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 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 242 239
Rank change year-on-year +41 -3 +64
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 161 64 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.71% 0.67% 0.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.76% 0.70%
Number of salaries quoted 129 62 85
10th Percentile £57,500 £50,250 £47,700
25th Percentile £65,000 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,188 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £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 21,437 8,408 14,522
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 88.05% 95.05%
Number of salaries quoted 15,669 4,587 9,624
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -8.12%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
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 25 August 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 25 August 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 +54 103 £70,400 +4.30% 7
Yorkshire -30 43 £75,000 +25.00% 5
North East -43 15 £82,500 +6.45% 6
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 25 August 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 58 (36.02%) Analytics
2 55 (34.16%) SQL
3 54 (33.54%) Python
4 50 (31.06%) Azure
5 48 (29.81%) Data Engineering
6 34 (21.12%) AWS
7 30 (18.63%) Data Pipeline
8 27 (16.77%) ETL
9 26 (16.15%) AI
9 26 (16.15%) Terraform
10 23 (14.29%) CI/CD
11 22 (13.66%) Data Quality
12 20 (12.42%) Decision-Making
12 20 (12.42%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (11.80%) GCP
13 19 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (11.18%) Business Strategy
14 18 (11.18%) Data Modelling
14 18 (11.18%) Data Warehouse
14 18 (11.18%) Mentoring
15 17 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (9.94%) Business Intelligence
16 16 (9.94%) SQL Server
17 15 (9.32%) Agile
18 14 (8.70%) Databricks
19 13 (8.07%) Apache Airflow
19 13 (8.07%) BigQuery
19 13 (8.07%) Data Architecture
19 13 (8.07%) dbt
19 13 (8.07%) DevOps

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 (8.07%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (3.73%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.86%) Apache
4 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 50 (31.06%) Azure
2 34 (21.12%) AWS
3 19 (11.80%) GCP
4 13 (8.07%) dbt
4 13 (8.07%) Snowflake
5 12 (7.45%) GitHub
6 11 (6.83%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (6.83%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.73%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.11%) Serverless
10 4 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (1.24%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (1.24%) Google Ads
11 2 (1.24%) Google Analytics
11 2 (1.24%) Google Data Studio
11 2 (1.24%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.18%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (9.94%) SQL Server
3 13 (8.07%) BigQuery
4 11 (6.83%) Power BI
5 10 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (5.59%) Data Lake
7 7 (4.35%) Metadata
8 5 (3.11%) Big Data
9 4 (2.48%) Flink
10 2 (1.24%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.24%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.24%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.24%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.24%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (1.24%) Tableau
11 1 (0.62%) Airbyte
11 1 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.62%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (0.62%) JIRA
General
1 29 (18.01%) Social Skills
2 12 (7.45%) Finance
3 8 (4.97%) Retail
4 7 (4.35%) Law
5 6 (3.73%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.48%) Marketing
7 3 (1.86%) Advertising
7 3 (1.86%) Games
8 2 (1.24%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.24%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.62%) Banking
9 1 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.62%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.15%) Terraform
2 11 (6.83%) Kafka
3 10 (6.21%) PySpark
4 5 (3.11%) Pandas
5 4 (2.48%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.62%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.59%) Onboarding
2 7 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (1.86%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.86%) Sports Betting
4 2 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.62%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.62%) Online Gambling
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (36.02%) Analytics
2 48 (29.81%) Data Engineering
3 30 (18.63%) Data Pipeline
4 27 (16.77%) ETL
5 26 (16.15%) AI
6 23 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 20 (12.42%) Decision-Making
7 20 (12.42%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (11.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (11.18%) Business Strategy
9 18 (11.18%) Data Modelling
9 18 (11.18%) Mentoring
10 17 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (9.94%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (9.32%) Agile
13 13 (8.07%) Data Architecture
13 13 (8.07%) DevOps
13 13 (8.07%) Migration
13 13 (8.07%) Observability
14 11 (6.83%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 55 (34.16%) SQL
2 54 (33.54%) Python
3 9 (5.59%) Bash
4 6 (3.73%) Java
5 3 (1.86%) Scala
6 2 (1.24%) Bicep
6 2 (1.24%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.62%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (2.48%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.24%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.66%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.11%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
System Software
1 6 (3.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.24%) Grafana
1 2 (1.24%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (8.70%) Databricks
2 8 (4.97%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.73%) Google
4 5 (3.11%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.11%) SAP
5 3 (1.86%) Informatica
6 1 (0.62%) ServiceNow