Lead Data Engineer Jobs in the South West

Lead Data Engineer
England > South West

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in the South West is £70,576 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 19 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 249 301
Rank change year-on-year -32 +52 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 14 6 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.093% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.10% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 19
10th Percentile - £75,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £75,813 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £82,000 £101,092
Median % change year-on-year -13.93% -18.89% +68.49%
75th Percentile £72,433 £107,813 £116,246
90th Percentile £95,931 £117,500 -
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year - -8.11% +12.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 10,157 5,725 8,324
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.15% 88.79% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 7,334 3,659 5,114
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64,750 £68,750 £65,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the South West

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in the South West

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the South West over the 6 months to 19 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in the South West

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 19 June 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
Bristol -9 7 £70,576 -13.93%
Wiltshire - 6 £67,500 -
Devon - 1 £90,000 -
Lead Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 19 June 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 South West region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (92.86%) Data Pipeline
1 13 (92.86%) Data Lake
2 10 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
3 9 (64.29%) Azure
4 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning
4 7 (50.00%) SQL
4 7 (50.00%) Python
4 7 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (50.00%) GCP
4 7 (50.00%) Mentoring
5 6 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
5 6 (42.86%) Databricks
5 6 (42.86%) IT Strategy
5 6 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (42.86%) Runbook
5 6 (42.86%) Server Management
5 6 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (42.86%) RStudio
5 6 (42.86%) Data Centre
5 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
5 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
5 6 (42.86%) Culture Change
5 6 (42.86%) Power BI
5 6 (42.86%) Unix
5 6 (42.86%) Linux
5 6 (42.86%) Data Management
5 6 (42.86%) Analytics
5 6 (42.86%) Alteryx
5 6 (42.86%) Data Transformation
5 6 (42.86%) Release Management

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (21.43%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) GCP
3 6 (42.86%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (42.86%) Power Platform
4 3 (21.43%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (92.86%) Data Lake
2 7 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (42.86%) Power BI
4 3 (21.43%) Big Data
4 3 (21.43%) BigQuery
4 3 (21.43%) Flink
4 3 (21.43%) Hadoop
4 3 (21.43%) Relational Database
4 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) RStudio
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Banking
2 5 (35.71%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Beam
1 3 (21.43%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 3 (21.43%) Data Structures
3 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
1 6 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Data Pipeline
2 10 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
3 7 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 7 (50.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (42.86%) Analytics
4 6 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (42.86%) Culture Change
4 6 (42.86%) Data Governance
4 6 (42.86%) Data Management
4 6 (42.86%) Data Transformation
4 6 (42.86%) IT Strategy
4 6 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
4 6 (42.86%) Release Management
4 6 (42.86%) Runbook
4 6 (42.86%) Server Management
4 6 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (35.71%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Data Engineering
6 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (28.57%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) R
3 4 (28.57%) C#
4 3 (21.43%) Go
4 3 (21.43%) Java
4 3 (21.43%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Alteryx
1 6 (42.86%) Databricks
2 4 (28.57%) Google
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle
3 3 (21.43%) Teradata