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 9 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 95 119
Rank change year-on-year -41 +24 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 587 1,060 2,570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.39% 3.37% 3.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.54% 3.55% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 486 900 1,146
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £60,563 £66,750 £58,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £113,125 £140,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £73,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.96% +4.29% +7.69%

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 23,153 29,839 71,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 94.99% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17,040 22,415 34,936
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,578 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,750 £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%

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 9 June 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 9 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 +25 81 £70,000 -11.11% 27
South London +21 25 £65,000 -
West London -9 5 £85,000 +13.33% 4
North London +2 3 £70,000 -
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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.

1 380 (64.74%) SQL
2 364 (62.01%) Python
3 297 (50.60%) Azure
4 232 (39.52%) ETL
5 221 (37.65%) Data Pipeline
6 206 (35.09%) Data Engineering
7 199 (33.90%) AWS
8 168 (28.62%) Data Warehouse
9 165 (28.11%) Analytics
10 159 (27.09%) Data Modelling
11 139 (23.68%) Databricks
12 134 (22.83%) Finance
13 125 (21.29%) GCP
14 124 (21.12%) Business Intelligence
15 123 (20.95%) Data Science
16 118 (20.10%) Power Platform
17 116 (19.76%) Power BI
18 115 (19.59%) Social Skills
19 113 (19.25%) Data Lake
20 106 (18.06%) PySpark
21 101 (17.21%) Agile
22 91 (15.50%) DevOps
23 90 (15.33%) Azure Data Factory
24 84 (14.31%) Data Integration
25 79 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
25 79 (13.46%) CI/CD
26 78 (13.29%) Data Quality
27 70 (11.93%) SQL Server
28 67 (11.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
29 66 (11.24%) 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 66 (11.24%) Apache Airflow
2 62 (10.56%) Apache Spark
3 44 (7.50%) 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 20 (3.41%) 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
1 297 (50.60%) Azure
2 199 (33.90%) AWS
3 125 (21.29%) GCP
4 118 (20.10%) Power Platform
5 90 (15.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (11.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 64 (10.90%) dbt
8 57 (9.71%) Snowflake
9 39 (6.64%) Amazon S3
9 39 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (5.79%) Serverless
11 20 (3.41%) GitHub
12 18 (3.07%) Amazon EMR
12 18 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (3.07%) Dagster
13 14 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (2.21%) Prefect
15 12 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (2.04%) PowerApps
16 11 (1.87%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.73%) Structured Cabling
2 11 (1.87%) Network Security
3 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.34%) PPP
5 1 (0.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (28.62%) Data Warehouse
2 116 (19.76%) Power BI
3 113 (19.25%) Data Lake
4 70 (11.93%) SQL Server
5 54 (9.20%) Big Data
6 50 (8.52%) NoSQL
7 47 (8.01%) BigQuery
8 43 (7.33%) Hadoop
9 42 (7.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 31 (5.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 31 (5.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 30 (5.11%) Tableau
12 29 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
13 28 (4.77%) Relational Database
14 21 (3.58%) Amazon Athena
15 18 (3.07%) Data Vault
16 16 (2.73%) Looker
17 14 (2.39%) Dremio
18 13 (2.21%) MySQL
18 13 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (5.28%) Git
2 17 (2.90%) Jenkins
3 9 (1.53%) CircleCI
4 7 (1.19%) JIRA
5 5 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.85%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) GoCD
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
6 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 134 (22.83%) Finance
2 115 (19.59%) Social Skills
3 64 (10.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 59 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
5 44 (7.50%) Banking
6 25 (4.26%) Retail
7 23 (3.92%) Legal
8 19 (3.24%) Law
9 16 (2.73%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.04%) Front Office
11 12 (2.04%) Games
12 11 (1.87%) Publishing
13 8 (1.36%) Marketing
14 6 (1.02%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.02%) Retail Banking
15 5 (0.85%) Music Industry
15 5 (0.85%) Public Sector
16 4 (0.68%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.51%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (18.06%) PySpark
2 42 (7.16%) Kafka
3 29 (4.94%) Pandas
4 13 (2.21%) NumPy
5 11 (1.87%) SciPy
6 10 (1.70%) Apache Beam
7 8 (1.36%) .NET
8 7 (1.19%) AWS CDK
8 7 (1.19%) HTML
8 7 (1.19%) Spark Streaming
9 6 (1.02%) Apache Avro
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 25 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
2 19 (3.24%) Cloud Native
3 17 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.39%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (2.04%) Driving Licence
7 12 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.36%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.19%) Public Cloud
9 7 (1.19%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (1.02%) IoT
11 5 (0.85%) Blog
11 5 (0.85%) Product Ownership
12 4 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 3 (0.51%) Equities
13 3 (0.51%) iPad
13 3 (0.51%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.75%) Linux
2 17 (2.90%) 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
1 232 (39.52%) ETL
2 221 (37.65%) Data Pipeline
3 206 (35.09%) Data Engineering
4 165 (28.11%) Analytics
5 159 (27.09%) Data Modelling
6 124 (21.12%) Business Intelligence
7 123 (20.95%) Data Science
8 101 (17.21%) Agile
9 91 (15.50%) DevOps
10 84 (14.31%) Data Integration
11 79 (13.46%) CI/CD
11 79 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
12 62 (10.56%) Visualisation
13 61 (10.39%) Mentoring
14 50 (8.52%) Machine Learning
15 49 (8.35%) Data Architecture
15 49 (8.35%) Platform Engineering
16 47 (8.01%) Data Governance
17 46 (7.84%) Computer Science
17 46 (7.84%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 380 (64.74%) SQL
2 364 (62.01%) Python
3 58 (9.88%) Java
4 28 (4.77%) Scala
4 28 (4.77%) T-SQL
5 17 (2.90%) C#
6 16 (2.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (2.56%) R
8 14 (2.39%) VBA
9 12 (2.04%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.87%) U-SQL
11 7 (1.19%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.85%) Rust
13 4 (0.68%) Go
14 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.51%) VB
15 2 (0.34%) Bash
15 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 58 (9.88%) Degree
2 31 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.56%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.04%) Master's Degree
4 12 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.19%) CISSP
6 4 (0.68%) CISM
6 4 (0.68%) SC Cleared
6 4 (0.68%) Security Cleared
7 3 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.51%) CCSK
7 3 (0.51%) CCSP
7 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.34%) PhD
9 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (13.29%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.87%) GDPR
2 11 (1.87%) 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 36 (6.13%) Docker
2 6 (1.02%) HDFS
3 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 58 (9.88%) Terraform
2 42 (7.16%) 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
1 139 (23.68%) Databricks
2 58 (9.88%) Microsoft
3 42 (7.16%) Google
4 15 (2.56%) Oracle
5 10 (1.70%) Cloudera
6 9 (1.53%) Alteryx
6 9 (1.53%) YouTube
7 6 (1.02%) Informatica
8 4 (0.68%) Qualys
8 4 (0.68%) Splunk
9 3 (0.51%) Atlassian
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