Data Engineer Jobs in London

Data Engineer
England > London

The median Data Engineer salary in London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 May 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 100 120
Rank change year-on-year -20 +20 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 592 1,134 2,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.50% 3.37% 3.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.66% 3.55% 3.59%
Number of salaries quoted 483 922 1,126
10th Percentile £45,850 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,995 £106,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £140,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 22,283 31,984 66,421
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.21% 95.13% 96.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16,636 23,610 34,531
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,444 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in London

Data Engineer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Central London +31 78 £70,000 -9.68% 23
South London +20 25 £65,000 - 2
West London -4 7 £85,000 +13.33% 2
North London +2 4 £71,250 +1.79%
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 391 (66.05%) SQL
2 377 (63.68%) Python
3 285 (48.14%) Azure
4 251 (42.40%) ETL
5 223 (37.67%) Data Pipeline
6 205 (34.63%) AWS
7 190 (32.09%) Data Engineering
8 170 (28.72%) Data Warehouse
9 165 (27.87%) Data Modelling
9 165 (27.87%) Analytics
10 139 (23.48%) Databricks
11 132 (22.30%) Finance
12 129 (21.79%) Data Science
13 125 (21.11%) GCP
14 117 (19.76%) Business Intelligence
14 117 (19.76%) Power Platform
15 115 (19.43%) Social Skills
15 115 (19.43%) Power BI
16 101 (17.06%) DevOps
17 100 (16.89%) Agile
18 97 (16.39%) Data Lake
19 94 (15.88%) PySpark
20 89 (15.03%) Azure Data Factory
21 88 (14.86%) Data Integration
22 83 (14.02%) CI/CD
23 80 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
23 80 (13.51%) Data Quality
24 72 (12.16%) Apache Spark
25 70 (11.82%) SQL Server
26 67 (11.32%) Visualisation

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 72 (12.16%) Apache Spark
2 67 (11.32%) Apache Airflow
3 50 (8.45%) Apache
4 5 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.51%) Luigi
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.51%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.34%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 285 (48.14%) Azure
2 205 (34.63%) AWS
3 125 (21.11%) GCP
4 117 (19.76%) Power Platform
5 89 (15.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 57 (9.63%) dbt
7 54 (9.12%) Snowflake
8 53 (8.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 44 (7.43%) Amazon S3
9 44 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
10 39 (6.59%) Serverless
11 24 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (3.89%) GitHub
13 19 (3.21%) Amazon EMR
14 14 (2.36%) AWS Step Functions
14 14 (2.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 13 (2.20%) Prefect
16 12 (2.03%) PowerApps
17 11 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (1.86%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.36%) Structured Cabling
2 11 (1.86%) Network Security
3 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.34%) PPP
5 1 (0.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (28.72%) Data Warehouse
2 115 (19.43%) Power BI
3 97 (16.39%) Data Lake
4 70 (11.82%) SQL Server
5 58 (9.80%) Big Data
5 58 (9.80%) NoSQL
6 53 (8.95%) BigQuery
7 48 (8.11%) Hadoop
8 41 (6.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 35 (5.91%) Tableau
10 33 (5.57%) Amazon Redshift
11 31 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
11 31 (5.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 29 (4.90%) Relational Database
13 19 (3.21%) Data Vault
14 16 (2.70%) Apache Hive
14 16 (2.70%) Looker
15 14 (2.36%) Delta Lake
15 14 (2.36%) Metadata
15 14 (2.36%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (6.25%) Git
2 18 (3.04%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.86%) CircleCI
4 10 (1.69%) JIRA
5 6 (1.01%) GitLab
6 5 (0.84%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.17%) Ant
7 1 (0.17%) GoCD
7 1 (0.17%) Gradle
7 1 (0.17%) JUnit
7 1 (0.17%) Maven
7 1 (0.17%) Mockito
7 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.17%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 132 (22.30%) Finance
2 115 (19.43%) Social Skills
3 64 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (6.93%) Banking
6 26 (4.39%) Retail
7 20 (3.38%) Legal
8 19 (3.21%) Law
9 15 (2.53%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.36%) Games
11 13 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.35%) Marketing
12 8 (1.35%) Publishing
12 8 (1.35%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.18%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.01%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.84%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.84%) Music Industry
16 4 (0.68%) Electronics
16 4 (0.68%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (15.88%) PySpark
2 47 (7.94%) Kafka
3 27 (4.56%) Pandas
4 14 (2.36%) .NET
5 12 (2.03%) Apache Beam
6 10 (1.69%) Flask
7 9 (1.52%) REST
7 9 (1.52%) Spark Streaming
8 8 (1.35%) Apache Avro
9 7 (1.18%) AWS CDK
9 7 (1.18%) JSON
9 7 (1.18%) XML
10 6 (1.01%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (0.84%) NumPy
11 5 (0.84%) pytest
12 4 (0.68%) Anaconda
12 4 (0.68%) HTML
12 4 (0.68%) Plotly
12 4 (0.68%) SQLAlchemy
13 3 (0.51%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.73%) Greenfield Project
2 22 (3.72%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.04%) Data Structures
4 16 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.36%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.36%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.86%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.86%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.69%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
11 6 (1.01%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.01%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.84%) Blog
12 5 (0.84%) Equities
12 5 (0.84%) IoT
13 4 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 3 (0.51%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 26 (4.39%) Linux
2 17 (2.87%) Unix
3 9 (1.52%) Windows
4 4 (0.68%) Android
4 4 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.68%) CentOS
4 4 (0.68%) Solaris
4 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.68%) zOS
5 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (42.40%) ETL
2 223 (37.67%) Data Pipeline
3 190 (32.09%) Data Engineering
4 165 (27.87%) Analytics
4 165 (27.87%) Data Modelling
5 129 (21.79%) Data Science
6 117 (19.76%) Business Intelligence
7 101 (17.06%) DevOps
8 100 (16.89%) Agile
9 88 (14.86%) Data Integration
10 83 (14.02%) CI/CD
11 80 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
12 67 (11.32%) Visualisation
13 57 (9.63%) Machine Learning
14 52 (8.78%) Mentoring
14 52 (8.78%) Platform Engineering
15 50 (8.45%) Computer Science
16 49 (8.28%) Data Analytics
17 48 (8.11%) Data Architecture
17 48 (8.11%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 391 (66.05%) SQL
2 377 (63.68%) Python
3 51 (8.61%) Java
4 32 (5.41%) Scala
5 30 (5.07%) T-SQL
6 21 (3.55%) C#
7 17 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.36%) R
9 11 (1.86%) U-SQL
10 10 (1.69%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.52%) VBA
12 6 (1.01%) JavaScript
12 6 (1.01%) VB
13 4 (0.68%) Rust
14 3 (0.51%) C++
14 3 (0.51%) Go
14 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.34%) Bash
15 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 65 (10.98%) Degree
2 33 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (2.20%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.03%) Master's Degree
5 11 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.18%) CISSP
7 4 (0.68%) CISM
8 3 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.51%) CCSK
8 3 (0.51%) CCSP
8 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.51%) PhD
8 3 (0.51%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.51%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (13.51%) Data Quality
2 12 (2.03%) QA
3 11 (1.86%) GDPR
4 6 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.68%) NIST
5 4 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 44 (7.43%) Docker
2 8 (1.35%) HDFS
3 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 64 (10.81%) Terraform
2 47 (7.94%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.01%) logstash
4 4 (0.68%) Ansible
5 3 (0.51%) Argo
5 3 (0.51%) CASB
5 3 (0.51%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.34%) Marathon
6 2 (0.34%) Mesos
7 1 (0.17%) Grafana
7 1 (0.17%) Kibana
7 1 (0.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 139 (23.48%) Databricks
2 61 (10.30%) Microsoft
3 46 (7.77%) Google
4 20 (3.38%) Oracle
5 12 (2.03%) Cloudera
6 11 (1.86%) Informatica
6 11 (1.86%) YouTube
7 10 (1.69%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.01%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.68%) Qualys
9 4 (0.68%) Splunk
10 3 (0.51%) Netskope
10 3 (0.51%) Symantec
10 3 (0.51%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.34%) Facebook
11 2 (0.34%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.34%) NEC
11 2 (0.34%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.34%) Snowplow
11 2 (0.34%) Teradata