Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Senior Data Engineer
South East > Thames Valley

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the Thames Valley is £68,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 165 191 172
Rank change year-on-year +26 -19 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 6 4 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.16% 0.097% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.10% 0.49%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile - - £53,250
25th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +10.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £74,688 £78,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £76,375 - £89,500
South East median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - +4.00% -3.85%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 3,443 3,817 3,072
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.72% 92.94% 94.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,941 1,990 2,247
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,790 £30,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £38,265
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,517 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.95% +3.70% -0.91%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 December 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
Oxfordshire +30 5 £65,000 -16.13% 2
Buckinghamshire +18 1 £72,500 -6.45%
Senior Data Engineer
South East

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 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 Thames Valley region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) dbt
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Fivetran
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Airbyte
3 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) CRM

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) dbt
1 2 (33.33%) Fivetran
1 2 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Storage
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Airbyte
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (16.67%) Spark SQL
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Snowpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (33.33%) AI
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) CRM
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) Dimensional Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) Information Security
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks