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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 672 800 847
Rank change year-on-year +128 +47 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 216 175 416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 158 150 171
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% +10.77%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £112,500 £116,246
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +17.86%

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 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £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 20 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 20 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 +83 162 £80,000 -5.88% 60
UK excluding London +86 147 £75,000 - 28
Work from Home +92 102 £82,500 - 27
London +75 66 £90,000 - 50
North of England +78 63 £82,500 +5.77% 8
Scotland - 49 £66,500 - 2
North West +28 34 £72,500 +7.41% 8
North East +11 17 £78,750 +1.61%
South West -11 16 £70,576 -21.58% 1
Yorkshire +83 12 £85,000 -5.56%
South East +12 9 £75,000 +3.45% 14
East of England +11 6 £75,000 -28.57%
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 - 1
West Midlands -2 1 £75,000 +15.38%
Midlands -22 1 £75,000 +15.38%
Wales - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 20 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.

1 125 (57.87%) Python
2 92 (42.59%) Azure
3 87 (40.28%) SQL
4 86 (39.81%) AWS
5 83 (38.43%) ETL
6 82 (37.96%) Agile
7 81 (37.50%) Mentoring
7 81 (37.50%) Data Engineering
8 72 (33.33%) Finance
9 69 (31.94%) CI/CD
10 59 (27.31%) Apache Spark
11 58 (26.85%) Apache Airflow
12 56 (25.93%) Coaching
13 51 (23.61%) Analytics
13 51 (23.61%) Cloud Native
13 51 (23.61%) PySpark
14 50 (23.15%) Big Data
14 50 (23.15%) Data Pipeline
15 49 (22.69%) Databricks
16 47 (21.76%) SDLC
16 47 (21.76%) Data Warehouse
16 47 (21.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 46 (21.30%) Software Engineering
18 45 (20.83%) Data Quality
18 45 (20.83%) Data Modelling
18 45 (20.83%) Social Skills
19 43 (19.91%) Law
20 42 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
20 42 (19.44%) Marketing
20 42 (19.44%) Data Lake

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 (27.31%) Apache Spark
2 58 (26.85%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (5.09%) Confluence
4 8 (3.70%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 92 (42.59%) Azure
2 86 (39.81%) AWS
3 33 (15.28%) GCP
4 25 (11.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 23 (10.65%) dbt
5 23 (10.65%) Power Platform
6 19 (8.80%) Snowflake
7 15 (6.94%) Amazon S3
7 15 (6.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
9 9 (4.17%) SaaS
10 7 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (3.24%) GitHub
11 6 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.78%) Serverless
12 5 (2.31%) Collibra
12 5 (2.31%) Google Analytics
12 5 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.63%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (23.15%) Big Data
2 47 (21.76%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (19.44%) Data Lake
4 23 (10.65%) Power BI
5 21 (9.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (8.80%) BigQuery
7 15 (6.94%) SQL Server
8 11 (5.09%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (3.70%) Hadoop
9 8 (3.70%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.70%) Tableau
10 7 (3.24%) Data Vault
10 7 (3.24%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.78%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.31%) Airbyte
12 5 (2.31%) Looker
12 5 (2.31%) Metadata
13 4 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (1.85%) Flink
13 4 (1.85%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (8.33%) JIRA
2 6 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.78%) RStudio
3 5 (2.31%) Spinnaker
4 4 (1.85%) GitLab
4 4 (1.85%) Oracle Forms
5 3 (1.39%) Git
6 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.93%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.46%) ERwin
General
1 72 (33.33%) Finance
2 47 (21.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 45 (20.83%) Social Skills
4 43 (19.91%) Law
5 42 (19.44%) Marketing
6 18 (8.33%) Banking
7 13 (6.02%) Games
8 11 (5.09%) Telecoms
9 9 (4.17%) Retail
10 8 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (2.78%) Health Technology
12 4 (1.85%) Agriculture
13 3 (1.39%) Legal
14 2 (0.93%) Aviation
14 2 (0.93%) Back Office
14 2 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (23.61%) PySpark
2 15 (6.94%) Kafka
3 9 (4.17%) Apache Beam
4 5 (2.31%) 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 (0.46%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.61%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.02%) Client/Server
2 13 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 11 (5.09%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.63%) Driving Licence
5 9 (4.17%) Online Games
6 8 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 8 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.31%) Mainframe
8 3 (1.39%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.39%) NHS
9 2 (0.93%) Educational Technology
9 2 (0.93%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.70%) Linux
2 6 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (38.43%) ETL
2 82 (37.96%) Agile
3 81 (37.50%) Data Engineering
3 81 (37.50%) Mentoring
4 69 (31.94%) CI/CD
5 56 (25.93%) Coaching
6 51 (23.61%) Analytics
7 50 (23.15%) Data Pipeline
8 47 (21.76%) SDLC
9 46 (21.30%) Software Engineering
10 45 (20.83%) Data Modelling
11 42 (19.44%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (18.98%) Community of Practice
12 41 (18.98%) Operational Stability
13 34 (15.74%) DevOps
14 32 (14.81%) Machine Learning
15 29 (13.43%) Data Management
16 28 (12.96%) Data Governance
17 25 (11.57%) Data Architecture
18 22 (10.19%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 125 (57.87%) Python
2 87 (40.28%) SQL
3 10 (4.63%) Java
3 10 (4.63%) Scala
4 7 (3.24%) R
5 5 (2.31%) C#
5 5 (2.31%) Go
6 2 (0.93%) C++
6 2 (0.93%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (6.48%) DBS Check
2 9 (4.17%) Degree
3 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (20.83%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.39%) QA
3 1 (0.46%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (6.48%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (6.02%) Terraform
2 10 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) Argo
4 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 49 (22.69%) Databricks
2 18 (8.33%) Google
3 13 (6.02%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.63%) Informatica
5 9 (4.17%) Teradata
6 6 (2.78%) Alteryx
6 6 (2.78%) Oracle
7 3 (1.39%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.46%) Brio
8 1 (0.46%) SAP