Lead Data Engineer Contracts

Lead Data Engineer
UK

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in the UK is £569 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 541 633 761
Rank change year-on-year +92 +128 -93
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 43 44 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.100% 0.079% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.084% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 34 69
10th Percentile £491 £400 £450
25th Percentile £513 £544 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £650 £615
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +5.69% +5.13%
75th Percentile £756 £750 £688
90th Percentile £800 £785 £805
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £545 £600
% change year-on-year +10.09% -9.17% +6.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 39,999 52,446 83,585
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.59% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,801 36,620 58,938
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £407 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,862 1,460 1,964
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.46
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.97% +12.51%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.03 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Data Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Engineer in the UK

Lead Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Engineer in the UK

Lead Data Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Data Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +67 38 £538 -17.31% 41
London +76 32 £538 -17.31% 20
Work from Home +122 26 £625 -3.85% 25
UK excluding London +42 3 £600 +10.09% 26
North of England - 3 £600 - 15
Yorkshire - 2 £613 - 5
North West - 1 £525 - 9

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

For the 6 months to 5 June 2024, Lead Data Engineer contract 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 contract job ads featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (60.47%) Python
2 21 (48.84%) Databricks
3 19 (44.19%) Analytics
3 19 (44.19%) Azure
4 18 (41.86%) SQL
4 18 (41.86%) Data Engineering
5 17 (39.53%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
6 14 (32.56%) Data Modelling
7 13 (30.23%) Agile
7 13 (30.23%) AWS
7 13 (30.23%) Scala
7 13 (30.23%) Data Quality
8 11 (25.58%) SDLC
8 11 (25.58%) Finance
8 11 (25.58%) ETL
9 10 (23.26%) Azure Data Factory
10 9 (20.93%) Data Lake
10 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
10 9 (20.93%) Data Integration
11 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
11 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
11 8 (18.60%) Degree
11 8 (18.60%) Computer Science
11 8 (18.60%) Banking
11 8 (18.60%) Apache Spark
11 8 (18.60%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (18.60%) Data Ingestion
11 8 (18.60%) PySpark
11 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving

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 8 (18.60%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.98%) Apache
3 1 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (44.19%) Azure
2 13 (30.23%) AWS
3 10 (23.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (18.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (9.30%) dbt
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.65%) GCP
8 1 (2.33%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.33%) GitHub
8 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.33%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.33%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Data Lake
2 6 (13.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (13.95%) Big Data
2 6 (13.95%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (11.63%) NoSQL
4 4 (9.30%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (9.30%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.98%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.98%) Delta Lake
5 3 (6.98%) Parquet
5 3 (6.98%) Power Query
6 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.33%) Neo4j
7 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.33%) Star Schema
7 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) MLflow
2 2 (4.65%) Deequ
3 1 (2.33%) Git
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 11 (25.58%) Finance
3 9 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (18.60%) Banking
5 7 (16.28%) Investment Banking
6 6 (13.95%) Front Office
7 2 (4.65%) Marketing
7 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.33%) Health Technology
8 1 (2.33%) Legal
8 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (18.60%) PySpark
2 3 (6.98%) Apache Avro
2 3 (6.98%) JSON
2 3 (6.98%) JSON Schema
3 2 (4.65%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.65%) Great Expectations
3 2 (4.65%) Kafka
4 1 (2.33%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.95%) Derivative
2 2 (4.65%) NHS
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) Analytics
2 18 (41.86%) Data Engineering
3 17 (39.53%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (32.56%) Data Modelling
5 13 (30.23%) Agile
6 11 (25.58%) ETL
6 11 (25.58%) SDLC
7 9 (20.93%) Data Integration
8 8 (18.60%) Computer Science
8 8 (18.60%) Data Ingestion
8 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
9 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (13.95%) Knowledge Transfer
9 6 (13.95%) Migration
9 6 (13.95%) MLOps
10 5 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (11.63%) Data Migration
10 5 (11.63%) DevOps
11 4 (9.30%) SFIA
Programming Languages
1 26 (60.47%) Python
2 18 (41.86%) SQL
3 13 (30.23%) Scala
4 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.33%) Gremlin
5 1 (2.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (18.60%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (18.60%) Degree
1 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
1 8 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 6 (13.95%) Master's Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.33%) GDPR
2 1 (2.33%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (9.30%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Ganglia
2 1 (2.33%) Matomo
Vendors
1 21 (48.84%) Databricks
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.33%) Brio
3 1 (2.33%) Informatica
3 1 (2.33%) Oracle
3 1 (2.33%) Salesforce