Lead Data Engineer Contracts

Lead Data Engineer
UK

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 548 670 750
Rank change year-on-year +122 +80 -107
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 50 49 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.082% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.087% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 76
10th Percentile £486 £400 £458
25th Percentile £513 £544 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £705 £750 £711
90th Percentile £800 £780 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £610 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +11.93% -0.91% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in the UK

Lead Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Data Engineer.

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Engineer in the UK

Lead Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Engineer in the UK

Lead Data Engineer
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +129 45 £594 -6.86% 45
London +103 36 £588 -10.98% 32
Work from Home +137 33 £625 -7.41% 24
UK excluding London +63 6 £610 +11.93% 17
North of England - 4 £563 - 8
Yorkshire - 2 £613 - 3
South East - 2 £620 - 2
North East - 1 £477 - 1
North West - 1 £525 - 4

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 30 (60.00%) Python
2 25 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 24 (48.00%) Analytics
3 24 (48.00%) SQL
4 23 (46.00%) Databricks
5 21 (42.00%) Azure
6 19 (38.00%) Data Modelling
6 19 (38.00%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (34.00%) Agile
8 16 (32.00%) ETL
9 15 (30.00%) AWS
9 15 (30.00%) Scala
9 15 (30.00%) Data Quality
9 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
10 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
10 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
11 12 (24.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 11 (22.00%) SDLC
13 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
13 10 (20.00%) Data Integration
13 10 (20.00%) Finance
14 9 (18.00%) CI/CD
14 9 (18.00%) Data Ingestion
14 9 (18.00%) Big Data
14 9 (18.00%) Data Lake
15 8 (16.00%) Apache Spark
15 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
15 8 (16.00%) Computer Science
15 8 (16.00%) Degree

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (16.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (6.00%) Apache
2 3 (6.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) Azure
2 15 (30.00%) AWS
3 12 (24.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (16.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (8.00%) dbt
6 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.00%) GCP
7 2 (4.00%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.00%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.00%) Serverless
8 1 (2.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) Big Data
1 9 (18.00%) Data Lake
2 6 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 4 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.00%) Delta Lake
5 3 (6.00%) Parquet
5 3 (6.00%) Power BI
5 3 (6.00%) Power Query
6 2 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.00%) Mixpanel
7 1 (2.00%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (12.00%) MLflow
2 4 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (4.00%) Deequ
4 1 (2.00%) Git
General
1 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Finance
3 7 (14.00%) Banking
3 7 (14.00%) Investment Banking
4 6 (12.00%) Front Office
5 3 (6.00%) Marketing
5 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.00%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) PySpark
2 3 (6.00%) Apache Avro
2 3 (6.00%) JSON
2 3 (6.00%) JSON Schema
3 2 (4.00%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.00%) Great Expectations
3 2 (4.00%) Kafka
4 1 (2.00%) HTML
4 1 (2.00%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.00%) Middleware
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Derivative
2 2 (4.00%) NHS
3 1 (2.00%) BBC
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 24 (48.00%) Analytics
3 19 (38.00%) Data Modelling
3 19 (38.00%) Data Pipeline
4 17 (34.00%) Agile
5 16 (32.00%) ETL
6 11 (22.00%) SDLC
7 10 (20.00%) Data Integration
8 9 (18.00%) CI/CD
8 9 (18.00%) Data Ingestion
9 8 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (16.00%) Computer Science
9 8 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (14.00%) DevOps
11 6 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (12.00%) Knowledge Transfer
11 6 (12.00%) Migration
11 6 (12.00%) MLOps
12 5 (10.00%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (60.00%) Python
2 24 (48.00%) SQL
3 15 (30.00%) Scala
4 4 (8.00%) Java
5 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.00%) Gremlin
6 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) SC Cleared
1 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (16.00%) Degree
3 6 (12.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.00%) QA
3 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
3 1 (2.00%) Government Security Classifications
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.00%) Ganglia
2 1 (2.00%) Matomo
Vendors
1 23 (46.00%) Databricks
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.00%) Adobe
4 1 (2.00%) Brio
4 1 (2.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) Informatica