Lead Data Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Data Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 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
3 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 354 454
Rank change year-on-year -2 +100 +122
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 19 32 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.20% 0.083%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.21% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 19
10th Percentile £452 £502 £450
25th Percentile £475 £513 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £594 £722 £719
90th Percentile £725 £795 £760
England median daily rate £538 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +2.38% -19.23% -0.69%

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 12,757 15,285 22,823
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.93% 94.22% 94.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,637 10,873 16,706
10th Percentile £325 £346 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 199 243
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.80 £18.55
25th Percentile £22.86 £22.00 £23.88
Median hourly rate £29.54 £33.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -11.81% +11.94%
75th Percentile £50.50 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%

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 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Engineer in London

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

For the 6 months to 3 August 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 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 13 (68.42%) Python
3 12 (63.16%) Data Engineering
4 10 (52.63%) Databricks
4 10 (52.63%) SQL
4 10 (52.63%) Azure
5 9 (47.37%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (42.11%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (42.11%) Machine Learning
7 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
7 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
8 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
8 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
8 6 (31.58%) Apache Spark
8 6 (31.58%) Scala
9 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
9 5 (26.32%) GCP
9 5 (26.32%) Kafka
9 5 (26.32%) Analytics
9 5 (26.32%) ETL
10 4 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (21.05%) Data Science
10 4 (21.05%) PySpark
10 4 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (21.05%) Data Lake
10 4 (21.05%) Power BI
10 4 (21.05%) dbt
10 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
11 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
11 3 (15.79%) Plotly

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 6 (31.58%) Apache Spark
2 4 (21.05%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (15.79%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 14 (73.68%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Azure
3 8 (42.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (26.32%) GCP
5 4 (21.05%) dbt
5 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon S3
6 3 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (15.79%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (15.79%) Serverless
6 3 (15.79%) Snowflake
7 1 (5.26%) Alation
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.26%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (5.26%) Dagster
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub
7 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Data Lake
1 4 (21.05%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.79%) Neo4j
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (10.53%) Big Data
3 2 (10.53%) BigQuery
3 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
3 2 (10.53%) Tableau
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.26%) DataStage
4 1 (5.26%) DB2
4 1 (5.26%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (5.26%) GIS
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.26%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
General
1 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (10.53%) Banking
1 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.26%) Legal
2 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Retail
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Kafka
2 4 (21.05%) PySpark
3 3 (15.79%) Plotly
3 3 (15.79%) React
4 1 (5.26%) GeoPandas
4 1 (5.26%) Jinja
4 1 (5.26%) PostGIS
4 1 (5.26%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.79%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.26%) Distributed Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Data Engineering
2 9 (47.37%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (42.11%) Machine Learning
4 6 (31.58%) Data Modelling
4 6 (31.58%) Mentoring
5 5 (26.32%) Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
5 5 (26.32%) ETL
6 4 (21.05%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (21.05%) Data Science
7 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.79%) Data Governance
7 3 (15.79%) Data Integration
7 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (15.79%) DevOps
7 3 (15.79%) Open Source
7 3 (15.79%) Visualisation
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (10.53%) Microservices
8 2 (10.53%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) Python
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
3 6 (31.58%) Scala
4 3 (15.79%) Java
4 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.53%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Google
45 Lead Data Engineer jobs in England