Lead Data Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in England is £94,637 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 580 682 785
Rank change year-on-year +102 +103 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 88 162 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 62 150 142
10th Percentile £61,250 £54,250 £62,500
25th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £94,637 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.18% -11.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £100,938 £95,938 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £94,637 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +26.18% -11.76% -2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 42,728 80,514 84,327
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 94.48% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,644 60,209 53,453
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,415 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,915 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,822 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

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

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London +112 57 £97,500 +8.33% 32
North of England +16 13 £75,000 -6.25% 9
North West -9 10 £75,000 +7.14% 3
South East +97 8 £70,000 -6.67% 8
South West +99 6 £98,420 +39.45% 1
Midlands +56 3 £57,500 -28.13%
Yorkshire +66 2 £54,228 -36.20% 3
West Midlands +50 2 £60,000 -25.00%
North East +32 1 £72,500 -7.94% 3
East Midlands - 1 £57,500 -
Lead Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 66 (75.00%) Python
2 65 (73.86%) Azure
3 60 (68.18%) SQL
4 53 (60.23%) Data Engineering
5 48 (54.55%) AWS
6 35 (39.77%) Analytics
7 33 (37.50%) ETL
8 32 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (36.36%) GCP
9 31 (35.23%) Data Modelling
10 30 (34.09%) Degree
10 30 (34.09%) Kubernetes
11 29 (32.95%) Scala
12 28 (31.82%) Docker
13 26 (29.55%) Mentoring
14 25 (28.41%) Databricks
14 25 (28.41%) Social Skills
14 25 (28.41%) Java
15 24 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
15 24 (27.27%) Computer Science
16 23 (26.14%) Stakeholder Management
16 23 (26.14%) Data Science
17 22 (25.00%) Data Lake
17 22 (25.00%) Finance
17 22 (25.00%) Roadmaps
18 21 (23.86%) Containerisation
18 21 (23.86%) Google
18 21 (23.86%) Data Pipeline
18 21 (23.86%) CI/CD
19 20 (22.73%) Terraform

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 15 (17.05%) Apache Spark
2 14 (15.91%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (10.23%) Apache
4 1 (1.14%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 65 (73.86%) Azure
2 48 (54.55%) AWS
3 32 (36.36%) GCP
4 19 (21.59%) Power Platform
5 14 (15.91%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (11.36%) dbt
7 8 (9.09%) Snowflake
8 7 (7.95%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.95%) Serverless
9 5 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.68%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (4.55%) OpenShift
10 4 (4.55%) PaaS
11 2 (2.27%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.27%) Matillion
12 1 (1.14%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.14%) Fivetran
12 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 19 (21.59%) Power BI
4 12 (13.64%) Big Data
5 9 (10.23%) BigQuery
6 8 (9.09%) Hadoop
6 8 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (7.95%) Looker
8 6 (6.82%) NoSQL
8 6 (6.82%) Power Query
8 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
8 6 (6.82%) Tableau
9 5 (5.68%) Data Hub
10 4 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (4.55%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (4.55%) Delta Lake
11 3 (3.41%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (3.41%) Dremio
11 3 (3.41%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.27%) Git
4 1 (1.14%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.14%) GitLab
General
1 25 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.00%) Finance
3 19 (21.59%) Law
4 10 (11.36%) Banking
5 8 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.68%) Marketing
7 4 (4.55%) Legal
8 3 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.27%) Advertising
9 2 (2.27%) Retail
10 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.14%) Music Industry
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.91%) ARM Templates
1 14 (15.91%) PySpark
2 11 (12.50%) Kafka
3 5 (5.68%) FastAPI
3 5 (5.68%) Flask
4 4 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (4.55%) PyArrow
5 2 (2.27%) pytest
6 1 (1.14%) .NET
6 1 (1.14%) ADO
6 1 (1.14%) Apache Avro
6 1 (1.14%) Dask
6 1 (1.14%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.14%) Pandas
6 1 (1.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.68%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.41%) Data Fabric
3 3 (3.41%) Life Science
3 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (60.23%) Data Engineering
2 35 (39.77%) Analytics
3 33 (37.50%) ETL
4 31 (35.23%) Data Modelling
5 26 (29.55%) Mentoring
6 24 (27.27%) Artificial Intelligence
6 24 (27.27%) Computer Science
7 23 (26.14%) Data Science
7 23 (26.14%) Stakeholder Management
8 22 (25.00%) Roadmaps
9 21 (23.86%) CI/CD
9 21 (23.86%) Containerisation
9 21 (23.86%) Data Pipeline
10 20 (22.73%) DevOps
11 19 (21.59%) Agile
11 19 (21.59%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (20.45%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (18.18%) Data Architecture
13 16 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 66 (75.00%) Python
2 60 (68.18%) SQL
3 29 (32.95%) Scala
4 25 (28.41%) Java
5 8 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (5.68%) C#
6 5 (5.68%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.14%) Bash
7 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.14%) JCL
7 1 (1.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (34.09%) Degree
2 17 (19.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (17.05%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.27%) HNC
5 2 (2.27%) HND
6 1 (1.14%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (17.05%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.41%) GDPR
3 3 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) QA
System Software
1 28 (31.82%) Docker
2 4 (4.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 30 (34.09%) Kubernetes
2 20 (22.73%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) Ansible
Vendors
1 25 (28.41%) Databricks
2 21 (23.86%) Google
3 9 (10.23%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.55%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.27%) Cloudera
5 2 (2.27%) Informatica
5 2 (2.27%) Splunk
6 1 (1.14%) IBM
6 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.14%) Teradata