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AI & Data Engineer

This role involves maintaining and enhancing the company's data infrastructure while leading AI-driven improvements. You will design and deploy AI features, build vector databases, and transform ETL/ELT processes into AI-ready pipelines. Additionally, you will mentor the team on MLOps and AI best practices, ensuring data quality and system performance.

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Source Global Research

London, United Kingdom

£70,000 – £100,000 pa On-site Permanent

Senior Data Engineer

The Senior Data Engineer / Analytics Lead will establish and lead the data engineering and analytics capability within RSM's Forensic Technology team. Responsibilities include designing and building data pipelines, working directly with clients and regulators, mentoring junior staff, and setting technical standards. This greenfield role offers the opportunity to shape the function and deliver impactful forensic solutions.

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RSM

London, United Kingdom

£100,000 – £150,000 pa Hybrid Permanent

EMEA Energy Industry Go-To-Market (GTM) Leader

This role involves leading the go-to-market strategy for Databricks in the energy sector across EMEA. Responsibilities include setting AI vision with top energy accounts, driving pipeline growth, and aligning cross-functional teams. The position requires deep industry expertise and a proven track record in strategic consulting and technology commercialization.

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Databricks

United Kingdom

£100,000 – £150,000 pa Hybrid Permanent

Principal Engineer, Data Platforms

This role involves defining the long-term technical vision and roadmap for Just Eat Takeaway.com's modern Data Platform, including data warehousing, data lakes, streaming, and governance. You will lead the design and governance of core data infrastructure, act as a hands-on contributor, and mentor senior engineers to raise the technical bar across the organization.

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Just Eat Takeaway.com

London, United Kingdom

£120,000 – £125,000 pa Hybrid Permanent

Head of Data

This role involves building a new data function from the ground up, including designing and implementing a centralised data warehouse, ETL pipelines, and scalable data architecture. You will lead a lean data team, develop dashboards for senior leadership, and act as a data evangelist to drive data-driven thinking across the business.

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Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment

London, United Kingdom

£80,000 – £88,000 pa Hybrid Permanent

Data Architect - Bristol Opportunity

Your new companyThey are a specialist insurance and risk solutions provider, supporting clients with tailored coverage and expert advice across a range of sectors. The business is known for its client-focused approach, strong market relationships...

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HAYS Specialist Recruitment

Bristol, 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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