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 £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 251 318
Rank change year-on-year +12 +67 +77
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 106 39 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.53% 0.50% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.55% 0.43%
Number of salaries quoted 98 39 60
10th Percentile £60,000 £47,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £65,219 £53,750 £48,153
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £84,000 £90,000
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 18,588 7,043 16,871
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 89.77% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12,865 3,519 13,385
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,500 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.48% +9.52% -13.65%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +51 69 £70,400 +2.40% 7
Yorkshire -35 29 £80,000 +33.33% 8
North East -38 8 £95,000 +52.00% 1
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 30 May 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 50 (47.17%) SQL
2 42 (39.62%) Python
3 37 (34.91%) Azure
4 33 (31.13%) Analytics
5 27 (25.47%) AWS
6 25 (23.58%) Data Engineering
7 24 (22.64%) Data Modelling
8 23 (21.70%) Agile
9 22 (20.75%) Data Quality
9 22 (20.75%) ETL
10 21 (19.81%) AI
10 21 (19.81%) Data Pipeline
10 21 (19.81%) Databricks
11 18 (16.98%) Terraform
12 17 (16.04%) Mentoring
13 16 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (14.15%) CI/CD
14 15 (14.15%) SQL Server
15 14 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (12.26%) Apache Airflow
16 13 (12.26%) Platform Engineering
17 12 (11.32%) Business Strategy
17 12 (11.32%) dbt
17 12 (11.32%) Power BI
17 12 (11.32%) Power Platform
18 11 (10.38%) Business Intelligence
18 11 (10.38%) Data Lake
18 11 (10.38%) Decision-Making
18 11 (10.38%) GCP
18 11 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code

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 (12.26%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.77%) Apache
2 4 (3.77%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.89%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.91%) Azure
2 27 (25.47%) AWS
3 12 (11.32%) dbt
3 12 (11.32%) Power Platform
4 11 (10.38%) GCP
5 9 (8.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (7.55%) Snowflake
7 6 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.66%) GitHub
8 5 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.83%) SaaS
10 3 (2.83%) Serverless
11 2 (1.89%) Dagster
11 2 (1.89%) Prefect
12 1 (0.94%) AWS Step Functions
12 1 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.09%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (14.15%) SQL Server
3 12 (11.32%) Power BI
4 11 (10.38%) Data Lake
5 9 (8.49%) BigQuery
6 6 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (4.72%) Metadata
8 4 (3.77%) Flink
9 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (2.83%) Tableau
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.89%) Big Data
10 2 (1.89%) Data Vault
10 2 (1.89%) DynamoDB
10 2 (1.89%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.89%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.89%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Git
2 2 (1.89%) JIRA
General
1 20 (18.87%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.38%) Finance
3 7 (6.60%) Law
4 5 (4.72%) Retail
5 3 (2.83%) Advertising
5 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.83%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.89%) Digital Health
6 2 (1.89%) Games
6 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.94%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.55%) Kafka
2 6 (5.66%) PySpark
3 4 (3.77%) Great Expectations
3 4 (3.77%) Pandas
4 1 (0.94%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.60%) Greenfield Project
2 5 (4.72%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.83%) Sports Betting
4 2 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.94%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.94%) Online Gambling
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.13%) Analytics
2 25 (23.58%) Data Engineering
3 24 (22.64%) Data Modelling
4 23 (21.70%) Agile
5 22 (20.75%) ETL
6 21 (19.81%) AI
6 21 (19.81%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (16.04%) Mentoring
8 15 (14.15%) CI/CD
9 14 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (12.26%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (11.32%) Business Strategy
12 11 (10.38%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (10.38%) Decision-Making
12 11 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (10.38%) Machine Learning
12 11 (10.38%) Observability
13 10 (9.43%) Data Architecture
13 10 (9.43%) Data Governance
14 9 (8.49%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 50 (47.17%) SQL
2 42 (39.62%) Python
3 6 (5.66%) Java
4 5 (4.72%) Bash
5 2 (1.89%) Scala
6 1 (0.94%) Bicep
6 1 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.94%) Go
6 1 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.75%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.72%) QA
3 1 (0.94%) GDPR
3 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (4.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (16.98%) Terraform
2 2 (1.89%) Grafana
2 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.94%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (19.81%) Databricks
2 6 (5.66%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.72%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.72%) SAP
4 2 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (0.94%) ServiceNow