Data Engineering Jobs in United Kingdom
There are 5,088 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 1,379
- Lead 671
- Principal 185
- Staff 109
- C-level 100
- 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
Data Platform Site Reliability Engineer – Hybrid
Build and maintain scalable data platforms in Azure, automating deployments with Kubernetes, Serverless, and Terraform to ensure reliable data ingestion and warehouse operations.
Global Banking Markets - Software Engineer, Data Platform - London - Vice President
Build and maintain a high-performance data platform for post-trade processing, ingesting market data and powering AI-driven analytics for global banking clients using Java, Kafka, Flink, and SingleStore.
Global Banking Markets - Software Engineer, Data Platform - London - Vice President
Build and maintain a high-performance data platform for global markets, processing and distributing real-time financial data using Java, Kafka, Flink, and SingleStore.
Engineering Manager, Endpoint Data Platform
Engineering Manager leading a team to scale backend infrastructure for network troubleshooting and end-user experience analysis using distributed systems.
Global Banking Markets - Software Engineer, Data Platform - London - Vice President London · Un[...]
Build and maintain a high-performance data platform for global trading systems, ingesting market data and enabling AI-powered analytics for post-trade processing in Java/Scala.
Senior Software Engineer - Market Data Platform, Ticker Plant Runtime Services
Build and maintain a high-performance, real-time market data platform handling billions of financial events daily using C++/Python, ensuring correctness, low latency, and high availability for global financial markets.
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Data Platform in London - Apple Inc.
Build and maintain scalable, reliable data infrastructure using Go and Python, ensuring high availability of distributed storage systems like S3.
Principal Data Engineer - 14-Month FTC, Cloud Data Leader
Lead data engineering for a government digital directorate, designing secure, scalable pipelines and mentoring engineers to support data products and decision-making.
Senior Data Platform Engineer - Data Products & Architecture
Designs and operates scalable data pipelines, defines customer identifiers, and ensures data reliability for analytics and ML workflows in a product-focused environment.
Senior MLOps & Data Platform Engineer
Designs and maintains scalable MLOps infrastructure and cloud-native data pipelines on AWS and GCP to productionize ML models with strong observability and governance.
VP Data Platform Engineer – Real-Time, High-Performance
Build and own core post-trade data systems in a high-performance trading environment using Java and distributed architectures.
Principal Data Platform Engineer - Cloud, SQL & AI-Driven
Lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale data platforms, enabling AI-driven analytics and regulatory reporting while mentoring teams on best practices.
Senior Data Platform Engineer - Build, Ship, Run (Hybrid)
Build and maintain scalable data infrastructure using Python, TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS, and Kubernetes, owning the full lifecycle from development to production operations.
Senior Data Engineer
Build and maintain scalable data pipelines in Databricks, design semantic models, and transform raw data into trusted datasets for analytics and reporting in a climate-focused domain.