Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Senior Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 May 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 124 212
Rank change year-on-year -40 +88 +72
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 26 17 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.42% 0.68% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.73% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 24 17 7
10th Percentile £57,500 £47,000 £42,922
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £48,204
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £58,750
90th Percentile - - £65,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -6.25%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 5,787 2,323 5,362
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 93.37% 95.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,759 1,291 4,278
10th Percentile £29,500 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £49,205
Median % change year-on-year - +1.62% -10.34%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -6.78% +9.26% -11.18%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Senior Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Senior Data Engineer job vacancy trend 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 11 May 2026.

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 11 May 2026. 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 18 £82,500 +37.50% 8
East Yorkshire - 6 £60,000 -
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 11 May 2026, Senior Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) SQL
3 10 (38.46%) Analytics
3 10 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (34.62%) Python
5 8 (30.77%) AWS
5 8 (30.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (30.77%) Data Modelling
5 8 (30.77%) Line Management
6 7 (26.92%) Data Engineering
6 7 (26.92%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (26.92%) ETL
7 6 (23.08%) Data Lake
7 6 (23.08%) Data Quality
7 6 (23.08%) Data Strategy
7 6 (23.08%) Power BI
7 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
8 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
8 5 (19.23%) Data Governance
8 5 (19.23%) Databricks
9 4 (15.38%) Apache Spark
9 4 (15.38%) Business Analytics
9 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (11.54%) Apache
10 3 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 3 (11.54%) Apache
2 3 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (7.69%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (23.08%) Power Platform
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (11.54%) dbt
4 3 (11.54%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.85%) GitHub
5 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (23.08%) Data Lake
2 6 (23.08%) Power BI
3 3 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (7.69%) BigQuery
4 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.69%) Star Schema
4 2 (7.69%) Tableau
5 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
5 1 (3.85%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (3.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 2 (7.69%) Advertising
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Digital Health
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Analytics
1 10 (38.46%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (34.62%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (30.77%) Data Modelling
3 8 (30.77%) Line Management
4 7 (26.92%) Data Engineering
4 7 (26.92%) ETL
5 6 (23.08%) Data Strategy
6 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
6 5 (19.23%) Data Governance
7 4 (15.38%) Business Analytics
7 4 (15.38%) Mentoring
7 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
8 3 (11.54%) DevOps
8 3 (11.54%) Observability
9 2 (7.69%) AI
9 2 (7.69%) Data Transformation
9 2 (7.69%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (42.31%) SQL
2 9 (34.62%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Java
4 1 (3.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Databricks
2 2 (7.69%) Google
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 2 (7.69%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle
3 1 (3.85%) Palantir