Lead Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £610 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 447 503
Rank change year-on-year +55 +56 -71
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 6 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.033% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.035% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £464 £440 £418
25th Percentile £499 £535 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.93% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £629 £679 £647
90th Percentile £630 £708 £833
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,163 22,551 29,607
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.20% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,700 15,818 20,751
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,248 1,160 1,483
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Lead Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
North of England - 4 £563 - 8
Yorkshire - 2 £613 - 2
South East - 2 £620 - 2
North East - 1 £477 - 1
North West - 1 £525 - 5
Lead Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
3 3 (50.00%) Scala
3 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (50.00%) Power BI
4 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (33.33%) Databricks
4 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
4 2 (33.33%) Marketing Mix
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Marketing
4 2 (33.33%) Confluence
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
4 2 (33.33%) JIRA
5 1 (16.67%) QA
5 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (16.67%) Data Extraction

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (16.67%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (16.67%) Mixpanel
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Health Technology
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) BBC
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) NHS
1 1 (16.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
1 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing Mix
2 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Econometrics
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (16.67%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Scala
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Brio
2 1 (16.67%) Google