Data Engineering Jobs in United Kingdom
There are 5,084 open Data Engineering jobs in United Kingdom on freehire right now. 2,722 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 1,186 · 23%
- Remote 232 · 5%
- Onsite 27 · 1%
Visa sponsorship offered in 28% of the 232 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,379
- Lead 671
- Principal 185
- Staff 108
- C-level 100
- Junior 75
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 433
- 501-1000 employees 219
- 51-200 employees 66
- 11-50 employees 57
- 201-500 employees 13
- 1-10 employees 6
Data engineer - AWS - Newcastle - £50k
Build and optimize AWS-based data pipelines and warehouses to improve analytics and decision-making for a consultancy serving enterprise clients.
Junior Data Engineer - AWS - £40k
Junior Data Engineer builds and optimizes AWS-based data pipelines and ETL workflows using SQL, Python, and data modeling to improve reliability and decision-making.
Senior Data Engineer for Smart Infrastructure
Designs and manages a modern Data Lakehouse architecture for smart infrastructure, focusing on IoT and advanced metering solutions. Oversees data migration, ETL/ELT pipelines, and enforces data quality standards while collaborating on scalable cloud-based data systems.
Data Engineer
Designs and builds data pipelines and visualizations for a zero-carbon energy company, integrating software development and data engineering in a hybrid role.
Senior Data Engineer Databricks (London-based)
Designs and builds scalable data pipelines on Databricks for financial risk-management clients, translating business needs into robust architectures while collaborating with stakeholders.
Data Governance Lead
Lead data governance at Pets at Home, establishing policies and frameworks to ensure trusted, responsible data use and AI integration across the business.
Data Engineering Associate
Build and maintain cloud-based data pipelines and ETL processes in Python and SQL to feed predictive analytics, pricing, and fraud systems for an insurer.
Data Governance Analyst
Maintain and evolve metadata services to ensure trusted, discoverable data and AI products for a UK insurer, supporting governance and business value.
Senior Data Engineer
Build and maintain cloud-native ETL pipelines for a Lloyd’s insurer, migrating legacy systems to modern data infrastructure while ensuring financial data integrity for regulatory reporting.
Lead Data Engineer
Leads a team to modernize data infrastructure, building scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and real-time processing solutions using cloud and big data tech to support analytics, BI, and AI/ML workloads.
Head of Data Platform Engineering
Leads the design, development, and evolution of a modern enterprise data platform using Azure and Snowflake, overseeing platform engineering teams in a fintech organization.
Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform Scale AI London, UK
Builds and scales core data platforms (storage, streaming, caching, indexing) that power Scale AI’s Generative AI Data Engine and RLHF systems for large-scale AI models.
Principal AI Data Engineer
Principal AI Data Engineer builds and deploys GenAI, RAG and Agentic AI prototypes using Azure AI Foundry, Databricks Mosaic AI and LangChain on Azure cloud.