Lead Data Engineer Contracts in England

Lead Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 450 499 609
Rank change year-on-year +49 +110 +99
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 35 43 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.12% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.12% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 37 34
10th Percentile £425 £483 £400
25th Percentile £447 £513 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £638
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -7.84% +0.79%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £750
90th Percentile £800 £800 £785
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +32 28 £500 -14.89% 34
North of England +17 2 £550 -2.22% 6
North East +1 2 £550 +15.30%
Midlands - 2 £550 -
West Midlands - 2 £550 -
South East +45 1 £525 -15.32% 12
Lead Data Engineer
UK

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

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 England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (74.29%) SQL
2 24 (68.57%) Python
3 19 (54.29%) Data Engineering
4 18 (51.43%) AWS
5 17 (48.57%) Data Pipeline
6 15 (42.86%) SC Cleared
6 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
7 14 (40.00%) Analytics
7 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
8 13 (37.14%) ETL
9 12 (34.29%) Data Lake
10 11 (31.43%) Databricks
10 11 (31.43%) Data Modelling
10 11 (31.43%) Azure
11 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
12 9 (25.71%) GitHub
12 9 (25.71%) Power BI
12 9 (25.71%) DevOps
12 9 (25.71%) Data Quality
12 9 (25.71%) dbt
12 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
13 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
13 8 (22.86%) Data Governance
13 8 (22.86%) Apache Airflow
14 7 (20.00%) PySpark
14 7 (20.00%) Apache Spark
14 7 (20.00%) Big Data
14 7 (20.00%) Jinja
14 7 (20.00%) Apache
14 7 (20.00%) Migration

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (22.86%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (20.00%) Apache
2 7 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 18 (51.43%) AWS
2 11 (31.43%) Azure
3 9 (25.71%) dbt
3 9 (25.71%) GitHub
3 9 (25.71%) Power Platform
4 7 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (17.14%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (17.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (17.14%) Serverless
6 5 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 4 (11.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (8.57%) Snowflake
9 2 (5.71%) GCP
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (2.86%) Sumo Logic
10 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) Data Lake
2 9 (25.71%) Power BI
3 7 (20.00%) Big Data
4 6 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (11.43%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (11.43%) Neo4j
6 3 (8.57%) Flink
6 3 (8.57%) Oracle Database
6 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (5.71%) BigQuery
7 2 (5.71%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (5.71%) Spark SQL
7 2 (5.71%) Star Schema
7 2 (5.71%) Tableau
8 1 (2.86%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.86%) Metadata
8 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) JIRA
3 1 (2.86%) Liquibase
General
1 8 (22.86%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Banking
3 1 (2.86%) Finance
3 1 (2.86%) Front Office
3 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.86%) Legal
3 1 (2.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) Jinja
1 7 (20.00%) PySpark
2 4 (11.43%) pytest
2 4 (11.43%) React
3 3 (8.57%) Kafka
3 3 (8.57%) Plotly
4 2 (5.71%) .NET
5 1 (2.86%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (2.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.86%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Data Engineering
2 17 (48.57%) Data Pipeline
3 14 (40.00%) Analytics
3 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (37.14%) ETL
5 11 (31.43%) Data Modelling
6 10 (28.57%) Mentoring
7 9 (25.71%) DevOps
8 8 (22.86%) Data Governance
9 7 (20.00%) Migration
9 7 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (17.14%) Data Architecture
10 6 (17.14%) Dimensional Modelling
10 6 (17.14%) Test Automation
11 5 (14.29%) Agile
11 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
12 4 (11.43%) Data Analytics
12 4 (11.43%) Translating Business Requirements
12 4 (11.43%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (74.29%) SQL
2 24 (68.57%) Python
3 5 (14.29%) R
4 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
5 3 (8.57%) Scala
6 1 (2.86%) Java
6 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.86%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.86%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Databricks
2 5 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.86%) New Relic
4 1 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) Sparx