Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in Surrey

Senior Data Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Surrey is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 89 116
Rank change year-on-year -31 +27 -34
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 5 9 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 0.20% 0.80% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.92% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5 7 8
10th Percentile £58,000 - £56,350
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £73,750 £72,500
South East median annual salary £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.70% +8.00%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 2,347 978 1,713
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.96% 86.40% 96.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,740 684 862
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,563 £69,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £87,500 £85,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +14.58% -8.57% -4.55%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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 Surrey.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Surrey

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Surrey

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

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Surrey

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Surrey over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Surrey

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 9 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
Reigate - 2 £70,000 -
Woking - 1 £70,000 - 1
Senior Data Engineer
South East

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 9 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 Surrey region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
1 4 (80.00%) PySpark
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Bicep
3 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Git
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub
3 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Pulumi
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) Trunk-Based Development
4 1 (20.00%) Agile

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 2 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (20.00%) Apache
2 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) PySpark
2 3 (60.00%) Terraform
3 2 (40.00%) Pulumi
4 1 (20.00%) Pandas
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Data Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) RBAC
3 2 (40.00%) Trunk-Based Development
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Change Data Capture
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 1 (20.00%) Lakehouse
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bicep
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft