Lead Big Data Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Big Data Engineer
England > 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 Big Data Engineer daily rate in London.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 389 489
Rank change year-on-year +37 +100 +105
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Big Data Engineer 1 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.008% 0.011% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.012% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year - -7.14% -12.50%
75th Percentile - - £750
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate - £650 £700
% change year-on-year - -7.14% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Lead Big Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Big Data Engineer in London

Lead Big Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Big Data Engineer in London

Lead Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

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

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) DataStage
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline

Lead Big Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) DataStage
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) Hadoop
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks