Lead Data Engineer Jobs with Work from Home Options

Lead Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Data Engineer salary for remote or hybrid work is £82,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 544 705
Rank change year-on-year +48 +161 -171
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 106 91 189
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.31% 0.25% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 101 83 86
10th Percentile £65,000 £60,500 £70,000
25th Percentile £68,718 £65,000 £85,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £92,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.81% +13.85%
75th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £102,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £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
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 34,116 36,108 73,498
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.27% 95.94% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 25,883 26,404 42,665
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Lead Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Data Engineer.

Lead Data Engineer salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Data Engineer over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Lead Data Engineer salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 11 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 jobs with remote work options featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 69 (65.09%) Python
2 64 (60.38%) SQL
3 57 (53.77%) Data Engineering
4 55 (51.89%) ETL
5 54 (50.94%) Azure
6 33 (31.13%) AWS
7 30 (28.30%) Mentoring
8 28 (26.42%) Business Intelligence
8 28 (26.42%) Databricks
9 27 (25.47%) Data Pipeline
9 27 (25.47%) Data Modelling
9 27 (25.47%) Analytics
10 26 (24.53%) GCP
10 26 (24.53%) Data Warehouse
11 24 (22.64%) Data Lake
12 23 (21.70%) Social Skills
12 23 (21.70%) dbt
13 22 (20.75%) Machine Learning
14 21 (19.81%) Data Quality
15 20 (18.87%) Agile
16 18 (16.98%) Data Architecture
16 18 (16.98%) Finance
17 17 (16.04%) Snowflake
17 17 (16.04%) CI/CD
18 16 (15.09%) Amazon Redshift
18 16 (15.09%) Data Integration
19 15 (14.15%) DevOps
19 15 (14.15%) PySpark
20 14 (13.21%) Apache Airflow
20 14 (13.21%) Data Governance

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 14 (13.21%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.55%) Apache Spark
3 6 (5.66%) Confluence
4 5 (4.72%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 54 (50.94%) Azure
2 33 (31.13%) AWS
3 26 (24.53%) GCP
4 23 (21.70%) dbt
5 17 (16.04%) Snowflake
6 11 (10.38%) Power Platform
7 10 (9.43%) Amazon S3
8 9 (8.49%) Amazon Kinesis
8 9 (8.49%) SaaS
9 8 (7.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (7.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (4.72%) Google Analytics
11 3 (2.83%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
12 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (1.89%) Serverless
13 1 (0.94%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (24.53%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (22.64%) Data Lake
3 16 (15.09%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (12.26%) BigQuery
5 12 (11.32%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (10.38%) Power BI
7 7 (6.60%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.72%) Airbyte
8 5 (4.72%) Looker
8 5 (4.72%) Tableau
9 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
10 3 (2.83%) Big Data
10 3 (2.83%) Delta Lake
10 3 (2.83%) MySQL
11 2 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (1.89%) Relational Database
12 1 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
12 1 (0.94%) Hadoop
12 1 (0.94%) Metadata
12 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (5.66%) JIRA
2 3 (2.83%) GitLab
3 2 (1.89%) Git
4 1 (0.94%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.94%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.94%) Spinnaker
General
1 23 (21.70%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.98%) Finance
3 13 (12.26%) Games
4 12 (11.32%) Banking
5 8 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.72%) Retail
7 4 (3.77%) Agriculture
7 4 (3.77%) Health Technology
8 3 (2.83%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.89%) Aviation
10 1 (0.94%) Legal
10 1 (0.94%) Marketing
10 1 (0.94%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.15%) PySpark
2 8 (7.55%) Kafka
3 6 (5.66%) Apache Beam
4 3 (2.83%) Pandas
5 2 (1.89%) FastAPI
5 2 (1.89%) Flask
5 2 (1.89%) NumPy
5 2 (1.89%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.26%) Client/Server
2 9 (8.49%) Online Games
3 8 (7.55%) Product Ownership
4 7 (6.60%) Greenfield Project
5 6 (5.66%) Cloud Native
6 5 (4.72%) Mainframe
7 3 (2.83%) NHS
8 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (53.77%) Data Engineering
2 55 (51.89%) ETL
3 30 (28.30%) Mentoring
4 28 (26.42%) Business Intelligence
5 27 (25.47%) Analytics
5 27 (25.47%) Data Modelling
5 27 (25.47%) Data Pipeline
6 22 (20.75%) Machine Learning
7 20 (18.87%) Agile
8 18 (16.98%) Data Architecture
9 17 (16.04%) CI/CD
10 16 (15.09%) Data Integration
11 15 (14.15%) DevOps
12 14 (13.21%) Data Governance
12 14 (13.21%) Data Transformation
13 13 (12.26%) Coaching
13 13 (12.26%) Data Ingestion
14 11 (10.38%) Artificial Intelligence
14 11 (10.38%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (10.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 69 (65.09%) Python
2 64 (60.38%) SQL
3 4 (3.77%) C#
3 4 (3.77%) Java
4 3 (2.83%) Scala
5 2 (1.89%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.94%) Go
6 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (2.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.81%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (9.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.38%) Terraform
2 6 (5.66%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.83%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (26.42%) Databricks
2 13 (12.26%) Google
3 7 (6.60%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.66%) Teradata
5 1 (0.94%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.94%) Oracle