Lead Data Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Lead Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in the North of England is £82,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 321 399 440
Rank change year-on-year +78 +41 -86
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 63 21 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 56 18 6
10th Percentile £66,250 £65,000 £69,563
25th Percentile £67,500 £71,438 £73,969
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £78,000 £80,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -3.11% +15.00%
75th Percentile £88,125 £92,500 £86,625
90th Percentile £105,000 - £96,000
England median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 16,792 15,127 17,618
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 89.57% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 12,971 8,097 11,000
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the North of England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in the North of England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in the North of England

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
North West +28 34 £72,500 +7.41% 8
North East +11 17 £78,750 +1.61%
Yorkshire +83 12 £85,000 -5.56%
Lead Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 North of England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (65.08%) Data Engineering
2 39 (61.90%) ETL
3 34 (53.97%) SQL
3 34 (53.97%) Azure
4 29 (46.03%) Data Quality
5 27 (42.86%) Python
6 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
7 24 (38.10%) Mentoring
8 23 (36.51%) Agile
9 21 (33.33%) Data Architecture
10 20 (31.75%) Analytics
10 20 (31.75%) DevOps
11 18 (28.57%) Databricks
11 18 (28.57%) Data Modelling
12 17 (26.98%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (26.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (25.40%) Data Management
13 16 (25.40%) JIRA
14 15 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
14 15 (23.81%) dbt
15 14 (22.22%) GCP
15 14 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
16 13 (20.63%) Finance
16 13 (20.63%) Google
16 13 (20.63%) Data Integration
17 12 (19.05%) AWS
17 12 (19.05%) Amazon S3
17 12 (19.05%) Data Governance
17 12 (19.05%) Coaching
18 11 (17.46%) Line Management

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 14 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (15.87%) Confluence
3 7 (11.11%) Apache
3 7 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.97%) Azure
2 15 (23.81%) dbt
3 14 (22.22%) GCP
4 12 (19.05%) Amazon S3
4 12 (19.05%) AWS
5 9 (14.29%) Amazon Kinesis
5 9 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 9 (14.29%) SaaS
6 8 (12.70%) Snowflake
7 7 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (7.94%) Collibra
8 5 (7.94%) GitHub
8 5 (7.94%) Google Analytics
8 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (6.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.17%) Serverless
11 1 (1.59%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.98%) Amazon Redshift
2 15 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 9 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 9 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (14.29%) Power BI
4 7 (11.11%) Tableau
5 6 (9.52%) Data Vault
6 5 (7.94%) Airbyte
6 5 (7.94%) Looker
6 5 (7.94%) Metadata
7 2 (3.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (25.40%) JIRA
2 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.94%) Spinnaker
3 1 (1.59%) GitLab
General
1 25 (39.68%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Games
4 8 (12.70%) Retail
5 5 (7.94%) Banking
6 3 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Aviation
7 2 (3.17%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) Apache Beam
1 5 (7.94%) Kafka
1 5 (7.94%) PySpark
2 2 (3.17%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (3.17%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.46%) Cloud Native
2 9 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 9 (14.29%) Online Games
2 9 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 6 (9.52%) Data Structures
4 5 (7.94%) Mainframe
5 3 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.59%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (65.08%) Data Engineering
2 39 (61.90%) ETL
3 24 (38.10%) Mentoring
4 23 (36.51%) Agile
5 21 (33.33%) Data Architecture
6 20 (31.75%) Analytics
6 20 (31.75%) DevOps
7 18 (28.57%) Data Modelling
8 17 (26.98%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (25.40%) Data Management
10 13 (20.63%) Data Integration
11 12 (19.05%) Coaching
11 12 (19.05%) Data Governance
12 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
12 11 (17.46%) Line Management
12 11 (17.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 10 (15.87%) Data Science
13 10 (15.87%) DataOps
13 10 (15.87%) Decision-Making
13 10 (15.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 34 (53.97%) SQL
2 27 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (46.03%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Terraform
2 1 (1.59%) Ansible
2 1 (1.59%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) Databricks
2 13 (20.63%) Google
3 7 (11.11%) Informatica
4 5 (7.94%) Teradata
5 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.59%) Oracle