Lead Data Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Lead Data Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in Scotland is £66,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 - 246
Rank change year-on-year - - -61
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 49 0 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.73% - 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% - 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £59,750 - £44,388
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,500 - £48,525
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.75%
75th Percentile £76,625 - £52,663
90th Percentile £78,650 - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +6.06%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 6,527 4,263 5,539
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.90% 90.24% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,623 2,323 2,990
10th Percentile £27,800 £31,414 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in Scotland

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in Scotland

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in Scotland

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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
Glasgow - 41 - - 1
Lanarkshire - 2 £80,000 -
Perthshire - 2 - -
Lead Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Scotland region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (89.80%) CI/CD
2 43 (87.76%) Law
3 41 (83.67%) Agile
3 41 (83.67%) Software Engineering
3 41 (83.67%) Marketing
3 41 (83.67%) Python
3 41 (83.67%) Finance
3 41 (83.67%) AWS
3 41 (83.67%) Community of Practice
3 41 (83.67%) Operational Stability
3 41 (83.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 41 (83.67%) SDLC
4 40 (81.63%) Mentoring
4 40 (81.63%) Coaching
4 40 (81.63%) Apache Spark
4 40 (81.63%) Cloud Native
4 40 (81.63%) Apache Airflow
4 40 (81.63%) PySpark
4 40 (81.63%) Big Data
5 6 (12.24%) Azure
5 6 (12.24%) Data Governance
6 5 (10.20%) Analytics
6 5 (10.20%) Data Modelling
6 5 (10.20%) ETL
6 5 (10.20%) Algorithms
7 4 (8.16%) Data Engineering
7 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (8.16%) DevOps
8 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
8 3 (6.12%) SQL

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 40 (81.63%) Apache Airflow
1 40 (81.63%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 41 (83.67%) AWS
2 6 (12.24%) Azure
3 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (81.63%) Big Data
2 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
2 3 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.12%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Tableau
General
1 43 (87.76%) Law
2 41 (83.67%) Finance
2 41 (83.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 41 (83.67%) Marketing
3 2 (4.08%) Legal
3 2 (4.08%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (81.63%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 40 (81.63%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.20%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (89.80%) CI/CD
2 41 (83.67%) Agile
2 41 (83.67%) Community of Practice
2 41 (83.67%) Operational Stability
2 41 (83.67%) SDLC
2 41 (83.67%) Software Engineering
3 40 (81.63%) Coaching
3 40 (81.63%) Mentoring
4 6 (12.24%) Data Governance
5 5 (10.20%) Analytics
5 5 (10.20%) Data Modelling
5 5 (10.20%) ETL
6 4 (8.16%) Data Engineering
6 4 (8.16%) DevOps
7 3 (6.12%) Data Management
7 3 (6.12%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (6.12%) Roadmaps
8 2 (4.08%) Change Control
8 2 (4.08%) Data Architecture
8 2 (4.08%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 41 (83.67%) Python
2 3 (6.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
1 3 (6.12%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (6.12%) Databricks
1 3 (6.12%) Microsoft