Salary for Executive-level / Director Data Engineer in United Kingdom during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Executive-level / Director Data Engineer in United Kingdom during 2025 is USD 154,843

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Salary details

The average executive-level / director Data Engineer salary lies between USD 113,924 and USD 164,556 in the United Kingdom. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Data Engineer
Experience
Executive-level / Director
Region
United Kingdom
Salary year
2025
Sample size
6
Top 10%
$ 185,632
Top 25%
$ 164,556
Median
$ 154,843
Bottom 25%
$ 113,924
Bottom 10%
$ 101,265

Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Top 20 Job Tags for Executive-level / Director Data Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with executive-level / director Data Engineer job listings are Engineering, Architecture and Pipelines. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Engineering | 178 jobs Architecture | 133 jobs Pipelines | 118 jobs Python | 98 jobs AWS | 93 jobs SQL | 91 jobs Security | 91 jobs Data pipelines | 88 jobs Computer Science | 86 jobs ETL | 80 jobs Machine Learning | 75 jobs Spark | 75 jobs Data quality | 73 jobs Azure | 72 jobs Big Data | 65 jobs Data governance | 64 jobs Java | 64 jobs Agile | 63 jobs Testing | 59 jobs Kafka | 58 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Executive-level / Director Data Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with executive-level / director Data Engineer job listings are Career development, Health care and Startup environment. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 144 jobs Health care | 83 jobs Startup environment | 54 jobs Flex hours | 49 jobs Competitive pay | 49 jobs Equity / stock options | 48 jobs Salary bonus | 40 jobs Flex vacation | 36 jobs Insurance | 34 jobs Team events | 33 jobs Parental leave | 30 jobs Wellness | 28 jobs Medical leave | 22 jobs 401(k) matching | 17 jobs Transparency | 8 jobs Home office stipend | 6 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 6 jobs Fertility benefits | 6 jobs Travel | 4 jobs Fitness / gym | 4 jobs

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