Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Senior Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £67,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 165 202
Rank change year-on-year +30 +37 +74
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 26 15 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.79% 0.30% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.32% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 25 12 4
10th Percentile £49,700 £35,000 £58,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £50,938 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £65,465 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% -6.48% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,809 4,667 3,635
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 85.38% 94.74% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,564 2,624 2,704
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,741 £38,000 £37,879
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,925 £79,100 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Senior Data Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
West Yorkshire +34 21 £62,500 -4.19% 4
South Yorkshire +18 5 £67,500 -10.00% 1
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 September 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 Yorkshire region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (73.08%) SQL
2 16 (61.54%) Python
2 16 (61.54%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (61.54%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (57.69%) Data Modelling
3 15 (57.69%) ETL
4 14 (53.85%) AWS
4 14 (53.85%) Data Lake
5 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
6 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
7 11 (42.31%) Apache Spark
7 11 (42.31%) Azure
7 11 (42.31%) Mentoring
8 10 (38.46%) Data Security
8 10 (38.46%) Data Engineering
9 8 (30.77%) Apache
9 8 (30.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (26.92%) Analytics
10 7 (26.92%) Amazon S3
10 7 (26.92%) Migration
10 7 (26.92%) Data Migration
10 7 (26.92%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (26.92%) Serverless
11 6 (23.08%) Data Science
11 6 (23.08%) Databricks
11 6 (23.08%) Data Architecture
11 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
12 5 (19.23%) Retail

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 11 (42.31%) Apache Spark
2 8 (30.77%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
2 11 (42.31%) Azure
3 7 (26.92%) Amazon S3
3 7 (26.92%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (26.92%) Serverless
4 4 (15.38%) GCP
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.69%) dbt
6 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (61.54%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (53.85%) Data Lake
3 8 (30.77%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
4 3 (11.54%) MySQL
5 2 (7.69%) Power BI
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (3.85%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
6 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
6 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (19.23%) Retail
3 5 (19.23%) Tech for Good
4 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Replication
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Data Pipeline
2 15 (57.69%) Data Modelling
2 15 (57.69%) ETL
2 15 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
4 11 (42.31%) Mentoring
5 10 (38.46%) Data Engineering
5 10 (38.46%) Data Security
6 7 (26.92%) Analytics
6 7 (26.92%) Data Migration
6 7 (26.92%) Migration
7 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (23.08%) Data Architecture
7 6 (23.08%) Data Science
8 5 (19.23%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (15.38%) Agile
9 4 (15.38%) Data Extraction
9 4 (15.38%) Data Integration
9 4 (15.38%) Data Strategy
10 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) SQL
2 16 (61.54%) Python
3 3 (11.54%) R
3 3 (11.54%) Scala
4 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Databricks
2 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 3 (11.54%) Palantir
3 1 (3.85%) Google
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft