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 13 October 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 243 243 281
Rank change year-on-year 0 +38 +107
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 61 75 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.65% 0.58% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.61% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 57 64 12
10th Percentile £53,750 £45,725 £50,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £51,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,465 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% +6.88% -23.44%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,000 £95,000 -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

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 8,219 12,331 8,042
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.19% 94.94% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 4,336 6,699 6,116
10th Percentile £26,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £69,136
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £81,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% -

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -7 33 £67,500 +10.20% 14
Yorkshire +28 25 £66,250 +1.20% 13
North East +7 3 £67,500 -10.00% 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 13 October 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 45 (73.77%) SQL
2 41 (67.21%) Python
3 37 (60.66%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (50.82%) Data Modelling
5 29 (47.54%) Data Pipeline
6 26 (42.62%) CI/CD
7 25 (40.98%) ETL
7 25 (40.98%) Azure
8 23 (37.70%) Retail
9 22 (36.07%) Data Engineering
10 19 (31.15%) Data Lake
10 19 (31.15%) AWS
11 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
12 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (24.59%) Requirements Gathering
14 14 (22.95%) Apache Spark
15 13 (21.31%) Mentoring
15 13 (21.31%) Data Science
16 12 (19.67%) Business Intelligence
16 12 (19.67%) Apache
17 11 (18.03%) Migration
17 11 (18.03%) Analytics
17 11 (18.03%) Data Migration
18 10 (16.39%) Amazon S3
18 10 (16.39%) Agile
19 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
19 9 (14.75%) Data Security
19 9 (14.75%) Amazon Redshift
19 9 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
19 9 (14.75%) Databricks

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 (22.95%) Apache Spark
2 12 (19.67%) Apache
3 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.98%) Azure
2 19 (31.15%) AWS
3 10 (16.39%) Amazon S3
4 9 (14.75%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (14.75%) Serverless
5 8 (13.11%) Power Platform
6 5 (8.20%) SaaS
7 4 (6.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (6.56%) dbt
8 3 (4.92%) GCP
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (3.28%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (3.28%) GitHub
10 1 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (60.66%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (31.15%) Data Lake
3 9 (14.75%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (13.11%) Power BI
5 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
6 5 (8.20%) Big Data
7 4 (6.56%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 3 (4.92%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (4.92%) DynamoDB
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (3.28%) Apache Iceberg
9 2 (3.28%) Data Vault
9 2 (3.28%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.28%) MySQL
9 2 (3.28%) Tableau
10 1 (1.64%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (37.70%) Retail
2 17 (27.87%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Finance
4 5 (8.20%) Tech for Good
5 4 (6.56%) Marketing
6 3 (4.92%) Legal
7 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.64%) Advertising
8 1 (1.64%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.28%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.64%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) Data Modelling
2 29 (47.54%) Data Pipeline
3 26 (42.62%) CI/CD
4 25 (40.98%) ETL
5 22 (36.07%) Data Engineering
6 16 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (24.59%) Requirements Gathering
8 13 (21.31%) Data Science
8 13 (21.31%) Mentoring
9 12 (19.67%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (18.03%) Analytics
10 11 (18.03%) Data Migration
10 11 (18.03%) Migration
11 10 (16.39%) Agile
12 9 (14.75%) Data Security
12 9 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (13.11%) Data Architecture
13 8 (13.11%) Data Integration
14 7 (11.48%) Decision-Making
15 6 (9.84%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 45 (73.77%) SQL
2 41 (67.21%) Python
3 8 (13.11%) Java
4 4 (6.56%) Scala
5 2 (3.28%) C#
5 2 (3.28%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (3.28%) Degree
2 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Databricks
2 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle
3 2 (3.28%) Palantir
4 1 (1.64%) Google