Lead Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Lead Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £623 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 313 443 564
Rank change year-on-year +130 +121 -96
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 31 28 59
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.11% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 44
10th Percentile £483 £463 £450
25th Percentile £544 £550 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £623 £700 £615
Median % change year-on-year -11.07% +13.82% -6.36%
75th Percentile £781 £750 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Lead Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Lead Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Lead Data Engineer.

Lead Data Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead Data Engineer over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Lead Data Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (74.19%) Python
2 19 (61.29%) SQL
2 19 (61.29%) Analytics
3 16 (51.61%) Data Engineering
3 16 (51.61%) Databricks
4 15 (48.39%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (41.94%) Data Modelling
5 13 (41.94%) Scala
6 12 (38.71%) Azure
6 12 (38.71%) Data Quality
6 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
7 11 (35.48%) Agile
8 10 (32.26%) ETL
9 9 (29.03%) Finance
9 9 (29.03%) AWS
9 9 (29.03%) Data Ingestion
9 9 (29.03%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (25.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 8 (25.81%) SDLC
10 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (25.81%) Degree
10 8 (25.81%) Computer Science
10 8 (25.81%) Data Integration
11 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (19.35%) Master's Degree
12 6 (19.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (19.35%) MLflow
12 6 (19.35%) MLOps
12 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
12 6 (19.35%) Banking

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (12.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.45%) Confluence
3 1 (3.23%) Apache
3 1 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) Azure
2 9 (29.03%) AWS
2 9 (29.03%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (19.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (6.45%) GCP
5 2 (6.45%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.23%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
6 1 (3.23%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) Big Data
2 4 (12.90%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (12.90%) Data Lake
2 4 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (9.68%) Power BI
4 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.45%) Parquet
4 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
5 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
5 1 (3.23%) Metadata
5 1 (3.23%) Mixpanel
5 1 (3.23%) Power Query
5 1 (3.23%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) MLflow
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) Deequ
3 1 (3.23%) Git
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Finance
3 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (19.35%) Banking
4 6 (19.35%) Front Office
4 6 (19.35%) Investment Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Marketing
6 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.23%) Health Technology
7 1 (3.23%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) PySpark
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Avro
2 2 (6.45%) JSON
2 2 (6.45%) JSON Schema
3 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.23%) Great Expectations
3 1 (3.23%) HTML
3 1 (3.23%) Kafka
3 1 (3.23%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Derivative
2 2 (6.45%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) BBC
3 1 (3.23%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.23%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (61.29%) Analytics
2 16 (51.61%) Data Engineering
3 15 (48.39%) Data Pipeline
4 13 (41.94%) Data Modelling
5 11 (35.48%) Agile
6 10 (32.26%) ETL
7 9 (29.03%) Data Ingestion
8 8 (25.81%) Computer Science
8 8 (25.81%) Data Integration
8 8 (25.81%) SDLC
9 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
10 6 (19.35%) Knowledge Transfer
10 6 (19.35%) MLOps
11 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (16.13%) DevOps
11 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (12.90%) Data Visualisation
12 4 (12.90%) Visualisation
13 3 (9.68%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Python
2 19 (61.29%) SQL
3 13 (41.94%) Scala
4 3 (9.68%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
2 6 (19.35%) Master's Degree
3 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (38.71%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Matomo
Vendors
1 16 (51.61%) Databricks
2 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) Adobe
3 1 (3.23%) Brio
3 1 (3.23%) Google