Data Engineer Salary in London

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What do Data Engineers earn in London?

Data Engineers in London earn a median of £88,000, with strong demand from fintech, retail, and media companies building modern data platforms. Expertise in dbt, Spark, Airflow, and cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift) is consistently requested across job postings.

Senior data engineers who can architect scalable pipelines and own data platform strategy earn £115,000–£135,000. Engineers with streaming data experience (Kafka, Flink) are in particularly high demand.

Salary by seniority level

Junior (0–2 yrs): £48,000 – £68,000

Mid-level (2–5 yrs): £68,000 – £92,000

Senior (5–8 yrs): £92,000 – £120,000

Staff / Principal (8+ yrs): £120,000 – £155,000+

About this data

MasloJobs aggregates salary data from 350,000+ verified tech compensation data points across Europe. Updated continuously from live job postings, not self-reported surveys.

Last updated: March 2026