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 £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 604 595 612
Rank change year-on-year -9 +17 -46
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 145 157 247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.26% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.29% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 117 129 86
10th Percentile £35,000 £49,100 £47,500
25th Percentile £48,000 £56,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £79,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 67,295 53,381 68,030
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.16% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,638 30,425 42,515
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 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
North of England +81 70 £62,500 +4.17% 10
North West +49 57 £62,500 +29.68% 7
Midlands -5 25 £70,000 +16.67% 7
West Midlands +8 18 £70,000 +19.15% 6
South East -40 17 £61,750 -11.79% 7
South West -47 17 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Yorkshire +77 8 £55,000 -10.20% 2
Scotland -56 8 £65,000 +8.33% 5
East Midlands -14 6 - - 1
East of England - 6 £75,000 - 9
North East -1 5 £80,000 +18.52% 1
Wales +9 3 £46,131 +6.05% 2
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 11 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 72 (49.66%) SQL
2 70 (48.28%) Python
3 65 (44.83%) ETL
4 59 (40.69%) Azure
5 51 (35.17%) Data Engineering
6 47 (32.41%) Data Modelling
7 45 (31.03%) Data Pipeline
8 43 (29.66%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (28.97%) AWS
10 40 (27.59%) Analytics
11 37 (25.52%) Databricks
12 33 (22.76%) Agile
13 31 (21.38%) Finance
14 29 (20.00%) SQL Server
15 27 (18.62%) Data Quality
16 26 (17.93%) Business Intelligence
17 25 (17.24%) Microsoft
18 24 (16.55%) Azure Data Factory
18 24 (16.55%) PySpark
19 23 (15.86%) Data Lake
19 23 (15.86%) Data Integration
19 23 (15.86%) CI/CD
20 22 (15.17%) Data Management
20 22 (15.17%) Data Science
20 22 (15.17%) Big Data
20 22 (15.17%) DevOps
21 21 (14.48%) Machine Learning
22 20 (13.79%) Social Skills
23 18 (12.41%) Data Analytics
24 17 (11.72%) Apache Spark

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 17 (11.72%) Apache Spark
2 6 (4.14%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.45%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Luigi
4 1 (0.69%) nginx
4 1 (0.69%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (40.69%) Azure
2 42 (28.97%) AWS
3 24 (16.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 17 (11.72%) Power Platform
5 16 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (10.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 15 (10.34%) Serverless
7 14 (9.66%) Amazon S3
7 14 (9.66%) GCP
8 13 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (6.21%) GitHub
9 9 (6.21%) Snowflake
10 6 (4.14%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
11 5 (3.45%) dbt
11 5 (3.45%) SaaS
12 4 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (2.76%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (2.76%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.66%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (4.14%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.76%) FTP
4 1 (0.69%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.69%) 5G
4 1 (0.69%) LAN
4 1 (0.69%) VPN
4 1 (0.69%) WAN
4 1 (0.69%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (29.66%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 23 (15.86%) Data Lake
4 22 (15.17%) Big Data
5 17 (11.72%) Power BI
6 15 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (9.66%) Delta Lake
8 11 (7.59%) Data Vault
9 10 (6.90%) DynamoDB
9 10 (6.90%) NoSQL
10 9 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (6.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (6.21%) Hadoop
10 9 (6.21%) Relational Database
11 7 (4.83%) BigQuery
12 6 (4.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (3.45%) Oracle Database
14 4 (2.76%) Redis
15 3 (2.07%) Amazon Athena
15 3 (2.07%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 9 (6.21%) JIRA
2 6 (4.14%) Git
3 4 (2.76%) GitLab
4 3 (2.07%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.69%) Jenkins
General
1 31 (21.38%) Finance
2 20 (13.79%) Social Skills
3 14 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.28%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.83%) Retail
6 4 (2.76%) Games
7 3 (2.07%) Agriculture
7 3 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.07%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.38%) Automotive
8 2 (1.38%) Law
9 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) Marketing
9 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.55%) PySpark
2 8 (5.52%) Pandas
3 5 (3.45%) Kafka
4 4 (2.76%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.07%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.38%) GraphQL
6 2 (1.38%) RESTful
7 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
7 1 (0.69%) Node.js
7 1 (0.69%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.97%) Data Structures
1 13 (8.97%) Reinsurance
2 10 (6.90%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.83%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.83%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.45%) Blog
4 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.76%) CCTV
5 4 (2.76%) NHS
5 4 (2.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.07%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.38%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.38%) Genomics
7 2 (1.38%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.69%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.07%) Linux
2 1 (0.69%) Windows
2 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (44.83%) ETL
2 51 (35.17%) Data Engineering
3 47 (32.41%) Data Modelling
4 45 (31.03%) Data Pipeline
5 40 (27.59%) Analytics
6 33 (22.76%) Agile
7 26 (17.93%) Business Intelligence
8 23 (15.86%) CI/CD
8 23 (15.86%) Data Integration
9 22 (15.17%) Data Management
9 22 (15.17%) Data Science
9 22 (15.17%) DevOps
10 21 (14.48%) Machine Learning
11 18 (12.41%) Data Analytics
12 17 (11.72%) Migration
13 16 (11.03%) Data Governance
14 15 (10.34%) Mentoring
14 15 (10.34%) Visualisation
15 13 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (8.28%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 72 (49.66%) SQL
2 70 (48.28%) Python
3 9 (6.21%) Java
4 7 (4.83%) PL/SQL
4 7 (4.83%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.45%) C#
6 4 (2.76%) Scala
7 3 (2.07%) C
8 2 (1.38%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.38%) R
8 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.69%) Bash
9 1 (0.69%) C++
9 1 (0.69%) Korn
9 1 (0.69%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (7.59%) Degree
2 6 (4.14%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.14%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.07%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.38%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (18.62%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (0.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.69%) GDPR
3 1 (0.69%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.69%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (4.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (10.34%) Terraform
2 4 (2.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.07%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (25.52%) Databricks
2 25 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 17 (11.72%) Informatica
3 17 (11.72%) Oracle
4 4 (2.76%) Splunk
5 3 (2.07%) Google
5 3 (2.07%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.38%) TIBCO
7 1 (0.69%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.69%) SAP
7 1 (0.69%) Teradata