Lead Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in Work from Home is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 582 692
Rank change year-on-year +97 +110 -177
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 106 91 161
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.22% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 101 80 87
10th Percentile £65,000 £59,850 £60,000
25th Percentile £68,718 £65,000 £80,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,750 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.59% -12.50% +22.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £96,563 £102,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £117,748
UK median annual salary £76,250 £85,000 £87,500
% change year-on-year -10.29% -2.86% +6.06%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 32,478 41,078 65,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.98% 96.07% 97.41%
Number of salaries quoted 24,956 29,206 41,947
10th Percentile £33,000 £36,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

Lead Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Data Engineer.

Lead Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Data Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Lead Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 30 April 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 65 (61.32%) Python
2 63 (59.43%) Data Engineering
3 60 (56.60%) SQL
4 50 (47.17%) ETL
5 49 (46.23%) Azure
6 36 (33.96%) AWS
7 33 (31.13%) Mentoring
8 32 (30.19%) GCP
9 28 (26.42%) Business Intelligence
9 28 (26.42%) Social Skills
10 27 (25.47%) Data Warehouse
10 27 (25.47%) Agile
11 26 (24.53%) Analytics
11 26 (24.53%) Data Quality
12 24 (22.64%) Data Modelling
12 24 (22.64%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (22.64%) dbt
12 24 (22.64%) Snowflake
13 23 (21.70%) Finance
14 22 (20.75%) Machine Learning
14 22 (20.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 22 (20.75%) Databricks
15 21 (19.81%) CI/CD
15 21 (19.81%) DevOps
16 20 (18.87%) Data Lake
17 18 (16.98%) BigQuery
18 17 (16.04%) Banking
18 17 (16.04%) Google
18 17 (16.04%) Data Architecture
19 15 (14.15%) Coaching

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (13.21%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (10.38%) Confluence
3 10 (9.43%) Apache Spark
4 6 (5.66%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 49 (46.23%) Azure
2 36 (33.96%) AWS
3 32 (30.19%) GCP
4 24 (22.64%) dbt
4 24 (22.64%) Snowflake
5 11 (10.38%) Amazon S3
6 10 (9.43%) Power Platform
7 9 (8.49%) Amazon Kinesis
7 9 (8.49%) SaaS
8 5 (4.72%) Collibra
8 5 (4.72%) GitHub
8 5 (4.72%) Google Analytics
8 5 (4.72%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.83%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.83%) Serverless
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (25.47%) Data Warehouse
2 22 (20.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 20 (18.87%) Data Lake
4 18 (16.98%) BigQuery
5 11 (10.38%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (9.43%) Power BI
7 6 (5.66%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.72%) Airbyte
8 5 (4.72%) Big Data
8 5 (4.72%) Looker
8 5 (4.72%) Metadata
8 5 (4.72%) Tableau
9 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.83%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.83%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.83%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.83%) MySQL
10 3 (2.83%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
11 2 (1.89%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 11 (10.38%) JIRA
2 5 (4.72%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.72%) Spinnaker
3 3 (2.83%) GitLab
4 2 (1.89%) Git
4 2 (1.89%) Oracle Forms
General
1 28 (26.42%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.70%) Finance
3 17 (16.04%) Banking
4 13 (12.26%) Games
5 5 (4.72%) Retail
6 4 (3.77%) Agriculture
6 4 (3.77%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Aviation
9 1 (0.94%) Legal
9 1 (0.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.49%) Kafka
2 7 (6.60%) Apache Beam
2 7 (6.60%) PySpark
3 3 (2.83%) Pandas
4 2 (1.89%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.89%) Flask
4 2 (1.89%) NumPy
4 2 (1.89%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Client/Server
1 13 (12.26%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.38%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.49%) Online Games
4 7 (6.60%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.72%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.83%) NHS
7 2 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (59.43%) Data Engineering
2 50 (47.17%) ETL
3 33 (31.13%) Mentoring
4 28 (26.42%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (25.47%) Agile
6 26 (24.53%) Analytics
7 24 (22.64%) Data Modelling
7 24 (22.64%) Data Pipeline
8 22 (20.75%) Machine Learning
9 21 (19.81%) CI/CD
9 21 (19.81%) DevOps
10 17 (16.04%) Data Architecture
11 15 (14.15%) Coaching
11 15 (14.15%) Data Governance
11 15 (14.15%) Data Integration
11 15 (14.15%) Data Transformation
11 15 (14.15%) Fintech
12 14 (13.21%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (12.26%) Data Ingestion
14 12 (11.32%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 65 (61.32%) Python
2 60 (56.60%) SQL
3 5 (4.72%) Java
3 5 (4.72%) Scala
4 4 (3.77%) C#
5 2 (1.89%) Go
6 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.94%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (1.89%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (24.53%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (10.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (14.15%) Terraform
2 7 (6.60%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (20.75%) Databricks
2 17 (16.04%) Google
3 7 (6.60%) Teradata
4 6 (5.66%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.89%) Oracle
6 1 (0.94%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.94%) SAP