Lead Data Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Data Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in London is £90,000 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 422 538 652
Rank change year-on-year +116 +114 -113
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 69 98 269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.29% 0.30% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.31% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 67 83 93
10th Percentile £28,250 £65,250 £58,750
25th Percentile £68,125 £82,500 £76,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.86% +2.34%
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £107,250 £109,000
England median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 22,535 31,280 69,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.40% 95.12% 96.25%
Number of salaries quoted 16,745 23,071 34,798
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,108 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +3.57% -
75th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £91,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in London

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in London

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in London

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +55 15 £30,500 -74.37% 3
Lead Data Engineer
England

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

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 London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 39 (56.52%) Azure
2 35 (50.72%) Python
3 34 (49.28%) SQL
4 19 (27.54%) ETL
4 19 (27.54%) Databricks
5 15 (21.74%) Data Engineering
5 15 (21.74%) AWS
6 14 (20.29%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (20.29%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (18.84%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (18.84%) Analytics
7 13 (18.84%) Data Lake
7 13 (18.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (18.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (17.39%) Finance
9 11 (15.94%) Data Modelling
10 10 (14.49%) Fintech
10 10 (14.49%) Driving Licence
10 10 (14.49%) Machine Learning
10 10 (14.49%) DBS Check
10 10 (14.49%) Structured Cabling
10 10 (14.49%) Telecoms
11 9 (13.04%) GCP
11 9 (13.04%) Terraform
11 9 (13.04%) Roadmaps
11 9 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (11.59%) CI/CD
12 8 (11.59%) dbt
12 8 (11.59%) Snowflake
13 7 (10.14%) PySpark

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (7.25%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.45%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 39 (56.52%) Azure
2 15 (21.74%) AWS
3 13 (18.84%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (18.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (13.04%) GCP
5 8 (11.59%) dbt
5 8 (11.59%) Snowflake
6 6 (8.70%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.90%) Fivetran
7 2 (2.90%) GitHub
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.45%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.45%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.49%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.84%) Data Lake
1 13 (18.84%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (10.14%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.70%) Power BI
4 5 (7.25%) Big Data
5 3 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.35%) BigQuery
5 3 (4.35%) MySQL
5 3 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.45%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.45%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.45%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (1.45%) GitLab
2 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (17.39%) Finance
2 10 (14.49%) Telecoms
3 9 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (8.70%) Banking
5 5 (7.25%) Health Technology
5 5 (7.25%) Social Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) PySpark
2 4 (5.80%) Kafka
3 2 (2.90%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.90%) Flask
3 2 (2.90%) NumPy
3 2 (2.90%) SciPy
4 1 (1.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.45%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Driving Licence
2 5 (7.25%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (4.35%) NHS
4 2 (2.90%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.90%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.90%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.45%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (27.54%) ETL
2 15 (21.74%) Data Engineering
3 14 (20.29%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (20.29%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (18.84%) Analytics
5 11 (15.94%) Data Modelling
6 10 (14.49%) Fintech
6 10 (14.49%) Machine Learning
7 9 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 8 (11.59%) CI/CD
9 7 (10.14%) Agile
9 7 (10.14%) Kimball Methodology
10 6 (8.70%) Computer Science
10 6 (8.70%) Data Integration
10 6 (8.70%) Mentoring
11 5 (7.25%) Artificial Intelligence
11 5 (7.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (5.80%) Data Analysis
12 4 (5.80%) Data Science
12 4 (5.80%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (50.72%) Python
2 34 (49.28%) SQL
3 1 (1.45%) C#
3 1 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.45%) R
3 1 (1.45%) Scala
3 1 (1.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (14.49%) DBS Check
2 4 (5.80%) Degree
3 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (13.04%) Terraform
2 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.45%) Argo
3 1 (1.45%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 19 (27.54%) Databricks
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.45%) Brio
3 1 (1.45%) Google