Lead Data Engineer Jobs in the Midlands

Lead Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in the Midlands is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 300 348
Rank change year-on-year -17 +48 -64
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 2 18 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.017% 0.19% 0.064%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.21% 0.068%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 4
10th Percentile £67,000 £55,500 -
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -10.34% +7.41%
75th Percentile £85,000 £68,750 £83,125
90th Percentile - £77,500 £84,250
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £87,250
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.58% +5.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 10,985 8,560 10,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 89.46% 94.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,223 4,758 7,103
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,925 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,706
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,741 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the Midlands

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in the Midlands

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
West Midlands +10 2 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Lead Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 Midlands region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) AIOps
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Applications
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) AIOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks