Data Engineer Jobs in Central London

Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Data Engineer salary in Central London is £70,000 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 115 138 140
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 -52
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 80 98 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 2.10% 1.99% 2.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.20% 2.07% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 65 89 164
10th Percentile £28,250 £47,450 £50,900
25th Percentile £52,500 £55,000 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.68% +6.90% -1.02%
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £99,500 £107,500 £105,000
London median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +7.14%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 3,630 4,740 8,150
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.33% 96.03% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,739 3,920 6,408
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,625 £53,938 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,744 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +3.10% +3.57%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,375 £92,625
90th Percentile £110,250 £112,500 £107,500
London median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

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

Salary histogram for Data Engineer in Central London

Data Engineer
Job Locations in Central 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 Central 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
City of London +35 79 £70,000 -9.68% 22
City of Westminster - 9 £30,500 - 1
Data Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Central London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 61 (76.25%) SQL
2 48 (60.00%) Python
3 43 (53.75%) ETL
4 40 (50.00%) Azure
5 33 (41.25%) Data Pipeline
6 32 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
7 30 (37.50%) Data Modelling
8 25 (31.25%) Data Engineering
9 21 (26.25%) PySpark
10 20 (25.00%) Data Science
11 19 (23.75%) AWS
11 19 (23.75%) Finance
12 16 (20.00%) Data Integration
12 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
13 14 (17.50%) Databricks
13 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
14 13 (16.25%) Agile
15 12 (15.00%) Data Architecture
15 12 (15.00%) Migration
15 12 (15.00%) Telecoms
15 12 (15.00%) Structured Cabling
15 12 (15.00%) DBS Check
15 12 (15.00%) Driving Licence
15 12 (15.00%) Analytics
15 12 (15.00%) Data Lake
15 12 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (15.00%) Snowflake
16 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
16 11 (13.75%) Power Platform
16 11 (13.75%) Power BI

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 7 (8.75%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (7.50%) Apache
2 6 (7.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (2.50%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 40 (50.00%) Azure
2 19 (23.75%) AWS
3 12 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 12 (15.00%) Snowflake
4 11 (13.75%) Power Platform
5 10 (12.50%) GCP
6 7 (8.75%) dbt
6 7 (8.75%) Serverless
7 6 (7.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 5 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
10 2 (2.50%) Fivetran
11 1 (1.25%) Amazon EventBridge
11 1 (1.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (1.25%) Asana
11 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (15.00%) Data Lake
3 11 (13.75%) Power BI
4 9 (11.25%) SQL Server
5 6 (7.50%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.25%) Spark SQL
7 4 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.75%) Data Mining
8 3 (3.75%) Data Vault
8 3 (3.75%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (2.50%) Big Data
9 2 (2.50%) BigQuery
9 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.25%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.25%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Git
2 4 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.25%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (23.75%) Finance
2 16 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.00%) Music Industry
6 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.25%) Front Office
6 1 (1.25%) Games
6 1 (1.25%) Marketing
6 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.25%) PySpark
2 4 (5.00%) Pandas
3 2 (2.50%) REST
4 1 (1.25%) .NET
4 1 (1.25%) Anaconda
4 1 (1.25%) Flask
4 1 (1.25%) HTML
4 1 (1.25%) JSON
4 1 (1.25%) Plotly
4 1 (1.25%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
2 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.50%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.50%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.25%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (53.75%) ETL
2 33 (41.25%) Data Pipeline
3 30 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 25 (31.25%) Data Engineering
5 20 (25.00%) Data Science
6 16 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 13 (16.25%) Agile
8 12 (15.00%) Analytics
8 12 (15.00%) Data Architecture
8 12 (15.00%) Migration
9 11 (13.75%) CI/CD
9 11 (13.75%) DevOps
10 9 (11.25%) Data Migration
10 9 (11.25%) Test Automation
11 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (8.75%) Data Transformation
13 6 (7.50%) Computer Science
13 6 (7.50%) DataOps
13 6 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
13 6 (7.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 61 (76.25%) SQL
2 48 (60.00%) Python
3 5 (6.25%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.00%) C#
4 4 (5.00%) R
5 3 (3.75%) VBA
6 1 (1.25%) Bicep
6 1 (1.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.25%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.25%) SOQL
6 1 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) DBS Check
2 6 (7.50%) Degree
3 5 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.25%) Ansible
2 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Databricks
2 4 (5.00%) Alteryx
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.50%) NEC
4 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.25%) Brio
4 1 (1.25%) Google
4 1 (1.25%) Salesforce