Lead Data Engineer Job Trends in the East of England

Lead Data Engineer
England > East of England

As of 14 September 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Lead Data Engineer salary in the East of England.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 - 150
Rank change year-on-year - - +122
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 1 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.029% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% - 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile - - £88,750
90th Percentile - - £98,500
England median annual salary £85,000 £90,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 the East of England with a recognized job title 3,158 4,180 2,375
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.38% 90.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,772 2,546 1,510
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,500 £25,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £51,125
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.20% +2.25%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the East of England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for Lead Data Engineer job vacancies in the East of England.

Salary distribution trend for Lead Data Engineer job vacancies in the East of England

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Lead Data Engineer
England

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 14 September 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 East of England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) DataOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SLA