Lead Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Redditch

Lead Data Engineer
Worcestershire > Redditch

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in Redditch is £638, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Redditch 14.29% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £631 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - -
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Worcestershire median daily rate £638 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Redditch

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Redditch. 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 Redditch with a recognized job title 5 2 10
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 71.43% 100.00% 90.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile - - £122
25th Percentile £631 - £132
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - £175
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £644 - £199
90th Percentile - - £301
Worcestershire median daily rate £575 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile - £20.68 -
25th Percentile £42.50 £21.27 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.89 £10.50
Median % change year-on-year +96.64% +117.95% -
75th Percentile £47.50 £23.86 £12.21
90th Percentile - £24.05 £15.28
Worcestershire median hourly rate £30.00 £17.64 £17.33
% change year-on-year +70.04% +1.82% -2.16%

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Redditch

For the 6 months to 27 February 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 Redditch region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Redditch 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
General
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks