Lead Data Engineer Job Trends in Gloucester

Lead Data Engineer
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in Gloucester is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 15 January 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucester 0.64% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £70,000 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - -
75th Percentile £80,000 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median annual salary £75,000 - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Gloucester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Gloucester. 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 Gloucester with a recognized job title 150 156 250
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 97.50% 94.34%
Number of salaries quoted 88 79 132
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,145 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £69,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,125 £82,500 £78,625
Gloucestershire median annual salary £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -4.76%

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, Lead Data Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Gloucester region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality