Lead Data Engineer Jobs in Brighton

Lead Data Engineer
East Sussex > Brighton

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in Brighton is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 July 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 76
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Brighton 0.53% - 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% - 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £77,500 - £77,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £85,000
75th Percentile £82,500 - £92,500
90th Percentile - - -
East Sussex median annual salary £80,000 - £85,000

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Brighton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Brighton. 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 Brighton with a recognized job title 182 493 594
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.33% 97.24% 90.41%
Number of salaries quoted 126 455 508
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,375 £85,000 £77,500
East Sussex median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Brighton

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in Brighton

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Brighton

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in Brighton

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brighton

For the 6 months to 14 July 2025, 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 Brighton region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) People Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Looker
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Fivetran
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Brighton 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 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Fivetran
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Looker
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker