Lead Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Lead Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £465, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - 97
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 9 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.41% - 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% - 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £437 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 - £600
75th Percentile £578 - -
90th Percentile £615 - -
England median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -8.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 2,027 862 1,591
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 93.59% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 562 976
10th Percentile £308 £220 £200
25th Percentile £400 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £560
90th Percentile £644 £625 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 31 60
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.30 £11.17
25th Percentile £16.57 £16.79 £12.46
Median hourly rate £42.50 £21.24 £14.20
Median % change year-on-year +100.09% +49.55% -47.88%
75th Percentile £57.25 £28.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £96.64 £53.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Lead Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Lead Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Lead Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Data Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Lead Data Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Lead Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Lead Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
South Yorkshire - 8 £465 - 3
West Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Lead Data Engineer
England

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 20 March 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 Yorkshire region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (66.67%) Apache Spark
1 6 (66.67%) Data Engineering
1 6 (66.67%) Hadoop
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (55.56%) OO
2 5 (55.56%) Splunk
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
4 3 (33.33%) Kanban
4 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
4 3 (33.33%) Pair Programming
4 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Active Listening
5 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
5 2 (22.22%) Kafka
5 2 (22.22%) Observability
5 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
6 1 (11.11%) Apache

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 6 (66.67%) Apache Spark
2 1 (11.11%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) OpenShift
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) Hadoop
2 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (11.11%) Big Data
3 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 1 (11.11%) Parquet
General
1 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (55.56%) OO
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) ETL
3 3 (33.33%) Kanban
3 3 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Data Privacy
4 2 (22.22%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Splunk
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft