Lead Data Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in England is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 678 751 790
Rank change year-on-year +73 +39 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 171 164 398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.19% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 159 146 154
10th Percentile £47,500 £62,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £75,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £91,250
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -6.85% +10.61%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £116,246
UK median annual salary £81,250 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% -5.56% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 86,435 76,952 135,807
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.72% 91.31% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 63,785 50,234 75,047
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.32% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Lead Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +87 74 £92,500 +2.78% 40
North of England +74 64 £80,000 +2.56% 24
North West +18 35 £70,000 +3.70% 13
North East +1 17 £78,750 +1.61% 5
South West -19 15 £70,576 -13.93% 1
Yorkshire +60 12 £85,000 -5.56% 6
South East -11 11 £65,000 -23.53% 6
East of England -1 5 £75,000 -28.57%
West Midlands -26 1 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Midlands -27 1 £75,000 +15.38% 4
Lead Data Engineer
UK

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Lead Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 89 (52.05%) Azure
2 88 (51.46%) SQL
3 84 (49.12%) Python
4 78 (45.61%) ETL
5 73 (42.69%) Data Engineering
6 50 (29.24%) Databricks
7 47 (27.49%) Data Pipeline
8 46 (26.90%) Analytics
9 43 (25.15%) AWS
9 43 (25.15%) Data Warehouse
10 42 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
10 42 (24.56%) Data Quality
11 41 (23.98%) Data Modelling
12 40 (23.39%) Social Skills
13 39 (22.81%) Data Lake
13 39 (22.81%) Mentoring
14 36 (21.05%) Agile
15 33 (19.30%) GCP
16 29 (16.96%) Finance
17 28 (16.37%) Machine Learning
18 27 (15.79%) CI/CD
19 26 (15.20%) DevOps
19 26 (15.20%) Azure Data Factory
20 25 (14.62%) Data Architecture
21 24 (14.04%) Data Governance
21 24 (14.04%) Data Management
21 24 (14.04%) Power BI
21 24 (14.04%) Power Platform
22 23 (13.45%) dbt
23 22 (12.87%) Data Transformation

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 8 (4.68%) Apache
3 7 (4.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (52.05%) Azure
2 43 (25.15%) AWS
3 33 (19.30%) GCP
4 26 (15.20%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (14.04%) Power Platform
6 23 (13.45%) dbt
7 19 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 18 (10.53%) Snowflake
9 15 (8.77%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.85%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (5.26%) SaaS
12 7 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.92%) Google Analytics
14 4 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.34%) GitHub
14 4 (2.34%) Serverless
15 3 (1.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 2 (1.17%) Collibra
16 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.85%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (25.15%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (22.81%) Data Lake
3 24 (14.04%) Power BI
4 20 (11.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (11.11%) BigQuery
6 16 (9.36%) SQL Server
7 12 (7.02%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (5.26%) Big Data
8 9 (5.26%) Data Vault
9 7 (4.09%) Hadoop
9 7 (4.09%) Relational Database
9 7 (4.09%) Tableau
10 6 (3.51%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.92%) Airbyte
11 5 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.92%) Looker
12 4 (2.34%) Flink
12 4 (2.34%) MySQL
12 4 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (8.77%) JIRA
2 6 (3.51%) RStudio
3 5 (2.92%) Git
4 4 (2.34%) GitLab
4 4 (2.34%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.75%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.17%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.58%) ERwin
7 1 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 40 (23.39%) Social Skills
2 29 (16.96%) Finance
3 15 (8.77%) Banking
4 13 (7.60%) Games
5 11 (6.43%) Telecoms
6 10 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.68%) Retail
8 6 (3.51%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.34%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.17%) Aviation
10 2 (1.17%) Back Office
11 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.58%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.19%) Kafka
1 14 (8.19%) PySpark
2 9 (5.26%) Apache Beam
3 3 (1.75%) Pandas
4 2 (1.17%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.17%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.17%) Flask
4 2 (1.17%) NumPy
4 2 (1.17%) SciPy
5 1 (0.58%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.60%) Client/Server
1 13 (7.60%) Data Structures
2 10 (5.85%) Driving Licence
3 9 (5.26%) Online Games
4 8 (4.68%) Cloud Native
4 8 (4.68%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.68%) Greenfield Project
4 8 (4.68%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.92%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.75%) NHS
7 2 (1.17%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.17%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.17%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.58%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.68%) Linux
2 6 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (45.61%) ETL
2 73 (42.69%) Data Engineering
3 47 (27.49%) Data Pipeline
4 46 (26.90%) Analytics
5 42 (24.56%) Business Intelligence
6 41 (23.98%) Data Modelling
7 39 (22.81%) Mentoring
8 36 (21.05%) Agile
9 28 (16.37%) Machine Learning
10 27 (15.79%) CI/CD
11 26 (15.20%) DevOps
12 25 (14.62%) Data Architecture
13 24 (14.04%) Data Governance
13 24 (14.04%) Data Management
14 22 (12.87%) Data Transformation
15 20 (11.70%) Data Integration
16 19 (11.11%) Roadmaps
17 18 (10.53%) Data Analysis
17 18 (10.53%) Data Ingestion
18 17 (9.94%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 88 (51.46%) SQL
2 84 (49.12%) Python
3 9 (5.26%) Scala
4 8 (4.68%) Java
5 7 (4.09%) R
6 5 (2.92%) C#
7 4 (2.34%) Go
7 4 (2.34%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (8.19%) DBS Check
2 5 (2.92%) Degree
3 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.75%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.58%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (24.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.58%) QA
System Software
1 14 (8.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.17%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (8.19%) Terraform
2 10 (5.85%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.58%) Argo
4 1 (0.58%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 50 (29.24%) Databricks
2 15 (8.77%) Google
3 11 (6.43%) Informatica
3 11 (6.43%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.26%) Teradata
5 6 (3.51%) Alteryx
6 5 (2.92%) Oracle
7 3 (1.75%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.58%) Brio