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 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 228 294
Rank change year-on-year -5 +66 +106
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 76 35 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.42% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.46% 0.55% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 69 35 57
10th Percentile £59,500 £47,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £54,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 - £87,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -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 16,468 6,356 15,773
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 89.53% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 10,639 3,834 12,605
10th Percentile £29,250 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,875 £37,500 £36,120
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%

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 25 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 25 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 -8 41 £70,000 +13.36% 11
Yorkshire -48 28 £65,000 +4.00% 3
North East -40 7 £100,000 +48.15%
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 25 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 39 (51.32%) SQL
2 28 (36.84%) Python
3 24 (31.58%) AWS
3 24 (31.58%) Data Engineering
4 22 (28.95%) Data Modelling
5 21 (27.63%) Agile
5 21 (27.63%) Azure
6 20 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
6 20 (26.32%) Databricks
7 19 (25.00%) ETL
8 17 (22.37%) Analytics
9 16 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (19.74%) Data Lake
11 14 (18.42%) Mentoring
12 13 (17.11%) Data Quality
13 11 (14.47%) CI/CD
14 10 (13.16%) AI
14 10 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (13.16%) Data Science
15 9 (11.84%) Terraform
16 8 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
16 8 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
16 8 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
16 8 (10.53%) Data Design
16 8 (10.53%) GCP
17 7 (9.21%) Coaching
17 7 (9.21%) Data Transformation
17 7 (9.21%) dbt
17 7 (9.21%) Decision-Making
17 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure as Code

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 8 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.58%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.95%) Apache
4 2 (2.63%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 24 (31.58%) AWS
2 21 (27.63%) Azure
3 8 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (10.53%) GCP
4 7 (9.21%) dbt
4 7 (9.21%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.58%) SaaS
6 4 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
7 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (3.95%) GitHub
7 3 (3.95%) Serverless
7 3 (3.95%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.63%) Dagster
8 2 (2.63%) Prefect
9 1 (1.32%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (21.05%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (19.74%) Data Lake
3 7 (9.21%) Power BI
4 6 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.26%) BigQuery
5 4 (5.26%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.95%) Flink
6 3 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.63%) MySQL
7 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.63%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.63%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (2.63%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.32%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Git
1 2 (2.63%) JIRA
General
1 13 (17.11%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.79%) Finance
3 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.95%) Advertising
4 3 (3.95%) Legal
4 3 (3.95%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Digital Health
5 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.63%) Retail
5 2 (2.63%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.32%) Banking
6 1 (1.32%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.58%) Kafka
1 5 (6.58%) PySpark
2 4 (5.26%) Pandas
3 3 (3.95%) Great Expectations
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.63%) Client/Server
2 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (31.58%) Data Engineering
2 22 (28.95%) Data Modelling
3 21 (27.63%) Agile
4 20 (26.32%) Data Pipeline
5 19 (25.00%) ETL
6 17 (22.37%) Analytics
7 14 (18.42%) Mentoring
8 11 (14.47%) CI/CD
9 10 (13.16%) AI
9 10 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (13.16%) Data Science
10 8 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.53%) Data Design
11 7 (9.21%) Coaching
11 7 (9.21%) Data Transformation
11 7 (9.21%) Decision-Making
11 7 (9.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (9.21%) Machine Learning
11 7 (9.21%) Validation
12 6 (7.89%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 39 (51.32%) SQL
2 28 (36.84%) Python
3 4 (5.26%) Java
4 2 (2.63%) Scala
5 1 (1.32%) Bash
5 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (2.63%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.84%) Terraform
2 2 (2.63%) Grafana
2 2 (2.63%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (26.32%) Databricks
2 6 (7.89%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle
3 2 (2.63%) Palantir
3 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.63%) SAP
4 1 (1.32%) Google