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 September 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 238 228 307
Rank change year-on-year -10 +79 +81
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 62 94 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.66% 0.66% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.70% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 58 81 12
10th Percentile £53,750 £46,250 £50,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £53,750 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +14.29% -23.44%
75th Percentile £70,938 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,500 -
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 8,201 13,444 8,611
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 87.18% 94.98% 92.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,416 8,151 6,510
10th Percentile £26,000 £29,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,250 £38,563 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% +2.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

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 September 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 September 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 -20 33 £67,500 +3.85% 11
Yorkshire +42 26 £67,500 +3.11% 5
North East +4 3 £67,500 -15.63%
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 13 September 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 44 (70.97%) SQL
2 43 (69.35%) Python
3 34 (54.84%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (51.61%) Data Pipeline
5 29 (46.77%) Data Modelling
6 27 (43.55%) Azure
7 26 (41.94%) ETL
7 26 (41.94%) CI/CD
8 23 (37.10%) Retail
8 23 (37.10%) Data Engineering
9 21 (33.87%) AWS
10 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
11 19 (30.65%) Data Lake
11 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
12 15 (24.19%) Apache Spark
12 15 (24.19%) Requirements Gathering
12 15 (24.19%) Analytics
13 14 (22.58%) Mentoring
14 12 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (19.35%) Apache
15 11 (17.74%) Migration
15 11 (17.74%) Data Migration
15 11 (17.74%) Data Science
16 10 (16.13%) Serverless
16 10 (16.13%) Amazon S3
16 10 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (16.13%) Data Security
17 9 (14.52%) Databricks
18 8 (12.90%) Power Platform
18 8 (12.90%) Power BI

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 15 (24.19%) Apache Spark
2 12 (19.35%) Apache
3 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 27 (43.55%) Azure
2 21 (33.87%) AWS
3 10 (16.13%) Amazon S3
3 10 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (16.13%) Serverless
4 8 (12.90%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (6.45%) GCP
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon EMR
6 3 (4.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (4.84%) SaaS
7 2 (3.23%) dbt
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.61%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.61%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (54.84%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (30.65%) Data Lake
3 8 (12.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 8 (12.90%) Power BI
4 6 (9.68%) Big Data
4 6 (9.68%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.45%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (4.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.84%) DynamoDB
6 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
6 3 (4.84%) MySQL
7 2 (3.23%) Tableau
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.61%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (37.10%) Retail
2 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.06%) Tech for Good
5 4 (6.45%) Finance
5 4 (6.45%) Legal
6 3 (4.84%) Marketing
6 3 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.61%) Advertising
7 1 (1.61%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) Pandas
1 1 (1.61%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.61%) Replication
2 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (51.61%) Data Pipeline
2 29 (46.77%) Data Modelling
3 26 (41.94%) CI/CD
3 26 (41.94%) ETL
4 23 (37.10%) Data Engineering
5 20 (32.26%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (24.19%) Analytics
6 15 (24.19%) Requirements Gathering
7 14 (22.58%) Mentoring
8 12 (19.35%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (17.74%) Data Migration
9 11 (17.74%) Data Science
9 11 (17.74%) Migration
10 10 (16.13%) Data Security
11 8 (12.90%) Data Architecture
12 7 (11.29%) Data Strategy
12 7 (11.29%) Decision-Making
12 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 6 (9.68%) Agile
13 6 (9.68%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 44 (70.97%) SQL
2 43 (69.35%) Python
3 8 (12.90%) Java
4 6 (9.68%) Scala
5 3 (4.84%) C#
5 3 (4.84%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (3.23%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.61%) DBS Check
2 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (14.52%) Databricks
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle
2 3 (4.84%) Palantir
3 1 (1.61%) Google