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 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 128 96 121
Rank change year-on-year -32 +25 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 586 1,140 2,434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.48% 3.38% 3.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.63% 3.55% 3.61%
Number of salaries quoted 476 929 1,131
10th Percentile £45,750 £55,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £66,750 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £106,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £140,000 £102,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +12.00%

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%

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 20 May 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 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 +37 78 £70,000 -11.11% 24
South London +18 25 £65,000 - 2
West London -3 6 £85,000 +13.33% 2
North London +2 4 £71,250 +1.79%
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 384 (65.53%) SQL
2 371 (63.31%) Python
3 283 (48.29%) Azure
4 247 (42.15%) ETL
5 220 (37.54%) Data Pipeline
6 202 (34.47%) AWS
7 190 (32.42%) Data Engineering
8 167 (28.50%) Analytics
8 167 (28.50%) Data Warehouse
9 165 (28.16%) Data Modelling
10 139 (23.72%) Databricks
11 130 (22.18%) Finance
12 127 (21.67%) Data Science
13 124 (21.16%) GCP
14 116 (19.80%) Business Intelligence
15 115 (19.62%) Power Platform
16 114 (19.45%) Social Skills
17 113 (19.28%) Power BI
18 100 (17.06%) DevOps
19 99 (16.89%) Agile
20 97 (16.55%) Data Lake
21 94 (16.04%) PySpark
22 88 (15.02%) Azure Data Factory
22 88 (15.02%) Data Integration
23 82 (13.99%) CI/CD
24 80 (13.65%) Data Quality
25 79 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
26 73 (12.46%) Apache Spark
27 69 (11.77%) SQL Server
28 66 (11.26%) Visualisation

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 73 (12.46%) Apache Spark
2 65 (11.09%) Apache Airflow
3 49 (8.36%) 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%) SAS
Applications
1 19 (3.24%) 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
1 283 (48.29%) Azure
2 202 (34.47%) AWS
3 124 (21.16%) GCP
4 115 (19.62%) Power Platform
5 88 (15.02%) Azure Data Factory
6 57 (9.73%) dbt
7 54 (9.22%) Snowflake
8 53 (9.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 44 (7.51%) Amazon S3
9 44 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
10 38 (6.48%) Serverless
11 23 (3.92%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (3.92%) GitHub
12 20 (3.41%) Amazon EMR
13 14 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (2.22%) Prefect
15 12 (2.05%) PowerApps
16 11 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (1.88%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.39%) Structured Cabling
2 11 (1.88%) Network Security
3 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.34%) PPP
5 1 (0.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (28.50%) Data Warehouse
2 113 (19.28%) Power BI
3 97 (16.55%) Data Lake
4 69 (11.77%) SQL Server
5 59 (10.07%) Big Data
6 57 (9.73%) NoSQL
7 53 (9.04%) BigQuery
8 49 (8.36%) Hadoop
9 41 (7.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 34 (5.80%) Tableau
11 33 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 30 (5.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 29 (4.95%) PostgreSQL
13 29 (4.95%) Relational Database
14 19 (3.24%) Data Vault
15 16 (2.73%) Apache Hive
15 16 (2.73%) Looker
16 14 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
16 14 (2.39%) Delta Lake
16 14 (2.39%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 37 (6.31%) Git
2 18 (3.07%) Jenkins
3 11 (1.88%) CircleCI
4 10 (1.71%) JIRA
5 6 (1.02%) GitLab
6 5 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.17%) Ant
7 1 (0.17%) GoCD
7 1 (0.17%) Gradle
7 1 (0.17%) JUnit
7 1 (0.17%) Maven
7 1 (0.17%) Mockito
7 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.17%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
General
1 130 (22.18%) Finance
2 114 (19.45%) Social Skills
3 64 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (8.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 41 (7.00%) Banking
6 26 (4.44%) Retail
7 20 (3.41%) Legal
8 19 (3.24%) Law
9 15 (2.56%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.39%) Games
11 13 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.37%) Marketing
12 8 (1.37%) Publishing
12 8 (1.37%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.19%) Health Technology
14 6 (1.02%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.85%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.85%) Music Industry
16 4 (0.68%) Electronics
16 4 (0.68%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (16.04%) PySpark
2 47 (8.02%) Kafka
3 26 (4.44%) Pandas
4 13 (2.22%) .NET
5 12 (2.05%) Apache Beam
6 9 (1.54%) Flask
6 9 (1.54%) REST
6 9 (1.54%) Spark Streaming
7 8 (1.37%) Apache Avro
8 7 (1.19%) AWS CDK
8 7 (1.19%) JSON
8 7 (1.19%) XML
9 6 (1.02%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (0.85%) NumPy
10 5 (0.85%) pytest
11 4 (0.68%) HTML
12 3 (0.51%) Anaconda
12 3 (0.51%) SciPy
12 3 (0.51%) SOAP
12 3 (0.51%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.78%) Greenfield Project
2 21 (3.58%) Cloud Native
3 18 (3.07%) Data Structures
4 17 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 15 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.39%) Algorithms
6 14 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 12 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 11 (1.88%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.71%) Driving Licence
10 8 (1.37%) Distributed Applications
11 6 (1.02%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.02%) Reinsurance
11 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
12 5 (0.85%) Blog
12 5 (0.85%) IoT
13 4 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 4 (0.68%) Equities
14 3 (0.51%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 25 (4.27%) Linux
2 16 (2.73%) Unix
3 9 (1.54%) 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
1 247 (42.15%) ETL
2 220 (37.54%) Data Pipeline
3 190 (32.42%) Data Engineering
4 167 (28.50%) Analytics
5 165 (28.16%) Data Modelling
6 127 (21.67%) Data Science
7 116 (19.80%) Business Intelligence
8 100 (17.06%) DevOps
9 99 (16.89%) Agile
10 88 (15.02%) Data Integration
11 82 (13.99%) CI/CD
12 79 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
13 66 (11.26%) Visualisation
14 57 (9.73%) Machine Learning
15 52 (8.87%) Mentoring
15 52 (8.87%) Platform Engineering
16 51 (8.70%) Computer Science
17 50 (8.53%) Data Analytics
18 49 (8.36%) Data Architecture
19 47 (8.02%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 384 (65.53%) SQL
2 371 (63.31%) Python
3 53 (9.04%) Java
4 33 (5.63%) Scala
5 29 (4.95%) T-SQL
6 21 (3.58%) C#
7 17 (2.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.39%) R
9 11 (1.88%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.88%) U-SQL
10 9 (1.54%) VBA
11 6 (1.02%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.02%) VB
12 4 (0.68%) Go
12 4 (0.68%) Rust
13 3 (0.51%) C++
13 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.34%) Bash
14 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 66 (11.26%) Degree
2 34 (5.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (2.39%) Master's Degree
4 13 (2.22%) DBS Check
5 11 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (1.19%) CISSP
7 4 (0.68%) CISM
8 3 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.51%) CCSK
8 3 (0.51%) CCSP
8 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (0.51%) PhD
8 3 (0.51%) SC Cleared
8 3 (0.51%) Security Cleared
9 2 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
10 1 (0.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (13.65%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.88%) GDPR
2 11 (1.88%) QA
3 6 (1.02%) 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 42 (7.17%) Docker
2 8 (1.37%) HDFS
3 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 63 (10.75%) Terraform
2 46 (7.85%) Kubernetes
3 6 (1.02%) logstash
4 4 (0.68%) Ansible
5 3 (0.51%) Argo
5 3 (0.51%) CASB
5 3 (0.51%) 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 (23.72%) Databricks
2 59 (10.07%) Microsoft
3 45 (7.68%) Google
4 19 (3.24%) Oracle
5 12 (2.05%) Cloudera
6 11 (1.88%) Informatica
6 11 (1.88%) YouTube
7 9 (1.54%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.02%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.68%) Qualys
9 4 (0.68%) Splunk
10 3 (0.51%) Netskope
10 3 (0.51%) Symantec
10 3 (0.51%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.34%) Facebook
11 2 (0.34%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.34%) NEC
11 2 (0.34%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.34%) Snowplow
11 2 (0.34%) Teradata