Lead Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Lead Data Engineer
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

As of 22 May 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in Stevenage.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 0.27% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Stevenage

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Stevenage. 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 Stevenage with a recognized job title 371 112 423
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.41% 81.16% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 19 67
10th Percentile £193 £430 £80
25th Percentile £422 £450 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -9.09% +41.94%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £575
90th Percentile £738 £628 £650
Hertfordshire median daily rate £507 £538 £430
% change year-on-year -5.67% +25.00% -14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 66 264
10th Percentile £25.94 £35.82 £40.89
25th Percentile £49.55 £55.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £64.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.91 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £79.10
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £50.00 £62.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.32% +14.09% -12.00%

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage

For the 6 months to 22 May 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 Stevenage region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Great Expectations
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Newman
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Great Expectations
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) pytest
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (100.00%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks