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Senior Software Engineer II, Kora Compute

This role involves building and maintaining the compute layer of Kora, a cloud-native event streaming platform for Kafka. You will work on highly available, reliable, and scalable systems, collaborating closely with the team and stakeholders to deliver top-notch solutions. The role focuses on solving complex distributed systems and infrastructure challenges, with a strong emphasis on customer success and team collaboration.

Confluent

United Kingdom

£80,000 – £120,000 pa On-site Permanent

Senior Back End Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will design and implement core backend services and APIs using Python, FastAPI, and Django. You will build and maintain scalable systems, integrate AI and payment features, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive product growth and innovation.

W Talent

London, United Kingdom

£400 – £425 pd

Bioinformatician - CRISPR - Cambridge

This is a fantastic opportunity to work as a contract Bioinformatician on an Outside IR35 contract, for a major pharmaceutical company.It's important to note that this Bioinformatician role will require a minimum of 3 days...

Morson Edge

Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, CB2 9LS, United Kingdom

£500 – £522 pd Remote Contract Clearance Required

Backend Engineer

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will lead the design and implementation of a security compliance platform, ensuring all code changes meet regulatory standards. You will work with Java, Spring Boot, and GCP, focusing on distributed systems and security compliance.

Randstad Technologies Recruitment

London, United Kingdom

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Senior Product Analyst

Hungry for a challenge?That’s good, because at Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET) we believe everything is possible, or, as we say, everything is on the table. We are a leading global online food delivery marketplace. Our...

Just Eat Takeaway.com

Just Eat Takeaway.com

London, United Kingdom

£500 – £600 pd Hybrid Contract

Data Engineer

This role involves designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines and architectures using Snowflake. You will work closely with data analysts and business stakeholders to ensure data quality, integrity, and governance, while optimizing data models and ETL processes.

Intelligent Steps

London, United Kingdom

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Where to Advertise Data Engineering Jobs in the UK (2026 Guide)

Advertising data engineering jobs in the UK requires a different approach to most technical hiring. Data engineers occupy a distinct discipline that sits between software engineering, data science and cloud infrastructure — and the strongest candidates identify firmly with the data engineering community rather than with adjacent roles. General job boards consistently conflate data engineering with data analysis, data science and BI development, producing high application volumes but low candidate quality for specialist pipeline and platform roles. This guide, published by DataEngineeringJobs.co.uk, covers where to advertise data engineering roles in the UK in 2026, how the main platforms compare, what employers should expect to pay, and what the data says about hiring across different role types.

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Data Engineering Jobs UK 2026: What to Expect Over the Next 3 Years

Data engineering has become one of the most strategically important disciplines in the entire technology sector — and one of the most reliably in-demand. Every organisation that wants to use data to make decisions, train AI models, personalise products, manage risk, or understand its customers depends on data engineers to build the infrastructure that makes any of that possible. Without well-designed, reliable data pipelines, the most sophisticated machine learning model is worthless and the most ambitious analytics strategy is undeliverable. That foundational importance has made data engineering hiring remarkably resilient through the technology market corrections of the past few years. Where headcount reductions fell heavily on some engineering disciplines, demand for data engineers held firm — because the work of building and maintaining data infrastructure cannot be deferred in the way that some product development can. The data keeps coming. The pipelines need to work. But the data engineering jobs market of 2026 is not simply a stable version of what it was three years ago. The discipline has undergone a series of architectural shifts — from batch to streaming, from on-premise data warehouses to cloud-native lakehouses, from hand-rolled pipelines to declarative transformation frameworks, and most recently toward AI-augmented data engineering workflows that are beginning to reshape what the role looks like in practice. The employers hiring data engineers today are asking for a meaningfully different skill set than those hiring three years ago. The candidates who will thrive over the next three years are those who understand where the discipline is heading — which architectural patterns are becoming standard, which technologies are defining the modern data stack, and how the definition of a data engineering career is evolving toward a richer intersection of infrastructure, analytics, and AI enablement. This article breaks down what the UK data engineering jobs market is likely to look like through to 2028 — covering the titles emerging right now, the technologies driving employer demand, the skills that will matter most, and how to position your career ahead of the curve.

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New Data Engineering Employers to Watch in 2026: UK and Global Companies Driving the Data Revolution

Data engineering is at the heart of the digital economy, transforming raw data into actionable insights, powering analytics, AI systems, and cloud infrastructure. As the UK and global markets continue to invest heavily in data platforms, pipelines, and real-time analytics, demand for skilled data engineers is growing rapidly. For professionals exploring opportunities on www.DataEngineeringJobs.co.uk , the critical question is: which companies are expanding, hiring, and shaping the future of data-driven business? This article highlights new data engineering employers to watch in 2026, including UK startups, scale-ups, and international firms expanding in the UK.

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