Lead Data Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in England is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 669 745 785
Rank change year-on-year +76 +40 -20
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 167 164 406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.19% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.21% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 156 142 164
10th Percentile £51,250 £62,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £98,855 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £116,246
UK median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 84,097 79,150 134,411
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.43% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 62,393 50,588 75,337
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 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
London +116 69 £90,000 - 30
North of England +89 64 £82,500 +5.77% 7
North West +36 35 £70,000 +3.70% 6
North East +6 17 £78,750 +1.61%
South West -16 16 £70,576 -13.93% 1
Yorkshire +78 12 £85,000 -5.56% 1
South East +2 10 £70,000 -17.65% 3
East of England +1 6 £75,000 -28.57%
West Midlands -5 1 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Midlands -20 1 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Lead Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 87 (52.10%) Azure
2 86 (51.50%) SQL
3 81 (48.50%) Python
4 78 (46.71%) ETL
5 73 (43.71%) Data Engineering
6 48 (28.74%) Databricks
7 46 (27.54%) Analytics
8 44 (26.35%) Data Pipeline
9 43 (25.75%) Business Intelligence
9 43 (25.75%) Data Warehouse
10 42 (25.15%) Data Quality
11 41 (24.55%) AWS
11 41 (24.55%) Social Skills
12 40 (23.95%) Data Modelling
12 40 (23.95%) Mentoring
13 38 (22.75%) Data Lake
13 38 (22.75%) Agile
14 32 (19.16%) GCP
15 30 (17.96%) Finance
16 28 (16.77%) Machine Learning
16 28 (16.77%) DevOps
17 26 (15.57%) CI/CD
18 25 (14.97%) Azure Data Factory
18 25 (14.97%) Data Management
19 24 (14.37%) Data Architecture
19 24 (14.37%) Power Platform
19 24 (14.37%) Power BI
20 23 (13.77%) dbt
20 23 (13.77%) Data Governance
21 22 (13.17%) Data Transformation

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 18 (10.78%) Apache Airflow
1 18 (10.78%) Apache Spark
2 9 (5.39%) Confluence
3 8 (4.79%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 87 (52.10%) Azure
2 41 (24.55%) AWS
3 32 (19.16%) GCP
4 25 (14.97%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (14.37%) Power Platform
6 23 (13.77%) dbt
7 18 (10.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 17 (10.18%) Snowflake
9 15 (8.98%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (5.39%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (5.39%) SaaS
12 7 (4.19%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.99%) GitHub
13 5 (2.99%) Google Analytics
14 4 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.40%) Serverless
15 3 (1.80%) Collibra
15 3 (1.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
15 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.99%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (25.75%) Data Warehouse
2 38 (22.75%) Data Lake
3 24 (14.37%) Power BI
4 21 (12.57%) Amazon Redshift
5 19 (11.38%) BigQuery
6 16 (9.58%) SQL Server
7 12 (7.19%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (5.39%) Big Data
8 9 (5.39%) Data Vault
9 8 (4.79%) Relational Database
10 7 (4.19%) Hadoop
10 7 (4.19%) Tableau
11 6 (3.59%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.99%) Airbyte
12 5 (2.99%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.99%) Looker
12 5 (2.99%) MySQL
13 4 (2.40%) Flink
13 4 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (10.18%) JIRA
2 6 (3.59%) RStudio
3 4 (2.40%) Git
3 4 (2.40%) GitLab
3 4 (2.40%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.40%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (1.80%) Spinnaker
5 2 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.20%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.60%) ERwin
General
1 41 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.96%) Finance
3 16 (9.58%) Banking
4 13 (7.78%) Games
5 11 (6.59%) Telecoms
6 9 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (4.79%) Retail
8 6 (3.59%) Health Technology
9 4 (2.40%) Agriculture
10 2 (1.20%) Aviation
10 2 (1.20%) Back Office
10 2 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.60%) Marketing
11 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.38%) Kafka
2 12 (7.19%) PySpark
3 9 (5.39%) Apache Beam
4 3 (1.80%) Pandas
5 2 (1.20%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.20%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.20%) Flask
5 2 (1.20%) NumPy
5 2 (1.20%) SciPy
6 1 (0.60%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.78%) Client/Server
2 12 (7.19%) Data Structures
3 10 (5.99%) Driving Licence
3 10 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.39%) Cloud Native
4 9 (5.39%) Online Games
5 8 (4.79%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (2.99%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.80%) NHS
8 2 (1.20%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.20%) Educational Technology
8 2 (1.20%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.60%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.60%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.60%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.79%) Linux
2 6 (3.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (46.71%) ETL
2 73 (43.71%) Data Engineering
3 46 (27.54%) Analytics
4 44 (26.35%) Data Pipeline
5 43 (25.75%) Business Intelligence
6 40 (23.95%) Data Modelling
6 40 (23.95%) Mentoring
7 38 (22.75%) Agile
8 28 (16.77%) DevOps
8 28 (16.77%) Machine Learning
9 26 (15.57%) CI/CD
10 25 (14.97%) Data Management
11 24 (14.37%) Data Architecture
12 23 (13.77%) Data Governance
13 22 (13.17%) Data Transformation
14 20 (11.98%) Data Integration
15 19 (11.38%) Data Ingestion
15 19 (11.38%) Roadmaps
16 18 (10.78%) Data Analysis
16 18 (10.78%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 86 (51.50%) SQL
2 81 (48.50%) Python
3 9 (5.39%) Scala
4 8 (4.79%) Java
5 7 (4.19%) R
6 5 (2.99%) C#
7 4 (2.40%) Go
7 4 (2.40%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (8.38%) DBS Check
2 5 (2.99%) Degree
3 3 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.80%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.60%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (25.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.60%) QA
System Software
1 14 (8.38%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (8.38%) Terraform
2 10 (5.99%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.80%) Ansible
4 1 (0.60%) Argo
4 1 (0.60%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 48 (28.74%) Databricks
2 16 (9.58%) Google
3 11 (6.59%) Informatica
3 11 (6.59%) Microsoft
4 9 (5.39%) Teradata
5 6 (3.59%) Alteryx
6 5 (2.99%) Oracle
7 3 (1.80%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.60%) Brio
8 1 (0.60%) SAP