Data Engineering Jobs in United Kingdom
There are 4,986 open Data Engineering jobs in United Kingdom on freehire right now. 2,717 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 46%
- sql 46%
- data-pipelines 45%
- cloud 43%
- data-engineering 42%
- analytics 40%
- ai 30%
- azure 28%
How the work is done
- Hybrid 1,147 · 23%
- Remote 221 · 4%
- Onsite 24 · 0%
Visa sponsorship offered in 27% of the 225 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 1,355
- Lead 650
- Principal 182
- Staff 107
- C-level 99
- Junior 72
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 418
- 501-1000 employees 213
- 51-200 employees 66
- 11-50 employees 58
- 201-500 employees 12
- 1-10 employees 6
End-to-End Data Engineer for AI-Driven Public Safety
Builds and maintains the data infrastructure for an AI-driven public-safety platform, integrating real customer data with Node/NestJS/TypeScript/Python and AWS.
Integration and Data Engineer
Build and maintain SQL Server databases, ERP integrations, and data pipelines to ensure clean, reliable reporting and insights for a growing manufacturing/distribution business.
Senior GCP Data Engineer: Pipelines & Governance
Builds and maintains GCP-based data pipelines for finance systems like Workday and Oracle, ensuring data integrity and governance compliance.
Databricks Data Engineer II: Pipelines & Spark
Build and maintain scalable data pipelines on Databricks Lakehouse for JPMorgan’s Payments Technology team, enabling trusted datasets and governed data products.
Head of Data Engineering & Governance
Lead data engineering, governance, and reporting for a global ecommerce group, shaping how THG structures, governs, and uses data across its Beauty and Nutrition divisions using GCP/BigQuery and AI-assisted pipelines.
Data Engineer
Design and build scalable data pipelines for cloud and data solutions in a government and defence context, ensuring secure and compliant data processing.
Head of Data Engineering
Leads a team of ~30 engineers to set data and software engineering strategy, enforce standards, and deliver scalable solutions for a regulated client, using Microsoft stack and Azure/Databricks.
Data Engineer
Build and maintain data pipelines for a global energy trading firm, processing live market feeds and ETL workflows to support front-office trading desks.
Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer builds scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and cloud-native data infrastructure for a high-performance digital-asset trading firm, ensuring reliable, secure data access in a fast-paced environment.
Data Engineer
Build and maintain blockchain data infrastructure for a crypto trading client using Python, Spark, and AWS to power decentralized finance systems.
Backend & Data Engineer — AI-First Internal Tools
Builds and maintains an AI-first internal tech stack and data pipelines using PostgreSQL and other data platforms to streamline company operations.
Google Cloud AI/ML Data Engineer
Build AI-driven marketing automation solutions using Google Cloud Platform and Google Marketing Platform, designing ML pipelines and optimizing campaigns.
Data Engineer - Azure, Databricks, ML/AI
Build and maintain scalable cloud data pipelines for an automotive intelligence platform using Azure, Databricks, PySpark, and Delta Lake, integrating AI features to support dealerships worldwide.
Senior Databricks Data Engineer — Big Data Pipelines
Designs and optimizes Databricks-based big data pipelines using Python and SQL, ensuring scalability and compliance for a UK-based product company.
Senior Data Engineer: Azure Data Pipelines & Analytics
Designs and builds Azure-based data pipelines for a UK government agency, mentors junior engineers, and collaborates with stakeholders to deliver data solutions.
Staff Data Engineer: Architect Data Pipelines & DBs
Staff Data Engineer at King designs and builds scalable data pipelines and databases using Java and Python, with a focus on MySQL and PostgreSQL.
BMS Algorithm Data Engineer | Insight & Validation
Develops and validates algorithms for battery management systems using Python and MATLAB in a global engineering team.
AI & Automation Data Engineer for Banking
Designs and maintains data pipelines to feed AI and automation systems at a bank, using SQL, Python, and cloud platforms like Azure and AWS.