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 £77,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 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
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 619 668 763
Rank change year-on-year +49 +95 -80
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 161 60 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.11% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.12% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 105 55 45
10th Percentile £60,850 £59,500 £53,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £86,250 £92,500 £116,246
90th Percentile £100,000 - -
UK median annual salary £85,000 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 75,991 49,070 72,896
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.87% 88.81% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 53,059 29,227 42,783
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,519 £50,296
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +6.41% +5.89%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £67,500
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 13 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 13 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 +61 75 £82,500 +5.77% 10
Scotland - 50 £73,250 - 4
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% 2
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
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 - 1
Wales - 1 - - 2
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 13 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 87 (54.04%) Python
2 71 (44.10%) Mentoring
3 69 (42.86%) Agile
4 68 (42.24%) AWS
5 62 (38.51%) ETL
5 62 (38.51%) CI/CD
6 59 (36.65%) Data Engineering
7 57 (35.40%) Finance
8 54 (33.54%) Apache Airflow
9 53 (32.92%) Azure
9 53 (32.92%) Coaching
10 52 (32.30%) Apache Spark
11 49 (30.43%) SQL
12 46 (28.57%) Cloud Native
13 45 (27.95%) PySpark
13 45 (27.95%) Software Engineering
14 43 (26.71%) Law
14 43 (26.71%) Big Data
14 43 (26.71%) SDLC
15 42 (26.09%) Data Quality
16 41 (25.47%) Marketing
16 41 (25.47%) Community of Practice
16 41 (25.47%) Operational Stability
16 41 (25.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 38 (23.60%) Analytics
18 36 (22.36%) Data Modelling
18 36 (22.36%) Social Skills
19 33 (20.50%) Data Pipeline
19 33 (20.50%) Databricks
20 30 (18.63%) 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 (33.54%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (32.30%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.35%) Apache
4 6 (3.73%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (42.24%) AWS
2 53 (32.92%) Azure
3 19 (11.80%) GCP
4 18 (11.18%) Power Platform
5 16 (9.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (9.94%) dbt
6 15 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (8.70%) Amazon S3
8 12 (7.45%) Snowflake
9 9 (5.59%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (5.59%) SaaS
10 7 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.11%) Google Analytics
11 5 (3.11%) Serverless
12 3 (1.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 2 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.24%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (1.24%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (26.71%) Big Data
2 30 (18.63%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (17.39%) Data Lake
4 19 (11.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (11.18%) Power BI
6 14 (8.70%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.59%) Data Vault
7 9 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (4.97%) Tableau
9 7 (4.35%) SQL Server
10 5 (3.11%) Airbyte
10 5 (3.11%) Hadoop
10 5 (3.11%) Looker
11 4 (2.48%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.48%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.86%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.86%) Flink
13 2 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
13 2 (1.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.24%) Impala
Development Applications
1 15 (9.32%) JIRA
2 6 (3.73%) RStudio
3 3 (1.86%) GitLab
3 3 (1.86%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.24%) Git
5 1 (0.62%) ERwin
5 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.62%) Spinnaker
General
1 57 (35.40%) Finance
2 43 (26.71%) Law
3 41 (25.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 41 (25.47%) Marketing
4 36 (22.36%) Social Skills
5 13 (8.07%) Games
6 9 (5.59%) Retail
7 7 (4.35%) Banking
8 5 (3.11%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.48%) Agriculture
10 3 (1.86%) Legal
11 2 (1.24%) Aviation
11 2 (1.24%) Back Office
12 1 (0.62%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (27.95%) PySpark
2 9 (5.59%) Kafka
3 8 (4.97%) Apache Beam
4 2 (1.24%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (1.24%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 46 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 13 (8.07%) Client/Server
3 12 (7.45%) Data Structures
4 9 (5.59%) Online Games
5 7 (4.35%) Algorithms
6 6 (3.73%) Data Centre
6 6 (3.73%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.11%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.86%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.62%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.62%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.62%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.73%) Linux
1 6 (3.73%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (44.10%) Mentoring
2 69 (42.86%) Agile
3 62 (38.51%) CI/CD
3 62 (38.51%) ETL
4 59 (36.65%) Data Engineering
5 53 (32.92%) Coaching
6 45 (27.95%) Software Engineering
7 43 (26.71%) SDLC
8 41 (25.47%) Community of Practice
8 41 (25.47%) Operational Stability
9 38 (23.60%) Analytics
10 36 (22.36%) Data Modelling
11 33 (20.50%) Data Pipeline
12 28 (17.39%) Data Governance
13 26 (16.15%) Business Intelligence
13 26 (16.15%) DevOps
14 24 (14.91%) Data Architecture
14 24 (14.91%) Data Management
15 20 (12.42%) Machine Learning
16 18 (11.18%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 87 (54.04%) Python
2 49 (30.43%) SQL
3 8 (4.97%) Java
4 7 (4.35%) Scala
5 6 (3.73%) R
6 4 (2.48%) C#
7 3 (1.86%) Go
8 2 (1.24%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.62%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (2.48%) DBS Check
1 4 (2.48%) Degree
2 2 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.86%) QA
3 1 (0.62%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (4.35%) Docker
2 2 (1.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.11%) Terraform
3 3 (1.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 33 (20.50%) Databricks
2 13 (8.07%) Google
3 12 (7.45%) Informatica
4 8 (4.97%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.97%) Teradata
5 6 (3.73%) Alteryx
6 4 (2.48%) Oracle
7 3 (1.86%) Cloudera