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 £81,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 423 432
Rank change year-on-year +94 +9 -88
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 62 19 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 54 16 8
10th Percentile £66,625 £65,000 £61,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,938 £66,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £81,250 £77,750 £78,625
Median % change year-on-year +4.50% -1.11% +12.32%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £85,875
90th Percentile £98,962 - £92,400
England median annual salary £77,500 £85,000 £87,250
% change year-on-year -8.82% -2.58% +5.76%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,395 15,661 17,312
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.05% 89.48% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12,676 8,279 11,110
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,649 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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
North West +40 33 £70,000 +3.70% 4
North East +9 16 £82,500 +6.45% 1
Yorkshire +97 13 £85,000 -5.56% 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 27 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 North of England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (67.74%) Data Engineering
2 37 (59.68%) ETL
3 35 (56.45%) SQL
4 34 (54.84%) Azure
5 28 (45.16%) Python
6 27 (43.55%) Data Quality
6 27 (43.55%) Social Skills
7 23 (37.10%) Mentoring
8 21 (33.87%) Data Architecture
8 21 (33.87%) Agile
9 18 (29.03%) Analytics
10 17 (27.42%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (27.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 17 (27.42%) DevOps
10 17 (27.42%) Databricks
11 15 (24.19%) dbt
11 15 (24.19%) Data Modelling
11 15 (24.19%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (24.19%) Data Management
12 14 (22.58%) JIRA
12 14 (22.58%) AWS
12 14 (22.58%) Apache Airflow
13 13 (20.97%) GCP
13 13 (20.97%) Data Integration
13 13 (20.97%) Google
13 13 (20.97%) Finance
14 12 (19.35%) Amazon S3
14 12 (19.35%) Coaching
15 11 (17.74%) Line Management
15 11 (17.74%) Cloud Native

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 14 (22.58%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (16.13%) Confluence
3 7 (11.29%) Apache
3 7 (11.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 34 (54.84%) Azure
2 15 (24.19%) dbt
3 14 (22.58%) AWS
4 13 (20.97%) GCP
5 12 (19.35%) Amazon S3
6 9 (14.52%) Amazon Kinesis
6 9 (14.52%) Power Platform
6 9 (14.52%) SaaS
7 8 (12.90%) Snowflake
8 7 (11.29%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (8.06%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (8.06%) Collibra
9 5 (8.06%) GitHub
9 5 (8.06%) Google Analytics
9 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (6.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (3.23%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.42%) Amazon Redshift
2 15 (24.19%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (14.52%) Data Lake
3 9 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (14.52%) Power BI
4 8 (12.90%) BigQuery
5 7 (11.29%) Tableau
6 5 (8.06%) Airbyte
6 5 (8.06%) Looker
6 5 (8.06%) Metadata
7 4 (6.45%) Data Vault
8 2 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (22.58%) JIRA
2 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
2 5 (8.06%) Spinnaker
General
1 27 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.97%) Finance
3 9 (14.52%) Games
4 8 (12.90%) Retail
5 5 (8.06%) Banking
6 3 (4.84%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.23%) Aviation
7 2 (3.23%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) PySpark
2 5 (8.06%) Apache Beam
2 5 (8.06%) Kafka
3 2 (3.23%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (3.23%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.52%) Client/Server
2 9 (14.52%) Online Games
2 9 (14.52%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.06%) Mainframe
4 4 (6.45%) Data Structures
5 3 (4.84%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.61%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (67.74%) Data Engineering
2 37 (59.68%) ETL
3 23 (37.10%) Mentoring
4 21 (33.87%) Agile
4 21 (33.87%) Data Architecture
5 18 (29.03%) Analytics
6 17 (27.42%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (27.42%) DevOps
7 15 (24.19%) Data Management
7 15 (24.19%) Data Modelling
8 13 (20.97%) Data Integration
9 12 (19.35%) Coaching
10 11 (17.74%) CI/CD
10 11 (17.74%) Data Governance
10 11 (17.74%) Data Science
10 11 (17.74%) DataOps
10 11 (17.74%) Line Management
11 10 (16.13%) Decision-Making
11 10 (16.13%) Roadmaps
12 9 (14.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 35 (56.45%) SQL
2 28 (45.16%) Python
3 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (43.55%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (27.42%) Databricks
2 13 (20.97%) Google
3 5 (8.06%) Informatica
3 5 (8.06%) Teradata
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle