Lead Data Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Data Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in London 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 325 357 459
Rank change year-on-year +32 +102 +84
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 28 34 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.19% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 26
10th Percentile £432 £507 £400
25th Percentile £450 £513 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £588 £660
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% -10.98% -1.12%
75th Percentile £600 £756 £750
90th Percentile £800 £800 £813
England median daily rate £500 £588 £638
% change year-on-year -14.89% -7.84% +0.79%

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 Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in London

Lead Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Engineer in London

Lead Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Engineer in London

Lead Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +3 2 - - 5
Lead Data Engineer
England

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 21 (75.00%) SQL
2 19 (67.86%) Python
3 15 (53.57%) AWS
3 15 (53.57%) Data Engineering
4 13 (46.43%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
4 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
4 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
5 11 (39.29%) Analytics
6 10 (35.71%) Data Lake
6 10 (35.71%) Azure
7 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling
7 9 (32.14%) ETL
7 9 (32.14%) dbt
8 8 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (28.57%) Databricks
8 8 (28.57%) GitHub
8 8 (28.57%) DevOps
8 8 (28.57%) Mentoring
9 7 (25.00%) Jinja
9 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
9 7 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (21.43%) Apache Spark
10 6 (21.43%) Apache
10 6 (21.43%) Data Quality
10 6 (21.43%) Big Data
10 6 (21.43%) Git
10 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
11 5 (17.86%) Data Architecture
11 5 (17.86%) Dimensional Modelling

Lead 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 8 (28.57%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (21.43%) Apache
2 6 (21.43%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) AWS
2 10 (35.71%) Azure
3 9 (32.14%) dbt
4 8 (28.57%) GitHub
5 7 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (17.86%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (17.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
6 5 (17.86%) Serverless
7 4 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 4 (14.29%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (7.14%) GCP
10 1 (3.57%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (3.57%) AWS CodeCommit
10 1 (3.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (3.57%) Fivetran
10 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) Data Lake
2 6 (21.43%) Big Data
3 5 (17.86%) Power BI
4 4 (14.29%) Neo4j
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (7.14%) BigQuery
6 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (7.14%) Flink
6 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
6 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 2 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (7.14%) Star Schema
7 1 (3.57%) DataStage
7 1 (3.57%) DB2
7 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
7 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
7 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Liquibase
General
1 7 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Banking
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Front Office
2 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
2 1 (3.57%) Legal
2 1 (3.57%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) Jinja
2 5 (17.86%) PySpark
3 4 (14.29%) pytest
3 4 (14.29%) React
4 3 (10.71%) Kafka
4 3 (10.71%) Plotly
5 2 (7.14%) .NET
6 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.57%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (53.57%) Data Engineering
2 13 (46.43%) CI/CD
2 13 (46.43%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (39.29%) Analytics
4 9 (32.14%) Data Modelling
4 9 (32.14%) ETL
5 8 (28.57%) DevOps
5 8 (28.57%) Mentoring
6 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
7 5 (17.86%) Data Architecture
7 5 (17.86%) Dimensional Modelling
7 5 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (14.29%) Data Governance
8 4 (14.29%) Machine Learning
8 4 (14.29%) Migration
8 4 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
9 3 (10.71%) Agile
9 3 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (10.71%) Data Science
9 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 21 (75.00%) SQL
2 19 (67.86%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) R
4 3 (10.71%) Scala
5 1 (3.57%) Java
5 1 (3.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
1 13 (46.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) AWS Certification
2 3 (10.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Databricks
2 4 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Google
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Sparx