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 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 234 270
Rank change year-on-year +15 +36 +130
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 69 69 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.72% 0.55% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.58% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 65 59 9
10th Percentile £53,750 £47,250 £53,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,750 £84,250
England median annual salary £72,500 £73,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -1.36% -8.13% -

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 8,464 11,816 7,415
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 88.88% 95.04% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,015 6,261 5,636
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.83% -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 6 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 6 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 +29 35 £67,500 +3.85% 22
Yorkshire +30 31 £65,000 -0.71% 11
North East -7 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 6 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 (75.36%) SQL
2 45 (65.22%) Python
3 40 (57.97%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (46.38%) Data Modelling
5 30 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
6 29 (42.03%) CI/CD
7 27 (39.13%) Azure
8 26 (37.68%) ETL
9 25 (36.23%) Data Engineering
10 24 (34.78%) AWS
11 23 (33.33%) Data Lake
12 16 (23.19%) Apache Spark
12 16 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (21.74%) Agile
13 15 (21.74%) Data Science
13 15 (21.74%) Mentoring
13 15 (21.74%) Requirements Gathering
14 14 (20.29%) Migration
15 13 (18.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (18.84%) Apache
15 13 (18.84%) Data Migration
16 12 (17.39%) Amazon S3
16 12 (17.39%) Data Security
16 12 (17.39%) Databricks
17 11 (15.94%) Analytics
17 11 (15.94%) Business Intelligence
17 11 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
18 9 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
18 9 (13.04%) Data Integration
18 9 (13.04%) Data Quality

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 16 (23.19%) Apache Spark
2 13 (18.84%) Apache
3 4 (5.80%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.45%) Apache Solr
Cloud Services
1 27 (39.13%) Azure
2 24 (34.78%) AWS
3 12 (17.39%) Amazon S3
4 9 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (13.04%) Serverless
5 6 (8.70%) dbt
5 6 (8.70%) Power Platform
5 6 (8.70%) SaaS
6 4 (5.80%) AWS Step Functions
6 4 (5.80%) GCP
7 3 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.35%) GitHub
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (1.45%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.45%) Dagster
9 1 (1.45%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (57.97%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 13 (18.84%) Amazon Redshift
4 6 (8.70%) Power BI
5 4 (5.80%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.80%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (4.35%) Data Vault
6 3 (4.35%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.35%) MySQL
7 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.90%) Tableau
8 1 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.45%) Big Data
8 1 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.45%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 21 (30.43%) Retail
2 19 (27.54%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (10.14%) Finance
3 7 (10.14%) Tech for Good
4 5 (7.25%) Legal
5 4 (5.80%) Marketing
6 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.45%) Advertising
7 1 (1.45%) Front Office
7 1 (1.45%) Law
7 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.35%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.80%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (4.35%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.45%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (46.38%) Data Modelling
2 30 (43.48%) Data Pipeline
3 29 (42.03%) CI/CD
4 26 (37.68%) ETL
5 25 (36.23%) Data Engineering
6 16 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (21.74%) Agile
7 15 (21.74%) Data Science
7 15 (21.74%) Mentoring
7 15 (21.74%) Requirements Gathering
8 14 (20.29%) Migration
9 13 (18.84%) Data Migration
10 12 (17.39%) Data Security
11 11 (15.94%) Analytics
11 11 (15.94%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (15.94%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (13.04%) Data Integration
12 9 (13.04%) Decision-Making
13 8 (11.59%) Data Architecture
14 7 (10.14%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (75.36%) SQL
2 45 (65.22%) Python
3 7 (10.14%) Java
4 3 (4.35%) Scala
5 1 (1.45%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (2.90%) Degree
2 1 (1.45%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (5.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (17.39%) Databricks
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.35%) Oracle
3 3 (4.35%) Palantir
4 1 (1.45%) Google