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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 613 698 746
Rank change year-on-year +85 +48 -84
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 149 51 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.086% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.096% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 92 46 40
10th Percentile £62,750 £55,000 £53,675
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,500 £80,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -7.45% +15.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £95,313
90th Percentile £99,847 £93,750 £116,246
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +12.50%

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 67,190 53,191 68,674
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 89.20% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 47,534 30,285 42,785
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 14 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 14 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 +77 63 £82,500 +5.77% 6
Scotland - 49 £66,500 - 1
North West +33 34 £72,500 +7.41% 5
North East +6 17 £78,750 +1.61%
South West -11 17 £70,576 -21.58% 1
Yorkshire +90 12 £85,000 -5.56% 1
South East +7 9 £75,000 +3.45%
East of England +9 6 £75,000 -28.57%
West Midlands -9 2 £80,000 +23.08%
Midlands -10 2 £80,000 +23.08%
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 - 1
Wales - 1 - - 2
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 14 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 91 (61.07%) Python
2 77 (51.68%) Mentoring
3 73 (48.99%) Agile
4 69 (46.31%) AWS
5 66 (44.30%) Data Engineering
6 63 (42.28%) ETL
7 62 (41.61%) Finance
8 61 (40.94%) CI/CD
9 56 (37.58%) Azure
10 55 (36.91%) Coaching
10 55 (36.91%) SQL
11 54 (36.24%) Apache Airflow
12 53 (35.57%) Apache Spark
13 51 (34.23%) Cloud Native
14 47 (31.54%) SDLC
15 45 (30.20%) PySpark
16 44 (29.53%) Big Data
16 44 (29.53%) Software Engineering
17 43 (28.86%) Law
18 42 (28.19%) Data Quality
19 41 (27.52%) Marketing
19 41 (27.52%) Community of Practice
19 41 (27.52%) Operational Stability
19 41 (27.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 39 (26.17%) Social Skills
21 35 (23.49%) Data Pipeline
21 35 (23.49%) Analytics
22 33 (22.15%) Data Warehouse
23 32 (21.48%) Data Modelling
24 30 (20.13%) DevOps

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 (36.24%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (35.57%) Apache Spark
3 11 (7.38%) Confluence
4 7 (4.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.31%) AWS
2 56 (37.58%) Azure
3 24 (16.11%) GCP
4 17 (11.41%) Power Platform
5 16 (10.74%) dbt
6 15 (10.07%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (9.40%) Amazon S3
8 13 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (8.05%) Snowflake
10 9 (6.04%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (6.04%) SaaS
11 7 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (3.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (3.36%) Collibra
12 5 (3.36%) GitHub
12 5 (3.36%) Google Analytics
12 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (3.36%) Serverless
13 3 (2.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (29.53%) Big Data
2 33 (22.15%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (18.12%) Data Lake
4 20 (13.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (11.41%) Power BI
6 15 (10.07%) BigQuery
7 10 (6.71%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (5.37%) SQL Server
8 8 (5.37%) Tableau
9 7 (4.70%) Relational Database
10 6 (4.03%) Data Vault
10 6 (4.03%) Hadoop
11 5 (3.36%) Airbyte
11 5 (3.36%) Looker
11 5 (3.36%) Metadata
12 4 (2.68%) Flink
12 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
13 3 (2.01%) Delta Lake
14 2 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
14 2 (1.34%) Impala
Development Applications
1 17 (11.41%) JIRA
2 6 (4.03%) RStudio
3 5 (3.36%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.36%) Spinnaker
4 4 (2.68%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (2.01%) GitLab
6 2 (1.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.34%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.67%) ERwin
General
1 62 (41.61%) Finance
2 43 (28.86%) Law
3 41 (27.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 41 (27.52%) Marketing
4 39 (26.17%) Social Skills
5 13 (8.72%) Games
6 12 (8.05%) Banking
7 9 (6.04%) Retail
8 5 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.68%) Agriculture
10 3 (2.01%) Aviation
10 3 (2.01%) Legal
11 2 (1.34%) Back Office
11 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (30.20%) PySpark
2 11 (7.38%) Kafka
3 9 (6.04%) Apache Beam
4 2 (1.34%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.34%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 51 (34.23%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.72%) Client/Server
3 11 (7.38%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.71%) Data Structures
5 9 (6.04%) Online Games
6 7 (4.70%) Algorithms
7 6 (4.03%) Data Centre
8 5 (3.36%) Mainframe
9 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.67%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.03%) Linux
1 6 (4.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (51.68%) Mentoring
2 73 (48.99%) Agile
3 66 (44.30%) Data Engineering
4 63 (42.28%) ETL
5 61 (40.94%) CI/CD
6 55 (36.91%) Coaching
7 47 (31.54%) SDLC
8 44 (29.53%) Software Engineering
9 41 (27.52%) Community of Practice
9 41 (27.52%) Operational Stability
10 35 (23.49%) Analytics
10 35 (23.49%) Data Pipeline
11 32 (21.48%) Data Modelling
12 30 (20.13%) DevOps
13 28 (18.79%) Business Intelligence
14 27 (18.12%) Data Governance
15 25 (16.78%) Data Management
16 23 (15.44%) Data Architecture
17 21 (14.09%) Machine Learning
18 18 (12.08%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 91 (61.07%) Python
2 55 (36.91%) SQL
3 8 (5.37%) Java
3 8 (5.37%) Scala
4 6 (4.03%) R
5 4 (2.68%) C#
5 4 (2.68%) Go
6 2 (1.34%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.34%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (2.68%) DBS Check
1 4 (2.68%) Degree
2 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (28.19%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.01%) QA
3 1 (0.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (5.37%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (4.70%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.36%) Terraform
3 3 (2.01%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (20.13%) Databricks
2 17 (11.41%) Google
3 9 (6.04%) Informatica
3 9 (6.04%) Teradata
4 8 (5.37%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.03%) Alteryx
6 5 (3.36%) Oracle
7 3 (2.01%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.67%) SAP