Senior Data Engineer Jobs in London

Senior Data Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in London is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 310 392
Rank change year-on-year -10 +82 +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 193 364 752
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.80% 1.14% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.20% 1.07%
Number of salaries quoted 164 293 278
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
25th Percentile £62,500 £73,750 £70,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £117,500 £125,000 £105,750
England median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%

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 22,824 30,324 70,462
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 95.02% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,907 22,700 34,725
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in London

Senior 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 Senior Data Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +41 26 £75,000 -16.67% 5
South London - 4 £28,001 -
Senior Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 138 (71.50%) Python
2 127 (65.80%) SQL
3 110 (56.99%) Azure
4 80 (41.45%) Data Engineering
5 75 (38.86%) AWS
6 72 (37.31%) Data Pipeline
7 68 (35.23%) ETL
8 64 (33.16%) Databricks
9 61 (31.61%) Data Warehouse
10 55 (28.50%) Finance
11 51 (26.42%) Data Modelling
12 50 (25.91%) Data Lake
13 49 (25.39%) Social Skills
14 45 (23.32%) DevOps
14 45 (23.32%) Agile
15 43 (22.28%) Analytics
15 43 (22.28%) Power BI
15 43 (22.28%) Power Platform
16 40 (20.73%) GCP
16 40 (20.73%) Business Intelligence
17 39 (20.21%) PySpark
17 39 (20.21%) Data Science
18 37 (19.17%) Snowflake
19 35 (18.13%) Azure Data Factory
20 34 (17.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
20 34 (17.62%) CI/CD
20 34 (17.62%) Apache Airflow
21 32 (16.58%) Apache Spark
22 29 (15.03%) Apache
23 27 (13.99%) Kubernetes

Senior 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 34 (17.62%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (16.58%) Apache Spark
3 29 (15.03%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.52%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 110 (56.99%) Azure
2 75 (38.86%) AWS
3 43 (22.28%) Power Platform
4 40 (20.73%) GCP
5 37 (19.17%) Snowflake
6 35 (18.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 34 (17.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 25 (12.95%) dbt
9 20 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (9.84%) Amazon S3
11 13 (6.74%) Amazon EMR
12 11 (5.70%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
12 11 (5.70%) GitHub
13 8 (4.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (4.15%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
14 7 (3.63%) Dagster
15 5 (2.59%) Serverless
16 4 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.25%) Structured Cabling
2 11 (5.70%) Network Security
3 4 (2.07%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.52%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (31.61%) Data Warehouse
2 50 (25.91%) Data Lake
3 43 (22.28%) Power BI
4 26 (13.47%) NoSQL
5 23 (11.92%) Hadoop
6 21 (10.88%) Tableau
7 18 (9.33%) Azure SQL Database
7 18 (9.33%) Big Data
8 17 (8.81%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (7.77%) BigQuery
9 15 (7.77%) Data Vault
10 14 (7.25%) SQL Server
11 12 (6.22%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (5.70%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 11 (5.70%) MongoDB
13 7 (3.63%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (3.63%) Apache Hive
13 7 (3.63%) Flink
13 7 (3.63%) Parquet
14 5 (2.59%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 16 (8.29%) Git
2 10 (5.18%) CircleCI
3 9 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.07%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.55%) JIRA
6 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 55 (28.50%) Finance
2 49 (25.39%) Social Skills
3 26 (13.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.25%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.18%) Legal
7 9 (4.66%) Law
8 8 (4.15%) Banking
8 8 (4.15%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (4.15%) Retail
9 7 (3.63%) Retail Banking
10 5 (2.59%) Publishing
11 4 (2.07%) Music Industry
12 3 (1.55%) Games
13 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.52%) Automotive
13 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (20.21%) PySpark
2 12 (6.22%) Kafka
3 10 (5.18%) Apache Beam
3 10 (5.18%) Pandas
4 7 (3.63%) Apache Avro
4 7 (3.63%) Spark Streaming
5 5 (2.59%) .NET
5 5 (2.59%) AWS CDK
6 4 (2.07%) JSON
6 4 (2.07%) XML
7 3 (1.55%) pytest
8 2 (1.04%) Dropwizard
8 2 (1.04%) HTML
8 2 (1.04%) Lambda Expressions
9 1 (0.52%) CSS
9 1 (0.52%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.52%) Flask
9 1 (0.52%) gRPC
9 1 (0.52%) LAMP
9 1 (0.52%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.74%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (6.22%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.70%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.18%) Driving Licence
5 9 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.63%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (2.07%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.55%) Cloud Security Posture
8 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.55%) PKI
8 3 (1.55%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.52%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.52%) IoT
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.52%) PropTech
10 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (7.77%) Linux
2 11 (5.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Android
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (41.45%) Data Engineering
2 72 (37.31%) Data Pipeline
3 68 (35.23%) ETL
4 51 (26.42%) Data Modelling
5 45 (23.32%) Agile
5 45 (23.32%) DevOps
6 43 (22.28%) Analytics
7 40 (20.73%) Business Intelligence
8 39 (20.21%) Data Science
9 34 (17.62%) CI/CD
10 27 (13.99%) Mentoring
11 26 (13.47%) Visualisation
12 24 (12.44%) Platform Engineering
13 23 (11.92%) Data Analytics
14 22 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (10.88%) Data Visualisation
15 21 (10.88%) Stakeholder Management
16 20 (10.36%) Problem-Solving
17 19 (9.84%) Containerisation
18 18 (9.33%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 138 (71.50%) Python
2 127 (65.80%) SQL
3 20 (10.36%) Java
4 14 (7.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 13 (6.74%) Scala
6 11 (5.70%) U-SQL
7 7 (3.63%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.59%) C#
9 4 (2.07%) VB
10 1 (0.52%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.52%) R
10 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (6.74%) Degree
2 12 (6.22%) DBS Check
3 11 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (1.55%) CCSK
5 3 (1.55%) CCSP
5 3 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.55%) CISSP
6 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.59%) QA
3 4 (2.07%) Solvency II
System Software
1 17 (8.81%) Docker
2 7 (3.63%) HDFS
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (13.99%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.95%) Terraform
3 3 (1.55%) CASB
4 2 (1.04%) Ansible
4 2 (1.04%) Marathon
4 2 (1.04%) Mesos
5 1 (0.52%) Podman
Vendors
1 64 (33.16%) Databricks
2 16 (8.29%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.74%) Google
4 12 (6.22%) Oracle
5 9 (4.66%) Cloudera
6 4 (2.07%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.07%) Informatica
7 3 (1.55%) Netskope
7 3 (1.55%) Symantec
7 3 (1.55%) YouTube
7 3 (1.55%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.04%) Teradata
9 1 (0.52%) Apple
9 1 (0.52%) Denodo