Lead Data Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 679 753 797
Rank change year-on-year +74 +44 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 160 165 368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.18% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.20% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 148 143 157
10th Percentile £52,750 £62,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +10.77%
75th Percentile £96,539 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £107,500 £110,000
UK median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -8.82% -5.56% +10.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 81,157 82,189 127,880
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.48% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 60,579 52,238 74,819
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 11 May 2024.

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 11 May 2024. 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 +88 63 £90,000 - 31
North of England +81 62 £82,500 +5.77% 5
North West +33 33 £70,000 +3.70% 4
North East +8 17 £78,750 +1.61%
South West -16 17 £70,576 -21.58% 1
Yorkshire +84 12 £85,000 -5.56% 1
South East +6 9 £75,000 +3.45%
East of England +25 6 £75,000 -28.57%
West Midlands -4 2 £80,000 +23.08%
Midlands -21 2 £80,000 +23.08%
Lead Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 80 (50.00%) SQL
1 80 (50.00%) Python
2 78 (48.75%) Azure
3 74 (46.25%) ETL
4 72 (45.00%) Data Engineering
5 45 (28.13%) AWS
6 43 (26.88%) Analytics
6 43 (26.88%) Data Pipeline
7 42 (26.25%) Social Skills
7 42 (26.25%) Databricks
7 42 (26.25%) Data Quality
8 41 (25.63%) Data Warehouse
9 39 (24.38%) Mentoring
10 38 (23.75%) Business Intelligence
10 38 (23.75%) Agile
11 37 (23.13%) Data Modelling
12 35 (21.88%) Data Lake
13 32 (20.00%) GCP
14 30 (18.75%) DevOps
15 29 (18.13%) Machine Learning
16 28 (17.50%) Finance
17 27 (16.88%) CI/CD
18 25 (15.63%) Data Management
19 23 (14.38%) Data Architecture
19 23 (14.38%) dbt
20 22 (13.75%) Power Platform
20 22 (13.75%) Power BI
20 22 (13.75%) Data Governance
21 21 (13.13%) Amazon Redshift
21 21 (13.13%) Data Transformation

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 18 (11.25%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (11.25%) Apache Spark
2 11 (6.88%) Confluence
3 8 (5.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 78 (48.75%) Azure
2 45 (28.13%) AWS
3 32 (20.00%) GCP
4 23 (14.38%) dbt
5 22 (13.75%) Power Platform
6 19 (11.88%) Snowflake
7 18 (11.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 16 (10.00%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (5.63%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (5.63%) SaaS
12 7 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (4.38%) GitHub
13 5 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (3.13%) Collibra
13 5 (3.13%) Google Analytics
13 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (3.13%) Serverless
14 3 (1.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (25.63%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (21.88%) Data Lake
3 22 (13.75%) Power BI
4 21 (13.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (11.88%) BigQuery
6 16 (10.00%) SQL Server
7 12 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (6.25%) Big Data
9 8 (5.00%) Hadoop
9 8 (5.00%) Relational Database
10 7 (4.38%) Data Vault
10 7 (4.38%) Tableau
11 5 (3.13%) Airbyte
11 5 (3.13%) Looker
11 5 (3.13%) Metadata
11 5 (3.13%) NoSQL
12 4 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.50%) Flink
12 4 (2.50%) MySQL
13 3 (1.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (11.25%) JIRA
2 6 (3.75%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.75%) RStudio
3 5 (3.13%) Spinnaker
4 4 (2.50%) GitLab
4 4 (2.50%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.88%) Git
6 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.25%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.63%) ERwin
General
1 42 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 28 (17.50%) Finance
3 18 (11.25%) Banking
4 13 (8.13%) Games
5 11 (6.88%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (5.00%) Retail
7 6 (3.75%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.50%) Agriculture
9 3 (1.88%) Aviation
9 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.25%) Back Office
10 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Marketing
11 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (10.00%) Kafka
2 10 (6.25%) PySpark
3 9 (5.63%) Apache Beam
4 3 (1.88%) Pandas
5 2 (1.25%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.25%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.25%) Flask
5 2 (1.25%) NumPy
5 2 (1.25%) SciPy
6 1 (0.63%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.13%) Client/Server
2 12 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.88%) Cloud Native
3 11 (6.88%) Data Structures
4 10 (6.25%) Driving Licence
5 9 (5.63%) Online Games
6 8 (5.00%) Data Centre
6 8 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.13%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.88%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.88%) NHS
8 3 (1.88%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.88%) Reinsurance
9 2 (1.25%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.63%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.00%) Linux
2 6 (3.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (46.25%) ETL
2 72 (45.00%) Data Engineering
3 43 (26.88%) Analytics
3 43 (26.88%) Data Pipeline
4 39 (24.38%) Mentoring
5 38 (23.75%) Agile
5 38 (23.75%) Business Intelligence
6 37 (23.13%) Data Modelling
7 30 (18.75%) DevOps
8 29 (18.13%) Machine Learning
9 27 (16.88%) CI/CD
10 25 (15.63%) Data Management
11 23 (14.38%) Data Architecture
12 22 (13.75%) Data Governance
13 21 (13.13%) Data Transformation
14 20 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
14 20 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (11.88%) Data Integration
16 18 (11.25%) Roadmaps
17 17 (10.63%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 80 (50.00%) Python
1 80 (50.00%) SQL
2 10 (6.25%) Java
2 10 (6.25%) Scala
3 7 (4.38%) R
4 5 (3.13%) Go
5 4 (2.50%) C#
6 2 (1.25%) C++
6 2 (1.25%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.25%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (8.75%) DBS Check
2 5 (3.13%) Degree
3 4 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 3 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.63%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (26.25%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (8.75%) Docker
2 2 (1.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (8.13%) Terraform
2 10 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.88%) Ansible
4 1 (0.63%) Argo
4 1 (0.63%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 42 (26.25%) Databricks
2 18 (11.25%) Google
3 10 (6.25%) Informatica
4 9 (5.63%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.63%) Teradata
5 7 (4.38%) Oracle
6 6 (3.75%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.88%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.63%) Brio
8 1 (0.63%) SAP