Data Engineering Jobs in United Kingdom
There are 5,082 open Data Engineering jobs in United Kingdom on freehire right now. 2,729 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are python, sql and data-pipelines.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GBP | year | £65,000 | £85,000 | £92,000 | 273 |
| GBP | day | £500 | £650 | £675 | 54 |
| USD | year | $78,884 | $86,767 | $158,125 | 10 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- python 47%
- sql 46%
- data-pipelines 46%
- cloud 44%
- data-engineering 43%
- analytics 41%
- ai 31%
- azure 29%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 1,190 · 23%
- Remote 231 · 5%
- Onsite 27 · 1%
Visa sponsorship offered in 29% of the 231 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,376
- Lead 672
- Principal 185
- Staff 109
- C-level 99
- Junior 75
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 433
- 501-1000 employees 218
- 51-200 employees 66
- 11-50 employees 57
- 201-500 employees 13
- 1-10 employees 6
FinOps Architect (68021) (DEAI DS) Cloud & Data Engineering United Kingdom
Design and lead the FinOps strategy for on-premises infrastructure, establishing cost visibility, governance, and savings roadmaps while collaborating with finance, engineering, and operations teams.
SRE Architect (68019) (DEAI DS) Cloud & Data Engineering United Kingdom
Lead the Site Reliability Engineering practice, designing observability stacks, self-healing automation, and automated incident management to improve system resilience and performance for cloud-based services.
Azure Databricks Tech Lead - Data Platform (Contract)
Lead the design and delivery of an Azure Databricks-based data platform for a global energy trading transformation, migrating from Oracle to real-time analytics and governance systems.
Data Engineering Leader – Azure Fabric, Remote
Lead a team of 5-6 data engineers to build and govern a Microsoft Fabric-based data platform for a UK-based recruitment technology company.
Senior Data Engineering Lead - Cloud & Microservices
Leads a data engineering team to design and build cloud-based features that enhance credit card consumer experiences using Java and Python.
Data Engineering Lead — AWS Platform & Architecture
Lead a team building and scaling a large AWS-based data platform for a recruitment-tech company, setting standards, mentoring engineers, and driving DataOps practices.
Solutions Engineer (Data Engineering or Data Science/ML)
Demonstrate Databricks’ data/AI platform to UK customers, build POCs in Spark/Python/Java/Scala, and advise on big-data architectures to solve enterprise challenges.
Contract Data Engineering Manager — Lead Azure Projects
Oversee Azure-based data engineering projects for a London consultancy, managing stakeholders and teams without hands-on coding.
Client-Facing SAS Data Engineering Consultant
Client-facing SAS data engineering consultant builds and manages data pipelines, writes SQL, and delivers analytics solutions for clients using SAS, Tableau, and Python.
Data Engineering Lead - Value & Analytics (Hybrid)
Lead a team building data pipelines and dashboards (Power BI/Microsoft Fabric) to track portfolio performance and ROI for a Value & Analytics function.
Data Engineering Lead - Hybrid London | 12-Month Contract
Lead a hybrid team building and maintaining data pipelines and reporting systems for a large enterprise, coordinating across teams and using Agile practices.
Real-Time Data Platform Engineer (Hybrid)
Builds and enhances bet365’s real-time data infrastructure using Golang, Kafka, Flink, GCP, Spanner and BigQuery to power low-latency, highly available streaming services.
Senior Data Platform Engineer: Azure DevOps & Lakehouse
Senior Data Engineer builds and maintains an Azure-based analytics platform with CI/CD, Lakehouse patterns, and real-time data pipelines for financial insights.
Data Engineer - Reporting Migration to Azure Fabric
Contract Data Engineer migrating legacy reporting to Azure Fabric, building ETL pipelines and Kimball-style data models in a hybrid London role.
BI Data Engineer: Microsoft Fabric & Power BI
Build and maintain data pipelines and BI reports using Microsoft Fabric and Power BI to enable data-driven decisions across the business.
Principal Data Engineer — Scale a Global SaaS Platform
Principal Data Engineer to design and scale global data infrastructure for a SaaS platform, using Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery on AWS.