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 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 257 268
Rank change year-on-year +45 +11 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 146 58 98
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.69% 0.61% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.69% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 128 57 87
10th Percentile £60,000 £48,800 £41,700
25th Percentile £65,000 £55,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.11% +9.11%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £92,500
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 19,990 8,359 15,562
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 88.44% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 14,545 4,506 11,426
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £36,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -7.83%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +59 96 £70,400 +4.30% 12
Yorkshire -17 41 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North East -41 9 £90,000 +2.86% 2
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 24 July 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 (34.93%) Analytics
1 51 (34.93%) SQL
2 48 (32.88%) Python
3 44 (30.14%) Azure
4 40 (27.40%) Data Engineering
5 35 (23.97%) AWS
6 27 (18.49%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (17.12%) ETL
8 24 (16.44%) AI
9 23 (15.75%) Data Modelling
10 21 (14.38%) Data Quality
10 21 (14.38%) Terraform
11 20 (13.70%) Databricks
12 19 (13.01%) CI/CD
13 18 (12.33%) Agile
13 18 (12.33%) GCP
13 18 (12.33%) Mentoring
14 17 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
14 17 (11.64%) Decision-Making
14 17 (11.64%) Platform Engineering
15 16 (10.96%) Data Warehouse
16 15 (10.27%) SQL Server
17 14 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
17 14 (9.59%) Business Strategy
17 14 (9.59%) dbt
17 14 (9.59%) Power BI
17 14 (9.59%) Power Platform
18 13 (8.90%) Apache Airflow
18 13 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
19 12 (8.22%) 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 13 (8.90%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.11%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.05%) Apache
4 1 (0.68%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 44 (30.14%) Azure
2 35 (23.97%) AWS
3 18 (12.33%) GCP
4 14 (9.59%) dbt
4 14 (9.59%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.85%) Snowflake
6 9 (6.16%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (4.79%) GitHub
8 6 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.74%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (2.74%) Serverless
11 2 (1.37%) Dagster
11 2 (1.37%) Prefect
12 1 (0.68%) Dataform
12 1 (0.68%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.68%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.96%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (10.27%) SQL Server
3 14 (9.59%) Power BI
4 12 (8.22%) BigQuery
5 9 (6.16%) Data Lake
6 8 (5.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.11%) Metadata
8 5 (3.42%) Big Data
9 4 (2.74%) Flink
10 2 (1.37%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.37%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.37%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.37%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.37%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.37%) Star Schema
10 2 (1.37%) Tableau
11 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Git
2 1 (0.68%) JIRA
General
1 21 (14.38%) Social Skills
2 11 (7.53%) Finance
3 7 (4.79%) Law
3 7 (4.79%) Public Sector
3 7 (4.79%) Retail
4 3 (2.05%) Advertising
4 3 (2.05%) Marketing
5 2 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.37%) Digital Health
5 2 (1.37%) Games
5 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.37%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.68%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.53%) Kafka
2 9 (6.16%) PySpark
3 5 (3.42%) Pandas
4 4 (2.74%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.68%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (3.42%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.05%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.05%) Sports Betting
4 2 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.68%) Online Gambling
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (34.93%) Analytics
2 40 (27.40%) Data Engineering
3 27 (18.49%) Data Pipeline
4 25 (17.12%) ETL
5 24 (16.44%) AI
6 23 (15.75%) Data Modelling
7 19 (13.01%) CI/CD
8 18 (12.33%) Agile
8 18 (12.33%) Mentoring
9 17 (11.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (11.64%) Decision-Making
9 17 (11.64%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (9.59%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (9.59%) Business Strategy
11 13 (8.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 12 (8.22%) Machine Learning
13 11 (7.53%) Data Architecture
13 11 (7.53%) Line Management
13 11 (7.53%) Migration
14 10 (6.85%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 51 (34.93%) SQL
2 48 (32.88%) Python
3 6 (4.11%) Java
4 5 (3.42%) Bash
5 3 (2.05%) Scala
6 1 (0.68%) Bicep
6 1 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.68%) Go
6 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (2.74%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.05%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.68%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.38%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.11%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (4.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (14.38%) Terraform
2 2 (1.37%) Grafana
2 2 (1.37%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.68%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (13.70%) Databricks
2 8 (5.48%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.42%) Salesforce
3 5 (3.42%) SAP
4 4 (2.74%) Google
5 3 (2.05%) Informatica
6 1 (0.68%) ServiceNow