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 £73,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 617 703
Rank change year-on-year +75 +86 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 29 148 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.075% 0.20% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% 0.21% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 22 92 51
10th Percentile £56,176 £62,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -3.23% -6.06%
75th Percentile £98,474 £87,500 £92,500
90th Percentile £102,410 £100,000 -
UK median annual salary £95,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +18.75% -5.88% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 2025. 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 -11 11 £75,000 -7.69% 5
North West -24 9 £75,000 +7.14% 1
South East +89 8 £70,000 -6.67% 12
South West +109 7 £98,420 +39.45% 8
Midlands +62 3 £57,500 -23.33% 5
West Midlands +65 2 £60,000 -20.00% 5
Yorkshire +52 2 £54,228 -36.20% 2
East Midlands - 1 £57,500 -
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 28 May 2025, 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 23 (79.31%) SQL
2 22 (75.86%) Data Engineering
3 17 (58.62%) Data Modelling
4 16 (55.17%) Azure
5 15 (51.72%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (48.28%) Python
7 13 (44.83%) Finance
8 12 (41.38%) DevOps
8 12 (41.38%) Mentoring
9 11 (37.93%) ETL
9 11 (37.93%) AWS
9 11 (37.93%) Data Architecture
10 10 (34.48%) Data Quality
10 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
11 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
11 9 (31.03%) Analytics
11 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
11 9 (31.03%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (27.59%) Decision-Making
12 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (27.59%) PySpark
12 8 (27.59%) Kafka
12 8 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (24.14%) Data Security
13 7 (24.14%) Banking
13 7 (24.14%) Big Data
13 7 (24.14%) Data Governance
13 7 (24.14%) Visualisation
13 7 (24.14%) Data Extraction
13 7 (24.14%) Coaching

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 5 (17.24%) Apache
1 5 (17.24%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (17.24%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) GCP
3 7 (24.14%) Power Platform
4 4 (13.79%) OpenShift
5 3 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.45%) Datadog
6 1 (3.45%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (51.72%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (24.14%) Big Data
2 7 (24.14%) BigQuery
2 7 (24.14%) Power BI
3 6 (20.69%) Looker
4 5 (17.24%) Data Hub
4 5 (17.24%) Hadoop
4 5 (17.24%) Tableau
5 4 (13.79%) Apache Hudi
5 4 (13.79%) Apache Iceberg
5 4 (13.79%) Delta Lake
5 4 (13.79%) NoSQL
6 3 (10.34%) Data Lake
7 2 (6.90%) Cloud Spanner
7 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
8 1 (3.45%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (44.83%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (24.14%) Banking
4 6 (20.69%) Law
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.90%) Marketing
7 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) Kafka
1 8 (27.59%) PySpark
2 4 (13.79%) PyArrow
3 1 (3.45%) .NET
3 1 (3.45%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.90%) Life Science
3 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Data Engineering
2 17 (58.62%) Data Modelling
3 12 (41.38%) DevOps
3 12 (41.38%) Mentoring
4 11 (37.93%) Data Architecture
4 11 (37.93%) ETL
5 10 (34.48%) CI/CD
6 9 (31.03%) Analytics
6 9 (31.03%) Technical Leadership
7 8 (27.59%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (27.59%) Decision-Making
7 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (24.14%) Coaching
8 7 (24.14%) Data Extraction
8 7 (24.14%) Data Governance
8 7 (24.14%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (24.14%) Data Security
8 7 (24.14%) Visualisation
9 6 (20.69%) Change Management
9 6 (20.69%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 23 (79.31%) SQL
2 14 (48.28%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) Java
4 5 (17.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Azure Certification
2 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.90%) HNC
2 2 (6.90%) HND
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
2 4 (13.79%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Google
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Databricks
2 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.90%) Splunk
4 1 (3.45%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce