Lead Data Engineer
UK

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in the UK is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 684 800 852
Rank change year-on-year +116 +52 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 215 175 401
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 156 148 168
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £96,539 £98,125 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £115,374
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £74,500 £80,500
% change year-on-year +0.67% -7.45% +15.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 93,739 91,836 153,630
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 91.52% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 67,104 57,926 84,939
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £80,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the UK

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in the UK

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in the UK

Lead Data Engineer
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England +78 161 £80,000 -5.88% 38
UK excluding London +85 149 £75,000 +0.67% 11
Work from Home +81 100 £80,000 -1.54% 20
London +90 63 £90,000 - 30
North of England +77 63 £82,500 +5.77% 6
Scotland - 49 £66,500 - 1
North West +33 34 £72,500 +7.41% 5
North East +6 17 £78,750 +1.61%
South West -11 17 £70,576 -21.58% 1
Yorkshire +90 12 £85,000 -5.56% 1
South East +7 9 £75,000 +3.45%
East of England +9 6 £75,000 -28.57%
West Midlands -9 2 £80,000 +23.08%
Midlands -10 2 £80,000 +23.08%
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 - 1
Wales - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 124 (57.67%) Python
2 90 (41.86%) Azure
3 86 (40.00%) AWS
4 85 (39.53%) SQL
5 82 (38.14%) ETL
6 81 (37.67%) Agile
7 80 (37.21%) Mentoring
8 79 (36.74%) Data Engineering
9 71 (33.02%) Finance
10 70 (32.56%) CI/CD
11 59 (27.44%) Apache Spark
12 58 (26.98%) Apache Airflow
13 56 (26.05%) Coaching
14 51 (23.72%) Analytics
14 51 (23.72%) Cloud Native
15 50 (23.26%) Big Data
16 49 (22.79%) Data Pipeline
16 49 (22.79%) PySpark
17 48 (22.33%) Databricks
18 47 (21.86%) SDLC
18 47 (21.86%) Data Warehouse
19 46 (21.40%) Data Quality
19 46 (21.40%) Software Engineering
20 45 (20.93%) Data Modelling
20 45 (20.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
21 44 (20.47%) Social Skills
22 43 (20.00%) Law
23 42 (19.53%) Business Intelligence
23 42 (19.53%) Marketing
24 41 (19.07%) Operational Stability

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 59 (27.44%) Apache Spark
2 58 (26.98%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (5.12%) Confluence
4 8 (3.72%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 90 (41.86%) Azure
2 86 (40.00%) AWS
3 32 (14.88%) GCP
4 24 (11.16%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (10.70%) dbt
6 22 (10.23%) Power Platform
7 20 (9.30%) Snowflake
8 16 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
9 15 (6.98%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (4.19%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (4.19%) SaaS
12 7 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (3.26%) GitHub
13 6 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (2.79%) Serverless
14 5 (2.33%) Collibra
14 5 (2.33%) Google Analytics
14 5 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.65%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (23.26%) Big Data
2 47 (21.86%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (19.07%) Data Lake
4 22 (10.23%) Power BI
5 21 (9.77%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (8.84%) BigQuery
7 16 (7.44%) SQL Server
8 12 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (3.72%) Data Vault
9 8 (3.72%) Delta Lake
9 8 (3.72%) Hadoop
9 8 (3.72%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.72%) Tableau
10 6 (2.79%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.33%) Airbyte
11 5 (2.33%) Looker
11 5 (2.33%) Metadata
12 4 (1.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.86%) Flink
12 4 (1.86%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (8.84%) JIRA
2 6 (2.79%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.79%) RStudio
3 5 (2.33%) Spinnaker
4 4 (1.86%) GitLab
4 4 (1.86%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.40%) Git
6 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.47%) ERwin
General
1 71 (33.02%) Finance
2 45 (20.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 44 (20.47%) Social Skills
4 43 (20.00%) Law
5 42 (19.53%) Marketing
6 18 (8.37%) Banking
7 13 (6.05%) Games
8 11 (5.12%) Telecoms
9 9 (4.19%) Retail
10 8 (3.72%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (2.79%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.86%) Agriculture
13 3 (1.40%) Aviation
13 3 (1.40%) Legal
14 2 (0.93%) Back Office
14 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (22.79%) PySpark
2 16 (7.44%) Kafka
3 9 (4.19%) Apache Beam
4 5 (2.33%) Pandas
5 2 (0.93%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (0.93%) FastAPI
5 2 (0.93%) Flask
5 2 (0.93%) NumPy
5 2 (0.93%) SciPy
6 1 (0.47%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.72%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.05%) Client/Server
2 13 (6.05%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.58%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.65%) Driving Licence
5 9 (4.19%) Online Games
6 8 (3.72%) Algorithms
6 8 (3.72%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.72%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.33%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.40%) NHS
8 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.40%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.93%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.72%) Linux
2 6 (2.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (38.14%) ETL
2 81 (37.67%) Agile
3 80 (37.21%) Mentoring
4 79 (36.74%) Data Engineering
5 70 (32.56%) CI/CD
6 56 (26.05%) Coaching
7 51 (23.72%) Analytics
8 49 (22.79%) Data Pipeline
9 47 (21.86%) SDLC
10 46 (21.40%) Software Engineering
11 45 (20.93%) Data Modelling
12 42 (19.53%) Business Intelligence
13 41 (19.07%) Community of Practice
13 41 (19.07%) Operational Stability
14 36 (16.74%) DevOps
15 32 (14.88%) Machine Learning
16 29 (13.49%) Data Management
17 28 (13.02%) Data Governance
18 25 (11.63%) Data Architecture
19 22 (10.23%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 124 (57.67%) Python
2 85 (39.53%) SQL
3 10 (4.65%) Java
3 10 (4.65%) Scala
4 7 (3.26%) R
5 5 (2.33%) C#
5 5 (2.33%) Go
6 2 (0.93%) C++
6 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (6.51%) DBS Check
2 8 (3.72%) Degree
3 4 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (21.40%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.40%) QA
3 1 (0.47%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (6.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (6.05%) Terraform
2 10 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.40%) Ansible
4 1 (0.47%) Argo
4 1 (0.47%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 48 (22.33%) Databricks
2 18 (8.37%) Google
3 12 (5.58%) Microsoft
4 11 (5.12%) Informatica
5 9 (4.19%) Teradata
6 7 (3.26%) Oracle
7 6 (2.79%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.40%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.47%) Brio
9 1 (0.47%) SAP