Lead Data Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Data Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in London is £96,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 436 535
Rank change year-on-year +100 +99 +105
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 56 66 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.44% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.30% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 36 64 81
10th Percentile £67,250 £28,250 £65,000
25th Percentile £88,750 £65,000 £81,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £96,750 £90,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% - +2.86%
75th Percentile £102,188 £98,125 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £94,637 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +26.18% -11.76% -2.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,480 22,230 33,763
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 94.12% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 16,731 24,760
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,454 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,773 £60,567
% change year-on-year +6.93% -11.22% +0.95%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in London

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in London

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in London

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +29 19 £100,000 +227.87% 4
Lead Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (89.29%) Python
2 47 (83.93%) Azure
3 34 (60.71%) AWS
3 34 (60.71%) SQL
4 28 (50.00%) Data Engineering
5 24 (42.86%) GCP
6 23 (41.07%) Analytics
6 23 (41.07%) Scala
6 23 (41.07%) Degree
6 23 (41.07%) Computer Science
7 22 (39.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 22 (39.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (37.50%) ETL
9 20 (35.71%) Docker
9 20 (35.71%) Kubernetes
9 20 (35.71%) Data Lake
9 20 (35.71%) Databricks
9 20 (35.71%) Roadmaps
10 19 (33.93%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (32.14%) Java
11 18 (32.14%) Terraform
11 18 (32.14%) Data Science
12 17 (30.36%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (28.57%) Containerisation
13 16 (28.57%) Google
14 15 (26.79%) Agile
14 15 (26.79%) Platform Engineering
14 15 (26.79%) Strategic Roadmap
15 14 (25.00%) Social Skills

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 7 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.36%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 47 (83.93%) Azure
2 34 (60.71%) AWS
3 24 (42.86%) GCP
4 12 (21.43%) Power Platform
5 10 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (14.29%) dbt
6 8 (14.29%) Serverless
7 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
7 6 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (10.71%) Snowflake
8 5 (8.93%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (7.14%) PaaS
10 3 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (3.57%) Matillion
12 1 (1.79%) Amazon EventBridge
12 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (1.79%) Google Analytics
12 1 (1.79%) Prefect
12 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (35.71%) Data Lake
2 19 (33.93%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (21.43%) Power BI
4 6 (10.71%) Big Data
4 6 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (10.71%) Power Query
4 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
5 4 (7.14%) Dremio
6 3 (5.36%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (3.57%) DynamoDB
7 2 (3.57%) Metadata
8 1 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.79%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (1.79%) Looker
8 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.79%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 14 (25.00%) Law
1 14 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.29%) Finance
3 5 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Legal
4 4 (7.14%) Marketing
5 3 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.57%) Advertising
6 2 (3.57%) Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 5 (8.93%) FastAPI
2 5 (8.93%) Flask
3 4 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (7.14%) PySpark
4 2 (3.57%) pytest
5 1 (1.79%) ADO
5 1 (1.79%) Apache Avro
5 1 (1.79%) Dask
5 1 (1.79%) Kafka
5 1 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.93%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.57%) Data Fabric
3 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 23 (41.07%) Analytics
2 23 (41.07%) Computer Science
3 22 (39.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 22 (39.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 21 (37.50%) ETL
5 20 (35.71%) Roadmaps
6 18 (32.14%) Data Science
7 17 (30.36%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (28.57%) Containerisation
9 15 (26.79%) Agile
9 15 (26.79%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (26.79%) Strategic Roadmap
10 14 (25.00%) Cost Management
10 14 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
10 14 (25.00%) Data Modelling
10 14 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
11 13 (23.21%) Data Management
12 12 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (21.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 50 (89.29%) Python
2 34 (60.71%) SQL
3 23 (41.07%) Scala
4 18 (32.14%) Java
5 8 (14.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (8.93%) PowerShell
7 4 (7.14%) C#
8 1 (1.79%) Bash
8 1 (1.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (41.07%) Degree
2 16 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.36%) GDPR
2 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (35.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 18 (32.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (35.71%) Databricks
2 16 (28.57%) Google
3 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.57%) Informatica
5 1 (1.79%) Cloudera