Lead Data Engineer Contracts in Central London

Lead Data Engineer
London > Central London

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in Central London.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 130 171
Rank change year-on-year +3 +41 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.10% 0.12% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.13% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £538 -
25th Percentile - £556 £610
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £588 £620
Median % change year-on-year - -5.24% -3.88%
75th Percentile - £619 £630
90th Percentile - £638 -
London median daily rate £500 £588 £660
% change year-on-year -14.89% -10.98% -1.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in Central London

Lead Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Engineer in Central London

Lead Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +8 2 - - 4
Lead Data Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the Central London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 2 (100.00%) Star Schema
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 2 (100.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Coaching
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks