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 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 245 247
Rank change year-on-year +58 +2 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 183 60 81
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.76% 0.63% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.72% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 142 56 70
10th Percentile £57,625 £53,750 £45,450
25th Percentile £62,407 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.11% +6.88%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £95,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -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 22,383 8,378 12,875
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 87.31% 94.98%
Number of salaries quoted 16,277 4,321 7,190
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,500 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -8.05%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.27% - -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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +40 109 £75,000 +11.11% 50
Yorkshire -13 53 £75,000 +11.11% 18
North East -44 21 £75,000 +11.11% 13
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 5 October 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 76 (41.53%) Analytics
2 62 (33.88%) SQL
3 59 (32.24%) Data Engineering
4 56 (30.60%) Python
5 50 (27.32%) Azure
6 34 (18.58%) Data Pipeline
7 32 (17.49%) ETL
8 29 (15.85%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (15.85%) Mentoring
9 28 (15.30%) AWS
10 27 (14.75%) CI/CD
10 27 (14.75%) Decision-Making
11 25 (13.66%) Data Quality
12 24 (13.11%) AI
13 23 (12.57%) Data Modelling
14 22 (12.02%) Terraform
15 20 (10.93%) SC Cleared
15 20 (10.93%) Security Cleared
16 19 (10.38%) Platform Engineering
17 18 (9.84%) Business Strategy
17 18 (9.84%) Databricks
17 18 (9.84%) dbt
18 17 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
18 17 (9.29%) GCP
18 17 (9.29%) Technical Leadership
19 16 (8.74%) Data Governance
19 16 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
19 16 (8.74%) Observability
20 15 (8.20%) Lakehouse
21 14 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement

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 10 (5.46%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.83%) Oracle Workflow
3 6 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.64%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (27.32%) Azure
2 28 (15.30%) AWS
3 18 (9.84%) dbt
4 17 (9.29%) GCP
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 8 (4.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 6 (3.28%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.73%) Serverless
12 2 (1.09%) Cloud Functions
12 2 (1.09%) Dagster
12 2 (1.09%) Dataform
12 2 (1.09%) Google Ads
12 2 (1.09%) Google Data Studio
12 2 (1.09%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (7.65%) SQL Server
3 13 (7.10%) Metadata
4 12 (6.56%) BigQuery
4 12 (6.56%) Power BI
5 10 (5.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 9 (4.92%) Data Lake
7 6 (3.28%) Delta Lake
8 5 (2.73%) Big Data
8 5 (2.73%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.09%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.09%) Flink
9 2 (1.09%) Tableau
10 1 (0.55%) Airbyte
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.55%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.55%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.55%) Parquet
10 1 (0.55%) Power Query
10 1 (0.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (3.83%) Git
General
1 31 (16.94%) Social Skills
2 12 (6.56%) Public Sector
3 8 (4.37%) Retail
4 7 (3.83%) Law
5 6 (3.28%) Finance
6 4 (2.19%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.19%) Marketing
7 3 (1.64%) Games
8 2 (1.09%) Advertising
8 2 (1.09%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.55%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.55%) iGaming
9 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.02%) Terraform
2 14 (7.65%) PySpark
3 8 (4.37%) Kafka
4 7 (3.83%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (2.19%) Pandas
6 2 (1.09%) 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 3 (1.64%) Cloud Native
3 3 (1.64%) Sports Betting
4 2 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.55%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.55%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (41.53%) Analytics
2 59 (32.24%) Data Engineering
3 34 (18.58%) Data Pipeline
4 32 (17.49%) ETL
5 29 (15.85%) Business Intelligence
5 29 (15.85%) Mentoring
6 27 (14.75%) CI/CD
6 27 (14.75%) Decision-Making
7 24 (13.11%) AI
8 23 (12.57%) Data Modelling
9 19 (10.38%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (9.84%) Business Strategy
11 17 (9.29%) Technical Leadership
12 16 (8.74%) Data Governance
12 16 (8.74%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (8.74%) Observability
13 15 (8.20%) Lakehouse
14 14 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (7.10%) Agile
15 13 (7.10%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 62 (33.88%) SQL
2 56 (30.60%) Python
3 9 (4.92%) Bash
4 5 (2.73%) 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%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (10.93%) SC Cleared
1 20 (10.93%) Security Cleared
2 3 (1.64%) Degree
3 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.66%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.19%) QA
3 2 (1.09%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (2.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.55%) Grafana
1 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (9.84%) Databricks
2 10 (5.46%) 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