Lead Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Lead Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work 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 307 369 551
Rank change year-on-year +62 +182 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 15 30 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.16% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.17% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 30
10th Percentile £471 £515 £524
25th Percentile £513 £550 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £638 £640
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -0.39% +11.30%
75th Percentile £625 £694 -
90th Percentile £770 £828 £680
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £640
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.34% +11.30%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 11,313 17,773 36,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.20% 94.50% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,133 12,477 26,633
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £645 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 389 527
10th Percentile £19.39 £16.93 £15.15
25th Percentile £25.52 £24.97 £25.00
Median hourly rate £41.53 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% - +101.61%
75th Percentile £66.00 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

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

1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 11 (73.33%) AWS
3 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
3 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
3 9 (60.00%) Analytics
4 8 (53.33%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
5 6 (40.00%) ETL
5 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
6 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
6 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 5 (33.33%) GitHub
6 5 (33.33%) Jinja
6 5 (33.33%) dbt
6 5 (33.33%) Terraform
6 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
6 5 (33.33%) Data Lake
6 5 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (26.67%) Databricks
7 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
7 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (26.67%) Agile
8 3 (20.00%) Banking
8 3 (20.00%) Finance
8 3 (20.00%) Degree
8 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
8 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
8 3 (20.00%) PySpark

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 3 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (73.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) dbt
2 5 (33.33%) GitHub
2 5 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (13.33%) Delta Lake
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (6.67%) Big Data
5 1 (6.67%) Flink
5 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
5 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MLflow
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Banking
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (13.33%) Front Office
4 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Jinja
2 3 (20.00%) PySpark
3 2 (13.33%) AWS CDK
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Analytics
1 9 (60.00%) Data Engineering
1 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (40.00%) ETL
4 4 (26.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
5 3 (20.00%) DevOps
5 3 (20.00%) Dimensional Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (13.33%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (13.33%) Data Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Kimball Methodology
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) MLOps
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Scala
3 2 (13.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle