Lead Data Engineer Jobs in Central London

Lead Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in Central London is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 170 241
Rank change year-on-year +29 +71 +52
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 19 18 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.75% 0.48% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.50% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 11 18 4
10th Percentile - - £96,000
25th Percentile £92,500 £28,250 £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £30,500 £119,500
Median % change year-on-year +227.87% -74.48% +32.78%
75th Percentile - £70,000 £131,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £90,000 £133,500
London median annual salary £96,750 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year +7.50% - +2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,305 3,595 5,095
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.03% 95.16% 96.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,638 2,829 4,254
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £111,250
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in Central London

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Central London

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in Central London

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in Central London

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +32 19 £100,000 +227.87% 3
City of Westminster -9 8 - -
Lead Data Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 Central London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 15 (78.95%) Python
3 14 (73.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (57.89%) SQL
4 11 (57.89%) AWS
4 11 (57.89%) GCP
4 11 (57.89%) Data Science
5 10 (52.63%) Containerisation
5 10 (52.63%) Analytics
5 10 (52.63%) Scala
5 10 (52.63%) Artificial Intelligence
6 9 (47.37%) Google
6 9 (47.37%) Degree
6 9 (47.37%) Computer Science
6 9 (47.37%) Databricks
6 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
6 9 (47.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (42.11%) Network Virtualisation
7 8 (42.11%) Master's Degree
7 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (42.11%) Strategic Roadmap
7 8 (42.11%) Roadmaps
7 8 (42.11%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (42.11%) Cost Management
7 8 (42.11%) Cost Reduction
7 8 (42.11%) ARM Templates
7 8 (42.11%) Terraform
7 8 (42.11%) Docker
7 8 (42.11%) Java
7 8 (42.11%) Law

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Apache
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (57.89%) AWS
2 11 (57.89%) GCP
3 7 (36.84%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.53%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.79%) Big Data
2 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
2 3 (15.79%) Power Query
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
3 2 (10.53%) Metadata
3 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (10.53%) Power BI
4 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.26%) BigQuery
4 1 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 1 (5.26%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 8 (42.11%) Law
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) ARM Templates
2 3 (15.79%) PySpark
3 2 (10.53%) pytest
4 1 (5.26%) Apache Avro
4 1 (5.26%) FastAPI
4 1 (5.26%) Flask
4 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (57.89%) Data Science
3 10 (52.63%) Analytics
3 10 (52.63%) Artificial Intelligence
3 10 (52.63%) Containerisation
4 9 (47.37%) Computer Science
5 8 (42.11%) Cost Management
5 8 (42.11%) Cost Reduction
5 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (42.11%) Network Virtualisation
5 8 (42.11%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (42.11%) Roadmaps
5 8 (42.11%) Strategic Roadmap
6 7 (36.84%) Agile
7 6 (31.58%) ETL
8 4 (21.05%) Data Engineering
8 4 (21.05%) Data Management
8 4 (21.05%) Data Modelling
8 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (15.79%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) Python
2 11 (57.89%) SQL
3 10 (52.63%) Scala
4 8 (42.11%) Java
5 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Computer Science Degree
1 9 (47.37%) Degree
2 8 (42.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 8 (42.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Databricks
1 9 (47.37%) Google