Senior Data Engineer Jobs in the East Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Senior Data Engineer salary in the East Midlands is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 198 172
Rank change year-on-year +45 -26 +23
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Data Engineer 8 8 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.30% 0.15% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.16% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £64,000 - £56,875
25th Percentile £66,250 - £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £63,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.92%
75th Percentile £80,000 - £68,438
90th Percentile - - £68,625
England median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 2,539 5,065 2,363
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 94.32% 88.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,084 3,479 1,235
10th Percentile £26,075 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,375 £31,750 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,225 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -14.95% +9.47%
75th Percentile £58,000 £56,200 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Senior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Senior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Engineer in the East Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the East Midlands.

Salary trend for Senior Data Engineer in the East Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 27 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Data Engineer in the East Midlands

Senior Data Engineer
Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 June 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire +28 6 £80,000 - 3
Derbyshire - 1 £70,000 - 1
Northamptonshire - 1 £65,000 -
Senior Data Engineer
England

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 27 June 2025, 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 East Midlands region featuring Senior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
1 5 (62.50%) Data Quality
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) DBS Check
2 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Big Data
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Dask
2 4 (50.00%) Databricks
2 4 (50.00%) Polars
3 3 (37.50%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) Cloudera
4 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (12.50%) Data Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (12.50%) Luigi
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making

Senior Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (12.50%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) dbt
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Pulumi
2 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (12.50%) BigQuery
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Dask
1 4 (50.00%) Polars
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) Data Modelling
1 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Data Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
4 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DBS Check
2 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Databricks
2 2 (25.00%) Cloudera
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Cognos
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