Lead Data Engineer Jobs in London

Lead Data Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in London is £95,000 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 427 506 668
Rank change year-on-year +79 +162 -111
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 82 97 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.33% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.33% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 79 87 84
10th Percentile £28,250 £65,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £70,000 £82,500 £70,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £90,000 £85,750
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +4.96% +0.88%
75th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £99,063
90th Percentile £115,000 £106,750 £105,000
England median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
% change year-on-year - -8.11% +12.12%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 23,403 29,645 71,541
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 94.97% 96.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,198 22,316 34,853
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £54,988 £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 £60,713 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.53% +1.19% +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 12 June 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 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
Central London +57 16 £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 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 London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 49 (59.76%) Azure
2 45 (54.88%) Python
3 44 (53.66%) SQL
4 24 (29.27%) Databricks
5 23 (28.05%) ETL
6 19 (23.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 19 (23.17%) AWS
7 18 (21.95%) Data Engineering
7 18 (21.95%) Azure Data Factory
7 18 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (21.95%) Data Pipeline
8 16 (19.51%) Data Modelling
8 16 (19.51%) Data Lake
9 15 (18.29%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (18.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (17.07%) Finance
10 14 (17.07%) PySpark
10 14 (17.07%) Analytics
11 11 (13.41%) Kimball Methodology
11 11 (13.41%) GCP
12 10 (12.20%) DBS Check
12 10 (12.20%) Fintech
12 10 (12.20%) Driving Licence
12 10 (12.20%) Machine Learning
12 10 (12.20%) Structured Cabling
12 10 (12.20%) Telecoms
12 10 (12.20%) Snowflake
13 9 (10.98%) Roadmaps
13 9 (10.98%) Terraform
14 8 (9.76%) Power BI

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 (6.10%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.66%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.22%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 49 (59.76%) Azure
2 19 (23.17%) AWS
2 19 (23.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 18 (21.95%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (13.41%) GCP
5 10 (12.20%) Snowflake
6 8 (9.76%) dbt
6 8 (9.76%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.44%) Fivetran
7 2 (2.44%) GitHub
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.22%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.22%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.20%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.51%) Data Lake
2 15 (18.29%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (9.76%) Power BI
3 8 (9.76%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.10%) Big Data
5 3 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.66%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.66%) MySQL
5 3 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.44%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.22%) Data Vault
7 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.22%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Git
2 1 (1.22%) GitLab
2 1 (1.22%) Jenkins
General
1 15 (18.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (17.07%) Finance
3 10 (12.20%) Telecoms
4 7 (8.54%) Social Skills
5 6 (7.32%) Banking
6 5 (6.10%) Health Technology
7 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.22%) Marketing
8 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.22%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.07%) PySpark
2 4 (4.88%) Kafka
3 2 (2.44%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.44%) Flask
3 2 (2.44%) NumPy
3 2 (2.44%) SciPy
4 1 (1.22%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.22%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) Driving Licence
2 5 (6.10%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.66%) NHS
4 2 (2.44%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.44%) Educational Technology
4 2 (2.44%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.22%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.05%) ETL
2 18 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
2 18 (21.95%) Data Engineering
2 18 (21.95%) Data Pipeline
3 16 (19.51%) Data Modelling
4 14 (17.07%) Analytics
5 11 (13.41%) Kimball Methodology
6 10 (12.20%) Fintech
6 10 (12.20%) Machine Learning
7 9 (10.98%) Roadmaps
8 8 (9.76%) CI/CD
8 8 (9.76%) Mentoring
8 8 (9.76%) Migration
9 7 (8.54%) Agile
10 6 (7.32%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (7.32%) Computer Science
10 6 (7.32%) Data Integration
11 5 (6.10%) Data Migration
11 5 (6.10%) Infrastructure as Code
12 4 (4.88%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 45 (54.88%) Python
2 44 (53.66%) SQL
3 2 (2.44%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.22%) C#
4 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.22%) R
4 1 (1.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (12.20%) DBS Check
2 4 (4.88%) Degree
3 2 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.44%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.22%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.22%) QA
System Software
1 6 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (10.98%) Terraform
2 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Argo
3 1 (1.22%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 24 (29.27%) Databricks
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.22%) Brio
3 1 (1.22%) Google