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 26 January 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 146 182
Rank change year-on-year +2 +36 +99
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 21 9 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.59% 0.30% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.31% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 20 5 4
10th Percentile £47,000 - £49,493
25th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £51,426
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.04% +2.08%
75th Percentile £71,563 £63,750 £77,188
90th Percentile £80,500 £73,500 £78,875
England median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £77,500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -9.68% -3.13%

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 3,307 2,928 3,888
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 96.54% 96.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,004 1,182 3,147
10th Percentile £27,825 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £40,106 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,499 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £71,250 £67,070
90th Percentile £83,500 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -15 18 £65,000 +4.00% 6
South Yorkshire -1 2 £62,500 - 3
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 January 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 (76.19%) SQL
2 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 12 (57.14%) Data Engineering
2 12 (57.14%) Data Lake
2 12 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (57.14%) ETL
2 12 (57.14%) Python
3 11 (52.38%) Apache Spark
3 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (47.62%) Data Modelling
4 10 (47.62%) Data Science
5 9 (42.86%) Agile
6 8 (38.10%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (38.10%) Apache
6 8 (38.10%) Data Security
6 8 (38.10%) Databricks
7 7 (33.33%) Analytics
7 7 (33.33%) Mentoring
8 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
8 6 (28.57%) Data Integration
9 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
9 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (23.81%) Azure
9 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (23.81%) Data Migration
9 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
9 5 (23.81%) dbt
9 5 (23.81%) Migration
9 5 (23.81%) Serverless

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 11 (52.38%) Apache Spark
2 8 (38.10%) Apache
3 3 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) Amazon S3
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) dbt
2 5 (23.81%) Serverless
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
3 4 (19.05%) SaaS
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) Data Lake
1 12 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (38.10%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
3 3 (14.29%) MySQL
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (9.52%) Apache Iceberg
4 2 (9.52%) Data Vault
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
5 1 (4.76%) Power BI
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 4 (19.05%) Tech for Good
4 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Pandas
2 1 (4.76%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Data Engineering
1 12 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
1 12 (57.14%) ETL
2 11 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (47.62%) Data Modelling
3 10 (47.62%) Data Science
4 9 (42.86%) Agile
5 8 (38.10%) Data Security
6 7 (33.33%) Analytics
6 7 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
7 6 (28.57%) Data Integration
8 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (23.81%) Data Migration
8 5 (23.81%) Migration
9 4 (19.05%) Clean Code
9 4 (19.05%) Coaching
9 4 (19.05%) Data Architecture
9 4 (19.05%) Logical Data Model
9 4 (19.05%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) SQL
2 12 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (14.29%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Databricks
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (14.29%) Palantir
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Google