Lead Data Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Data Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 400 550
Rank change year-on-year +54 +150 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 35 31 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.15% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.16% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 12
10th Percentile £508 £481 £575
25th Percentile £516 £522 £589
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -12.50% +19.15%
75th Percentile £695 £659 £750
90th Percentile £788 £695 £773
England median daily rate £600 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 14,705 19,194 35,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.86% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,509 13,971 25,561
10th Percentile £338 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £790 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 212 302
10th Percentile £17.25 £18.02 £15.75
25th Percentile £24.50 £21.94 £20.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.75 £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

Lead Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Engineer in London

Lead Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Engineer in London

Lead Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Engineer in London

Lead Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Central London +22 4 £725 +34.26% 5
Lead Data Engineer
England

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

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

1 22 (62.86%) Python
2 20 (57.14%) AWS
3 18 (51.43%) SQL
4 17 (48.57%) ETL
4 17 (48.57%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (42.86%) Analytics
6 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
7 13 (37.14%) Data Engineering
7 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
7 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
8 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
9 11 (31.43%) Azure
10 10 (28.57%) PySpark
11 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
11 9 (25.71%) Amazon S3
11 9 (25.71%) Data Integration
11 9 (25.71%) Data Modelling
11 9 (25.71%) Serverless
12 8 (22.86%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (22.86%) Terraform
12 8 (22.86%) Big Data
12 8 (22.86%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (20.00%) Apache Spark
13 7 (20.00%) DevOps
13 7 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (20.00%) Agile
13 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
14 6 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
14 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
14 6 (17.14%) dbt

Lead Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 4 (11.43%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (8.57%) Apache
3 3 (8.57%) ArcGIS
4 1 (2.86%) Apache Synapse
Cloud Services
1 20 (57.14%) AWS
2 11 (31.43%) Azure
3 9 (25.71%) Amazon S3
3 9 (25.71%) Serverless
4 8 (22.86%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (17.14%) dbt
5 6 (17.14%) GitHub
5 6 (17.14%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (11.43%) Azure Pipelines
7 4 (11.43%) GCP
8 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (8.57%) CloudFront
9 2 (5.71%) Snowflake
10 1 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (2.86%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.86%) Cloud Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (22.86%) Big Data
2 7 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (8.57%) Hadoop
3 3 (8.57%) QGIS
4 2 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (5.71%) BigQuery
4 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.86%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.86%) Flink
5 1 (2.86%) Metadata
5 1 (2.86%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.86%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) MLflow
3 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
4 5 (14.29%) Finance
5 4 (11.43%) Banking
6 3 (8.57%) Front Office
6 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
7 1 (2.86%) Police
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (28.57%) PySpark
2 6 (17.14%) Jinja
3 3 (8.57%) Kafka
3 3 (8.57%) React
4 1 (2.86%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.86%) Pandas
4 1 (2.86%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk
2 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Linux
1 1 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Data Pipeline
1 17 (48.57%) ETL
2 15 (42.86%) Analytics
3 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 13 (37.14%) Data Engineering
5 9 (25.71%) Data Integration
5 9 (25.71%) Data Modelling
6 7 (20.00%) Agile
6 7 (20.00%) DevOps
6 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (17.14%) Data Architecture
7 6 (17.14%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (14.29%) Microservices
8 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (11.43%) Data Ingestion
9 4 (11.43%) Design Patterns
9 4 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
9 4 (11.43%) Mentoring
9 4 (11.43%) SDLC
9 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (62.86%) Python
2 18 (51.43%) SQL
3 6 (17.14%) Java
4 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 3 (8.57%) Scala
5 1 (2.86%) Bicep
5 1 (2.86%) R
5 1 (2.86%) Ruby
5 1 (2.86%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (37.14%) SC Cleared
1 13 (37.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.71%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (5.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Kibana
3 1 (2.86%) logstash
Vendors
1 3 (8.57%) Databricks
1 3 (8.57%) Google
2 2 (5.71%) Cloudera
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Foundry
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle
3 1 (2.86%) Palantir
3 1 (2.86%) Remedy
3 1 (2.86%) Salesforce