Lead Data Engineer Job Trends in Basingstoke

Lead Data Engineer
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in Basingstoke is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Basingstoke 0.28% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £73,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 - -
75th Percentile £81,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £77,500 £52,132 -
% change year-on-year +48.66% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Basingstoke

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Basingstoke. 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 Basingstoke with a recognized job title 334 575 274
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.35% 96.80% 93.84%
Number of salaries quoted 278 446 177
10th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £49,000 £50,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £61,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.69% +36.67% -18.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £76,000
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +7.84% -7.27%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Lead Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

Lead Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Basingstoke

Salary distribution trend for Lead Data Engineer job vacancies in Basingstoke.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Data Engineer job vacancies in Basingstoke

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke

For the 6 months to 28 November 2025, Lead Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Basingstoke region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Star Schema
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks