Lead Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in Work from Home is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 491 569 687
Rank change year-on-year +78 +118 -173
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 102 94 165
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.24% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 97 82 88
10th Percentile £64,900 £60,000 £61,750
25th Percentile £68,718 £65,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £81,250 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -12.16% +19.35%
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,188 £102,500
90th Percentile £104,000 £114,875 £116,246
UK median annual salary £76,250 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -10.29% -5.56% +10.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,500 39,912 66,911
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.00% 97.40%
Number of salaries quoted 24,881 28,336 41,924
10th Percentile £33,013 £36,733 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,447 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Data Engineer.

Lead Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Data Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Lead Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 8 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (60.78%) Data Engineering
2 61 (59.80%) Python
3 57 (55.88%) SQL
4 51 (50.00%) ETL
5 47 (46.08%) Azure
6 35 (34.31%) AWS
7 33 (32.35%) Mentoring
8 28 (27.45%) GCP
8 28 (27.45%) Business Intelligence
8 28 (27.45%) Social Skills
9 27 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (26.47%) Agile
10 26 (25.49%) Data Quality
10 26 (25.49%) Analytics
11 24 (23.53%) Data Modelling
11 24 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
11 24 (23.53%) dbt
12 23 (22.55%) Finance
13 22 (21.57%) Machine Learning
13 22 (21.57%) Databricks
14 21 (20.59%) DevOps
15 20 (19.61%) Data Lake
15 20 (19.61%) Snowflake
15 20 (19.61%) CI/CD
16 18 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
17 17 (16.67%) Banking
17 17 (16.67%) Google
17 17 (16.67%) Data Architecture
18 15 (14.71%) Data Integration
18 15 (14.71%) Coaching

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (13.73%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (10.78%) Confluence
3 9 (8.82%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.90%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 47 (46.08%) Azure
2 35 (34.31%) AWS
3 28 (27.45%) GCP
4 24 (23.53%) dbt
5 20 (19.61%) Snowflake
6 11 (10.78%) Amazon S3
7 10 (9.80%) Power Platform
8 9 (8.82%) Amazon Kinesis
8 9 (8.82%) SaaS
9 5 (4.90%) Collibra
9 5 (4.90%) GitHub
9 5 (4.90%) Google Analytics
9 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.94%) Serverless
11 2 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
2 20 (19.61%) Data Lake
3 18 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (13.73%) BigQuery
5 11 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (9.80%) Power BI
7 7 (6.86%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.90%) Airbyte
8 5 (4.90%) Looker
8 5 (4.90%) Metadata
8 5 (4.90%) Tableau
9 4 (3.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.92%) Big Data
9 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.94%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.94%) MySQL
10 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.96%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.96%) Flink
Development Applications
1 11 (10.78%) JIRA
2 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.90%) Spinnaker
3 3 (2.94%) GitLab
4 2 (1.96%) Git
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
General
1 28 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.55%) Finance
3 17 (16.67%) Banking
4 13 (12.75%) Games
5 5 (4.90%) Retail
6 4 (3.92%) Agriculture
6 4 (3.92%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Aviation
9 1 (0.98%) Legal
9 1 (0.98%) Marketing
9 1 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.82%) Kafka
2 7 (6.86%) Apache Beam
3 6 (5.88%) PySpark
4 3 (2.94%) Pandas
5 2 (1.96%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.96%) Flask
5 2 (1.96%) NumPy
5 2 (1.96%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Client/Server
1 13 (12.75%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.78%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.82%) Online Games
4 7 (6.86%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.90%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.94%) NHS
7 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (60.78%) Data Engineering
2 51 (50.00%) ETL
3 33 (32.35%) Mentoring
4 28 (27.45%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (26.47%) Agile
6 26 (25.49%) Analytics
7 24 (23.53%) Data Modelling
7 24 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
8 22 (21.57%) Machine Learning
9 21 (20.59%) DevOps
10 20 (19.61%) CI/CD
11 17 (16.67%) Data Architecture
12 15 (14.71%) Coaching
12 15 (14.71%) Data Governance
12 15 (14.71%) Data Integration
12 15 (14.71%) Data Transformation
13 14 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (12.75%) Data Ingestion
15 12 (11.76%) Roadmaps
16 11 (10.78%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (59.80%) Python
2 57 (55.88%) SQL
3 4 (3.92%) C#
3 4 (3.92%) Java
3 4 (3.92%) Scala
4 2 (1.96%) Go
5 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (1.96%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (25.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.98%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (10.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.78%) Terraform
2 7 (6.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (21.57%) Databricks
2 17 (16.67%) Google
3 7 (6.86%) Teradata
4 6 (5.88%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.96%) Oracle
6 1 (0.98%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.98%) SAP