Lead Data Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Lead Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in the North of England is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 332 418
Rank change year-on-year +24 +86 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 13 62 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.36% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.38% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 13 55 16
10th Percentile £52,926 £65,500 £65,000
25th Percentile £56,176 £67,500 £70,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £77,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +2.89% -2.81%
75th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £98,279 £98,616 -
England median annual salary £94,637 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +26.18% -11.76% -2.86%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 10,108 16,430 15,642
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.57% 94.95% 89.43%
Number of salaries quoted 5,820 12,704 8,302
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £39,500 £36,250 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,649
90th Percentile £78,658 £78,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the North of England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in the North of England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in the North of England

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
North West -1 10 £75,000 +7.14% 4
Yorkshire +66 2 £54,228 -36.20% 4
North East +33 1 £72,500 -7.94% 3
Lead Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 North of England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 8 (61.54%) Mentoring
2 8 (61.54%) Data Engineering
3 7 (53.85%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (46.15%) AWS
4 6 (46.15%) Data Quality
5 5 (38.46%) Azure
5 5 (38.46%) Analytics
5 5 (38.46%) Python
5 5 (38.46%) ETL
5 5 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
6 4 (30.77%) Data Strategy
6 4 (30.77%) PySpark
6 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
6 4 (30.77%) Data Architecture
6 4 (30.77%) Kafka
7 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
7 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
7 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
7 3 (23.08%) Docker
7 3 (23.08%) DevOps
7 3 (23.08%) BigQuery
7 3 (23.08%) GCP
7 3 (23.08%) Life Science
7 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
7 3 (23.08%) Finance
7 3 (23.08%) Strategic Planning
7 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (23.08%) Biomedicine

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) dbt
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) BigQuery
1 3 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Spanner
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (7.69%) Big Data
3 1 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.69%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (7.69%) Looker
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.69%) CircleCI
2 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Kafka
1 4 (30.77%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Life Science
2 2 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Data Engineering
1 8 (61.54%) Mentoring
2 7 (53.85%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) ETL
3 5 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
4 4 (30.77%) Data Architecture
4 4 (30.77%) Data Strategy
5 3 (23.08%) Biomedicine
5 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 3 (23.08%) Data Protection
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Strategic Planning
6 2 (15.38%) Change Management
6 2 (15.38%) Coaching
6 2 (15.38%) Data Management
6 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Management
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Scala
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) HNC
1 2 (15.38%) HND
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Databricks
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Cloudera