Data Engineering Jobs in the City of London

Data Engineering
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 101 152
Rank change year-on-year +11 +51 -7
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 55 80 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 2.79% 2.44% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.66% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 33 63 65
10th Percentile £52,500 £53,250 £43,500
25th Percentile £60,250 £63,750 £58,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £82,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £122,500 £95,000 £96,750
90th Percentile £154,500 £125,000 £106,500
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £78,750 £80,000
% change year-on-year +20.63% -1.56% -5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,896 3,012 4,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.15% 91.86% 95.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,444 2,331 3,542
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £43,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the City of London.

Salary trend for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in the City of London

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (5.45%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.82%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 38 (69.09%) Azure
2 18 (32.73%) AWS
3 17 (30.91%) Azure Data Factory
4 15 (27.27%) GCP
4 15 (27.27%) Power Platform
5 12 (21.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (16.36%) Serverless
8 8 (14.55%) GitHub
8 8 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (10.91%) dbt
10 5 (9.09%) PaaS
11 3 (5.45%) Azure Functions
11 3 (5.45%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (5.45%) Snowflake
12 2 (3.64%) AWS Data Pipeline
12 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (3.64%) Azure Machine Learning
12 2 (3.64%) Collibra
12 2 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.91%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (27.27%) Power BI
3 8 (14.55%) Data Lake
4 7 (12.73%) Metadata
5 6 (10.91%) NoSQL
5 6 (10.91%) SQL Server
6 5 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (7.27%) Delta Lake
7 4 (7.27%) Tableau
8 3 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (5.45%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (3.64%) Big Data
9 2 (3.64%) BigQuery
9 2 (3.64%) DynamoDB
9 2 (3.64%) Hadoop
9 2 (3.64%) Looker
9 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
9 2 (3.64%) Parquet
9 2 (3.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Git
General
1 21 (38.18%) Finance
2 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
3 13 (23.64%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.73%) Law
5 6 (10.91%) Banking
6 5 (9.09%) Investment Banking
7 4 (7.27%) Marketing
8 3 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.64%) Front Office
9 2 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 2 (3.64%) Retail
9 2 (3.64%) Wearables
10 1 (1.82%) Games
10 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Data Engineer
2 9 (16.36%) Lead
2 9 (16.36%) Senior
3 8 (14.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (7.27%) Head of Engineering
6 3 (5.45%) Architect
6 3 (5.45%) Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Lead Data Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Analytics Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Data Scientist
7 2 (3.64%) Head of Data Science
7 2 (3.64%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (1.82%) Head of Data Analytics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.18%) PySpark
2 2 (3.64%) Django
2 2 (3.64%) GraphQL
2 2 (3.64%) React
3 1 (1.82%) Apache Avro
3 1 (1.82%) Flask
3 1 (1.82%) Kafka
3 1 (1.82%) NumPy
3 1 (1.82%) Pandas
3 1 (1.82%) Plotly
3 1 (1.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.27%) Reinsurance
2 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.82%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.82%) FMCG
4 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Life Science
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Online Games
4 1 (1.82%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (52.73%) Analytics
2 23 (41.82%) DevOps
3 22 (40.00%) Data Science
4 20 (36.36%) CI/CD
4 20 (36.36%) ETL
5 18 (32.73%) Data Modelling
6 13 (23.64%) Data Analytics
6 13 (23.64%) Data Governance
6 13 (23.64%) Data Pipeline
6 13 (23.64%) Machine Learning
7 12 (21.82%) Artificial Intelligence
8 11 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (20.00%) Data Transformation
8 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (18.18%) Decision-Making
9 10 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (18.18%) Roadmaps
9 10 (18.18%) Visualisation
10 8 (14.55%) Data Architecture
10 8 (14.55%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (50.91%) Python
2 23 (41.82%) SQL
3 5 (9.09%) Java
4 4 (7.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (5.45%) Go
5 3 (5.45%) Scala
5 3 (5.45%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.64%) C++
6 2 (3.64%) Rust
7 1 (1.82%) Cypher
7 1 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Degree
2 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.64%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.64%) SnowPro
4 1 (1.82%) PhD
4 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (20.00%) Terraform
2 3 (5.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (50.91%) Databricks
2 16 (29.09%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.27%) Google
4 2 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.82%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.82%) Confluent
5 1 (1.82%) Dell
5 1 (1.82%) Informatica
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle
5 1 (1.82%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Workday
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