Lead Data Engineer Contracts in England

Lead Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in England is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 592 713
Rank change year-on-year +87 +121 -111
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 38 46 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.097% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.10% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 38 53
10th Percentile £489 £400 £480
25th Percentile £513 £544 £578
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £633
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +2.77% +11.95%
75th Percentile £756 £744 £700
90th Percentile £800 £765 £825
UK median daily rate £569 £650 £615
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.69% +5.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Engineer in England

Lead Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 31 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
London +85 32 £538 -17.31% 25
North of England - 3 £600 - 18
Yorkshire - 2 £613 - 5
North West - 1 £525 - 10
Lead Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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 England region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (63.16%) Python
2 20 (52.63%) Databricks
3 18 (47.37%) Azure
4 16 (42.11%) SQL
4 16 (42.11%) Analytics
4 16 (42.11%) Data Engineering
4 16 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
5 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
5 13 (34.21%) Data Modelling
5 13 (34.21%) AWS
6 12 (31.58%) Scala
6 12 (31.58%) Agile
6 12 (31.58%) Data Quality
7 10 (26.32%) SDLC
7 10 (26.32%) ETL
8 9 (23.68%) Finance
8 9 (23.68%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (23.68%) Data Lake
9 8 (21.05%) PySpark
9 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (21.05%) Apache Spark
9 8 (21.05%) Data Integration
10 7 (18.42%) Degree
10 7 (18.42%) Computer Science
10 7 (18.42%) Banking
10 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (18.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (18.42%) Data Ingestion
10 7 (18.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 6 (15.79%) Big Data

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (21.05%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.89%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) Azure
2 13 (34.21%) AWS
3 9 (23.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 7 (18.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (10.53%) dbt
6 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.63%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (2.63%) GCP
8 1 (2.63%) Google Workspace
8 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) Data Lake
2 6 (15.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (15.79%) Big Data
3 5 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (13.16%) NoSQL
4 4 (10.53%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (10.53%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (7.89%) Delta Lake
5 3 (7.89%) Parquet
5 3 (7.89%) Power Query
6 1 (2.63%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.63%) Neo4j
6 1 (2.63%) Power BI
6 1 (2.63%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.63%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.63%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) MLflow
2 2 (5.26%) Deequ
3 1 (2.63%) Git
General
1 13 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Finance
3 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (18.42%) Banking
5 6 (15.79%) Investment Banking
6 5 (13.16%) Front Office
7 2 (5.26%) Marketing
7 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.63%) Health Technology
8 1 (2.63%) Legal
8 1 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (21.05%) PySpark
2 3 (7.89%) Apache Avro
2 3 (7.89%) JSON
2 3 (7.89%) JSON Schema
3 2 (5.26%) ARM Templates
3 2 (5.26%) Great Expectations
3 2 (5.26%) Kafka
4 1 (2.63%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (2.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Derivative
2 2 (5.26%) NHS
3 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Analytics
1 16 (42.11%) Data Engineering
1 16 (42.11%) Data Pipeline
2 13 (34.21%) Data Modelling
3 12 (31.58%) Agile
4 10 (26.32%) ETL
4 10 (26.32%) SDLC
5 8 (21.05%) Data Integration
6 7 (18.42%) Computer Science
6 7 (18.42%) Data Ingestion
6 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (15.79%) Migration
8 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
8 5 (13.16%) Data Migration
8 5 (13.16%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (13.16%) MLOps
9 4 (10.53%) Log Analytics
9 4 (10.53%) Software Engineering
9 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (63.16%) Python
2 16 (42.11%) SQL
3 12 (31.58%) Scala
4 2 (5.26%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.63%) Gremlin
5 1 (2.63%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (18.42%) Degree
2 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
2 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) GDPR
2 1 (2.63%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.63%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Ganglia
2 1 (2.63%) Matomo
Vendors
1 20 (52.63%) Databricks
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) Brio
3 1 (2.63%) Informatica
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle
3 1 (2.63%) Salesforce