Lead Big Data Engineer Jobs

Lead Big Data Engineer
UK

The median Lead Big Data Engineer salary in the UK is £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 8 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
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 709 737 -
Rank change year-on-year +28 - -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Big Data Engineer 1 150 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.15% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.002% 0.16% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £76,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £110,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.55% - -
75th Percentile £78,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 48,816 93,552 93,960
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.64% 91.50%
Number of salaries quoted 27,241 67,063 59,087
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,501 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -5.66% +6.00%

Lead Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Big Data Engineer in the UK

Lead Big Data Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Big Data Engineer in the UK

Lead Big Data Engineer
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Big Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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
Work from Home +168 1 £77,500 -29.55%
England +156 1 £77,500 -29.55%
London +105 1 £77,500 -29.55%

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2025, Lead Big 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 featuring Lead Big Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Data Fabric
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps

Lead Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Fabric
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Scala
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks