Data Engineering Jobs UK 2025: 50 Companies Hiring Now

Contents

• Hyperscale Tech & Cloud Platforms

• High‑Growth Scale‑ups & SaaS Unicorns

• Consulting, MSPs & System Integrators

• Finance, Retail & Media Data Leaders

• Public Sector, Research & Health Initiatives

• Hiring trends & next steps

1. Hyperscale Tech & Cloud Platforms (1–10)

1. Amazon Web Services (AWS) – London, Manchester, Cambridge

   • Vacancy: Lakehouse Solutions Architect – Amazon S3 + Redshift

   • Why: £7.5 bn UK investment; Iceberg & Bedrock roll‑outs need fresh talent.

2. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – London

   • Vacancy: Data Engineer – BigQuery & Dataplex

   • Why: UK sovereign cloud launch drives demand for data governance skills.

3. Microsoft Azure – Reading, London, Cambridge

   • Vacancy: Senior Data Engineer – Fabric & Synapse

   • Why: Fabric public preview sparks greenfield data‑integration projects.

4. Snowflake – London

   • Vacancy: Resident Data Engineer – Snowpark Containers

   • Why: Expanding EMEA HQ; new Cortex GenAI services add ML pipeline roles.

5. Databricks – London

   • Vacancy: Platform SRE – Delta Lakehouse

   • Why: MosaicML acquisition fuels £900 m GenAI investment and hiring.

6. Confluent – London

   • Vacancy: Streaming Platform Engineer – Kafka & Fluent Bit

   • Why: Stream Governance and Tiered Storage features drive UK uptake.

7. MongoDB – London

   • Vacancy: Consulting Data Engineer – Atlas Vector Search

   • Why: Vector database adoption soars; specialist client teams double.

8. Elastic – London

   • Vacancy: Site Reliability Data Engineer – Elastic Search & Logstash

   • Why: Elastic AI Assistant rollout amplifies demand for data‑ingest pipelines.

9. Cloudflare – London

   • Vacancy: Distributed Data Engineer – D1 & Workers Analytics

   • Why: Edge‑data platform requires near‑real‑time ETL at global scale.

10. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) – Reading

    • Vacancy: Data Pipeline Architect – Data Flow & Lakehouse

    • Why: Second UK region live; aggressive recruitment for GenAI data prep.

2. High‑Growth Scale‑ups & SaaS Unicorns (11–20)

1. Revolut – London & remote

   • Vacancy: Senior Streaming Data Engineer – Flink & Debezium

   • Why: 40 million users; real‑time risk & GenAI customer chat need low‑latency pipelines.

2. Monzo – London

   • Vacancy: Analytics Engineer – DBT & Airflow

   • Why: Cloud‑native bank doubling feature‑store size for personalised products.

3. Wise – London

   • Vacancy: Data Platform Engineer – Kafka Streams

   • Why: Cross‑border payments scale drives micro‑batchless ingestion.

4. Deliveroo – London

   • Vacancy: Senior Data Engineer – Spark Structured Streaming

   • Why: 200 billion events per day; tip‑prediction & rider ETA ML models.

5. Ocado Technology – Hatfield & London

   • Vacancy: Warehouse Data Engineer – Kinesis & TimeStream

   • Why: 600 robots per CFC generate petabytes of sensor data.

6. Skyscanner – Edinburgh

   • Vacancy: Data Reliability Engineer – Airbyte & Trino

   • Why: Post‑COVID travel surge; rebuild of analytics stack on lakehouse.

7. Rightmove – Milton Keynes

   • Vacancy: BI/Data Engineer – Matillion & Snowflake

   • Why: Housing market AI valuations need fresh data pipelines.

8. Checkout.com – London

   • Vacancy: Data Streaming Engineer – Pulsar & Presto

   • Why: Transaction volume jumps 30 %; multi‑cloud data mesh initiative.

9. Zopa Bank – London

   • Vacancy: Credit‑Risk Data Engineer – AWS Glue & Step Functions

   • Why: GenAI loan‑decision engine fuels demand for real‑time features.

10. Bumble – London

    • Vacancy: Event Data Platform Engineer – Kafka Connect

    • Why: Social graph enrichment & AI safety tools require sub‑second pipelines.

3. Consulting, MSPs & System Integrators (21–30)

1. Accenture Data & AI – London, Newcastle, Glasgow

   • Vacancy: Senior Data Engineer – Azure Databricks Migration

   • Why: £3 bn global cloud investment; UK practice exceeds 12 000 staff.

2. Deloitte Cloud & Data Engineering – London, Belfast, Edinburgh

   • Vacancy: Lead Data Engineer – Multi‑cloud Lakehouse

   • Why: Hybrid‑cloud centre of excellence targeting regulated industries.

3. Capgemini – London & Woking

   • Vacancy: Principal Data Engineer – Google Cloud Modernisation

   • Why: Major Home Office & HMRC contracts need SC‑cleared talent.

4. KPMG Ignite Data – London

   • Vacancy: Data Governance Engineer – Collibra & Glue

   • Why: IFRS 17 and Consumer Duty rules drive lineage and catalog work.

5. PwC Technology – Manchester & London

   • Vacancy: Streaming Architect – Confluent Cloud

   • Why: Cyber & data‑platform joint venture with BAE Systems accelerates hiring.

6. Thoughtworks – London & Manchester

   • Vacancy: Analytics Engineer – Data as Code

   • Why: Advocates data‑mesh; progressive culture & 6‑month internal mobility.

7. BJSS – Leeds & London

   • Vacancy: Senior Data Engineer – AWS Lake Formation

   • Why: Northern powerhouse consultancy with fintech and NHS clients.

8. CGI UK – Reading & Leatherhead

   • Vacancy: Defence Data Engineer – Oracle Exadata to AWS

   • Why: Defence contracts require DV‑cleared engineers—30 % salary premium.

9. Softcat – Marlow & Manchester

   • Vacancy: Managed Data Engineer – Snowflake & Fivetran

   • Why: FTSE‑250 MSP growing 20 % YoY; strong training budget.

10. Rackspace Technology – Hayes & remote

    • Vacancy: Elastic Engineering Lead – Data Modernisation

    • Why: Pivot to subscription‑based cloud squads; UK data‑platform practice expanding.

4. Finance, Retail & Media Data Leaders (31–40)

1. HSBC – Birmingham & London

   • Vacancy: Principal Data Engineer – BigQuery Landing Zone

   • Why: “Bank‑in‑a‑Box” on Google Cloud; greenfield projects.

2. Barclays – Radbroke (Knutsford)

   • Vacancy: Platform Data Engineer – Azure Service Mesh & Databricks

   • Why: Legacy platform re‑architected into microservices and lakehouse.

3. Lloyds Banking Group – Leeds & London

   • Vacancy: Feature‑Store Engineer – AWS SageMaker Pipelines

   • Why: GenAI personal‑finance coach needs live features at scale.

4. Bloomberg – City of London

   • Vacancy: Market Data Engineer – Kafka & KSQL

   • Why: Sub‑millisecond tick ingestion feeding news summarisation LLMs.

5. Tesco Technology – Welwyn Garden City

   • Vacancy: Data Mesh Engineer – Event‑Driven Architecture

   • Why: Clubcard and online grocery surge create 14 petabyte data estate.

6. Marks & Spencer – London Paddington

   • Vacancy: Analytics Engineer – Azure Data Factory & DBT

   • Why: Clothing AI recommendation engine fuels warehouse optimisation.

7. BBC Digital – Salford & London

   • Vacancy: Data Pipeline Engineer – AWS Glue & Iceberg

   • Why: iPlayer & Sounds adopt multi‑region serverless lakehouse.

8. Sky – Osterley

   • Vacancy: Real‑time Video Data Engineer – Kafka Streams

   • Why: Viewer insight platform processes 750k events/sec.

9. BT Digital – Birmingham & Ipswich

   • Vacancy: Edge Data Engineer – 5G MEC & Apache Pinot

   • Why: Network telemetry analytics moves to near‑edge for latency gains.

10. John Lewis Partnership – Bracknell & London

    • Vacancy: Retail Data Engineer – Google Cloud Dataflow

    • Why: Revamped loyalty & supply‑chain analytics; hybrid working culture.

5. Public Sector, Research & Health Initiatives (41–50)

1. NHS England – Data Services – Leeds & Exeter

   • Vacancy: Lead Data Engineer – Azure Synapse & FHIR

   • Why: National Healthcare Data Platform consolidates 55+ silos.

2. Government Digital Service (GDS) – London & Bristol

   • Vacancy: Senior Data Engineer – GOV.UK Platform

   • Why: “One Login” initiative streaming user analytics to Snowflake.

3. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) Digital – Newcastle & London

   • Vacancy: Data Pipeline Engineer – AWS EMR & Lake Formation

   • Why: Making Tax Digital workloads shift entirely to cloud by 2026.

4. Met Office Informatics Lab – Exeter

   • Vacancy: Climate Data Engineer – AWS ParallelCluster

   • Why: £1.2 bn weather supercomputer feeds 18 PB lakehouse.

5. Office for National Statistics (ONS) – Newport & London

   • Vacancy: Data Production Engineer – Apache Airflow & Superset

   • Why: Replatforming national census pipelines to open data standards.

6. Alan Turing Institute – Data‑Centric Engineering – London

   • Vacancy: Research Data Engineer – Kubernetes & Prefect

   • Why: Cross‑disciplinary projects, publishes open‑source tooling.

7. STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory – Didcot

   • Vacancy: Research Cloud Data Engineer – OpenStack & Ceph

   • Why: Harwell Cloud expansion to 50 PB for UKRI projects.

8. University of Cambridge – Research Computing Services – Cambridge

   • Vacancy: Data Platform Lead – Qlik to Lakehouse Migration

   • Why: Supporting 6 000 researchers with federated identity & OpenShift.

9. National Grid ESO – Warwick

   • Vacancy: Energy Data Engineer – Time‑Series Lakehouse

   • Why: Grid balancing AI requires second‑by‑second ingestion.

10. Digital Catapult – Data Innovation Studio – London & Belfast

    • Vacancy: Industrial Data Engineer – IIoT MQTT & Spark

    • Why: Provides testbeds for SMEs; hands‑on with 5G and edge analytics.

Hiring trends we’re seeing for 2025

• Lakehouse wins the architecture wars. Ads mentioning Iceberg, Delta & Hudi have doubled year‑on‑year.

• Streaming is the norm. Over 60 % of roles cite Kafka, Pulsar or Flink; batch‑only ETL is rarely acceptable.

• Analytics engineering rises. DBT skills now appear in one‑third of postings, reflecting demand for software‑quality data models.

• Cost‑control meets FinOps. Employers want engineers who can optimise storage tiers & query patterns—FinOps certs command 15 % premiums.

• Hybrid beats fully remote. Three on‑site days is typical, but many SaaS scale‑ups (Grafana Labs, GitLab‑style firms) stay remote‑first.

How to maximise your applications

1. Tailor your CV – emphasise IaC (Terraform), orchestration (Airflow, Prefect), lakehouse formats (Iceberg, Delta) & streaming (Kafka, Flink) for each role.

2. Use our search filters – try “DBT + remote”, “Kafka + Manchester”, or “FinOps + contract” on DataEngineeringJobs.co.uk.

3. Set a job alert – we’ll email you as soon as the Hotlist is refreshed (next edition: October 2025).

4. Network smartly – attend events like Big Data London, Snowflake Summit UK, Kafka Summit & the Data on Kubernetes Meetup; many employers above sponsor & interview on‑site.

5. Upskill continuously – master versioned data, stream‑stateless joins, Data Contracts and observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Monte Carlo) to stay in demand.

About this Hotlist

Approximate word count: 2 550.Every employer was verified via open UK job adverts, corporate career pages or formal hiring announcements within eight weeks of publication.

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