Lead Data Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Lead Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 622 675 753
Rank change year-on-year +53 +78 -69
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 149 58 110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.10% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 93 53 46
10th Percentile £59,750 £58,500 £53,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -6.06% +17.86%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £116,246
90th Percentile £100,000 - -
UK median annual salary £81,250 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -4.41% -5.56% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 72,397 50,271 70,852
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.99% 88.93% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 50,949 29,577 42,673
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,238
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.49% +5.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 of England +74 64 £80,000 +2.56% 23
Scotland - 50 £73,250 - 4
North West +18 35 £70,000 +3.70% 13
North East +1 17 £78,750 +1.61% 4
South West -19 15 £70,576 -13.93% 1
Yorkshire +60 12 £85,000 -5.56% 6
South East -11 11 £65,000 -23.53% 10
East of England -1 5 £75,000 -28.57%
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 - 1
West Midlands -26 1 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Midlands -27 1 £75,000 +15.38% 3
Wales - 1 - - 1
Lead Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 89 (59.73%) Python
2 73 (48.99%) Mentoring
3 71 (47.65%) Agile
4 69 (46.31%) AWS
5 63 (42.28%) ETL
5 63 (42.28%) CI/CD
6 62 (41.61%) Data Engineering
7 59 (39.60%) Finance
8 54 (36.24%) Azure
8 54 (36.24%) Coaching
8 54 (36.24%) Apache Airflow
9 53 (35.57%) Apache Spark
10 52 (34.90%) SQL
11 48 (32.21%) Cloud Native
12 45 (30.20%) PySpark
12 45 (30.20%) Software Engineering
13 44 (29.53%) Big Data
13 44 (29.53%) SDLC
14 43 (28.86%) Data Quality
14 43 (28.86%) Law
15 41 (27.52%) Marketing
15 41 (27.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 41 (27.52%) Community of Practice
15 41 (27.52%) Operational Stability
16 38 (25.50%) Analytics
17 37 (24.83%) Social Skills
18 35 (23.49%) Data Modelling
19 34 (22.82%) Data Pipeline
20 33 (22.15%) Databricks
21 32 (21.48%) Data Warehouse

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 54 (36.24%) Apache Airflow
2 53 (35.57%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.70%) Apache
3 7 (4.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 69 (46.31%) AWS
2 54 (36.24%) Azure
3 21 (14.09%) GCP
4 18 (12.08%) Power Platform
5 16 (10.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (10.74%) dbt
6 14 (9.40%) Amazon S3
6 14 (9.40%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (8.05%) Snowflake
8 9 (6.04%) Amazon Kinesis
8 9 (6.04%) SaaS
9 7 (4.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (4.70%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (3.36%) Google Analytics
10 5 (3.36%) Serverless
11 3 (2.01%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.34%) Collibra
12 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (29.53%) Big Data
2 32 (21.48%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (19.46%) Data Lake
4 19 (12.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (12.08%) Power BI
6 15 (10.07%) BigQuery
7 9 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (6.04%) SQL Server
8 8 (5.37%) Data Vault
8 8 (5.37%) Tableau
9 6 (4.03%) Hadoop
9 6 (4.03%) Relational Database
10 5 (3.36%) Airbyte
10 5 (3.36%) Looker
11 4 (2.68%) Flink
11 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
12 3 (2.01%) Delta Lake
12 3 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (2.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (1.34%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 15 (10.07%) JIRA
2 6 (4.03%) RStudio
3 4 (2.68%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (2.01%) GitLab
5 2 (1.34%) Git
5 2 (1.34%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.34%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.67%) ERwin
6 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (39.60%) Finance
2 43 (28.86%) Law
3 41 (27.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 41 (27.52%) Marketing
4 37 (24.83%) Social Skills
5 13 (8.72%) Games
6 9 (6.04%) Banking
6 9 (6.04%) Retail
7 5 (3.36%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.68%) Agriculture
9 3 (2.01%) Legal
10 2 (1.34%) Aviation
10 2 (1.34%) Back Office
11 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (30.20%) PySpark
2 10 (6.71%) Kafka
3 9 (6.04%) Apache Beam
4 2 (1.34%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.34%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 48 (32.21%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.72%) Client/Server
3 12 (8.05%) Data Structures
4 9 (6.04%) Online Games
5 7 (4.70%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.70%) Product Ownership
6 6 (4.03%) Data Centre
7 5 (3.36%) Mainframe
8 3 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.03%) Linux
1 6 (4.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (48.99%) Mentoring
2 71 (47.65%) Agile
3 63 (42.28%) CI/CD
3 63 (42.28%) ETL
4 62 (41.61%) Data Engineering
5 54 (36.24%) Coaching
6 45 (30.20%) Software Engineering
7 44 (29.53%) SDLC
8 41 (27.52%) Community of Practice
8 41 (27.52%) Operational Stability
9 38 (25.50%) Analytics
10 35 (23.49%) Data Modelling
11 34 (22.82%) Data Pipeline
12 29 (19.46%) Data Governance
13 27 (18.12%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (18.12%) DevOps
14 24 (16.11%) Data Architecture
14 24 (16.11%) Data Management
15 21 (14.09%) Machine Learning
16 18 (12.08%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 89 (59.73%) Python
2 52 (34.90%) SQL
3 9 (6.04%) Java
4 8 (5.37%) Scala
5 6 (4.03%) R
6 4 (2.68%) C#
6 4 (2.68%) Go
7 3 (2.01%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.67%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (2.68%) DBS Check
1 4 (2.68%) Degree
2 2 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (28.86%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.01%) QA
3 1 (0.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (5.37%) Docker
2 2 (1.34%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (4.70%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.36%) Terraform
3 3 (2.01%) Ansible
Vendors
1 33 (22.15%) Databricks
2 14 (9.40%) Google
3 11 (7.38%) Informatica
4 9 (6.04%) Microsoft
4 9 (6.04%) Teradata
5 6 (4.03%) Alteryx
6 5 (3.36%) Oracle
7 3 (2.01%) Cloudera