Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in Plymouth

Senior Data Engineer
Devon > Plymouth

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Plymouth is £55,200 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Plymouth 0.64% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52,400 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 - -
75th Percentile £58,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Devon median annual salary £55,200 - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Plymouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Plymouth. 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 Plymouth with a recognized job title 154 68 98
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.72% 98.55% 98.00%
Number of salaries quoted 90 28 95
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £29,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,512 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.14% -13.24% -2.00%
75th Percentile £74,063 £60,625 £54,175
90th Percentile £81,375 £65,272 £57,500
Devon median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +18.75%

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Plymouth

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, 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 Plymouth region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Talend
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Plymouth 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Parquet
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata Management
1 1 (100.00%) SEO
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Control-M
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BMC
1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) Talend