Senior Data Engineer
UK

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 469 541 664
Rank change year-on-year +72 +123 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 274 666 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.51% 0.54% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.56% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 186 481 337
10th Percentile £57,184 £55,000 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £89,750 £90,000 £88,750
90th Percentile £100,625 £95,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +21.74%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 51,159 118,464 121,698
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.44% 95.41% 95.15%
Number of salaries quoted 37,465 74,592 83,940
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer over the 6 months to 6 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK

Senior Data Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 December 2023. 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
England +65 256 £77,500 -3.13% 105
London +78 145 £85,000 +3.03% 66
Work from Home +104 128 £75,000 - 55
UK excluding London +115 107 £70,000 +7.69% 52
South East +128 28 £62,500 -3.85% 17
South West +75 23 £75,000 +7.14% 5
North of England +116 18 £62,500 -10.71% 12
Midlands +72 15 £61,750 -1.98% 5
West Midlands +103 12 £61,750 -4.26% 2
East of England +113 9 £77,500 +3.33% 2
Wales +26 9 £46,060 -45.81% 6
North West +95 8 £60,000 -25.00% 9
Yorkshire +91 8 £68,750 +14.58% 1
Scotland +42 5 £73,750 +22.92% 5
East Midlands +43 3 - - 3
North East +32 2 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 December 2023, 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 featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 195 (71.17%) Python
2 171 (62.41%) SQL
3 134 (48.91%) ETL
4 129 (47.08%) AWS
5 128 (46.72%) Azure
6 121 (44.16%) Data Pipeline
7 94 (34.31%) Data Engineering
8 88 (32.12%) Data Modelling
9 87 (31.75%) DevOps
10 81 (29.56%) Analytics
11 78 (28.47%) Business Intelligence
12 76 (27.74%) Data Warehouse
13 69 (25.18%) Databricks
14 67 (24.45%) Data Science
15 66 (24.09%) Agile
16 63 (22.99%) Power Platform
16 63 (22.99%) Power BI
17 62 (22.63%) GCP
18 55 (20.07%) Social Skills
19 54 (19.71%) Docker
20 51 (18.61%) Kubernetes
20 51 (18.61%) Azure Data Factory
21 47 (17.15%) Snowflake
22 46 (16.79%) CI/CD
22 46 (16.79%) Data Lake
23 44 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
23 44 (16.06%) Finance
24 41 (14.96%) Data Quality
25 40 (14.60%) Machine Learning
26 39 (14.23%) Tableau

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 32 (11.68%) Apache Airflow
2 30 (10.95%) Apache Spark
3 19 (6.93%) Apache
4 4 (1.46%) Jupyter
4 4 (1.46%) Luigi
5 2 (0.73%) Confluence
5 2 (0.73%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 129 (47.08%) AWS
2 128 (46.72%) Azure
3 63 (22.99%) Power Platform
4 62 (22.63%) GCP
5 51 (18.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 47 (17.15%) Snowflake
7 32 (11.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (7.66%) dbt
9 17 (6.20%) Serverless
10 16 (5.84%) Amazon Kinesis
11 14 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
12 13 (4.74%) Amazon S3
13 12 (4.38%) Matillion
14 11 (4.01%) GitHub
15 9 (3.28%) Datadog
16 7 (2.55%) Dagster
17 6 (2.19%) AWS Fargate
17 6 (2.19%) Azure Stack
17 6 (2.19%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.82%) Network Security
2 1 (0.36%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (27.74%) Data Warehouse
2 63 (22.99%) Power BI
3 46 (16.79%) Data Lake
4 39 (14.23%) Tableau
5 38 (13.87%) Big Data
6 31 (11.31%) SQL Server
7 30 (10.95%) NoSQL
8 25 (9.12%) BigQuery
9 20 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (6.57%) Amazon Redshift
10 18 (6.57%) Delta Lake
10 18 (6.57%) Hadoop
11 16 (5.84%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (5.11%) Relational Database
13 12 (4.38%) Metadata
13 12 (4.38%) MongoDB
13 12 (4.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (4.01%) Amazon QuickSight
14 11 (4.01%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 9 (3.28%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 28 (10.22%) Git
2 5 (1.82%) Jenkins
2 5 (1.82%) JIRA
3 3 (1.09%) CircleCI
3 3 (1.09%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.36%) MLflow
4 1 (0.36%) PEAR
4 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 55 (20.07%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.06%) Finance
3 27 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (2.92%) Banking
7 7 (2.55%) Tech for Good
8 6 (2.19%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.82%) Advertising
9 5 (1.82%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.46%) Marketing
11 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.09%) Front Office
11 3 (1.09%) Legal
11 3 (1.09%) Publishing
12 2 (0.73%) Aviation
12 2 (0.73%) Law
12 2 (0.73%) Local Government
12 2 (0.73%) Retail
12 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.87%) PySpark
2 24 (8.76%) Pandas
3 19 (6.93%) Kafka
4 12 (4.38%) .NET
5 11 (4.01%) JSON
5 11 (4.01%) XML
6 8 (2.92%) Apache Beam
7 7 (2.55%) RESTful
8 6 (2.19%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.82%) HTML
10 4 (1.46%) MXNet
10 4 (1.46%) PyTorch
10 4 (1.46%) scikit-learn
10 4 (1.46%) SQLAlchemy
10 4 (1.46%) TensorFlow
11 3 (1.09%) Great Expectations
12 2 (0.73%) Apache Avro
12 2 (0.73%) NumPy
12 2 (0.73%) Spark Streaming
13 1 (0.36%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.47%) Algorithms
1 15 (5.47%) Greenfield Project
2 14 (5.11%) Data Structures
3 11 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (3.28%) Reinsurance
4 9 (3.28%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.19%) Genomics
5 6 (2.19%) Hedge funds
6 5 (1.82%) Cyberattack
6 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.46%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.73%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.73%) Distributed Applications
9 2 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.22%) Linux
2 9 (3.28%) Ubuntu
2 9 (3.28%) Windows
3 6 (2.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (48.91%) ETL
2 121 (44.16%) Data Pipeline
3 94 (34.31%) Data Engineering
4 88 (32.12%) Data Modelling
5 87 (31.75%) DevOps
6 81 (29.56%) Analytics
7 78 (28.47%) Business Intelligence
8 67 (24.45%) Data Science
9 66 (24.09%) Agile
10 46 (16.79%) CI/CD
11 44 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
12 40 (14.60%) Machine Learning
13 36 (13.14%) Data Strategy
13 36 (13.14%) Visualisation
14 32 (11.68%) Mentoring
15 31 (11.31%) Software Engineering
16 30 (10.95%) Business Strategy
17 28 (10.22%) Data Analysis
18 25 (9.12%) Data Analytics
18 25 (9.12%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 195 (71.17%) Python
2 171 (62.41%) SQL
3 22 (8.03%) C#
3 22 (8.03%) Java
4 21 (7.66%) Bash
5 17 (6.20%) T-SQL
6 14 (5.11%) Scala
7 13 (4.74%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.01%) R
9 10 (3.65%) VB
10 9 (3.28%) Search Processing Language
11 8 (2.92%) Go
12 6 (2.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.82%) JavaScript
13 5 (1.82%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.82%) U-SQL
14 4 (1.46%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.73%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (8.39%) Degree
2 16 (5.84%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (5.84%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.65%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 9 (3.28%) CCSP
4 9 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (3.28%) CISSP
5 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.36%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (14.96%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.09%) QA
3 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 54 (19.71%) Docker
2 2 (0.73%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (18.61%) Kubernetes
2 36 (13.14%) Terraform
3 9 (3.28%) Ansible
4 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
4 1 (0.36%) Grafana
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 69 (25.18%) Databricks
2 25 (9.12%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.84%) Oracle
4 15 (5.47%) Google
5 10 (3.65%) Atlassian
5 10 (3.65%) New Relic
5 10 (3.65%) Splunk
6 9 (3.28%) AppDynamics
7 8 (2.92%) Informatica
8 5 (1.82%) Cloudera
9 4 (1.46%) Dataiku
10 3 (1.09%) Alteryx
10 3 (1.09%) Teradata
11 2 (0.73%) SAP
12 1 (0.36%) Capita
12 1 (0.36%) StreamSets
12 1 (0.36%) Sybase
12 1 (0.36%) Talend
12 1 (0.36%) YouTube