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 25 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
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 688 787 841
Rank change year-on-year +99 +54 -24
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 219 174 432
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 161 148 175
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% +9.09%
75th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £109,000 £116,246
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
% change year-on-year -1.64% -7.58% +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 96,364 89,509 157,820
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.77% 91.47% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 68,829 56,547 84,640
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,609
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%

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 25 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 25 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 +51 164 £82,500 -2.94% 63
UK excluding London +80 149 £75,000 -1.64% 39
Work from Home +66 103 £82,500 +1.54% 23
London +73 67 £90,000 - 48
North of England +83 64 £82,500 +5.77% 10
Scotland - 50 £73,250 - 3
North West +34 35 £70,000 +3.70% 9
North East +6 17 £78,750 +1.61%
South West -16 16 £70,576 -14.45% 2
Yorkshire +82 12 £85,000 -5.56% 1
South East -4 9 £75,000 -11.76% 19
East of England +19 6 £75,000 -28.57%
Northern Ireland - 2 £77,500 - 1
West Midlands -10 1 £75,000 +15.38%
Midlands -23 1 £75,000 +15.38% 1
Wales - 1 - - 3

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

For the 6 months to 25 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.

1 126 (57.53%) Python
2 94 (42.92%) Azure
3 90 (41.10%) SQL
4 86 (39.27%) AWS
5 83 (37.90%) Mentoring
6 82 (37.44%) ETL
7 80 (36.53%) Agile
7 80 (36.53%) Data Engineering
8 72 (32.88%) Finance
9 70 (31.96%) CI/CD
10 58 (26.48%) Apache Airflow
10 58 (26.48%) Apache Spark
11 56 (25.57%) Coaching
12 52 (23.74%) Analytics
12 52 (23.74%) Databricks
13 51 (23.29%) PySpark
14 50 (22.83%) Cloud Native
14 50 (22.83%) Data Pipeline
15 49 (22.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 49 (22.37%) Big Data
16 48 (21.92%) Data Warehouse
17 47 (21.46%) Software Engineering
18 46 (21.00%) SDLC
19 45 (20.55%) Data Quality
19 45 (20.55%) Social Skills
20 44 (20.09%) Business Intelligence
20 44 (20.09%) Data Modelling
21 43 (19.63%) Law
22 42 (19.18%) Marketing
22 42 (19.18%) 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 58 (26.48%) Apache Airflow
1 58 (26.48%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.57%) Confluence
3 8 (3.65%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (42.92%) Azure
2 86 (39.27%) AWS
3 33 (15.07%) GCP
4 28 (12.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 24 (10.96%) dbt
5 24 (10.96%) Power Platform
6 20 (9.13%) Snowflake
7 17 (7.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (6.85%) Amazon S3
9 14 (6.39%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (4.11%) Amazon Kinesis
10 9 (4.11%) SaaS
11 7 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (2.74%) GitHub
12 6 (2.74%) Serverless
13 5 (2.28%) Google Analytics
14 4 (1.83%) Collibra
14 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (1.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.57%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (22.37%) Big Data
2 48 (21.92%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (19.18%) Data Lake
4 24 (10.96%) Power BI
5 21 (9.59%) Amazon Redshift
6 19 (8.68%) BigQuery
7 15 (6.85%) SQL Server
8 11 (5.02%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (3.65%) Data Vault
9 8 (3.65%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.65%) Tableau
10 7 (3.20%) Hadoop
11 6 (2.74%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.74%) NoSQL
12 5 (2.28%) Airbyte
12 5 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.28%) Looker
13 4 (1.83%) Flink
13 4 (1.83%) MySQL
13 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (7.76%) JIRA
2 6 (2.74%) RStudio
3 5 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.83%) Git
4 4 (1.83%) GitLab
4 4 (1.83%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (1.83%) Spinnaker
5 2 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.46%) ERwin
General
1 72 (32.88%) Finance
2 49 (22.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 45 (20.55%) Social Skills
4 43 (19.63%) Law
5 42 (19.18%) Marketing
6 17 (7.76%) Banking
7 13 (5.94%) Games
8 11 (5.02%) Telecoms
9 9 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (4.11%) Retail
10 6 (2.74%) Health Technology
11 4 (1.83%) Agriculture
12 3 (1.37%) Legal
13 2 (0.91%) Aviation
13 2 (0.91%) Back Office
13 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (23.29%) PySpark
2 14 (6.39%) Kafka
3 9 (4.11%) Apache Beam
4 5 (2.28%) Pandas
5 2 (0.91%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (0.91%) FastAPI
5 2 (0.91%) Flask
5 2 (0.91%) NumPy
5 2 (0.91%) SciPy
6 1 (0.46%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 50 (22.83%) Cloud Native
2 13 (5.94%) Client/Server
3 12 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.02%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.57%) Driving Licence
6 9 (4.11%) Online Games
7 8 (3.65%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.65%) Greenfield Project
8 7 (3.20%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.28%) Mainframe
10 3 (1.37%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.37%) NHS
11 2 (0.91%) Educational Technology
12 1 (0.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 1 (0.46%) Credit Risk
12 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
12 1 (0.46%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.65%) Linux
2 6 (2.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (37.90%) Mentoring
2 82 (37.44%) ETL
3 80 (36.53%) Agile
3 80 (36.53%) Data Engineering
4 70 (31.96%) CI/CD
5 56 (25.57%) Coaching
6 52 (23.74%) Analytics
7 50 (22.83%) Data Pipeline
8 47 (21.46%) Software Engineering
9 46 (21.00%) SDLC
10 44 (20.09%) Business Intelligence
10 44 (20.09%) Data Modelling
11 41 (18.72%) Community of Practice
11 41 (18.72%) Operational Stability
12 33 (15.07%) DevOps
13 31 (14.16%) Machine Learning
14 29 (13.24%) Data Governance
14 29 (13.24%) Data Management
15 27 (12.33%) Data Architecture
16 22 (10.05%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 126 (57.53%) Python
2 90 (41.10%) SQL
3 10 (4.57%) Java
4 9 (4.11%) Scala
5 7 (3.20%) R
6 5 (2.28%) C#
6 5 (2.28%) Go
7 3 (1.37%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.46%) C++
9 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (6.39%) DBS Check
2 8 (3.65%) Degree
3 4 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (20.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.83%) QA
3 1 (0.46%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (6.39%) Docker
2 2 (0.91%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 14 (6.39%) Terraform
2 10 (4.57%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.37%) Ansible
4 1 (0.46%) Argo
4 1 (0.46%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 52 (23.74%) Databricks
2 17 (7.76%) Google
3 14 (6.39%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.57%) Informatica
5 9 (4.11%) Teradata
6 6 (2.74%) Alteryx
7 5 (2.28%) Oracle
8 3 (1.37%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.46%) Brio
9 1 (0.46%) SAP