Lead Data Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Data Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in London is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 434 530 637
Rank change year-on-year +96 +107 -124
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 64 95 234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.27% 0.27% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.28% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 62 81 99
10th Percentile £28,250 £65,000 £58,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £81,250 £78,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.86% +2.94%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £87,250
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.58% +5.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 22,182 33,800 63,968
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 95.04% 96.36%
Number of salaries quoted 16,716 24,768 34,902
10th Percentile £38,477 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 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
Central London +63 18 £30,500 -74.48% 3
North London - 1 £72,500 -
Lead Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 36 (56.25%) Python
2 28 (43.75%) SQL
2 28 (43.75%) Azure
3 21 (32.81%) AWS
4 16 (25.00%) ETL
4 16 (25.00%) Fintech
5 15 (23.44%) Databricks
6 14 (21.88%) Data Engineering
6 14 (21.88%) Analytics
6 14 (21.88%) Snowflake
7 13 (20.31%) Data Modelling
8 12 (18.75%) Machine Learning
8 12 (18.75%) Terraform
8 12 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
9 11 (17.19%) CI/CD
9 11 (17.19%) Data Lake
9 11 (17.19%) GCP
10 10 (15.63%) DBS Check
10 10 (15.63%) Structured Cabling
10 10 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (15.63%) Telecoms
10 10 (15.63%) Driving Licence
11 8 (12.50%) dbt
11 8 (12.50%) Roadmaps
12 7 (10.94%) Agile
12 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
12 7 (10.94%) SQL Server
12 7 (10.94%) DevOps
12 7 (10.94%) Big Data
12 7 (10.94%) BigQuery

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 6 (9.38%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.13%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) Azure
2 21 (32.81%) AWS
3 14 (21.88%) Snowflake
4 11 (17.19%) GCP
5 8 (12.50%) dbt
6 5 (7.81%) Power Platform
7 4 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.69%) Serverless
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon S3
9 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.13%) GitHub
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.56%) Azure Stack
10 1 (1.56%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.63%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.19%) Data Lake
2 10 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (10.94%) Big Data
3 7 (10.94%) BigQuery
3 7 (10.94%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.81%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (7.81%) Power BI
5 3 (4.69%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.69%) Delta Lake
5 3 (4.69%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.13%) Data Vault
6 2 (3.13%) MySQL
6 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.56%) Impala
7 1 (1.56%) Presto
7 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Git
2 2 (3.13%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (15.63%) Telecoms
2 6 (9.38%) Banking
2 6 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.81%) Finance
3 5 (7.81%) Health Technology
4 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Marketing
5 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.56%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) Kafka
1 5 (7.81%) PySpark
2 3 (4.69%) NumPy
3 2 (3.13%) FastAPI
3 2 (3.13%) Flask
3 2 (3.13%) Pandas
3 2 (3.13%) SciPy
4 1 (1.56%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Driving Licence
2 5 (7.81%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.69%) NHS
4 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.13%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.13%) Educational Technology
4 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.13%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (25.00%) ETL
1 16 (25.00%) Fintech
2 14 (21.88%) Analytics
2 14 (21.88%) Data Engineering
3 13 (20.31%) Data Modelling
4 12 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (18.75%) Machine Learning
5 11 (17.19%) CI/CD
6 8 (12.50%) Roadmaps
7 7 (10.94%) Agile
7 7 (10.94%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (10.94%) DevOps
8 6 (9.38%) Computer Science
8 6 (9.38%) Data Analysis
9 5 (7.81%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (6.25%) Data Ingestion
10 4 (6.25%) Data Management
10 4 (6.25%) Data Science
10 4 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 36 (56.25%) Python
2 28 (43.75%) SQL
3 3 (4.69%) Java
3 3 (4.69%) Scala
4 2 (3.13%) C++
4 2 (3.13%) R
5 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.56%) Go
5 1 (1.56%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 10 (15.63%) DBS Check
2 4 (6.25%) Degree
3 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) Terraform
2 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) Argo
3 1 (1.56%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Databricks
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.13%) Informatica
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle
4 1 (1.56%) Brio
4 1 (1.56%) Google