Lead Data Engineer Jobs in Bristol

Lead Data Engineer
South West > Bristol

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in Bristol is £98,420 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

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

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 154 175
Rank change year-on-year +60 +21 +12
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 6 10 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bristol 0.48% 0.32% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.33% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 5 9 2
10th Percentile - - £78,000
25th Percentile £94,430 £68,718 £82,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £98,420 £70,576 £95,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.45% -25.71% -0.57%
75th Percentile £102,410 £75,000 £107,500
90th Percentile - £98,474 £112,000
South West median annual salary £98,420 £70,576 £90,000
% change year-on-year +39.45% -21.58% +20.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 1,192 3,009 2,447
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 97.00% 92.76%
Number of salaries quoted 813 2,251 1,526
10th Percentile £34,500 £33,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,231 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,443 £57,500 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -0.54% +8.85%
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £73,853
90th Percentile £87,250 £85,000 £87,500
South West median annual salary £52,600 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.20% -4.76% +5.00%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in Bristol

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Bristol

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in Bristol

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

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

1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Data Hub
2 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
2 5 (83.33%) Looker
2 5 (83.33%) Visualisation
2 5 (83.33%) Docker
2 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 5 (83.33%) Coaching
2 5 (83.33%) BigQuery
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Data Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Power BI
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (83.33%) Tableau
2 5 (83.33%) Big Data
2 5 (83.33%) Banking
2 5 (83.33%) Google
2 5 (83.33%) Data Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
2 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) Data Security
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) Validation

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) AWS
2 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 5 (83.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Big Data
1 5 (83.33%) BigQuery
1 5 (83.33%) Data Hub
1 5 (83.33%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (83.33%) Looker
1 5 (83.33%) Power BI
1 5 (83.33%) Tableau
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (83.33%) Coaching
2 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
2 5 (83.33%) Data Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Data Modelling
2 5 (83.33%) Data Security
2 5 (83.33%) Data Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 5 (83.33%) Validation
2 5 (83.33%) Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Data Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (16.67%) Line Management
3 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Salesforce