Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Surrey

Senior Data Engineer
South East > Surrey

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Surrey is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 155 144
Rank change year-on-year +99 -11 +42
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 30 1 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 3.07% 0.040% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.97% 0.043% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 27 0 19
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67,500 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 - £62,500
75th Percentile £72,500 - £63,750
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £70,000 £61,750 £65,500
% change year-on-year +13.36% -5.73% +4.80%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 756 2,306 2,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 77.46% 91.29% 94.11%
Number of salaries quoted 569 1,491 1,443
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £40,748 £38,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +8.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,750 £80,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Surrey

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Surrey.

Salary trend 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 2 May 2025. 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
Epsom - 21 £70,000 - 1
Dorking - 5 £70,000 -
Banstead - 1 £72,500 -
Senior Data Engineer
South East

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 Surrey region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (96.67%) Python
2 28 (93.33%) Azure
3 27 (90.00%) SQL
4 22 (73.33%) Databricks
4 22 (73.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 21 (70.00%) Azure Certification
5 21 (70.00%) C#
6 18 (60.00%) CI/CD
7 16 (53.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (50.00%) .NET
9 13 (43.33%) Software Engineering
9 13 (43.33%) Analytics
9 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
10 12 (40.00%) DevOps
10 12 (40.00%) Data Engineering
10 12 (40.00%) Degree
10 12 (40.00%) Agile
11 8 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
12 7 (23.33%) Data Architecture
12 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
13 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (20.00%) Data Quality
13 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (20.00%) Data Analytics
13 6 (20.00%) GitHub
13 6 (20.00%) Power BI
13 6 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
13 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (20.00%) Co-Creation

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 6 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 28 (93.33%) Azure
2 22 (73.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 16 (53.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (20.00%) GitHub
4 6 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (20.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (6.67%) Alation
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.67%) AWS
5 2 (6.67%) Azure API Management
5 2 (6.67%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
2 6 (20.00%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (6.67%) Data Lake
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Automotive
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (3.33%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (43.33%) Analytics
2 13 (43.33%) Software Engineering
3 12 (40.00%) Agile
3 12 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 12 (40.00%) DevOps
4 7 (23.33%) Data Architecture
4 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
5 6 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (20.00%) Change Management
5 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis
5 6 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 6 (20.00%) Data Extraction
5 6 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 6 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 6 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
5 6 (20.00%) OO
5 6 (20.00%) OOP
5 6 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 29 (96.67%) Python
2 27 (90.00%) SQL
3 21 (70.00%) C#
4 6 (20.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (20.00%) Java
4 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (70.00%) Azure Certification
2 12 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 22 (73.33%) Databricks
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud