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 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 132 93 123
Rank change year-on-year -39 +30 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Engineer 591 1,048 2,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 2.38% 3.36% 3.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.53% 3.54% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 491 895 1,144
10th Percentile £46,250 £55,000 £48,750
25th Percentile £61,875 £66,750 £58,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £140,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +3.57% +7.69%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £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 £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +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 12 June 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 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
Central London +23 80 £70,000 -9.68% 24
South London - 25 £65,000 -
West London -6 5 £85,000 +13.33% 3
North London -2 3 £70,000 -
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 380 (64.30%) SQL
2 366 (61.93%) Python
3 300 (50.76%) Azure
4 229 (38.75%) ETL
5 220 (37.23%) Data Pipeline
6 212 (35.87%) Data Engineering
7 201 (34.01%) AWS
8 167 (28.26%) Analytics
8 167 (28.26%) Data Warehouse
9 159 (26.90%) Data Modelling
10 141 (23.86%) Databricks
11 135 (22.84%) Finance
12 125 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
12 125 (21.15%) GCP
13 120 (20.30%) Data Science
14 118 (19.97%) Social Skills
15 117 (19.80%) Data Lake
16 116 (19.63%) Power Platform
17 114 (19.29%) Power BI
18 112 (18.95%) PySpark
19 102 (17.26%) Agile
20 92 (15.57%) Azure Data Factory
21 87 (14.72%) DevOps
22 84 (14.21%) Data Integration
23 79 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
24 77 (13.03%) Data Quality
24 77 (13.03%) CI/CD
25 71 (12.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
26 70 (11.84%) SQL Server
27 67 (11.34%) dbt

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 66 (11.17%) Apache Airflow
2 60 (10.15%) Apache Spark
3 43 (7.28%) Apache
4 5 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.51%) Luigi
6 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (3.38%) 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
1 300 (50.76%) Azure
2 201 (34.01%) AWS
3 125 (21.15%) GCP
4 116 (19.63%) Power Platform
5 92 (15.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 71 (12.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 67 (11.34%) dbt
8 58 (9.81%) Snowflake
9 39 (6.60%) Amazon S3
10 38 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
11 33 (5.58%) Serverless
12 21 (3.55%) Dagster
13 19 (3.21%) GitHub
14 18 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
14 18 (3.05%) AWS Lambda
15 14 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (2.20%) Prefect
17 12 (2.03%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (2.03%) PowerApps
18 11 (1.86%) Azure Data Lake Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.71%) Structured Cabling
2 11 (1.86%) Network Security
3 4 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.34%) PPP
5 1 (0.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (28.26%) Data Warehouse
2 117 (19.80%) Data Lake
3 114 (19.29%) Power BI
4 70 (11.84%) SQL Server
5 53 (8.97%) Big Data
6 49 (8.29%) NoSQL
7 44 (7.45%) BigQuery
8 42 (7.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 42 (7.11%) Hadoop
9 31 (5.25%) Amazon Redshift
9 31 (5.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 30 (5.08%) Tableau
11 29 (4.91%) Relational Database
12 28 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
13 24 (4.06%) Amazon Athena
14 19 (3.21%) Data Vault
15 17 (2.88%) Dremio
16 16 (2.71%) Looker
17 13 (2.20%) MySQL
17 13 (2.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (5.08%) Git
2 16 (2.71%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.35%) CircleCI
4 7 (1.18%) JIRA
5 5 (0.85%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.85%) GitLab
6 1 (0.17%) GoCD
6 1 (0.17%) MLflow
6 1 (0.17%) Mockito
6 1 (0.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.17%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.17%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.17%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 135 (22.84%) Finance
2 118 (19.97%) Social Skills
3 66 (11.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 57 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (7.78%) Banking
6 25 (4.23%) Retail
7 24 (4.06%) Legal
8 19 (3.21%) Law
9 16 (2.71%) Telecoms
10 15 (2.54%) Front Office
11 13 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.03%) Games
12 12 (2.03%) Publishing
13 8 (1.35%) Marketing
14 6 (1.02%) Health Technology
15 5 (0.85%) Music Industry
15 5 (0.85%) Public Sector
15 5 (0.85%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.68%) Manufacturing
17 3 (0.51%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (18.95%) PySpark
2 41 (6.94%) Kafka
3 30 (5.08%) Pandas
4 16 (2.71%) NumPy
5 14 (2.37%) SciPy
6 9 (1.52%) Apache Beam
7 8 (1.35%) .NET
8 7 (1.18%) AWS CDK
8 7 (1.18%) HTML
9 6 (1.02%) JSON
9 6 (1.02%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (1.02%) Spark Streaming
9 6 (1.02%) XML
10 5 (0.85%) Apache Avro
10 5 (0.85%) Flask
10 5 (0.85%) pytest
11 4 (0.68%) REST
12 3 (0.51%) FastAPI
12 3 (0.51%) SOAP
13 2 (0.34%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 24 (4.06%) Greenfield Project
2 18 (3.05%) Cloud Native
3 17 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.54%) Algorithms
4 15 (2.54%) Data Structures
5 14 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.03%) Driving Licence
6 12 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.18%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.02%) IoT
10 6 (1.02%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.85%) Blog
11 5 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
12 4 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 4 (0.68%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.51%) Equities
13 3 (0.51%) iPad
13 3 (0.51%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (3.72%) Linux
2 17 (2.88%) Unix
3 9 (1.52%) Windows
4 4 (0.68%) CentOS
4 4 (0.68%) Solaris
4 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
4 4 (0.68%) zOS
5 3 (0.51%) Android
5 3 (0.51%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (38.75%) ETL
2 220 (37.23%) Data Pipeline
3 212 (35.87%) Data Engineering
4 167 (28.26%) Analytics
5 159 (26.90%) Data Modelling
6 125 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
7 120 (20.30%) Data Science
8 102 (17.26%) Agile
9 87 (14.72%) DevOps
10 84 (14.21%) Data Integration
11 79 (13.37%) Problem-Solving
12 77 (13.03%) CI/CD
13 63 (10.66%) Mentoring
14 62 (10.49%) Visualisation
15 49 (8.29%) Platform Engineering
16 48 (8.12%) Data Architecture
16 48 (8.12%) Data Governance
16 48 (8.12%) Machine Learning
17 46 (7.78%) Computer Science
17 46 (7.78%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 380 (64.30%) SQL
2 366 (61.93%) Python
3 60 (10.15%) Java
4 27 (4.57%) Scala
5 26 (4.40%) T-SQL
6 17 (2.88%) C#
7 16 (2.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.37%) R
8 14 (2.37%) VBA
9 12 (2.03%) PowerShell
10 11 (1.86%) U-SQL
11 7 (1.18%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.85%) Rust
13 4 (0.68%) Go
14 3 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.51%) VB
15 2 (0.34%) Bash
15 2 (0.34%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.34%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 57 (9.64%) Degree
2 31 (5.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (2.54%) DBS Check
4 12 (2.03%) Master's Degree
4 12 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (1.18%) CISSP
6 4 (0.68%) CISM
7 3 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.51%) CCSK
7 3 (0.51%) CCSP
7 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.51%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.51%) Security Cleared
8 2 (0.34%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.34%) PhD
9 1 (0.17%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.17%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.17%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (13.03%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.86%) GDPR
3 10 (1.69%) QA
4 7 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (0.68%) NIST
5 4 (0.68%) Solvency II
System Software
1 36 (6.09%) Docker
2 5 (0.85%) HDFS
3 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 58 (9.81%) Terraform
2 42 (7.11%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.85%) Ansible
3 5 (0.85%) logstash
4 3 (0.51%) CASB
5 2 (0.34%) Argo
5 2 (0.34%) Kubeflow
5 2 (0.34%) Marathon
5 2 (0.34%) Mesos
6 1 (0.17%) Grafana
6 1 (0.17%) Podman
Vendors
1 141 (23.86%) Databricks
2 58 (9.81%) Microsoft
3 41 (6.94%) Google
4 15 (2.54%) Oracle
5 9 (1.52%) Alteryx
5 9 (1.52%) Cloudera
5 9 (1.52%) YouTube
6 6 (1.02%) Informatica
7 4 (0.68%) Qualys
7 4 (0.68%) Splunk
8 3 (0.51%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.51%) Netskope
8 3 (0.51%) Symantec
8 3 (0.51%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.34%) Facebook
9 2 (0.34%) NEC
9 2 (0.34%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.34%) Snowplow
9 2 (0.34%) Teradata
10 1 (0.17%) Brio