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 7 October 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 132 166
Rank change year-on-year -3 +34 +21
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 53 24 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.70% 0.71% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.82% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 52 23 11
10th Percentile £58,875 £54,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £62,376 £58,125 £46,969
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 £79,250 -
England median annual salary £75,000 £71,250 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -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 7,066 2,923 4,376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 86.50% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,083 1,544 2,237
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,945 £39,221
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 7 October 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 7 October 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 36 £80,000 +28.00% 14
South Yorkshire -24 12 £75,000 +11.11% 5
East Yorkshire - 5 £60,000 -
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 October 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 25 (47.17%) Analytics
2 20 (37.74%) SQL
3 19 (35.85%) Data Engineering
4 18 (33.96%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (28.30%) Azure
5 15 (28.30%) Mentoring
6 14 (26.42%) Data Pipeline
7 13 (24.53%) Python
7 13 (24.53%) Technical Leadership
8 12 (22.64%) Data Modelling
9 11 (20.75%) Data Governance
9 11 (20.75%) ETL
10 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
11 9 (16.98%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (16.98%) Data Quality
11 9 (16.98%) dbt
11 9 (16.98%) Decision-Making
11 9 (16.98%) Line Management
12 8 (15.09%) PySpark
13 7 (13.21%) AWS
13 7 (13.21%) Business Analytics
13 7 (13.21%) Databricks
13 7 (13.21%) Kimball Methodology
13 7 (13.21%) Lakehouse
13 7 (13.21%) Metadata
13 7 (13.21%) Metadata Management
13 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
13 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
13 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
14 6 (11.32%) Azure Synapse 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 4 (7.55%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (5.66%) Apache Spark
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.89%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (28.30%) Azure
2 9 (16.98%) Azure Data Factory
2 9 (16.98%) dbt
3 7 (13.21%) AWS
4 6 (11.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (7.55%) GCP
5 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.77%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.89%) Dagster
7 1 (1.89%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.21%) Metadata
2 6 (11.32%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (11.32%) Delta Lake
2 6 (11.32%) Semantic Layer
3 4 (7.55%) Data Lake
3 4 (7.55%) Power BI
4 3 (5.66%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (5.66%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.77%) Big Data
5 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.89%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Git
General
1 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.77%) Advertising
3 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) Games
4 1 (1.89%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) PySpark
2 4 (7.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (5.66%) Terraform
4 2 (3.77%) Kafka
5 1 (1.89%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.89%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
1 1 (1.89%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) Analytics
2 19 (35.85%) Data Engineering
3 18 (33.96%) Business Intelligence
4 15 (28.30%) Mentoring
5 14 (26.42%) Data Pipeline
6 13 (24.53%) Technical Leadership
7 12 (22.64%) Data Modelling
8 11 (20.75%) Data Governance
8 11 (20.75%) ETL
9 10 (18.87%) CI/CD
10 9 (16.98%) Decision-Making
10 9 (16.98%) Line Management
11 7 (13.21%) Business Analytics
11 7 (13.21%) Kimball Methodology
11 7 (13.21%) Lakehouse
11 7 (13.21%) Metadata Management
11 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
12 6 (11.32%) Coaching
12 6 (11.32%) Dimensional Modelling
12 6 (11.32%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.74%) SQL
2 13 (24.53%) Python
3 2 (3.77%) Bicep
3 2 (3.77%) Java
3 2 (3.77%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
1 7 (13.21%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Databricks
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Oracle
3 3 (5.66%) Google
4 2 (3.77%) Informatica
4 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.77%) SAP
5 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow