Lead Data Engineer Contracts in Central London

Lead Data Engineer
London > Central London

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in Central London is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 171 193
Rank change year-on-year +39 +22 -41
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 3 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.12% 0.026% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.027% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 6
10th Percentile £538 - £525
25th Percentile £556 £610 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £620 £645
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -3.88% +10.26%
75th Percentile £619 £630 £759
90th Percentile £638 - £775
London median daily rate £588 £660 £668
% change year-on-year -10.98% -1.12% +21.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,332 3,682 4,286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.22% 95.39% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,656 2,526 3,260
10th Percentile £343 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +4.46% +6.67%
75th Percentile £683 £725 £675
90th Percentile £789 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 26 51
10th Percentile £19.23 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.93 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £48.30 £86.65 £62.50
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.13%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 28 April 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
City of London +52 2 £588 -5.24% 1
West End of London - 1 - -
Lead Data Engineer
London

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 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 across the Central London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) JSON Schema
2 2 (66.67%) Log Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Parquet
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Avro
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum

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 (66.67%) Apache
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (66.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (66.67%) Parquet
3 1 (33.33%) Big Data
3 1 (33.33%) Power Query
3 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Deequ
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Avro
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) JSON Schema
1 2 (66.67%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (33.33%) Great Expectations
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Log Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks