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 £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 493 570 689
Rank change year-on-year +77 +119 -167
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 102 94 178
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.24% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 97 82 93
10th Percentile £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
25th Percentile £68,718 £65,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.81% +19.35%
75th Percentile £96,539 £95,313 £102,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £113,625 £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
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 32,493 38,794 68,341
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.05% 95.92% 97.35%
Number of salaries quoted 24,878 27,614 41,915
10th Percentile £33,009 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £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 £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +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 17 May 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 17 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 62 (60.78%) Data Engineering
2 61 (59.80%) Python
3 59 (57.84%) SQL
4 53 (51.96%) ETL
5 50 (49.02%) Azure
6 34 (33.33%) Mentoring
7 33 (32.35%) AWS
8 29 (28.43%) GCP
8 29 (28.43%) Social Skills
9 28 (27.45%) Agile
10 27 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
10 27 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
11 26 (25.49%) Data Quality
11 26 (25.49%) Analytics
11 26 (25.49%) Data Pipeline
12 25 (24.51%) Data Modelling
13 24 (23.53%) Finance
14 23 (22.55%) dbt
14 23 (22.55%) Databricks
15 22 (21.57%) Machine Learning
16 21 (20.59%) DevOps
16 21 (20.59%) Data Lake
17 18 (17.65%) CI/CD
17 18 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
18 17 (16.67%) Banking
18 17 (16.67%) Google
18 17 (16.67%) Data Architecture
18 17 (16.67%) Snowflake
19 16 (15.69%) Data Integration
20 15 (14.71%) Data Governance

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 (13.73%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (10.78%) Confluence
3 9 (8.82%) Apache Spark
4 5 (4.90%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 50 (49.02%) Azure
2 33 (32.35%) AWS
3 29 (28.43%) GCP
4 23 (22.55%) dbt
5 17 (16.67%) Snowflake
6 10 (9.80%) Amazon S3
6 10 (9.80%) Power Platform
7 9 (8.82%) Amazon Kinesis
7 9 (8.82%) SaaS
8 5 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (4.90%) Collibra
8 5 (4.90%) GitHub
8 5 (4.90%) Google Analytics
8 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.96%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (26.47%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (20.59%) Data Lake
3 18 (17.65%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (13.73%) BigQuery
5 11 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (9.80%) Power BI
7 6 (5.88%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.90%) Airbyte
8 5 (4.90%) Looker
8 5 (4.90%) Metadata
8 5 (4.90%) Tableau
9 4 (3.92%) Big Data
9 4 (3.92%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.94%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.94%) MySQL
10 3 (2.94%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.96%) Flink
11 2 (1.96%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 11 (10.78%) JIRA
2 5 (4.90%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.90%) Spinnaker
3 3 (2.94%) GitLab
4 2 (1.96%) Git
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle Forms
General
1 29 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 24 (23.53%) Finance
3 17 (16.67%) Banking
4 13 (12.75%) Games
5 5 (4.90%) Retail
6 4 (3.92%) Agriculture
6 4 (3.92%) Health Technology
7 3 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.96%) Aviation
9 1 (0.98%) Legal
9 1 (0.98%) Marketing
9 1 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.82%) Kafka
2 7 (6.86%) Apache Beam
2 7 (6.86%) PySpark
3 3 (2.94%) Pandas
4 2 (1.96%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.96%) Flask
4 2 (1.96%) NumPy
4 2 (1.96%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.75%) Client/Server
1 13 (12.75%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.78%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.82%) Online Games
4 7 (6.86%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.90%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.94%) NHS
7 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (60.78%) Data Engineering
2 53 (51.96%) ETL
3 34 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 28 (27.45%) Agile
5 27 (26.47%) Business Intelligence
6 26 (25.49%) Analytics
6 26 (25.49%) Data Pipeline
7 25 (24.51%) Data Modelling
8 22 (21.57%) Machine Learning
9 21 (20.59%) DevOps
10 18 (17.65%) CI/CD
11 17 (16.67%) Data Architecture
12 16 (15.69%) Data Integration
13 15 (14.71%) Coaching
13 15 (14.71%) Data Governance
14 14 (13.73%) Data Transformation
14 14 (13.73%) Platform Engineering
15 13 (12.75%) Data Ingestion
16 12 (11.76%) Roadmaps
17 11 (10.78%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (59.80%) Python
2 59 (57.84%) SQL
3 4 (3.92%) C#
3 4 (3.92%) Java
3 4 (3.92%) Scala
4 2 (1.96%) Go
5 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (25.49%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.98%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (10.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.78%) Terraform
2 7 (6.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.94%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (22.55%) Databricks
2 17 (16.67%) Google
3 7 (6.86%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.86%) Teradata
4 2 (1.96%) Oracle
5 1 (0.98%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.98%) SAP