Senior Data Engineer Salary in London

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What do Senior Data Engineers earn in London?

Senior Data Engineers in London earn a median of £100,000, reflecting the premium placed on engineers who can architect and own complex data pipelines at scale. Demand is driven by fintech, retail, and media companies investing heavily in their data platforms.

Expertise in dbt, Spark, Kafka, and cloud warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery) is consistently in demand. Engineers who can bridge data engineering and analytics engineering — owning the full data layer from ingestion to transformation — command the strongest salaries.

Salary by seniority level

Junior (0–2 yrs): £48,000 – £65,000

Mid-level (2–5 yrs): £65,000 – £88,000

Senior (5–8 yrs): £88,000 – £115,000

Staff / Principal (8+ yrs): £115,000 – £150,000+

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