Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £65,000 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 611 580 590
Rank change year-on-year -31 +10 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 169 148 299
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.30% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 130 123 110
10th Percentile £35,000 £50,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £57,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +2.69% +7.00%
75th Percentile £79,500 £75,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.38% - +6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +69 85 £65,000 +8.33% 33
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
Scotland -61 11 £65,000 +8.33% 5
East Midlands -24 8 - - 1
East of England -4 7 £75,000 -3.23% 3
North East -13 6 £75,000 +11.11% 5
Wales +15 3 £46,131 +6.05%
Senior Data Engineer
UK

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

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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 82 (48.52%) SQL
2 77 (45.56%) Python
3 74 (43.79%) ETL
4 68 (40.24%) Azure
5 55 (32.54%) Data Engineering
5 55 (32.54%) Data Pipeline
6 54 (31.95%) Data Modelling
7 52 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (27.22%) Analytics
9 44 (26.04%) Databricks
10 39 (23.08%) AWS
11 38 (22.49%) Data Quality
12 36 (21.30%) Agile
13 35 (20.71%) Finance
14 33 (19.53%) Data Management
15 32 (18.93%) DevOps
16 31 (18.34%) SQL Server
16 31 (18.34%) CI/CD
17 29 (17.16%) PySpark
18 28 (16.57%) Azure Data Factory
19 27 (15.98%) Machine Learning
19 27 (15.98%) Microsoft
19 27 (15.98%) Informatica
20 26 (15.38%) Data Governance
20 26 (15.38%) Data Lake
21 24 (14.20%) Data Integration
22 23 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
22 23 (13.61%) Data Science
22 23 (13.61%) Big Data
22 23 (13.61%) Social Skills

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 22 (13.02%) Apache Spark
2 6 (3.55%) Apache
3 5 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.37%) Confluence
5 1 (0.59%) Luigi
5 1 (0.59%) nginx
5 1 (0.59%) SAS
5 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 68 (40.24%) Azure
2 39 (23.08%) AWS
3 28 (16.57%) Azure Data Factory
4 23 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (11.83%) Power Platform
6 15 (8.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (7.69%) GCP
7 13 (7.69%) GitHub
8 12 (7.10%) Serverless
9 11 (6.51%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.92%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.92%) Snowflake
11 6 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (3.55%) dbt
12 5 (2.96%) Amazon SageMaker
12 5 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (2.96%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (2.96%) SaaS
13 4 (2.37%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (2.37%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.65%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (3.55%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.37%) FTP
4 1 (0.59%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.59%) 5G
4 1 (0.59%) LAN
4 1 (0.59%) VPN
4 1 (0.59%) WAN
4 1 (0.59%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (30.77%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (18.34%) SQL Server
3 26 (15.38%) Data Lake
4 23 (13.61%) Big Data
5 20 (11.83%) Power BI
6 18 (10.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (8.28%) Delta Lake
7 14 (8.28%) NoSQL
8 11 (6.51%) Data Vault
9 10 (5.92%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (5.33%) DynamoDB
10 9 (5.33%) Hadoop
11 8 (4.73%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (4.73%) Relational Database
12 7 (4.14%) Data Mining
12 7 (4.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (3.55%) BigQuery
13 6 (3.55%) Oracle Database
14 4 (2.37%) Metadata
14 4 (2.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 13 (7.69%) JIRA
2 6 (3.55%) Git
3 4 (2.37%) GitLab
4 3 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.59%) MLflow
General
1 35 (20.71%) Finance
2 23 (13.61%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (7.10%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.14%) Retail
6 4 (2.37%) Games
7 3 (1.78%) Agriculture
7 3 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.78%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.18%) Automotive
9 1 (0.59%) Advertising
9 1 (0.59%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.59%) Law
9 1 (0.59%) Legal
9 1 (0.59%) Marketing
9 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (17.16%) PySpark
2 8 (4.73%) Pandas
3 5 (2.96%) Kafka
4 4 (2.37%) AWS CDK
5 3 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.59%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.59%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.59%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.59%) Node.js
6 1 (0.59%) RESTful
6 1 (0.59%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.65%) Data Structures
1 18 (10.65%) Reinsurance
2 11 (6.51%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.14%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.55%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.96%) Blog
5 5 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.37%) CCTV
6 4 (2.37%) NHS
6 4 (2.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.78%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.59%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.59%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.59%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.59%) Windows
2 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (43.79%) ETL
2 55 (32.54%) Data Engineering
2 55 (32.54%) Data Pipeline
3 54 (31.95%) Data Modelling
4 46 (27.22%) Analytics
5 36 (21.30%) Agile
6 33 (19.53%) Data Management
7 32 (18.93%) DevOps
8 31 (18.34%) CI/CD
9 27 (15.98%) Machine Learning
10 26 (15.38%) Data Governance
11 24 (14.20%) Data Integration
12 23 (13.61%) Data Science
13 22 (13.02%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (10.65%) Data Analytics
14 18 (10.65%) Visualisation
15 17 (10.06%) Migration
16 15 (8.88%) Scrum
17 13 (7.69%) Data Strategy
17 13 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 82 (48.52%) SQL
2 77 (45.56%) Python
3 9 (5.33%) Java
4 5 (2.96%) C#
4 5 (2.96%) PL/SQL
4 5 (2.96%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.37%) Scala
6 3 (1.78%) C
7 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.18%) R
8 1 (0.59%) Bash
8 1 (0.59%) C++
8 1 (0.59%) Korn
8 1 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (7.69%) Degree
2 7 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (3.55%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.55%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.96%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.78%) DBS Check
5 3 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.18%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.59%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (22.49%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.73%) QA
3 1 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.59%) GDPR
3 1 (0.59%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.59%) NCSC
3 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (4.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.59%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (7.69%) Terraform
2 4 (2.37%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 44 (26.04%) Databricks
2 27 (15.98%) Informatica
2 27 (15.98%) Microsoft
3 19 (11.24%) Oracle
4 4 (2.37%) Splunk
4 4 (2.37%) TIBCO
5 3 (1.78%) Google
5 3 (1.78%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.18%) SAP
7 1 (0.59%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.59%) Sage
7 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.59%) Teradata