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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 310 396
Rank change year-on-year -20 +86 +27
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 187 370 706
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.79% 1.10% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.84% 1.15% 1.05%
Number of salaries quoted 157 291 276
10th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £75,000 £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 £120,000 £108,750
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 22,286 32,090 67,502
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.22% 95.14% 96.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,616 23,723 34,810
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%

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 20 May 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 20 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 +56 25 £75,000 -16.67% 10
South London -1 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 20 May 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 (73.80%) Python
2 124 (66.31%) SQL
3 103 (55.08%) Azure
4 75 (40.11%) AWS
5 72 (38.50%) Data Engineering
6 69 (36.90%) Data Pipeline
7 67 (35.83%) ETL
8 62 (33.16%) Databricks
9 59 (31.55%) Data Warehouse
10 55 (29.41%) Finance
11 50 (26.74%) Data Modelling
12 46 (24.60%) Agile
12 46 (24.60%) Data Lake
13 45 (24.06%) DevOps
14 44 (23.53%) Social Skills
15 43 (22.99%) Analytics
16 40 (21.39%) GCP
17 39 (20.86%) Power BI
17 39 (20.86%) Power Platform
18 38 (20.32%) Data Science
18 38 (20.32%) PySpark
19 36 (19.25%) Apache Spark
20 35 (18.72%) Apache Airflow
20 35 (18.72%) Business Intelligence
20 35 (18.72%) Snowflake
21 34 (18.18%) CI/CD
22 33 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
23 30 (16.04%) Apache
24 29 (15.51%) NoSQL
24 29 (15.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics

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 36 (19.25%) Apache Spark
2 35 (18.72%) Apache Airflow
3 30 (16.04%) Apache
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Pig
4 1 (0.53%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 103 (55.08%) Azure
2 75 (40.11%) AWS
3 40 (21.39%) GCP
4 39 (20.86%) Power Platform
5 35 (18.72%) Snowflake
6 33 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (15.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 24 (12.83%) dbt
9 21 (11.23%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (10.16%) Amazon S3
11 13 (6.95%) Amazon EMR
12 12 (6.42%) GitHub
13 11 (5.88%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
14 9 (4.81%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (4.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 7 (3.74%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (3.74%) Dagster
17 5 (2.67%) Serverless
18 4 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
18 4 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.49%) Structured Cabling
2 11 (5.88%) Network Security
3 4 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.53%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (31.55%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (24.60%) Data Lake
3 39 (20.86%) Power BI
4 29 (15.51%) NoSQL
5 25 (13.37%) Hadoop
6 21 (11.23%) Big Data
7 19 (10.16%) Tableau
8 18 (9.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 16 (8.56%) PostgreSQL
10 15 (8.02%) BigQuery
11 14 (7.49%) Data Vault
11 14 (7.49%) SQL Server
12 11 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
12 11 (5.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 10 (5.35%) MongoDB
14 8 (4.28%) Apache Hive
14 8 (4.28%) Flink
14 8 (4.28%) Parquet
15 7 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (3.21%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 17 (9.09%) Git
2 11 (5.88%) CircleCI
3 10 (5.35%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.14%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.60%) JIRA
6 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.53%) SpecFlow
General
1 55 (29.41%) Finance
2 44 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 25 (13.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 18 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.49%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.81%) Law
7 8 (4.28%) Banking
7 8 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.28%) Retail
7 8 (4.28%) Retail Banking
8 7 (3.74%) Legal
9 4 (2.14%) Games
9 4 (2.14%) Music Industry
10 2 (1.07%) Publishing
11 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.53%) Automotive
11 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.53%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (20.32%) PySpark
2 14 (7.49%) Kafka
3 12 (6.42%) Pandas
4 11 (5.88%) Apache Beam
5 8 (4.28%) .NET
5 8 (4.28%) Apache Avro
5 8 (4.28%) Spark Streaming
6 6 (3.21%) JSON
6 6 (3.21%) XML
7 5 (2.67%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.60%) pytest
9 2 (1.07%) Dropwizard
9 2 (1.07%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.53%) FastAPI
10 1 (0.53%) Flask
10 1 (0.53%) gRPC
10 1 (0.53%) LAMP
10 1 (0.53%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.49%) Greenfield Project
2 12 (6.42%) Cloud Native
3 11 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.35%) Driving Licence
5 8 (4.28%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.14%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.60%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.60%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.60%) PKI
7 3 (1.60%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.07%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.07%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.53%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.53%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.53%) PropTech
9 1 (0.53%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.56%) Linux
2 10 (5.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.53%) Android
3 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (38.50%) Data Engineering
2 69 (36.90%) Data Pipeline
3 67 (35.83%) ETL
4 50 (26.74%) Data Modelling
5 46 (24.60%) Agile
6 45 (24.06%) DevOps
7 43 (22.99%) Analytics
8 38 (20.32%) Data Science
9 35 (18.72%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (18.18%) CI/CD
11 27 (14.44%) Visualisation
12 25 (13.37%) Platform Engineering
13 22 (11.76%) Containerisation
13 22 (11.76%) Data Analytics
13 22 (11.76%) Data Visualisation
13 22 (11.76%) Mentoring
14 20 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (10.16%) Problem-Solving
16 17 (9.09%) Machine Learning
17 16 (8.56%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 138 (73.80%) Python
2 124 (66.31%) SQL
3 21 (11.23%) Java
4 14 (7.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 14 (7.49%) Scala
5 11 (5.88%) U-SQL
6 8 (4.28%) C#
7 7 (3.74%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.21%) VB
9 1 (0.53%) R
9 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (6.42%) DBS Check
1 12 (6.42%) Degree
2 11 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (1.60%) CCSK
4 3 (1.60%) CCSP
4 3 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (1.60%) CISSP
5 2 (1.07%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.53%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.67%) QA
3 4 (2.14%) Solvency II
System Software
1 18 (9.63%) Docker
2 8 (4.28%) HDFS
3 1 (0.53%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (14.44%) Kubernetes
2 26 (13.90%) Terraform
3 3 (1.60%) CASB
4 2 (1.07%) Ansible
4 2 (1.07%) Marathon
4 2 (1.07%) Mesos
5 1 (0.53%) Podman
Vendors
1 62 (33.16%) Databricks
2 16 (8.56%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.95%) Google
4 12 (6.42%) Oracle
5 10 (5.35%) Cloudera
6 6 (3.21%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.67%) Informatica
8 4 (2.14%) YouTube
9 3 (1.60%) Netskope
9 3 (1.60%) Symantec
9 3 (1.60%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.07%) Teradata
11 1 (0.53%) Apple
11 1 (0.53%) Denodo