipeline
5 14 (25.93%) Mentoring
6 12 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 12 (22.22%) Data Science
7 11 (20.37%) Analytics
8 9 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (16.67%) Data Integration
8 9 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (14.81%) Coaching
9 8 (14.81%) Data Design
9 8 (14.81%) SDLC
10 7 (12.96%) Clean Code
10 7 (12.96%) Logical Data Model
10 7 (12.96%) Migration
10 7 (12.96%) Physical Data Model
11 6 (11.11%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 34 (62.96%) SQL
2 21 (38.89%) Python
3 3 (5.56%) Java
4 2 (3.70%) Scala
5 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (1.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.70%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (35.19%) Databricks
2 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.70%) Oracle
3 2 (3.70%) Palantir
4 1 (1.85%) Google