Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Senior Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 October 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 161 190
Rank change year-on-year +30 +29 +86
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 26 16 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.77% 0.36% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.38% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 25 11 4
10th Percentile £54,250 £35,000 £58,875
25th Percentile £57,500 £46,969 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,465 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -6.48% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £78,500 - -
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 2,895 4,198 3,381
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 86.29% 94.61% 97.18%
Number of salaries quoted 1,547 2,100 2,516
10th Percentile £26,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £37,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,603 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,850 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.51% -5.00% -

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 15 October 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 October 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 +17 21 £62,500 -4.19% 9
South Yorkshire +16 5 £67,500 -10.00%
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 October 2025, 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 21 (80.77%) SQL
2 19 (73.08%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (65.38%) Data Modelling
3 17 (65.38%) Python
4 16 (61.54%) ETL
5 15 (57.69%) Data Lake
5 15 (57.69%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (53.85%) AWS
7 13 (50.00%) Social Skills
7 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
8 12 (46.15%) Apache Spark
9 11 (42.31%) Mentoring
10 10 (38.46%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (38.46%) Apache
10 10 (38.46%) Data Security
11 9 (34.62%) Azure
11 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
12 8 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (30.77%) Serverless
12 8 (30.77%) Amazon S3
12 8 (30.77%) Migration
12 8 (30.77%) Data Migration
13 7 (26.92%) Agile
13 7 (26.92%) Data Science
14 6 (23.08%) Tech for Good
14 6 (23.08%) Data Integration
14 6 (23.08%) Data Architecture
14 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
14 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills

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 12 (46.15%) Apache Spark
2 10 (38.46%) Apache
3 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) Azure
3 8 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 8 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (30.77%) Serverless
4 4 (15.38%) dbt
5 3 (11.54%) GCP
5 3 (11.54%) SaaS
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub
6 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (73.08%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (57.69%) Data Lake
3 10 (38.46%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (7.69%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (7.69%) Data Vault
4 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.69%) MySQL
4 2 (7.69%) Power BI
5 1 (3.85%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 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
2 6 (23.08%) Tech for Good
3 5 (19.23%) Retail
4 2 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
2 1 (3.85%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (65.38%) Data Modelling
2 16 (61.54%) ETL
3 15 (57.69%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 11 (42.31%) Mentoring
7 10 (38.46%) Data Security
8 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
9 8 (30.77%) Data Migration
9 8 (30.77%) Migration
10 7 (26.92%) Agile
10 7 (26.92%) Data Science
11 6 (23.08%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (23.08%) Data Architecture
11 6 (23.08%) Data Integration
12 5 (19.23%) Analytics
12 5 (19.23%) Requirements Gathering
13 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
13 3 (11.54%) Logical Data Model
13 3 (11.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) SQL
2 17 (65.38%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) Java
3 2 (7.69%) R
3 2 (7.69%) Scala
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 2 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Databricks
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) Oracle
2 2 (7.69%) Palantir
3 1 (3.85%) Google