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 to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 582 593
Rank change year-on-year -40 +11 +8
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 149 151 289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.27% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.30% 0.41%
Number of salaries quoted 116 123 106
10th Percentile £35,000 £50,325 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £54,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £86,250 £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

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
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 2 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 2 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 +79 73 £62,500 +4.17% 14
North West +32 60 £66,250 +20.45% 12
Midlands -3 26 £70,000 +18.14% 3
West Midlands -7 17 £70,000 +19.15% 2
South West -45 17 £55,000 -21.43% 4
South East -60 17 £66,250 -5.36% 4
Yorkshire +60 8 £49,136 -25.83% 1
East Midlands -10 8 - - 1
Scotland -64 8 £65,000 +8.33% 5
East of England - 6 £75,000 - 3
North East -8 5 £80,000 +18.52% 1
Wales +7 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 2 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 72 (48.32%) Python
2 71 (47.65%) SQL
3 64 (42.95%) ETL
4 58 (38.93%) Azure
5 48 (32.21%) Data Modelling
5 48 (32.21%) Data Pipeline
6 46 (30.87%) Data Engineering
7 45 (30.20%) Data Warehouse
8 40 (26.85%) Analytics
9 38 (25.50%) AWS
10 37 (24.83%) Databricks
11 34 (22.82%) Agile
12 32 (21.48%) Data Quality
13 30 (20.13%) SQL Server
13 30 (20.13%) Finance
14 27 (18.12%) PySpark
15 26 (17.45%) Data Management
16 25 (16.78%) DevOps
16 25 (16.78%) CI/CD
17 24 (16.11%) Machine Learning
17 24 (16.11%) Data Integration
18 23 (15.44%) Microsoft
18 23 (15.44%) Data Lake
19 22 (14.77%) Azure Data Factory
19 22 (14.77%) Data Science
19 22 (14.77%) Big Data
19 22 (14.77%) Business Intelligence
20 21 (14.09%) Informatica
20 21 (14.09%) Social Skills
21 19 (12.75%) Oracle

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 19 (12.75%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.36%) Apache
2 5 (3.36%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.34%) Confluence
4 1 (0.67%) Luigi
4 1 (0.67%) nginx
4 1 (0.67%) SAS
4 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 58 (38.93%) Azure
2 38 (25.50%) AWS
3 22 (14.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 18 (12.08%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (11.41%) Power Platform
6 14 (9.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 13 (8.72%) GCP
8 12 (8.05%) Serverless
9 11 (7.38%) Amazon S3
9 11 (7.38%) GitHub
10 10 (6.71%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (6.71%) Snowflake
11 6 (4.03%) dbt
12 5 (3.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (3.36%) AWS CodePipeline
12 5 (3.36%) SaaS
13 4 (2.68%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (2.68%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (2.68%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.74%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.68%) FTP
4 1 (0.67%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.67%) 5G
4 1 (0.67%) LAN
4 1 (0.67%) VPN
4 1 (0.67%) WAN
4 1 (0.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (30.20%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (20.13%) SQL Server
3 23 (15.44%) Data Lake
4 22 (14.77%) Big Data
5 17 (11.41%) Power BI
6 15 (10.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (9.40%) Delta Lake
8 12 (8.05%) NoSQL
9 11 (7.38%) Data Vault
10 9 (6.04%) DynamoDB
10 9 (6.04%) Hadoop
11 8 (5.37%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (5.37%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (5.37%) Relational Database
12 6 (4.03%) BigQuery
12 6 (4.03%) Oracle Database
12 6 (4.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (3.36%) Data Mining
14 4 (2.68%) Redis
15 2 (1.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (7.38%) JIRA
2 6 (4.03%) Git
3 4 (2.68%) GitLab
4 3 (2.01%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.67%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (20.13%) Finance
2 21 (14.09%) Social Skills
3 15 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.05%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.70%) Retail
6 4 (2.68%) Games
7 3 (2.01%) Agriculture
7 3 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.01%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.34%) Automotive
9 1 (0.67%) Advertising
9 1 (0.67%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Law
9 1 (0.67%) Legal
9 1 (0.67%) Marketing
9 1 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (18.12%) PySpark
2 8 (5.37%) Pandas
3 5 (3.36%) Kafka
4 4 (2.68%) AWS CDK
5 3 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.67%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.67%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.67%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.67%) Node.js
6 1 (0.67%) RESTful
6 1 (0.67%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.74%) Data Structures
1 16 (10.74%) Reinsurance
2 11 (7.38%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.70%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.70%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.36%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.36%) Blog
4 5 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.68%) CCTV
5 4 (2.68%) NHS
5 4 (2.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (2.01%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.01%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.67%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.67%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.67%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.67%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.67%) FMCG
7 1 (0.67%) Genomics
7 1 (0.67%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.68%) Linux
2 1 (0.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (42.95%) ETL
2 48 (32.21%) Data Modelling
2 48 (32.21%) Data Pipeline
3 46 (30.87%) Data Engineering
4 40 (26.85%) Analytics
5 34 (22.82%) Agile
6 26 (17.45%) Data Management
7 25 (16.78%) CI/CD
7 25 (16.78%) DevOps
8 24 (16.11%) Data Integration
8 24 (16.11%) Machine Learning
9 22 (14.77%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (14.77%) Data Science
10 19 (12.75%) Data Governance
11 18 (12.08%) Data Analytics
12 17 (11.41%) Migration
13 15 (10.07%) Visualisation
14 13 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (8.72%) Scrum
15 12 (8.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 72 (48.32%) Python
2 71 (47.65%) SQL
3 9 (6.04%) Java
4 5 (3.36%) C#
4 5 (3.36%) PL/SQL
4 5 (3.36%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.68%) Scala
6 3 (2.01%) C
7 2 (1.34%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.34%) R
8 1 (0.67%) Bash
8 1 (0.67%) C++
8 1 (0.67%) Korn
8 1 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 11 (7.38%) Degree
2 6 (4.03%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.03%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.36%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (2.01%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.01%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.67%) ICAEW
6 1 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (21.48%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.36%) QA
3 1 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (0.67%) GDPR
3 1 (0.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (0.67%) NCSC
3 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (4.70%) Docker
2 1 (0.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (8.72%) Terraform
2 4 (2.68%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.01%) Ansible
Vendors
1 37 (24.83%) Databricks
2 23 (15.44%) Microsoft
3 21 (14.09%) Informatica
4 19 (12.75%) Oracle
5 4 (2.68%) Splunk
6 3 (2.01%) Google
6 3 (2.01%) SnapLogic
7 2 (1.34%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.67%) Dataiku
8 1 (0.67%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.67%) SAP
8 1 (0.67%) Teradata