Senior Data Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Senior Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 139 185
Rank change year-on-year -22 +46 +51
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 40 25 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.57% 0.72% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.84% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 38 24 15
10th Percentile £57,500 £47,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £60,594 £56,250 £48,204
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £63,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -1.92% -7.14%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 -
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 6,590 2,968 5,283
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 85.71% 94.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4,582 1,599 3,871
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,063 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -20 29 £80,000 +33.33% 4
East Yorkshire - 6 £60,000 -
South Yorkshire -33 4 £75,000 +9.09%
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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 16 (40.00%) Analytics
2 15 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 13 (32.50%) Azure
4 12 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (30.00%) SQL
5 11 (27.50%) Python
6 10 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (25.00%) Line Management
7 9 (22.50%) AWS
7 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
8 8 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (20.00%) ETL
9 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
10 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
10 6 (15.00%) Data Strategy
10 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
10 6 (15.00%) Power BI
10 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
11 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
11 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (12.50%) Data Lake
11 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
12 4 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (10.00%) Databricks
12 4 (10.00%) dbt
12 4 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
13 3 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
13 3 (7.50%) Business Analytics

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 3 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (32.50%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) AWS
3 8 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 4 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (10.00%) dbt
6 3 (7.50%) GCP
7 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.50%) Dagster
8 1 (2.50%) GitHub
8 1 (2.50%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (15.00%) Power BI
3 5 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.00%) Big Data
4 2 (5.00%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.00%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.50%) Data Vault
5 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.50%) Metadata
5 1 (2.50%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (2.50%) Spark SQL
5 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Git
1 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 4 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Finance
2 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Advertising
3 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Banking
4 1 (2.50%) Digital Health
4 1 (2.50%) Games
4 1 (2.50%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) PySpark
2 2 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.50%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.50%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (40.00%) Analytics
2 15 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 12 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (25.00%) Line Management
5 9 (22.50%) Data Modelling
6 8 (20.00%) ETL
7 6 (15.00%) Data Governance
7 6 (15.00%) Data Strategy
7 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 5 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
9 4 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
10 3 (7.50%) Business Analytics
10 3 (7.50%) Data Architecture
10 3 (7.50%) DevOps
11 2 (5.00%) Data Privacy
11 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 2 (5.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) SQL
2 11 (27.50%) Python
3 1 (2.50%) Bicep
3 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Databricks
2 3 (7.50%) Google
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Informatica
3 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow