Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 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
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 620 580
Rank change year-on-year +142 -40 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 97 144 154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 85 115 127
10th Percentile £52,500 £35,000 £48,200
25th Percentile £56,250 £47,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £73,750 £79,750 £75,375
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £86,750
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% -9.38% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 36,142 67,932 52,599
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.79% 94.86% 89.20%
Number of salaries quoted 18,697 47,996 30,020
10th Percentile £26,987 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,564 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,320 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.37% -12.50% -

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England +11 37 £62,500 - 30
South East +110 31 £70,000 +16.67% 50
Yorkshire +74 18 £60,000 +12.53% 11
North West -48 16 £63,000 -3.08% 15
Midlands +59 15 £65,000 -7.14% 14
East Midlands +26 8 £65,000 - 3
West Midlands +32 7 £62,500 -10.71% 10
South West +95 5 £55,000 - 14
East of England +38 5 £82,500 +10.00% 9
Scotland +115 4 £57,500 -11.54% 12
North East +39 3 £62,500 -21.88% 5
Senior Data Engineer
UK

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 70 (72.16%) SQL
2 66 (68.04%) Python
3 53 (54.64%) Data Engineering
4 52 (53.61%) Azure
5 50 (51.55%) Data Pipeline
6 44 (45.36%) Analytics
7 43 (44.33%) ETL
8 40 (41.24%) Social Skills
9 39 (40.21%) Problem-Solving
9 39 (40.21%) Databricks
10 37 (38.14%) Business Intelligence
10 37 (38.14%) Data Modelling
11 35 (36.08%) AWS
12 33 (34.02%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (31.96%) Data Quality
13 31 (31.96%) CI/CD
14 29 (29.90%) Data Architecture
14 29 (29.90%) Mentoring
15 27 (27.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 26 (26.80%) Azure Data Factory
17 25 (25.77%) Agile
18 24 (24.74%) C#
18 24 (24.74%) Data Lake
19 22 (22.68%) Apache Spark
20 21 (21.65%) Migration
20 21 (21.65%) Azure Certification
21 19 (19.59%) Power BI
21 19 (19.59%) Power Platform
22 18 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
22 18 (18.56%) DevOps

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (22.68%) Apache Spark
2 13 (13.40%) Apache
3 6 (6.19%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.19%) SharePoint
4 4 (4.12%) Confluence
4 4 (4.12%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 52 (53.61%) Azure
2 35 (36.08%) AWS
3 27 (27.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 26 (26.80%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (19.59%) Power Platform
6 11 (11.34%) Amazon S3
6 11 (11.34%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (11.34%) Serverless
7 9 (9.28%) GCP
8 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.19%) dbt
8 6 (6.19%) GitHub
8 6 (6.19%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (6.19%) PowerApps
8 6 (6.19%) Snowflake
9 4 (4.12%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (4.12%) Pulumi
10 3 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (3.09%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.02%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (24.74%) Data Lake
3 19 (19.59%) Power BI
4 18 (18.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (13.40%) Big Data
6 8 (8.25%) MySQL
7 7 (7.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 5 (5.15%) Hadoop
9 5 (5.15%) Relational Database
9 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
10 4 (4.12%) Amazon QuickSight
10 4 (4.12%) BigQuery
10 4 (4.12%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (4.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
12 2 (2.06%) NoSQL
12 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) JIRA
2 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (41.24%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.56%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (17.53%) Finance
4 6 (6.19%) Automotive
5 5 (5.15%) Marketing
5 5 (5.15%) Retail
6 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.09%) Tech for Good
7 2 (2.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Front Office
8 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.03%) Legal
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.40%) .NET
2 8 (8.25%) PySpark
3 4 (4.12%) Dask
3 4 (4.12%) Polars
4 3 (3.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.22%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.19%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.06%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.03%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.19%) Linux
2 2 (2.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.64%) Data Engineering
2 50 (51.55%) Data Pipeline
3 44 (45.36%) Analytics
4 43 (44.33%) ETL
5 39 (40.21%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (38.14%) Business Intelligence
6 37 (38.14%) Data Modelling
7 31 (31.96%) CI/CD
8 29 (29.90%) Data Architecture
8 29 (29.90%) Mentoring
9 25 (25.77%) Agile
10 21 (21.65%) Migration
11 18 (18.56%) DevOps
11 18 (18.56%) Visualisation
12 17 (17.53%) Data Migration
13 15 (15.46%) Data Extraction
13 15 (15.46%) Data Science
13 15 (15.46%) Data Strategy
13 15 (15.46%) Software Engineering
14 14 (14.43%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 70 (72.16%) SQL
2 66 (68.04%) Python
3 24 (24.74%) C#
4 17 (17.53%) Scala
5 16 (16.49%) Java
6 7 (7.22%) R
7 6 (6.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (6.19%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.12%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.06%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (21.65%) Azure Certification
2 15 (15.46%) Degree
3 6 (6.19%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.06%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (31.96%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (8.25%) Terraform
2 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 39 (40.21%) Databricks
2 16 (16.49%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.12%) Informatica
3 4 (4.12%) Oracle
3 4 (4.12%) SAP
4 3 (3.09%) Palantir
5 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Cloudera
6 1 (1.03%) Google