Lead Data Engineer Contracts in England

Lead Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in England is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 499 609 709
Rank change year-on-year +110 +100 -121
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 43 44 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.087% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.092% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 34 58
10th Percentile £483 £400 £493
25th Percentile £513 £544 £593
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £638 £633
Median % change year-on-year -7.84% +0.79% +15.00%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £721
90th Percentile £800 £785 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,483 47,741 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,890 33,903 48,246
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,432 1,409 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%

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 30 April 2024.

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 30 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
London +103 34 £588 -10.98% 34
North of England - 4 £563 - 11
South East - 2 £620 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £613 - 3
North East - 1 £477 - 1
North West - 1 £525 - 7
Lead Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 28 (65.12%) Python
2 22 (51.16%) Databricks
3 21 (48.84%) SQL
3 21 (48.84%) Data Engineering
4 20 (46.51%) Azure
4 20 (46.51%) Analytics
5 18 (41.86%) Data Pipeline
6 17 (39.53%) Data Modelling
7 15 (34.88%) AWS
8 14 (32.56%) Scala
8 14 (32.56%) ETL
8 14 (32.56%) Agile
8 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
9 13 (30.23%) Data Quality
10 11 (25.58%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (23.26%) SDLC
12 9 (20.93%) Data Lake
12 9 (20.93%) Big Data
12 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
12 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
13 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
13 8 (18.60%) Data Ingestion
13 8 (18.60%) PySpark
13 8 (18.60%) Data Integration
13 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (18.60%) Apache Spark
14 7 (16.28%) Computer Science
14 7 (16.28%) Degree
14 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (16.28%) Finance

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 (18.60%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.98%) Apache
3 2 (4.65%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (46.51%) Azure
2 15 (34.88%) AWS
3 11 (25.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (16.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (9.30%) dbt
6 3 (6.98%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
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%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.33%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.33%) Google Analytics
8 1 (2.33%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) Big Data
1 9 (20.93%) Data Lake
2 6 (13.95%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (11.63%) 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 BI
5 3 (6.98%) Power Query
6 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.33%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) MLflow
2 2 (4.65%) Deequ
2 2 (4.65%) JIRA
3 1 (2.33%) Git
General
1 14 (32.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (16.28%) Finance
4 6 (13.95%) Banking
4 6 (13.95%) Investment Banking
5 5 (11.63%) Front Office
6 3 (6.98%) Marketing
6 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.33%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.33%) Legal
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%) HTML
4 1 (2.33%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Derivative
2 2 (4.65%) NHS
3 1 (2.33%) BBC
3 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (48.84%) Data Engineering
2 20 (46.51%) Analytics
3 18 (41.86%) Data Pipeline
4 17 (39.53%) Data Modelling
5 14 (32.56%) Agile
5 14 (32.56%) ETL
6 10 (23.26%) SDLC
7 8 (18.60%) CI/CD
7 8 (18.60%) Data Ingestion
7 8 (18.60%) Data Integration
8 7 (16.28%) Computer Science
8 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (13.95%) DevOps
9 6 (13.95%) Migration
10 5 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (11.63%) Data Governance
10 5 (11.63%) Data Migration
10 5 (11.63%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 28 (65.12%) Python
2 21 (48.84%) SQL
3 14 (32.56%) Scala
4 4 (9.30%) Java
5 2 (4.65%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.33%) Gremlin
6 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (16.28%) Degree
3 5 (11.63%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.65%) QA
3 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) Government Security Classifications
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Terraform
2 1 (2.33%) Ganglia
2 1 (2.33%) Matomo
Vendors
1 22 (51.16%) Databricks
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle
4 1 (2.33%) Adobe
4 1 (2.33%) Brio
4 1 (2.33%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) Informatica