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 £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 November 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 201 237 272
Rank change year-on-year +36 +35 +104
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 67 68 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.70% 0.55% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% 0.59% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 63 58 10
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,125 £52,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £55,000 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,465 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% +0.71% -18.75%
75th Percentile £73,125 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,125 £82,125
England median annual salary £70,000 £73,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year -4.11% -5.81% -3.13%

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 8,390 11,621 7,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.55% 94.74% 96.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,044 6,071 5,587
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £53,455 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.04% -4.17% -

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 17 November 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 17 November 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
North West +47 35 £67,500 +3.85% 17
Yorkshire +20 29 £65,000 -0.71% 7
North East -3 3 £67,500 -19.40%
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 17 November 2025, 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 52 (77.61%) SQL
2 42 (62.69%) Python
3 39 (58.21%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (46.27%) Data Modelling
5 28 (41.79%) Azure
5 28 (41.79%) CI/CD
6 27 (40.30%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (37.31%) Data Engineering
8 24 (35.82%) ETL
9 23 (34.33%) AWS
9 23 (34.33%) Data Lake
10 16 (23.88%) Agile
11 15 (22.39%) Data Science
11 15 (22.39%) Requirements Gathering
12 14 (20.90%) Apache Spark
12 14 (20.90%) Mentoring
12 14 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (17.91%) Amazon Redshift
13 12 (17.91%) Analytics
13 12 (17.91%) Databricks
13 12 (17.91%) Migration
13 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (16.42%) Apache
14 11 (16.42%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (14.93%) Amazon S3
15 10 (14.93%) Data Integration
15 10 (14.93%) Data Migration
15 10 (14.93%) Data Security
16 9 (13.43%) Data Quality
16 9 (13.43%) Decision-Making

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 (20.90%) Apache Spark
2 11 (16.42%) Apache
3 5 (7.46%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.49%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 28 (41.79%) Azure
2 23 (34.33%) AWS
3 10 (14.93%) Amazon S3
4 7 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (10.45%) SaaS
4 7 (10.45%) Serverless
5 6 (8.96%) dbt
5 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
6 5 (7.46%) AWS Step Functions
7 4 (5.97%) GCP
8 3 (4.48%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (4.48%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.48%) GitHub
9 2 (2.99%) Dagster
9 2 (2.99%) Prefect
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon Bedrock
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (1.49%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (58.21%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (34.33%) Data Lake
3 12 (17.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (8.96%) Power BI
5 4 (5.97%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.48%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (4.48%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (4.48%) Data Vault
6 3 (4.48%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.48%) MySQL
6 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.99%) Tableau
8 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.49%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 20 (29.85%) Retail
2 18 (26.87%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.94%) Finance
4 7 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.96%) Legal
6 5 (7.46%) Tech for Good
7 4 (5.97%) Marketing
8 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.49%) Advertising
10 1 (1.49%) Front Office
10 1 (1.49%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (4.48%) Virtual Team
2 2 (2.99%) Client/Server
2 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.27%) Data Modelling
2 28 (41.79%) CI/CD
3 27 (40.30%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (37.31%) Data Engineering
5 24 (35.82%) ETL
6 16 (23.88%) Agile
7 15 (22.39%) Data Science
7 15 (22.39%) Requirements Gathering
8 14 (20.90%) Mentoring
8 14 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (17.91%) Analytics
9 12 (17.91%) Migration
9 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (16.42%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (14.93%) Data Integration
11 10 (14.93%) Data Migration
11 10 (14.93%) Data Security
12 9 (13.43%) Decision-Making
13 8 (11.94%) Coaching
13 8 (11.94%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 52 (77.61%) SQL
2 42 (62.69%) Python
3 6 (8.96%) Java
4 3 (4.48%) Scala
5 1 (1.49%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (2.99%) Degree
2 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (7.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (17.91%) Databricks
2 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.48%) Oracle
3 3 (4.48%) Palantir
4 1 (1.49%) Google