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 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 227 232
Rank change year-on-year +42 +5 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 183 63 90
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.77% 0.67% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.77% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 144 59 78
10th Percentile £57,875 £53,750 £46,025
25th Percentile £62,469 £57,500 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -3.57% +14.29%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £93,250
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 22,184 8,194 13,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 87.04% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 16,132 4,397 7,959
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,600
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +55 109 £75,000 +11.11% 52
Yorkshire -19 52 £75,000 +20.00% 14
North East -49 22 £75,000 +11.11% 7
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 18 September 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 79 (43.17%) Analytics
2 65 (35.52%) SQL
3 61 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 60 (32.79%) Python
5 51 (27.87%) Azure
6 38 (20.77%) Data Pipeline
7 34 (18.58%) ETL
8 32 (17.49%) AWS
9 29 (15.85%) Mentoring
10 28 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
11 27 (14.75%) CI/CD
11 27 (14.75%) Data Quality
11 27 (14.75%) Decision-Making
12 26 (14.21%) AI
13 23 (12.57%) Data Modelling
13 23 (12.57%) Terraform
14 20 (10.93%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (10.38%) Data Warehouse
15 19 (10.38%) Security Cleared
16 18 (9.84%) Business Strategy
16 18 (9.84%) Databricks
16 18 (9.84%) GCP
16 18 (9.84%) SC Cleared
17 17 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 17 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
17 17 (9.29%) Observability
18 16 (8.74%) dbt
18 16 (8.74%) SQL Server
18 16 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
19 15 (8.20%) Agile

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 11 (6.01%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.83%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.64%) Apache
5 1 (0.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.87%) Azure
2 32 (17.49%) AWS
3 18 (9.84%) GCP
4 16 (8.74%) dbt
5 13 (7.10%) Snowflake
6 12 (6.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (6.56%) Power Platform
7 11 (6.01%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (6.01%) GitHub
8 9 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (3.83%) Amazon S3
10 6 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (3.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (3.28%) Serverless
11 3 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (1.09%) AWS Step Functions
12 2 (1.09%) Cloud Functions
12 2 (1.09%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.09%) Google Data Studio
12 2 (1.09%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (10.38%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (8.74%) SQL Server
3 12 (6.56%) BigQuery
3 12 (6.56%) Metadata
3 12 (6.56%) Power BI
4 11 (6.01%) Amazon Redshift
5 10 (5.46%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.73%) Big Data
6 5 (2.73%) Delta Lake
7 4 (2.19%) Semantic Layer
8 3 (1.64%) Flink
9 2 (1.09%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.09%) Tableau
10 1 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (3.83%) Git
2 1 (0.55%) JIRA
General
1 31 (16.94%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.10%) Public Sector
3 10 (5.46%) Finance
4 8 (4.37%) Retail
5 7 (3.83%) Law
6 4 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.19%) Marketing
7 3 (1.64%) Advertising
7 3 (1.64%) Games
8 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.55%) iGaming
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (12.57%) Terraform
2 15 (8.20%) PySpark
3 10 (5.46%) Kafka
4 7 (3.83%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (2.73%) Pandas
6 3 (1.64%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Avro
7 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.55%) JSON
7 1 (0.55%) REST
7 1 (0.55%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.92%) Onboarding
2 7 (3.83%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.64%) Sports Betting
5 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.55%) Online Gambling
6 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (43.17%) Analytics
2 61 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 38 (20.77%) Data Pipeline
4 34 (18.58%) ETL
5 29 (15.85%) Mentoring
6 28 (15.30%) Business Intelligence
7 27 (14.75%) CI/CD
7 27 (14.75%) Decision-Making
8 26 (14.21%) AI
9 23 (12.57%) Data Modelling
10 20 (10.93%) Platform Engineering
11 18 (9.84%) Business Strategy
12 17 (9.29%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (9.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (9.29%) Observability
13 16 (8.74%) Technical Leadership
14 15 (8.20%) Agile
14 15 (8.20%) Data Governance
15 14 (7.65%) Data Architecture
15 14 (7.65%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 65 (35.52%) SQL
2 60 (32.79%) Python
3 9 (4.92%) Bash
4 6 (3.28%) Java
5 3 (1.64%) Scala
6 2 (1.09%) Bicep
6 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.55%) Go
7 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (10.38%) Security Cleared
2 18 (9.84%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.64%) Degree
4 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.75%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.19%) QA
3 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (2.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.09%) Grafana
1 2 (1.09%) Prometheus
2 1 (0.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (9.84%) Databricks
2 9 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.83%) Oracle
4 6 (3.28%) Google
5 5 (2.73%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.73%) SAP
6 3 (1.64%) Informatica
7 1 (0.55%) ServiceNow