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 £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 432 575
Rank change year-on-year +117 +143 -88
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 26 25 48
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.18% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 37
10th Percentile £495 £535 £448
25th Percentile £538 £641 £524
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £800 £763 £634
90th Percentile - £860 £775
UK median daily rate £569 £650 £615
% change year-on-year -12.50% +5.69% +5.13%

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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 19 (73.08%) Python
2 14 (53.85%) Analytics
2 14 (53.85%) Databricks
3 13 (50.00%) SQL
4 12 (46.15%) Data Engineering
4 12 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (42.31%) Data Quality
5 11 (42.31%) Scala
6 10 (38.46%) Azure
6 10 (38.46%) Data Modelling
6 10 (38.46%) Finance
6 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
7 9 (34.62%) Agile
8 8 (30.77%) Degree
8 8 (30.77%) Computer Science
8 8 (30.77%) Data Integration
8 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (30.77%) Data Ingestion
8 8 (30.77%) SDLC
8 8 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (26.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (26.92%) AWS
9 7 (26.92%) Banking
9 7 (26.92%) ETL
10 6 (23.08%) Front Office
10 6 (23.08%) Investment Banking
10 6 (23.08%) Derivative
10 6 (23.08%) MLOps
10 6 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer

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 (15.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 7 (26.92%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (23.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) GCP
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (15.38%) Data Lake
1 4 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.54%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (7.69%) Big Data
3 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 2 (7.69%) Parquet
3 2 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 2 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.85%) Metadata
4 1 (3.85%) Power BI
4 1 (3.85%) Power Query
4 1 (3.85%) Spark SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) MLflow
2 1 (3.85%) Deequ
2 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 8 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Banking
4 6 (23.08%) Front Office
4 6 (23.08%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) PySpark
2 2 (7.69%) Apache Avro
2 2 (7.69%) JSON
2 2 (7.69%) JSON Schema
3 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.85%) Great Expectations
3 1 (3.85%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Derivative
2 2 (7.69%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Analytics
2 12 (46.15%) Data Engineering
2 12 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
3 10 (38.46%) Data Modelling
4 9 (34.62%) Agile
5 8 (30.77%) Computer Science
5 8 (30.77%) Data Ingestion
5 8 (30.77%) Data Integration
5 8 (30.77%) SDLC
6 7 (26.92%) ETL
6 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (23.08%) MLOps
8 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (11.54%) CI/CD
8 3 (11.54%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (11.54%) DevOps
8 3 (11.54%) Log Analytics
9 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
9 2 (7.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 19 (73.08%) Python
2 13 (50.00%) SQL
3 11 (42.31%) Scala
4 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (30.77%) Degree
2 6 (23.08%) Master's Degree
3 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) Matomo
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Databricks
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Brio