Lead Data Engineer Jobs in England

Lead Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in England is £85,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 673 726 816
Rank change year-on-year +53 +90 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 191 168 393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.22% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 179 151 150
10th Percentile £55,000 £62,500 £58,750
25th Percentile £67,500 £66,250 £75,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.11% +12.12%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £106,250 £116,246
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 90,431 74,847 138,483
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.19% 95.86%
Number of salaries quoted 65,915 49,353 75,297
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,713 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £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 12 June 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 12 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
London +79 82 £95,000 +5.56% 21
North of England +61 75 £82,500 +5.77% 11
North West +11 39 £75,000 +11.11% 7
North East -2 20 £82,500 +6.45% 1
Yorkshire +67 16 £85,000 -5.56% 3
South West -32 14 £70,576 -13.93% 1
South East -28 11 £65,000 -23.53% 2
East of England -6 5 £75,000 -28.57%
West Midlands -23 3 £85,000 +30.77% 2
Midlands -50 3 £85,000 +30.77% 2
Lead Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 95 (49.74%) Azure
2 91 (47.64%) SQL
3 88 (46.07%) Python
4 79 (41.36%) ETL
5 71 (37.17%) Data Engineering
6 54 (28.27%) Databricks
7 47 (24.61%) Data Pipeline
7 47 (24.61%) Analytics
8 46 (24.08%) Data Modelling
9 45 (23.56%) Business Intelligence
10 43 (22.51%) AWS
11 42 (21.99%) Data Warehouse
12 41 (21.47%) Data Quality
12 41 (21.47%) Data Lake
13 40 (20.94%) Social Skills
14 37 (19.37%) Mentoring
15 34 (17.80%) Agile
16 31 (16.23%) GCP
17 30 (15.71%) Azure Data Factory
18 29 (15.18%) Finance
19 27 (14.14%) Machine Learning
20 26 (13.61%) CI/CD
20 26 (13.61%) Power Platform
20 26 (13.61%) Power BI
21 25 (13.09%) DevOps
21 25 (13.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
21 25 (13.09%) Data Architecture
22 24 (12.57%) Data Management
23 23 (12.04%) Data Governance
23 23 (12.04%) dbt

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 (9.42%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (8.90%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.19%) Apache
4 6 (3.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 95 (49.74%) Azure
2 43 (22.51%) AWS
3 31 (16.23%) GCP
4 30 (15.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 26 (13.61%) Power Platform
6 25 (13.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 23 (12.04%) dbt
8 19 (9.95%) Snowflake
9 15 (7.85%) Amazon S3
10 11 (5.76%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.71%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (4.71%) SaaS
12 7 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (2.62%) Google Analytics
14 4 (2.09%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (2.09%) Serverless
15 3 (1.57%) GitHub
15 3 (1.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 2 (1.05%) Amazon EMR
16 2 (1.05%) Fivetran
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.24%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (21.99%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (21.47%) Data Lake
3 26 (13.61%) Power BI
4 20 (10.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (9.42%) BigQuery
6 15 (7.85%) SQL Server
7 12 (6.28%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (5.24%) Data Vault
9 8 (4.19%) Big Data
10 7 (3.66%) Tableau
11 6 (3.14%) Hadoop
11 6 (3.14%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.62%) Airbyte
12 5 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.62%) Looker
12 5 (2.62%) Relational Database
13 4 (2.09%) MySQL
14 3 (1.57%) Flink
14 3 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 2 (1.05%) Impala
Development Applications
1 15 (7.85%) JIRA
2 6 (3.14%) RStudio
3 5 (2.62%) Git
4 4 (2.09%) GitLab
5 3 (1.57%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.52%) ERwin
7 1 (0.52%) Spinnaker
General
1 40 (20.94%) Social Skills
2 29 (15.18%) Finance
3 15 (7.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (6.81%) Banking
4 13 (6.81%) Games
5 11 (5.76%) Telecoms
6 8 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.19%) Retail
7 6 (3.14%) Health Technology
8 4 (2.09%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.05%) Aviation
9 2 (1.05%) Back Office
10 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.52%) Marketing
10 1 (0.52%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.95%) PySpark
2 13 (6.81%) Kafka
3 8 (4.19%) Apache Beam
4 3 (1.57%) Pandas
5 2 (1.05%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.05%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.05%) Flask
5 2 (1.05%) NumPy
5 2 (1.05%) SciPy
6 1 (0.52%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.33%) Data Structures
2 13 (6.81%) Client/Server
3 10 (5.24%) Driving Licence
4 9 (4.71%) Online Games
5 8 (4.19%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.19%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (3.66%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.14%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.62%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.57%) NHS
10 2 (1.05%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.05%) Educational Technology
10 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
11 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.52%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.52%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.52%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.19%) Linux
2 6 (3.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (41.36%) ETL
2 71 (37.17%) Data Engineering
3 47 (24.61%) Analytics
3 47 (24.61%) Data Pipeline
4 46 (24.08%) Data Modelling
5 45 (23.56%) Business Intelligence
6 37 (19.37%) Mentoring
7 34 (17.80%) Agile
8 27 (14.14%) Machine Learning
9 26 (13.61%) CI/CD
10 25 (13.09%) Data Architecture
10 25 (13.09%) DevOps
11 24 (12.57%) Data Management
12 23 (12.04%) Data Governance
13 22 (11.52%) Data Transformation
14 20 (10.47%) Data Integration
15 18 (9.42%) Data Analysis
15 18 (9.42%) Roadmaps
16 17 (8.90%) Data Ingestion
17 16 (8.38%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (47.64%) SQL
2 88 (46.07%) Python
3 8 (4.19%) Scala
4 7 (3.66%) Java
4 7 (3.66%) R
5 5 (2.62%) C#
6 4 (2.09%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.57%) Go
8 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (7.33%) DBS Check
2 5 (2.62%) Degree
3 3 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.57%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (21.47%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 13 (6.81%) Docker
2 2 (1.05%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (7.33%) Terraform
2 9 (4.71%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.52%) Argo
4 1 (0.52%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 54 (28.27%) Databricks
2 14 (7.33%) Google
3 12 (6.28%) Informatica
4 10 (5.24%) Microsoft
5 8 (4.19%) Teradata
6 6 (3.14%) Alteryx
7 4 (2.09%) Oracle
8 3 (1.57%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.52%) Brio