Lead Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Lead Data Engineer
England > North East

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in the North East is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 43 35
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.40% 0.59% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.63% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £556 - -
25th Percentile £566 £525 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £477
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +15.30% -
75th Percentile £616 £575 £489
90th Percentile £629 - -
England median daily rate £575 £544 £560
% change year-on-year +5.75% -2.90% -12.16%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. 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 the North East with a recognized job title 483 315 291
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.02% 92.65% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 212 144
10th Percentile £163 £221 £163
25th Percentile £344 £349 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.28%
75th Percentile £538 £576 £555
90th Percentile £600 £650 £634
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 12 58
10th Percentile £17.88 £11.69 £11.09
25th Percentile £44.50 £12.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £60.00 £19.88 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +201.89% +18.66% -65.82%
75th Percentile £72.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile - - £50.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £33.07
% change year-on-year -1.26% +7.20% -19.41%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Lead Data Engineer job vacancy trend in the North East

Lead Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Data Engineer job vacancies in the North East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Data Engineer job vacancies in the North East

Lead Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -15 2 £588 +6.82% 4
Lead Data Engineer
England

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 5 March 2026, Lead Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North East region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) ERP

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks