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 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 619 577 606
Rank change year-on-year -42 +29 -15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 145 155 249
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 116 127 89
10th Percentile £35,000 £48,200 £45,582
25th Percentile £47,875 £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 £79,625 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £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 67,294 52,879 68,547
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 89.14% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 47,576 30,026 42,521
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 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +5.64% +5.63%
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 15 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 15 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 +84 71 £62,500 +4.17% 8
North West +50 59 £65,000 +34.86% 5
Midlands -3 26 £70,000 +16.67% 6
West Midlands +15 18 £70,000 +19.15% 6
South East -42 16 £60,000 -14.29% 8
South West -43 16 £55,000 -21.43% 6
Scotland -52 8 £65,000 +8.33% 4
Yorkshire +83 7 £53,318 -12.95% 2
East Midlands -13 7 - -
East of England - 6 £75,000 - 9
North East 0 5 £80,000 +18.52% 1
Wales +13 3 £46,131 +6.05% 1
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 15 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 73 (50.34%) SQL
2 72 (49.66%) Python
3 65 (44.83%) ETL
4 59 (40.69%) Azure
5 49 (33.79%) Data Engineering
6 48 (33.10%) Data Modelling
7 45 (31.03%) Data Pipeline
8 44 (30.34%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (28.97%) AWS
10 39 (26.90%) Analytics
11 37 (25.52%) Databricks
12 33 (22.76%) Agile
13 32 (22.07%) Finance
14 30 (20.69%) Data Quality
15 28 (19.31%) SQL Server
16 24 (16.55%) Business Intelligence
16 24 (16.55%) Microsoft
16 24 (16.55%) DevOps
16 24 (16.55%) PySpark
17 23 (15.86%) Data Management
17 23 (15.86%) Data Integration
17 23 (15.86%) CI/CD
18 22 (15.17%) Azure Data Factory
18 22 (15.17%) Data Science
18 22 (15.17%) Data Lake
18 22 (15.17%) Big Data
19 21 (14.48%) Machine Learning
20 20 (13.79%) Social Skills
21 18 (12.41%) Data Analytics
21 18 (12.41%) Informatica

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 22 (15.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (11.03%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (11.03%) Power Platform
5 15 (10.34%) Serverless
6 14 (9.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 14 (9.66%) GCP
7 13 (8.97%) Amazon S3
7 13 (8.97%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (6.21%) GitHub
8 9 (6.21%) Snowflake
9 6 (4.14%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
10 5 (3.45%) dbt
10 5 (3.45%) SaaS
11 4 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.76%) AWS CodeBuild
11 4 (2.76%) Cloud Computing
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 44 (30.34%) Data Warehouse
2 28 (19.31%) SQL Server
3 22 (15.17%) Big Data
3 22 (15.17%) Data Lake
4 16 (11.03%) Power BI
5 15 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (9.66%) Delta Lake
7 11 (7.59%) Data Vault
8 10 (6.90%) DynamoDB
8 10 (6.90%) NoSQL
9 9 (6.21%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (6.21%) Hadoop
10 8 (5.52%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (5.52%) 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 32 (22.07%) 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
9 1 (0.69%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Law
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 15 (10.34%) Reinsurance
2 14 (9.66%) Data Structures
3 10 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.83%) Management Information System
4 7 (4.83%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 5 (3.45%) Blog
5 5 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.76%) CCTV
6 4 (2.76%) NHS
6 4 (2.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (2.07%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.07%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.38%) Genomics
9 1 (0.69%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) FMCG
9 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.69%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.76%) Linux
2 1 (0.69%) Windows
2 1 (0.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (44.83%) ETL
2 49 (33.79%) Data Engineering
3 48 (33.10%) Data Modelling
4 45 (31.03%) Data Pipeline
5 39 (26.90%) Analytics
6 33 (22.76%) Agile
7 24 (16.55%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (16.55%) DevOps
8 23 (15.86%) CI/CD
8 23 (15.86%) Data Integration
8 23 (15.86%) Data Management
9 22 (15.17%) Data Science
10 21 (14.48%) Machine Learning
11 18 (12.41%) Data Analytics
12 17 (11.72%) Data Governance
12 17 (11.72%) Migration
13 15 (10.34%) Visualisation
14 14 (9.66%) Mentoring
15 13 (8.97%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 73 (50.34%) SQL
2 72 (49.66%) Python
3 9 (6.21%) Java
4 7 (4.83%) PL/SQL
5 6 (4.14%) T-SQL
6 5 (3.45%) C#
7 4 (2.76%) Scala
8 3 (2.07%) C
9 2 (1.38%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.38%) R
9 2 (1.38%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.69%) Bash
10 1 (0.69%) C++
10 1 (0.69%) Korn
10 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%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.07%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.69%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.69%) 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 24 (16.55%) Microsoft
3 18 (12.41%) Informatica
4 17 (11.72%) Oracle
5 4 (2.76%) Splunk
6 3 (2.07%) Google
6 3 (2.07%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.38%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.69%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.69%) SAP
8 1 (0.69%) Teradata