Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in Preston

Senior Data Engineer
Lancashire > Preston

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Preston is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 1 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Preston 0.28% - 2.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% - 3.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £43,400
25th Percentile £57,500 - £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £48,000
75th Percentile £62,500 - £48,500
90th Percentile - - £50,900
Lancashire median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £57,732
% change year-on-year +25.00% +3.93% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Preston

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Preston. 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 Preston with a recognized job title 354 52 154
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 98.33% 88.14% 87.50%
Number of salaries quoted 210 40 123
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,938 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,055 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +6.50% +6.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £69,000
Lancashire median annual salary £45,000 £47,683 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.63% +0.39% -1.60%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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 Preston.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Preston

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Preston

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Preston

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston

For the 6 months to 2 August 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 Preston region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) dbt
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google