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 leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 532 465 477
Rank change year-on-year -67 +12 +127
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 350 510 1,084
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 289 420 424
10th Percentile £35,000 £57,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £98,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 12 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 12 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 -30 189 £80,000 -5.88% 63
North of England +69 85 £65,000 +8.33% 32
North West +28 67 £65,000 +18.18% 20
Midlands -26 27 £70,000 +16.67% 6
South West -53 19 £55,000 -21.43% 4
West Midlands -4 18 £70,000 +16.67% 4
South East -75 18 £60,000 -14.29% 5
Yorkshire +69 12 £57,500 -17.86% 8
East Midlands -24 8 - - 1
East of England -4 7 £75,000 -3.23% 3
North East -13 6 £75,000 +11.11% 4
Senior Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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.

1 206 (58.86%) Python
2 200 (57.14%) SQL
3 165 (47.14%) Azure
4 137 (39.14%) ETL
5 135 (38.57%) Data Engineering
6 121 (34.57%) Data Pipeline
7 108 (30.86%) AWS
8 104 (29.71%) Data Warehouse
9 99 (28.29%) Databricks
10 98 (28.00%) Data Modelling
11 85 (24.29%) Finance
12 82 (23.43%) Analytics
13 80 (22.86%) Agile
14 74 (21.14%) Data Lake
15 73 (20.86%) Social Skills
16 67 (19.14%) DevOps
17 64 (18.29%) PySpark
18 62 (17.71%) Power BI
18 62 (17.71%) Power Platform
19 59 (16.86%) Azure Data Factory
19 59 (16.86%) Business Intelligence
20 58 (16.57%) Data Quality
20 58 (16.57%) CI/CD
21 53 (15.14%) Data Science
22 52 (14.86%) GCP
23 51 (14.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
24 49 (14.00%) Apache Spark
25 45 (12.86%) Snowflake
26 44 (12.57%) SQL Server
27 43 (12.29%) Data Management

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 49 (14.00%) Apache Spark
2 37 (10.57%) Apache Airflow
3 33 (9.43%) Apache
4 6 (1.71%) Confluence
5 2 (0.57%) Luigi
5 2 (0.57%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Pig
6 1 (0.29%) nginx
6 1 (0.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 165 (47.14%) Azure
2 108 (30.86%) AWS
3 62 (17.71%) Power Platform
4 59 (16.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 52 (14.86%) GCP
6 51 (14.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 45 (12.86%) Snowflake
8 38 (10.86%) Azure DevOps
9 31 (8.86%) dbt
10 30 (8.57%) Amazon S3
11 24 (6.86%) GitHub
12 17 (4.86%) Serverless
13 14 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (3.71%) Amazon EMR
15 11 (3.14%) Amazon ECS
15 11 (3.14%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
16 9 (2.57%) AWS CloudFormation
17 8 (2.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 7 (2.00%) Dagster
18 7 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.14%) Structured Cabling
2 11 (3.14%) Network Security
3 10 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.14%) FTP
5 1 (0.29%) 3GPP
5 1 (0.29%) 5G
5 1 (0.29%) LAN
5 1 (0.29%) PPP
5 1 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.29%) WAN
5 1 (0.29%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (29.71%) Data Warehouse
2 74 (21.14%) Data Lake
3 62 (17.71%) Power BI
4 44 (12.57%) SQL Server
5 35 (10.00%) NoSQL
6 28 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 28 (8.00%) Big Data
6 28 (8.00%) Hadoop
7 25 (7.14%) Data Vault
8 21 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 21 (6.00%) BigQuery
8 21 (6.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 21 (6.00%) Tableau
9 18 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
10 17 (4.86%) Delta Lake
11 12 (3.43%) DynamoDB
11 12 (3.43%) MongoDB
12 11 (3.14%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 11 (3.14%) Relational Database
13 10 (2.86%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 18 (5.14%) Git
1 18 (5.14%) JIRA
2 10 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.29%) CircleCI
4 4 (1.14%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.14%) GitLab
4 4 (1.14%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.57%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.29%) MLflow
6 1 (0.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 85 (24.29%) Finance
2 73 (20.86%) Social Skills
3 31 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 26 (7.43%) Telecoms
5 15 (4.29%) Retail
6 12 (3.43%) Legal
7 11 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (2.86%) Law
9 7 (2.00%) Games
10 6 (1.71%) Banking
10 6 (1.71%) Publishing
11 5 (1.43%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.14%) Music Industry
13 3 (0.86%) Agriculture
13 3 (0.86%) Automotive
13 3 (0.86%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (18.29%) PySpark
2 17 (4.86%) Pandas
3 14 (4.00%) Kafka
4 9 (2.57%) AWS CDK
5 8 (2.29%) Apache Beam
6 5 (1.43%) Apache Avro
6 5 (1.43%) Spark Streaming
7 4 (1.14%) .NET
8 3 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.86%) JSON
8 3 (0.86%) pytest
8 3 (0.86%) XML
9 2 (0.57%) Dropwizard
9 2 (0.57%) HTML
9 2 (0.57%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.29%) CSS
10 1 (0.29%) Flask
10 1 (0.29%) LAMP
10 1 (0.29%) Node.js
10 1 (0.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.71%) Data Structures
2 18 (5.14%) Reinsurance
3 13 (3.71%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.14%) Driving Licence
4 11 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
4 11 (3.14%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.14%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.71%) Algorithms
7 6 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.43%) Blog
8 5 (1.43%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (1.43%) NHS
9 4 (1.14%) CCTV
9 4 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (0.86%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.86%) Linux
2 10 (2.86%) Unix
3 1 (0.29%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (39.14%) ETL
2 135 (38.57%) Data Engineering
3 121 (34.57%) Data Pipeline
4 98 (28.00%) Data Modelling
5 82 (23.43%) Analytics
6 80 (22.86%) Agile
7 67 (19.14%) DevOps
8 59 (16.86%) Business Intelligence
9 58 (16.57%) CI/CD
10 53 (15.14%) Data Science
11 43 (12.29%) Data Governance
11 43 (12.29%) Data Management
12 42 (12.00%) Machine Learning
13 41 (11.71%) Mentoring
13 41 (11.71%) Visualisation
14 36 (10.29%) Data Analytics
14 36 (10.29%) Data Integration
15 35 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
16 28 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
17 27 (7.71%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 206 (58.86%) Python
2 200 (57.14%) SQL
3 28 (8.00%) Java
4 14 (4.00%) Scala
5 13 (3.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 12 (3.43%) T-SQL
7 11 (3.14%) U-SQL
8 9 (2.57%) C#
9 5 (1.43%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.86%) C
10 3 (0.86%) VB
11 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.57%) R
12 1 (0.29%) Bash
12 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
12 1 (0.29%) Korn
12 1 (0.29%) PHP
12 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 26 (7.43%) Degree
2 16 (4.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (4.29%) DBS Check
4 12 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.43%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.43%) SC Cleared
5 5 (1.43%) Security Cleared
6 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (0.86%) CCSK
7 3 (0.86%) CCSP
7 3 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.86%) CISSP
7 3 (0.86%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.29%) ICAEW
8 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (16.57%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.86%) QA
3 4 (1.14%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.29%) NCSC
4 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (6.57%) Docker
2 5 (1.43%) HDFS
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 39 (11.14%) Terraform
2 31 (8.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.43%) Ansible
4 3 (0.86%) CASB
5 2 (0.57%) Marathon
5 2 (0.57%) Mesos
6 1 (0.29%) Podman
Vendors
1 99 (28.29%) Databricks
2 38 (10.86%) Microsoft
3 31 (8.86%) Informatica
4 29 (8.29%) Oracle
5 17 (4.86%) Google
6 7 (2.00%) Cloudera
7 4 (1.14%) Splunk
7 4 (1.14%) TIBCO
8 3 (0.86%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.86%) Netskope
8 3 (0.86%) SnapLogic
8 3 (0.86%) Symantec
8 3 (0.86%) YouTube
8 3 (0.86%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.57%) SAP
9 2 (0.57%) Teradata
10 1 (0.29%) Apple
10 1 (0.29%) Denodo
10 1 (0.29%) Sage
10 1 (0.29%) Salesforce