Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in Portsmouth

Senior Data Engineer
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Portsmouth is £65,000 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 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Portsmouth 0.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
75th Percentile £67,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £44,263 £75,000
% change year-on-year +24.26% -40.98% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Portsmouth

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth with a recognized job title 323 319 188
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.90% 96.96% 96.91%
Number of salaries quoted 191 203 147
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £35,625 £36,517 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £75,000 £78,750
Hampshire median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -6.36% +7.84% -7.27%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Portsmouth.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Portsmouth

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft