Lead Data Engineer Jobs in the North West

Lead Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in the North West is £70,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 291 314
Rank change year-on-year +33 +23 -70
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 33 5 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.33% 0.064% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.072% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 27 2 6
10th Percentile £52,000 £62,750 £69,563
25th Percentile £67,500 £63,125 £73,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £80,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -16.15% +15.00%
75th Percentile £96,539 £73,125 £86,625
90th Percentile £110,000 £74,250 £96,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +10.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,328 6,982 8,962
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 89.17% 95.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,169 4,074 5,367
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £81,450
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the North West

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in the North West

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in the North West

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Manchester +42 24 £70,000 +7.69% 4
Merseyside - 6 £110,000 -
Cheshire - 2 - -
Lead Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 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 West region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (57.58%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) Agile
3 15 (45.45%) Data Management
3 15 (45.45%) JIRA
3 15 (45.45%) SQL
3 15 (45.45%) ETL
4 14 (42.42%) Data Engineering
5 12 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (33.33%) DevOps
6 11 (33.33%) Analytics
7 10 (30.30%) Data Quality
7 10 (30.30%) Confluence
7 10 (30.30%) GCP
7 10 (30.30%) Finance
7 10 (30.30%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (30.30%) Google
7 10 (30.30%) DataOps
7 10 (30.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 10 (30.30%) Data Science
8 8 (24.24%) Python
8 8 (24.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (21.21%) Apache Spark
9 7 (21.21%) Tableau
9 7 (21.21%) Data Modelling
9 7 (21.21%) Apache
9 7 (21.21%) Visualisation
9 7 (21.21%) Data Analysis
9 7 (21.21%) Databricks
10 6 (18.18%) Data Strategy
10 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (30.30%) Confluence
2 7 (21.21%) Apache
2 7 (21.21%) Apache Spark
3 5 (15.15%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (57.58%) Azure
2 10 (30.30%) GCP
3 6 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (18.18%) dbt
4 5 (15.15%) Collibra
4 5 (15.15%) GitHub
4 5 (15.15%) Google Analytics
4 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (15.15%) Power Platform
4 5 (15.15%) Snowflake
5 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 3 (9.09%) AWS
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (24.24%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (21.21%) Tableau
4 5 (15.15%) Airbyte
4 5 (15.15%) BigQuery
4 5 (15.15%) Data Vault
4 5 (15.15%) Looker
4 5 (15.15%) Metadata
4 5 (15.15%) Power BI
5 2 (6.06%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (45.45%) JIRA
2 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
2 5 (15.15%) Spinnaker
General
1 10 (30.30%) Finance
2 5 (15.15%) Banking
2 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.06%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Apache Beam
1 5 (15.15%) Kafka
2 2 (6.06%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (6.06%) Pandas
3 1 (3.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Cloud Native
1 5 (15.15%) Data Structures
1 5 (15.15%) Mainframe
1 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) Agile
2 15 (45.45%) Data Management
2 15 (45.45%) ETL
3 14 (42.42%) Data Engineering
4 12 (36.36%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (33.33%) Analytics
5 11 (33.33%) DevOps
6 10 (30.30%) Data Science
6 10 (30.30%) DataOps
6 10 (30.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 7 (21.21%) Data Analysis
7 7 (21.21%) Data Modelling
7 7 (21.21%) Visualisation
8 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
8 6 (18.18%) Data Strategy
8 6 (18.18%) Decision-Making
8 6 (18.18%) Mentoring
9 5 (15.15%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
9 5 (15.15%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) SQL
2 8 (24.24%) Python
3 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (30.30%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Google
2 7 (21.21%) Databricks
3 6 (18.18%) Informatica
4 5 (15.15%) Teradata
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle