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 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 135 165
Rank change year-on-year -18 +30 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 52 26 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.68% 0.79% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.92% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 50 25 12
10th Percentile £58,625 £49,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £62,376 £57,500 £50,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £65,465
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +3.11% -6.48%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £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 7,124 2,814 4,667
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 85.53% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 5,043 1,569 2,624
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,800 £79,100
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -19 36 £80,000 +28.00% 19
South Yorkshire -33 9 £75,000 +11.11% 3
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 15 September 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 24 (46.15%) Analytics
2 20 (38.46%) Data Engineering
3 19 (36.54%) SQL
4 16 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (28.85%) Azure
5 15 (28.85%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (28.85%) Python
6 12 (23.08%) ETL
6 12 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 11 (21.15%) Data Modelling
8 10 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (19.23%) Line Management
8 10 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (17.31%) AWS
9 9 (17.31%) Decision-Making
10 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
10 8 (15.38%) Data Governance
10 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
11 7 (13.46%) Business Analytics
11 7 (13.46%) Data Quality
11 7 (13.46%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
12 6 (11.54%) Coaching
12 6 (11.54%) Data Strategy
12 6 (11.54%) dbt
12 6 (11.54%) PySpark
13 5 (9.62%) Databricks
14 4 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
14 4 (7.69%) Customer Requirements

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 (7.69%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.85%) Azure
2 10 (19.23%) Azure Data Factory
3 9 (17.31%) AWS
4 6 (11.54%) dbt
5 4 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (7.69%) GCP
5 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.92%) Dagster
7 1 (1.92%) GitHub
7 1 (1.92%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (7.69%) Data Lake
2 4 (7.69%) Metadata
2 4 (7.69%) Power BI
3 3 (5.77%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (5.77%) BigQuery
3 3 (5.77%) Delta Lake
3 3 (5.77%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (3.85%) Big Data
4 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.92%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.92%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Git
1 1 (1.92%) JIRA
General
1 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
3 3 (5.77%) Finance
4 2 (3.85%) Advertising
4 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Banking
5 1 (1.92%) Games
5 1 (1.92%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) PySpark
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (7.69%) Terraform
3 2 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (1.92%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.92%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.92%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (46.15%) Analytics
2 20 (38.46%) Data Engineering
3 16 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (28.85%) Data Pipeline
5 12 (23.08%) ETL
5 12 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 11 (21.15%) Data Modelling
7 10 (19.23%) Line Management
7 10 (19.23%) Technical Leadership
8 9 (17.31%) Decision-Making
9 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 8 (15.38%) Data Governance
10 7 (13.46%) Business Analytics
11 6 (11.54%) Coaching
11 6 (11.54%) Data Strategy
12 4 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (7.69%) Customer Requirements
12 4 (7.69%) DevOps
12 4 (7.69%) Kimball Methodology
12 4 (7.69%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (36.54%) SQL
2 15 (28.85%) Python
3 2 (3.85%) Bicep
3 2 (3.85%) Java
3 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 7 (13.46%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (9.62%) Databricks
2 4 (7.69%) Oracle
3 3 (5.77%) Google
4 2 (3.85%) Informatica
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.85%) SAP
5 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow