Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the South East

Senior Data Engineer
England > South East

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the South East is £61,750 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 339 431
Rank change year-on-year -39 +92 -82
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 17 63 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.10% 0.44% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.48% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 12 59 22
10th Percentile £27,500 £56,710 £48,750
25th Percentile £51,875 £60,000 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £80,625 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 15,754 13,010 19,227
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 90.31% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 11,303 8,206 12,512
10th Percentile £27,500 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the South East

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the South East.

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in the South East

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the South East over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the South East

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Thames Valley +12 7 £75,000 -4.76% 3
Hampshire -47 5 £60,000 -14.29% 2
Kent - 5 £30,000 -
Oxfordshire +13 4 £75,000 - 1
Berkshire +15 2 £75,000 -14.29% 2
Buckinghamshire -16 1 £60,000 -14.29%
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Senior Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the South East region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (41.18%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (29.41%) Analytics
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) FTP
3 4 (23.53%) Databricks
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (17.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
4 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
4 3 (17.65%) ETL
4 3 (17.65%) CCTV
4 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
4 3 (17.65%) Line Management
4 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Power BI
5 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (11.76%) ETL Development
5 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
5 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) Data Governance

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Akamai
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (5.88%) GitHub
5 1 (5.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) Structured Cabling
2 4 (23.53%) FTP
3 1 (5.88%) LAN
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) GitLab
General
1 3 (17.65%) Finance
1 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.76%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Games
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (17.65%) CCTV
2 3 (17.65%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
1 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Analytics
2 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (17.65%) Data Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
3 3 (17.65%) ETL
3 3 (17.65%) Line Management
3 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning
4 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
4 2 (11.76%) ETL Development
5 1 (5.88%) Business Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Code Quality
5 1 (5.88%) Customer Experience
5 1 (5.88%) Data Design
5 1 (5.88%) Data Governance Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Database Migration
5 1 (5.88%) IT Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Korn
3 1 (5.88%) PHP
3 1 (5.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) ICAEW
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Databricks
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Google