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 £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 393 454
Rank change year-on-year +64 +61 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 7 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.029% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.059% 0.031% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 7
10th Percentile £206 £464 £440
25th Percentile £250 £499 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £610 £545
Median % change year-on-year -26.23% +11.93% -0.91%
75th Percentile £566 £629 £679
90th Percentile £656 £630 £708
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +17 2 £550 -2.22% 6
North East +1 2 £550 +15.30%
Wales - 2 £206 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £550 -
Midlands - 2 £550 -
South East +45 1 £525 -15.32% 12
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 1 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Metadata Management
2 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 3 (42.86%) Data Development
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 3 (42.86%) Metadata
3 2 (28.57%) Metadata Repository
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) Google
3 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Azure

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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
3 1 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (14.29%) Sumo Logic
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Metadata
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Spark SQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Analytics
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
1 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) Data Development
2 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
2 3 (42.86%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Metadata Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Data Extraction
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Data Security
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Certification
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Databricks
2 2 (28.57%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Cloudera
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) New Relic
3 1 (14.29%) SAP