Lead Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 609 709 734
Rank change year-on-year +100 +25 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 148 50 108
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.081% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.091% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 91 46 36
10th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £55,625
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +2.76% +3.57%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £85,125
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £95,625
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 66,682 54,970 67,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.79% 89.26% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,230 31,194 42,991
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,777 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.04% - +9.09%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England +83 62 £80,000 +2.89% 9
Scotland - 49 £66,500 - 2
North West +36 33 £70,000 +3.70% 5
North East +9 17 £78,750 +1.61% 1
South West -5 17 £70,576 -21.58%
Yorkshire +91 12 £85,000 -5.56% 3
South East +13 9 £75,000 +3.45% 5
East of England +17 6 £75,000 -28.57%
West Midlands +9 2 £80,000 +23.08% 1
Midlands -9 2 £80,000 +23.08% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 - 1
Wales - 1 - - 3
Lead Data Engineer
UK

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 92 (62.16%) Python
2 77 (52.03%) Mentoring
3 71 (47.97%) Agile
4 70 (47.30%) AWS
5 67 (45.27%) Data Engineering
6 62 (41.89%) ETL
6 62 (41.89%) Finance
7 61 (41.22%) CI/CD
8 55 (37.16%) SQL
8 55 (37.16%) Azure
8 55 (37.16%) Coaching
9 54 (36.49%) Apache Airflow
10 53 (35.81%) Apache Spark
11 51 (34.46%) Cloud Native
12 47 (31.76%) SDLC
13 45 (30.41%) PySpark
14 44 (29.73%) Big Data
14 44 (29.73%) Software Engineering
15 43 (29.05%) Law
16 41 (27.70%) Marketing
16 41 (27.70%) Community of Practice
16 41 (27.70%) Operational Stability
16 41 (27.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 40 (27.03%) Social Skills
17 40 (27.03%) Data Quality
18 35 (23.65%) Data Pipeline
19 33 (22.30%) Analytics
19 33 (22.30%) Data Warehouse
20 30 (20.27%) Data Modelling
21 29 (19.59%) Business Intelligence

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 54 (36.49%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (35.81%) Apache Spark
3 11 (7.43%) Confluence
4 7 (4.73%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 70 (47.30%) AWS
2 55 (37.16%) Azure
3 24 (16.22%) GCP
4 17 (11.49%) Power Platform
5 16 (10.81%) dbt
6 15 (10.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (9.46%) Amazon S3
8 12 (8.11%) Snowflake
9 11 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.08%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (6.08%) SaaS
11 7 (4.73%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (3.38%) Collibra
12 5 (3.38%) GitHub
12 5 (3.38%) Google Analytics
12 5 (3.38%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.38%) Serverless
13 3 (2.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (29.73%) Big Data
2 33 (22.30%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (18.24%) Data Lake
4 20 (13.51%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (11.49%) Power BI
6 15 (10.14%) BigQuery
7 10 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (5.41%) SQL Server
8 8 (5.41%) Tableau
9 7 (4.73%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.05%) Hadoop
11 5 (3.38%) Airbyte
11 5 (3.38%) Looker
11 5 (3.38%) Metadata
12 4 (2.70%) Data Vault
12 4 (2.70%) Flink
12 4 (2.70%) NoSQL
13 3 (2.03%) Delta Lake
14 2 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (1.35%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 15 (10.14%) JIRA
2 6 (4.05%) RStudio
3 5 (3.38%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.38%) Spinnaker
4 4 (2.70%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (2.03%) GitLab
6 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.35%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.68%) ERwin
General
1 62 (41.89%) Finance
2 43 (29.05%) Law
3 41 (27.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 41 (27.70%) Marketing
4 40 (27.03%) Social Skills
5 13 (8.78%) Games
6 12 (8.11%) Banking
7 9 (6.08%) Retail
8 5 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.70%) Agriculture
10 3 (2.03%) Aviation
10 3 (2.03%) Legal
11 2 (1.35%) Back Office
11 2 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (30.41%) PySpark
2 11 (7.43%) Kafka
3 9 (6.08%) Apache Beam
4 2 (1.35%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.35%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 51 (34.46%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.78%) Client/Server
3 11 (7.43%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.08%) Online Games
5 8 (5.41%) Data Structures
6 7 (4.73%) Algorithms
7 6 (4.05%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.38%) Mainframe
9 3 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.68%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.05%) Linux
1 6 (4.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (52.03%) Mentoring
2 71 (47.97%) Agile
3 67 (45.27%) Data Engineering
4 62 (41.89%) ETL
5 61 (41.22%) CI/CD
6 55 (37.16%) Coaching
7 47 (31.76%) SDLC
8 44 (29.73%) Software Engineering
9 41 (27.70%) Community of Practice
9 41 (27.70%) Operational Stability
10 35 (23.65%) Data Pipeline
11 33 (22.30%) Analytics
12 30 (20.27%) Data Modelling
13 29 (19.59%) Business Intelligence
14 28 (18.92%) DevOps
15 27 (18.24%) Data Governance
16 24 (16.22%) Data Management
17 23 (15.54%) Data Architecture
18 21 (14.19%) Machine Learning
19 18 (12.16%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 92 (62.16%) Python
2 55 (37.16%) SQL
3 8 (5.41%) Java
3 8 (5.41%) Scala
4 6 (4.05%) R
5 4 (2.70%) C#
5 4 (2.70%) Go
6 2 (1.35%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.35%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (2.70%) DBS Check
1 4 (2.70%) Degree
2 2 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (27.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.03%) QA
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (5.41%) Docker
2 2 (1.35%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.38%) Terraform
3 3 (2.03%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (18.92%) Databricks
2 17 (11.49%) Google
3 9 (6.08%) Teradata
4 8 (5.41%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.73%) Informatica
6 6 (4.05%) Alteryx
7 5 (3.38%) Oracle
8 3 (2.03%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.68%) SAP