Lead Data Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in England is £95,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 605 666 765
Rank change year-on-year +61 +99 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 85 163 161
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 58 152 139
10th Percentile £59,750 £55,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £102,120 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -5.56%

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 45,023 81,588 81,077
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 94.56% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 24,443 60,779 51,494
10th Percentile £29,913 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,800 £53,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.17% -12.83% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 17 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 17 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 +99 54 £100,000 +11.11% 31
North of England -7 13 £75,000 -9.09% 4
North West -24 10 £75,000 +3.45%
South East +83 8 £70,000 -6.67% 3
South West +101 6 £98,420 +39.45% 2
Midlands +62 3 £57,500 -28.13% 5
West Midlands +56 2 £60,000 -25.00% 4
Yorkshire +52 2 £54,228 -36.20% 3
North East +25 1 £72,500 -7.94% 1
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 17 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 63 (74.12%) Python
2 61 (71.76%) Azure
3 56 (65.88%) SQL
4 50 (58.82%) Data Engineering
5 48 (56.47%) AWS
6 35 (41.18%) Analytics
7 33 (38.82%) ETL
7 33 (38.82%) GCP
8 31 (36.47%) Data Warehouse
8 31 (36.47%) Data Modelling
9 30 (35.29%) Scala
9 30 (35.29%) Degree
10 28 (32.94%) Kubernetes
10 28 (32.94%) Docker
10 28 (32.94%) Mentoring
11 26 (30.59%) Artificial Intelligence
12 25 (29.41%) Java
13 24 (28.24%) Computer Science
13 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
14 23 (27.06%) CI/CD
14 23 (27.06%) Data Science
15 22 (25.88%) Terraform
15 22 (25.88%) Databricks
15 22 (25.88%) Finance
16 21 (24.71%) Google
16 21 (24.71%) DevOps
16 21 (24.71%) Containerisation
16 21 (24.71%) Roadmaps
17 20 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
18 19 (22.35%) Law

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 13 (15.29%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (12.94%) Apache Spark
3 9 (10.59%) Apache
4 1 (1.18%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 61 (71.76%) Azure
2 48 (56.47%) AWS
3 33 (38.82%) GCP
4 18 (21.18%) Power Platform
5 14 (16.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 12 (14.12%) dbt
7 9 (10.59%) Snowflake
8 7 (8.24%) Amazon S3
9 6 (7.06%) Serverless
10 4 (4.71%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (4.71%) AWS Step Functions
10 4 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (4.71%) OpenShift
10 4 (4.71%) PaaS
11 2 (2.35%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (2.35%) Matillion
12 1 (1.18%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (1.18%) Cloud Composer
12 1 (1.18%) Fivetran
12 1 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (36.47%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (21.18%) Power BI
3 17 (20.00%) Data Lake
4 12 (14.12%) Big Data
5 10 (11.76%) BigQuery
6 8 (9.41%) Hadoop
7 7 (8.24%) Tableau
8 6 (7.06%) Looker
8 6 (7.06%) NoSQL
8 6 (7.06%) Power Query
9 5 (5.88%) Data Hub
10 4 (4.71%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (4.71%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (4.71%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (4.71%) Delta Lake
10 4 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (3.53%) DynamoDB
11 3 (3.53%) Metadata
11 3 (3.53%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.35%) Git
4 1 (1.18%) CircleCI
4 1 (1.18%) GitLab
General
1 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.88%) Finance
3 19 (22.35%) Law
4 10 (11.76%) Banking
5 8 (9.41%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.88%) Marketing
7 4 (4.71%) Legal
8 3 (3.53%) Advertising
8 3 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.35%) Music Industry
10 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.18%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.47%) ARM Templates
1 14 (16.47%) PySpark
2 11 (12.94%) Kafka
3 4 (4.71%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (4.71%) PyArrow
4 2 (2.35%) Pandas
4 2 (2.35%) pytest
5 1 (1.18%) .NET
5 1 (1.18%) ADO
5 1 (1.18%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.18%) Dask
5 1 (1.18%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.18%) Flask
5 1 (1.18%) GraphQL
5 1 (1.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.53%) Data Fabric
2 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (3.53%) Life Science
2 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.35%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (58.82%) Data Engineering
2 35 (41.18%) Analytics
3 33 (38.82%) ETL
4 31 (36.47%) Data Modelling
5 28 (32.94%) Mentoring
6 26 (30.59%) Artificial Intelligence
7 24 (28.24%) Computer Science
8 23 (27.06%) CI/CD
8 23 (27.06%) Data Science
9 21 (24.71%) Containerisation
9 21 (24.71%) DevOps
9 21 (24.71%) Roadmaps
10 20 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (22.35%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (21.18%) Business Intelligence
12 18 (21.18%) Platform Engineering
13 17 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
14 16 (18.82%) Agile
14 16 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (18.82%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 63 (74.12%) Python
2 56 (65.88%) SQL
3 30 (35.29%) Scala
4 25 (29.41%) Java
5 8 (9.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (5.88%) C#
6 5 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.18%) Bash
7 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.18%) JCL
7 1 (1.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (35.29%) Degree
2 17 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (17.65%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.53%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.35%) HNC
5 2 (2.35%) HND
6 1 (1.18%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (16.47%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.53%) GDPR
3 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.35%) QA
System Software
1 28 (32.94%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 28 (32.94%) Kubernetes
2 22 (25.88%) Terraform
3 1 (1.18%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (25.88%) Databricks
2 21 (24.71%) Google
3 9 (10.59%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.71%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.35%) Cloudera
5 2 (2.35%) Informatica
5 2 (2.35%) Splunk
6 1 (1.18%) IBM
6 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.18%) Teradata