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 £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 266 296
Rank change year-on-year +48 +30 +80
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 122 38 96
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.60% 0.45% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.51% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 109 38 82
10th Percentile £61,000 £47,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £65,875 £52,813 £48,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £80,313
90th Percentile £85,500 £90,000 £90,000
England median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -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 19,087 7,474 18,375
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 87.86% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13,920 3,825 14,083
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +9.52% -12.50%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 +65 81 £70,400 +11.75% 18
Yorkshire -23 34 £80,000 +33.33% 4
North East -37 7 £100,000 +14.29% 3
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 26 June 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 51 (41.80%) SQL
2 45 (36.89%) Python
3 42 (34.43%) Azure
4 32 (26.23%) Analytics
4 32 (26.23%) AWS
5 26 (21.31%) Data Engineering
6 24 (19.67%) Data Modelling
6 24 (19.67%) Databricks
7 23 (18.85%) Data Pipeline
7 23 (18.85%) ETL
8 22 (18.03%) Agile
8 22 (18.03%) Data Quality
9 21 (17.21%) AI
10 20 (16.39%) Terraform
11 18 (14.75%) CI/CD
12 17 (13.93%) Mentoring
13 16 (13.11%) Data Warehouse
13 16 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
14 15 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 15 (12.30%) GCP
14 15 (12.30%) Power BI
14 15 (12.30%) Power Platform
14 15 (12.30%) SQL Server
15 14 (11.48%) Apache Airflow
15 14 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (11.48%) Business Strategy
15 14 (11.48%) dbt
15 14 (11.48%) Decision-Making
16 12 (9.84%) Machine Learning
17 11 (9.02%) BigQuery

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 14 (11.48%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.28%) Apache
2 4 (3.28%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.64%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (34.43%) Azure
2 32 (26.23%) AWS
3 15 (12.30%) GCP
3 15 (12.30%) Power Platform
4 14 (11.48%) dbt
5 10 (8.20%) Snowflake
6 9 (7.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.92%) GitHub
8 5 (4.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (4.10%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.28%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.28%) Serverless
10 2 (1.64%) Dagster
10 2 (1.64%) Prefect
10 2 (1.64%) SaaS
11 1 (0.82%) AWS Step Functions
11 1 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.11%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (12.30%) Power BI
2 15 (12.30%) SQL Server
3 11 (9.02%) BigQuery
3 11 (9.02%) Data Lake
4 8 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (4.10%) Metadata
6 4 (3.28%) Flink
7 3 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.46%) Tableau
8 2 (1.64%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (1.64%) Big Data
8 2 (1.64%) Data Vault
8 2 (1.64%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.64%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.64%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.64%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (5.74%) Git
2 2 (1.64%) JIRA
General
1 21 (17.21%) Social Skills
2 11 (9.02%) Finance
3 7 (5.74%) Law
4 6 (4.92%) Retail
5 4 (3.28%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.46%) Advertising
6 3 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Digital Health
7 2 (1.64%) Games
7 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.64%) Marketing
8 1 (0.82%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.56%) Kafka
2 7 (5.74%) PySpark
3 5 (4.10%) Pandas
4 4 (3.28%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.82%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.74%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.10%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.46%) Sports Betting
4 2 (1.64%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.82%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.82%) Online Gambling
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (26.23%) Analytics
2 26 (21.31%) Data Engineering
3 24 (19.67%) Data Modelling
4 23 (18.85%) Data Pipeline
4 23 (18.85%) ETL
5 22 (18.03%) Agile
6 21 (17.21%) AI
7 18 (14.75%) CI/CD
8 17 (13.93%) Mentoring
9 16 (13.11%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (12.30%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (11.48%) Business Strategy
11 14 (11.48%) Decision-Making
12 12 (9.84%) Machine Learning
13 11 (9.02%) Data Governance
13 11 (9.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (9.02%) Observability
14 10 (8.20%) Data Architecture
15 9 (7.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 51 (41.80%) SQL
2 45 (36.89%) Python
3 6 (4.92%) Java
4 5 (4.10%) Bash
5 2 (1.64%) Scala
6 1 (0.82%) Bicep
6 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.82%) Go
6 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (1.64%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (18.03%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.92%) QA
3 1 (0.82%) GDPR
3 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (4.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (16.39%) Terraform
2 2 (1.64%) Grafana
2 2 (1.64%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (19.67%) Databricks
2 8 (6.56%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.10%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.10%) SAP
4 3 (2.46%) Google
5 1 (0.82%) ServiceNow