Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the North of England is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 298 376
Rank change year-on-year -12 +78 +57
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 43 101 27
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.33% 0.52% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.55% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 43 87 20
10th Percentile £47,000 £41,250 £39,544
25th Percentile £54,375 £50,000 £47,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,465 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.93% +9.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £72,188
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% -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 11,473 18,505 13,037
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.43% 95.21% 89.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,125 13,708 7,949
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £63,900 £65,000 £69,136
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the North of England

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer 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 July 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 July 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
Yorkshire +60 21 £60,000 -2.04% 15
North West -46 20 £70,000 +7.69% 17
North East +37 2 £88,750 +18.33% 5
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Senior Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 28 (65.12%) Data Pipeline
1 28 (65.12%) Python
2 26 (60.47%) SQL
3 25 (58.14%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (55.81%) AWS
5 23 (53.49%) ETL
5 23 (53.49%) Data Engineering
6 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
7 17 (39.53%) Apache Spark
8 16 (37.21%) Analytics
9 14 (32.56%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (30.23%) Mentoring
10 13 (30.23%) Azure
10 13 (30.23%) Data Science
11 12 (27.91%) Apache
11 12 (27.91%) Data Modelling
12 11 (25.58%) Migration
12 11 (25.58%) Data Migration
12 11 (25.58%) Data Security
12 11 (25.58%) Data Lake
13 10 (23.26%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
13 10 (23.26%) Serverless
13 10 (23.26%) Data Quality
14 9 (20.93%) Data Architecture
14 9 (20.93%) Data Warehouse
15 8 (18.60%) Java
15 8 (18.60%) Scala
15 8 (18.60%) Big Data
15 8 (18.60%) Databricks

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (39.53%) Apache Spark
2 12 (27.91%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 24 (55.81%) AWS
2 13 (30.23%) Azure
3 10 (23.26%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (23.26%) Serverless
4 7 (16.28%) Amazon S3
4 7 (16.28%) Power Platform
5 5 (11.63%) GCP
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) Data Lake
2 9 (20.93%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (18.60%) Big Data
4 7 (16.28%) Amazon Redshift
4 7 (16.28%) Power BI
5 6 (13.95%) SQL Server
6 5 (11.63%) MySQL
7 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
8 3 (6.98%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
9 1 (2.33%) Hadoop
9 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
9 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Retail
4 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.98%) Finance
5 3 (6.98%) Tech for Good
6 2 (4.65%) Advertising
6 2 (4.65%) Front Office
7 1 (2.33%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (65.12%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (58.14%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (53.49%) Data Engineering
3 23 (53.49%) ETL
4 16 (37.21%) Analytics
5 14 (32.56%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (30.23%) Data Science
6 13 (30.23%) Mentoring
7 12 (27.91%) Data Modelling
8 11 (25.58%) Data Migration
8 11 (25.58%) Data Security
8 11 (25.58%) Migration
9 9 (20.93%) Data Architecture
10 7 (16.28%) Test Automation
11 6 (13.95%) Agile
11 6 (13.95%) Data Extraction
11 6 (13.95%) Data Strategy
12 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
12 5 (11.63%) Visualisation
13 4 (9.30%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 28 (65.12%) Python
2 26 (60.47%) SQL
3 8 (18.60%) Java
3 8 (18.60%) Scala
4 5 (11.63%) R
5 3 (6.98%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Degree
2 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.65%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (23.26%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (18.60%) Databricks
2 5 (11.63%) Oracle
3 4 (9.30%) Palantir
4 3 (6.98%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.65%) Informatica
6 1 (2.33%) Google