Senior Data Engineer Jobs in England

Senior Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 529 469 482
Rank change year-on-year -60 +13 +118
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 335 524 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.62% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.39% 0.68% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 275 424 416
10th Percentile £35,000 £57,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £88,375 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +8.47%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 86,551 76,764 136,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.74% 91.30% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 63,784 50,208 75,544
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,017
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in England

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 3 June 2024. 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
London -23 191 £80,000 -5.88% 70
North of England +72 73 £62,500 +4.17% 14
North West +32 60 £66,250 +20.45% 12
Midlands -11 26 £70,000 +18.14% 3
West Midlands -2 17 £70,000 +19.15% 2
South East -33 17 £66,250 -5.36% 4
South West -42 17 £55,000 -21.43% 4
Yorkshire +62 8 £49,136 -25.83% 1
East Midlands -7 8 - - 1
East of England - 6 £75,000 - 3
North East -10 5 £80,000 +18.52% 1
Senior Data Engineer
UK

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 3 June 2024, Senior Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 205 (61.19%) Python
2 194 (57.91%) SQL
3 159 (47.46%) Azure
4 131 (39.10%) ETL
5 127 (37.91%) Data Engineering
6 120 (35.82%) Data Pipeline
7 111 (33.13%) AWS
8 101 (30.15%) Data Warehouse
9 96 (28.66%) Data Modelling
10 95 (28.36%) Databricks
11 84 (25.07%) Finance
12 81 (24.18%) Analytics
13 80 (23.88%) Agile
14 72 (21.49%) Data Lake
15 71 (21.19%) Social Skills
16 66 (19.70%) DevOps
17 62 (18.51%) PySpark
18 59 (17.61%) Power BI
18 59 (17.61%) Power Platform
18 59 (17.61%) Business Intelligence
19 56 (16.72%) CI/CD
20 55 (16.42%) Azure Data Factory
20 55 (16.42%) Data Science
21 54 (16.12%) GCP
22 51 (15.22%) Data Quality
23 48 (14.33%) Apache Spark
23 48 (14.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
24 45 (13.43%) Snowflake
25 43 (12.84%) SQL Server
26 40 (11.94%) Machine Learning

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 48 (14.33%) Apache Spark
2 39 (11.64%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (9.85%) Apache
4 4 (1.19%) Confluence
5 2 (0.60%) Luigi
5 2 (0.60%) SAS
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.30%) nginx
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 159 (47.46%) Azure
2 111 (33.13%) AWS
3 59 (17.61%) Power Platform
4 55 (16.42%) Azure Data Factory
5 54 (16.12%) GCP
6 48 (14.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 45 (13.43%) Snowflake
8 36 (10.75%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (9.25%) dbt
10 30 (8.96%) Amazon S3
11 23 (6.87%) GitHub
12 17 (5.07%) Serverless
13 14 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (3.88%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (3.28%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
16 9 (2.69%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 8 (2.39%) GitHub Actions
18 7 (2.09%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.96%) Structured Cabling
2 11 (3.28%) Network Security
3 10 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.19%) FTP
5 1 (0.30%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.30%) 5G
5 1 (0.30%) LAN
5 1 (0.30%) PPP
5 1 (0.30%) VPN
5 1 (0.30%) WAN
5 1 (0.30%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (30.15%) Data Warehouse
2 72 (21.49%) Data Lake
3 59 (17.61%) Power BI
4 43 (12.84%) SQL Server
5 35 (10.45%) NoSQL
6 29 (8.66%) Big Data
6 29 (8.66%) Hadoop
7 26 (7.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 24 (7.16%) Data Vault
9 22 (6.57%) BigQuery
9 22 (6.57%) Tableau
10 21 (6.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 18 (5.37%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (5.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (5.07%) Delta Lake
13 12 (3.58%) DynamoDB
13 12 (3.58%) MongoDB
14 11 (3.28%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 11 (3.28%) Relational Database
15 9 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 19 (5.67%) Git
2 16 (4.78%) JIRA
3 11 (3.28%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.69%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.19%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.19%) GitLab
5 4 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.60%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.30%) SpecFlow
General
1 84 (25.07%) Finance
2 71 (21.19%) Social Skills
3 33 (9.85%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (7.76%) Telecoms
5 15 (4.48%) Retail
6 11 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (3.28%) Legal
7 10 (2.99%) Law
8 7 (2.09%) Banking
8 7 (2.09%) Games
9 6 (1.79%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.49%) Publishing
11 4 (1.19%) Music Industry
12 3 (0.90%) Agriculture
12 3 (0.90%) Automotive
12 3 (0.90%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.30%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.30%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (18.51%) PySpark
2 18 (5.37%) Pandas
3 15 (4.48%) Kafka
4 9 (2.69%) Apache Beam
4 9 (2.69%) AWS CDK
5 6 (1.79%) Apache Avro
5 6 (1.79%) Spark Streaming
6 5 (1.49%) .NET
7 4 (1.19%) JSON
7 4 (1.19%) XML
8 3 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.90%) pytest
9 2 (0.60%) Dropwizard
9 2 (0.60%) HTML
9 2 (0.60%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.30%) CSS
10 1 (0.30%) Flask
10 1 (0.30%) LAMP
10 1 (0.30%) Node.js
10 1 (0.30%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.37%) Data Structures
2 16 (4.78%) Reinsurance
3 14 (4.18%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.58%) Greenfield Project
5 11 (3.28%) Driving Licence
5 11 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.28%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.28%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
8 6 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.49%) Blog
9 5 (1.49%) NHS
10 4 (1.19%) CCTV
10 4 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.90%) Cloud Security Posture
11 3 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (5.37%) Linux
2 10 (2.99%) Unix
3 1 (0.30%) Android
3 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.30%) Windows
3 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (39.10%) ETL
2 127 (37.91%) Data Engineering
3 120 (35.82%) Data Pipeline
4 96 (28.66%) Data Modelling
5 81 (24.18%) Analytics
6 80 (23.88%) Agile
7 66 (19.70%) DevOps
8 59 (17.61%) Business Intelligence
9 56 (16.72%) CI/CD
10 55 (16.42%) Data Science
11 40 (11.94%) Machine Learning
11 40 (11.94%) Visualisation
12 39 (11.64%) Data Management
12 39 (11.64%) Mentoring
13 38 (11.34%) Data Governance
14 37 (11.04%) Data Analytics
15 36 (10.75%) Data Integration
16 35 (10.45%) Problem-Solving
17 28 (8.36%) Infrastructure as Code
18 27 (8.06%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 205 (61.19%) Python
2 194 (57.91%) SQL
3 29 (8.66%) Java
4 15 (4.48%) Scala
5 14 (4.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (3.58%) T-SQL
7 11 (3.28%) U-SQL
8 10 (2.99%) C#
9 5 (1.49%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.19%) VB
11 3 (0.90%) C
12 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.60%) R
13 1 (0.30%) Bash
13 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.30%) Korn
13 1 (0.30%) PHP
13 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (7.46%) Degree
2 16 (4.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (4.48%) DBS Check
4 10 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.49%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.49%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (0.90%) CCSK
7 3 (0.90%) CCSP
7 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.90%) CISSP
7 3 (0.90%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.99%) QA
3 4 (1.19%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.30%) GDPR
4 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.30%) NCSC
4 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 24 (7.16%) Docker
2 6 (1.79%) HDFS
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (11.64%) Terraform
2 31 (9.25%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.49%) Ansible
4 3 (0.90%) CASB
5 2 (0.60%) Marathon
5 2 (0.60%) Mesos
6 1 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 95 (28.36%) Databricks
2 38 (11.34%) Microsoft
3 29 (8.66%) Oracle
4 25 (7.46%) Informatica
5 18 (5.37%) Google
6 8 (2.39%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.19%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.19%) Splunk
8 3 (0.90%) Netskope
8 3 (0.90%) SnapLogic
8 3 (0.90%) Symantec
8 3 (0.90%) YouTube
8 3 (0.90%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.60%) Teradata
9 2 (0.60%) TIBCO
10 1 (0.30%) Apple
10 1 (0.30%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.30%) Denodo
10 1 (0.30%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.30%) SAP