Lead Data Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in England is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 678 771 773
Rank change year-on-year +93 +2 -26
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 162 156 368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.18% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 150 136 155
10th Percentile £54,250 £62,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £85,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £95,938 £95,313 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £111,250 £110,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +7.69%

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 80,599 84,573 127,334
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.53% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 60,280 53,577 75,684
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +91 65 £90,000 - 26
North of England +94 62 £80,000 +2.89% 7
North West +35 33 £70,000 +3.70% 5
North East +8 17 £78,750 +1.61% 1
South West -9 17 £70,576 -21.58%
Yorkshire +82 12 £85,000 -5.56% 1
South East +11 9 £75,000 +3.45% 2
East of England +21 6 £75,000 -28.57%
West Midlands +1 2 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Midlands -2 2 £80,000 +23.08% 2
Lead Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 3 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 England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 84 (51.85%) Python
2 81 (50.00%) SQL
3 77 (47.53%) Azure
4 76 (46.91%) Data Engineering
5 72 (44.44%) ETL
6 48 (29.63%) AWS
7 44 (27.16%) Social Skills
8 43 (26.54%) Data Pipeline
9 42 (25.93%) Analytics
10 41 (25.31%) Data Quality
10 41 (25.31%) Data Warehouse
11 40 (24.69%) Databricks
11 40 (24.69%) Mentoring
12 39 (24.07%) Business Intelligence
13 37 (22.84%) Data Modelling
14 36 (22.22%) Agile
15 35 (21.60%) Data Lake
16 34 (20.99%) GCP
17 30 (18.52%) DevOps
17 30 (18.52%) Machine Learning
18 29 (17.90%) CI/CD
19 27 (16.67%) Finance
20 25 (15.43%) Data Management
21 23 (14.20%) Data Architecture
21 23 (14.20%) dbt
21 23 (14.20%) Power Platform
21 23 (14.20%) Amazon Redshift
21 23 (14.20%) Power BI
22 22 (13.58%) Data Transformation
22 22 (13.58%) Data Governance

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 19 (11.73%) Apache Spark
2 18 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (6.79%) Confluence
4 9 (5.56%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 77 (47.53%) Azure
2 48 (29.63%) AWS
3 34 (20.99%) GCP
4 23 (14.20%) dbt
4 23 (14.20%) Power Platform
5 21 (12.96%) Snowflake
6 16 (9.88%) Amazon S3
6 16 (9.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (6.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (5.56%) Amazon Kinesis
8 9 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (5.56%) SaaS
9 7 (4.32%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (4.32%) GitHub
10 6 (3.70%) Serverless
11 5 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.09%) Collibra
11 5 (3.09%) Google Analytics
11 5 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.17%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (25.31%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (21.60%) Data Lake
3 23 (14.20%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (14.20%) Power BI
4 21 (12.96%) BigQuery
5 17 (10.49%) SQL Server
6 12 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (6.79%) Big Data
8 9 (5.56%) Hadoop
9 8 (4.94%) Relational Database
10 7 (4.32%) Tableau
11 6 (3.70%) Data Vault
11 6 (3.70%) NoSQL
12 5 (3.09%) Airbyte
12 5 (3.09%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (3.09%) Looker
12 5 (3.09%) Metadata
13 4 (2.47%) Flink
13 4 (2.47%) MySQL
14 3 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 17 (10.49%) JIRA
2 6 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.70%) RStudio
3 5 (3.09%) Spinnaker
4 4 (2.47%) GitLab
4 4 (2.47%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.85%) Git
6 2 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.23%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.62%) ERwin
General
1 44 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.67%) Finance
3 18 (11.11%) Banking
4 13 (8.02%) Games
5 11 (6.79%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.94%) Retail
7 6 (3.70%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.47%) Agriculture
9 3 (1.85%) Aviation
10 2 (1.23%) Back Office
10 2 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.62%) Marketing
11 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.62%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (9.88%) Kafka
2 10 (6.17%) PySpark
3 9 (5.56%) Apache Beam
4 4 (2.47%) Pandas
5 3 (1.85%) NumPy
6 2 (1.23%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.23%) FastAPI
6 2 (1.23%) Flask
6 2 (1.23%) SciPy
7 1 (0.62%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.02%) Client/Server
2 12 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.79%) Cloud Native
4 10 (6.17%) Data Structures
4 10 (6.17%) Driving Licence
5 9 (5.56%) Online Games
6 8 (4.94%) Data Centre
6 8 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.09%) Mainframe
8 4 (2.47%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.85%) NHS
9 3 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.85%) Reinsurance
10 2 (1.23%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.62%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.62%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.94%) Linux
2 6 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (46.91%) Data Engineering
2 72 (44.44%) ETL
3 43 (26.54%) Data Pipeline
4 42 (25.93%) Analytics
5 40 (24.69%) Mentoring
6 39 (24.07%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (22.84%) Data Modelling
8 36 (22.22%) Agile
9 30 (18.52%) DevOps
9 30 (18.52%) Machine Learning
10 29 (17.90%) CI/CD
11 25 (15.43%) Data Management
12 23 (14.20%) Data Architecture
13 22 (13.58%) Data Governance
13 22 (13.58%) Data Transformation
14 20 (12.35%) Data Ingestion
14 20 (12.35%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (11.11%) Data Integration
15 18 (11.11%) Roadmaps
16 17 (10.49%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 84 (51.85%) Python
2 81 (50.00%) SQL
3 11 (6.79%) Java
3 11 (6.79%) Scala
4 8 (4.94%) R
5 5 (3.09%) Go
6 4 (2.47%) C#
7 2 (1.23%) C++
7 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.23%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.62%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (8.64%) DBS Check
2 5 (3.09%) Degree
3 4 (2.47%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.62%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (25.31%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (8.64%) Docker
2 2 (1.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 15 (9.26%) Terraform
2 10 (6.17%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.85%) Ansible
4 1 (0.62%) Argo
4 1 (0.62%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 40 (24.69%) Databricks
2 18 (11.11%) Google
3 9 (5.56%) Informatica
3 9 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.56%) Teradata
4 7 (4.32%) Oracle
5 6 (3.70%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.85%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.62%) Brio
7 1 (0.62%) SAP