Lead Data Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Lead Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Lead Data Engineer salary in the North of England is £80,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 407 442
Rank change year-on-year +74 +35 -81
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 64 23 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.34% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 57 20 5
10th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £69,300
25th Percentile £67,500 £70,938 £75,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £78,000 £81,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -3.70% +15.71%
75th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £87,000
90th Percentile £110,000 - £97,800
England median annual salary £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% +9.09%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 17,953 14,401 17,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.20% 89.25% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,711 7,947 10,940
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,627 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +9.09%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Lead Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the North of England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Lead Data Engineer in the North of England

Lead Data Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Data Engineer in the North of England

Lead Data Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 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 West +26 35 £70,000 +3.70% 12
North East +2 17 £78,750 +1.61% 5
Yorkshire +62 12 £85,000 -5.56% 6
Lead Data Engineer
England

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 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 North of England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (64.06%) ETL
2 38 (59.38%) Data Engineering
3 36 (56.25%) SQL
4 35 (54.69%) Azure
5 30 (46.88%) Data Quality
6 27 (42.19%) Python
7 24 (37.50%) Analytics
7 24 (37.50%) Social Skills
8 22 (34.38%) Databricks
8 22 (34.38%) Data Modelling
8 22 (34.38%) Agile
9 21 (32.81%) Data Architecture
9 21 (32.81%) Mentoring
10 19 (29.69%) DevOps
10 19 (29.69%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (26.56%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (23.44%) Data Management
12 15 (23.44%) Data Warehouse
12 15 (23.44%) JIRA
12 15 (23.44%) dbt
13 14 (21.88%) Data Governance
13 14 (21.88%) Apache Airflow
14 13 (20.31%) Data Integration
14 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
15 12 (18.75%) Amazon S3
15 12 (18.75%) AWS
15 12 (18.75%) Data Strategy
15 12 (18.75%) Coaching
16 11 (17.19%) GCP
16 11 (17.19%) Data Lake

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (21.88%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (10.94%) Apache
2 7 (10.94%) Apache Spark
2 7 (10.94%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (54.69%) Azure
2 15 (23.44%) dbt
3 12 (18.75%) Amazon S3
3 12 (18.75%) AWS
4 11 (17.19%) GCP
4 11 (17.19%) Power Platform
5 9 (14.06%) Amazon Kinesis
5 9 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (14.06%) SaaS
6 8 (12.50%) Snowflake
7 7 (10.94%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (7.81%) Google Analytics
10 2 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (3.13%) Collibra
10 2 (3.13%) GitHub
10 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (3.13%) Serverless
11 1 (1.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 15 (23.44%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (17.19%) Data Lake
3 11 (17.19%) Power BI
4 9 (14.06%) BigQuery
4 9 (14.06%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (12.50%) Data Vault
6 7 (10.94%) Tableau
7 5 (7.81%) Airbyte
7 5 (7.81%) Looker
8 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
9 2 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (3.13%) Metadata
9 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (23.44%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Git
2 2 (3.13%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.13%) Spinnaker
3 1 (1.56%) GitLab
General
1 24 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Finance
3 9 (14.06%) Games
4 8 (12.50%) Retail
5 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Aviation
6 2 (3.13%) Back Office
6 2 (3.13%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) Apache Beam
1 5 (7.81%) Kafka
1 5 (7.81%) PySpark
2 2 (3.13%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (3.13%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Client/Server
1 9 (14.06%) Online Games
2 8 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 8 (12.50%) Data Structures
3 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
4 5 (7.81%) Mainframe
5 3 (4.69%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (64.06%) ETL
2 38 (59.38%) Data Engineering
3 24 (37.50%) Analytics
4 22 (34.38%) Agile
4 22 (34.38%) Data Modelling
5 21 (32.81%) Data Architecture
5 21 (32.81%) Mentoring
6 19 (29.69%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (29.69%) DevOps
7 15 (23.44%) Data Management
8 14 (21.88%) Data Governance
9 13 (20.31%) CI/CD
9 13 (20.31%) Data Integration
10 12 (18.75%) Coaching
10 12 (18.75%) Data Strategy
11 10 (15.63%) Data Analysis
11 10 (15.63%) Data Science
11 10 (15.63%) DataOps
11 10 (15.63%) Decision-Making
11 10 (15.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 36 (56.25%) SQL
2 27 (42.19%) Python
3 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.56%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (46.88%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Terraform
2 1 (1.56%) Ansible
2 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (34.38%) Databricks
2 10 (15.63%) Google
3 9 (14.06%) Informatica
4 5 (7.81%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.81%) Teradata
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle