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 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 102 120
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 590 1,069 2,540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.45% 3.33% 3.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.59% 3.50% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 484 900 1,128
10th Percentile £45,900 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £66,750 £58,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £94,063 £106,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £140,000 £101,250
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 22,750 30,501 70,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 95.05% 96.26%
Number of salaries quoted 16,855 22,813 34,730
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,500 £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 £52,500 £60,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.22% +0.83% +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 31 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 31 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 +29 80 £70,000 -11.11% 28
South London +21 25 £65,000 - 1
West London +2 5 £85,000 +13.33% 1
North London 0 3 £70,000 -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 384 (65.08%) SQL
2 369 (62.54%) Python
3 295 (50.00%) Azure
4 238 (40.34%) ETL
5 223 (37.80%) Data Pipeline
6 205 (34.75%) Data Engineering
7 202 (34.24%) AWS
8 167 (28.31%) Data Warehouse
9 166 (28.14%) Analytics
10 160 (27.12%) Data Modelling
11 138 (23.39%) Databricks
12 134 (22.71%) Finance
13 125 (21.19%) GCP
14 124 (21.02%) Data Science
15 121 (20.51%) Business Intelligence
16 119 (20.17%) Power Platform
17 118 (20.00%) Social Skills
18 117 (19.83%) Power BI
19 110 (18.64%) Data Lake
20 101 (17.12%) PySpark
21 100 (16.95%) Agile
22 92 (15.59%) DevOps
23 90 (15.25%) Azure Data Factory
24 85 (14.41%) Data Integration
25 81 (13.73%) Data Quality
25 81 (13.73%) CI/CD
26 79 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
27 68 (11.53%) Apache Spark
27 68 (11.53%) SQL Server
28 67 (11.36%) Apache Airflow

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 68 (11.53%) Apache Spark
2 67 (11.36%) Apache Airflow
3 48 (8.14%) Apache
4 5 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.51%) Luigi
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.17%) Confluence
7 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (3.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.85%) 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
1 295 (50.00%) Azure
2 202 (34.24%) AWS
3 125 (21.19%) GCP
4 119 (20.17%) Power Platform
5 90 (15.25%) Azure Data Factory
6 63 (10.68%) dbt
7 62 (10.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 58 (9.83%) Snowflake
9 42 (7.12%) Amazon S3
10 39 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
11 37 (6.27%) Serverless
12 22 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (3.56%) GitHub
14 20 (3.39%) Amazon EMR
15 15 (2.54%) Dagster
16 14 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 13 (2.20%) AWS Step Functions
17 13 (2.20%) Prefect
18 12 (2.03%) PowerApps
19 11 (1.86%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 15 (2.54%) 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
1 167 (28.31%) Data Warehouse
2 117 (19.83%) Power BI
3 110 (18.64%) Data Lake
4 68 (11.53%) SQL Server
5 56 (9.49%) Big Data
6 54 (9.15%) NoSQL
7 50 (8.47%) BigQuery
8 46 (7.80%) Hadoop
9 42 (7.12%) Azure SQL Database
10 35 (5.93%) Tableau
11 33 (5.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 30 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
12 30 (5.08%) Relational Database
13 29 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (3.22%) Data Vault
15 18 (3.05%) Amazon Athena
16 17 (2.88%) Looker
17 14 (2.37%) Apache Hive
18 13 (2.20%) MySQL
19 12 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 34 (5.76%) Git
2 18 (3.05%) Jenkins
3 10 (1.69%) CircleCI
4 8 (1.36%) JIRA
5 5 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.85%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) Ant
6 1 (0.17%) GoCD
6 1 (0.17%) Gradle
6 1 (0.17%) JUnit
6 1 (0.17%) Maven
6 1 (0.17%) MLflow
6 1 (0.17%) Mockito
6 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.17%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 134 (22.71%) Finance
2 118 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 63 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (7.63%) Banking
6 26 (4.41%) Retail
7 23 (3.90%) Legal
8 19 (3.22%) Law
9 15 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.03%) Games
12 11 (1.86%) Publishing
13 9 (1.53%) Front Office
14 8 (1.36%) Marketing
15 7 (1.19%) Retail Banking
16 6 (1.02%) Health Technology
17 5 (0.85%) Music Industry
17 5 (0.85%) Public Sector
18 4 (0.68%) Manufacturing
19 3 (0.51%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (17.12%) PySpark
2 43 (7.29%) Kafka
3 27 (4.58%) Pandas
4 11 (1.86%) Apache Beam
5 10 (1.69%) NumPy
6 9 (1.53%) .NET
7 8 (1.36%) SciPy
7 8 (1.36%) Spark Streaming
8 7 (1.19%) Apache Avro
8 7 (1.19%) AWS CDK
8 7 (1.19%) HTML
9 6 (1.02%) Flask
9 6 (1.02%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (0.85%) JSON
10 5 (0.85%) pytest
10 5 (0.85%) REST
10 5 (0.85%) XML
11 3 (0.51%) FastAPI
11 3 (0.51%) SOAP
12 2 (0.34%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.41%) Greenfield Project
2 20 (3.39%) Cloud Native
3 16 (2.71%) Data Structures
4 15 (2.54%) Algorithms
4 15 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (2.54%) Management Information System
4 15 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (1.86%) Driving Licence
7 10 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.36%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.19%) Distributed Applications
9 7 (1.19%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.85%) Blog
10 5 (0.85%) IoT
10 5 (0.85%) Product Ownership
11 4 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 3 (0.51%) iPad
12 3 (0.51%) PKI
12 3 (0.51%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.24%) Linux
2 18 (3.05%) Unix
3 9 (1.53%) 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
1 238 (40.34%) ETL
2 223 (37.80%) Data Pipeline
3 205 (34.75%) Data Engineering
4 166 (28.14%) Analytics
5 160 (27.12%) Data Modelling
6 124 (21.02%) Data Science
7 121 (20.51%) Business Intelligence
8 100 (16.95%) Agile
9 92 (15.59%) DevOps
10 85 (14.41%) Data Integration
11 81 (13.73%) CI/CD
12 79 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (11.02%) Visualisation
14 61 (10.34%) Mentoring
15 53 (8.98%) Machine Learning
16 50 (8.47%) Computer Science
17 49 (8.31%) Platform Engineering
18 48 (8.14%) Data Analytics
18 48 (8.14%) Data Architecture
19 47 (7.97%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 384 (65.08%) SQL
2 369 (62.54%) Python
3 57 (9.66%) Java
4 30 (5.08%) Scala
5 28 (4.75%) T-SQL
6 18 (3.05%) C#
7 17 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (2.54%) R
9 12 (2.03%) VBA
10 11 (1.86%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.86%) U-SQL
11 7 (1.19%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.85%) Rust
13 4 (0.68%) Go
13 4 (0.68%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.68%) VB
14 2 (0.34%) Bash
14 2 (0.34%) C
14 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (10.34%) Degree
2 34 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.37%) DBS Check
4 13 (2.20%) Master's Degree
5 11 (1.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.19%) CISSP
7 4 (0.68%) CISM
7 4 (0.68%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.68%) Security Cleared
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
9 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.34%) PhD
10 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (13.73%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.86%) GDPR
2 11 (1.86%) QA
3 7 (1.19%) Accessibility
4 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 4 (0.68%) NIST
4 4 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 39 (6.61%) Docker
2 7 (1.19%) HDFS
3 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 61 (10.34%) Terraform
2 44 (7.46%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.02%) logstash
4 5 (0.85%) Ansible
5 3 (0.51%) CASB
6 2 (0.34%) Argo
6 2 (0.34%) 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
1 138 (23.39%) Databricks
2 58 (9.83%) Microsoft
3 43 (7.29%) Google
4 17 (2.88%) Oracle
5 11 (1.86%) Cloudera
6 9 (1.53%) Alteryx
6 9 (1.53%) YouTube
7 7 (1.19%) Informatica
8 4 (0.68%) Atlassian
8 4 (0.68%) Qualys
8 4 (0.68%) Splunk
9 3 (0.51%) Netskope
9 3 (0.51%) Symantec
9 3 (0.51%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.34%) Facebook
10 2 (0.34%) NEC
10 2 (0.34%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.34%) Snowplow
10 2 (0.34%) Teradata
11 1 (0.17%) Brio