Lead Data Engineer Jobs in the City of London

Lead Data Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in the City of London is £30,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 May 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 227 268
Rank change year-on-year +65 +41 -39
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 14 2 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 0.42% 0.044% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.046% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 14 2 14
10th Percentile - £93,500 £80,100
25th Percentile £28,250 £98,750 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £110,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -72.27% +18.92% +12.12%
75th Percentile £58,813 £123,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £79,625 £130,500 -
Central London median annual salary £30,500 £119,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year -74.37% +28.65% +12.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 3,211 4,383 7,065
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.14% 96.22% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,530 3,664 5,632
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,444 £45,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,220 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £115,000 £108,750
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £73,210 £72,500
% change year-on-year -0.97% +0.98% +3.57%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the City of London

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the City of London.

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in the City of London

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in the City of London

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 26 May 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 City of London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (71.43%) DBS Check
1 10 (71.43%) Telecoms
1 10 (71.43%) Structured Cabling
1 10 (71.43%) Driving Licence
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (14.29%) ETL
4 2 (14.29%) Agile
4 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Scrum
4 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 1 (7.14%) Data Architecture
5 1 (7.14%) Brio
5 1 (7.14%) Data Governance
5 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
5 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Data Management
5 1 (7.14%) Supplier Management
5 1 (7.14%) Google
5 1 (7.14%) QA
5 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
5 1 (7.14%) Project Management
5 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) dbt
2 1 (7.14%) Fivetran
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
1 1 (7.14%) Data Vault
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
General
1 10 (71.43%) Telecoms
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Credit Risk
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (14.29%) Agile
2 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
2 2 (14.29%) Data Integration
2 2 (14.29%) ETL
2 2 (14.29%) Scrum
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.14%) Cost Management
3 1 (7.14%) Data Architecture
3 1 (7.14%) Data Governance
3 1 (7.14%) Data Management
3 1 (7.14%) Data Science
3 1 (7.14%) Data Security
3 1 (7.14%) DataOps
3 1 (7.14%) Fintech
3 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.14%) Observability
3 1 (7.14%) Project Management
3 1 (7.14%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Brio
1 1 (7.14%) Databricks
1 1 (7.14%) Google