Lead Data Engineer Contracts in London

Lead Data Engineer
England > London

The median Lead Data Engineer daily rate in London is £538, 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 368 451 559
Rank change year-on-year +83 +108 -96
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Engineer 32 31 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 25 36
10th Percentile £506 £400 £538
25th Percentile £513 £544 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £650 £641
Median % change year-on-year -17.31% +1.36% +8.23%
75th Percentile £761 £750 £738
90th Percentile £800 £780 £813
England median daily rate £538 £650 £633
% change year-on-year -17.31% +2.77% +11.95%

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 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +41 3 £588 -7.84% 3
Lead Data Engineer
England

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

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 job ads across the London region featuring Lead Data Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (59.38%) Python
2 18 (56.25%) Databricks
3 15 (46.88%) Analytics
4 14 (43.75%) Data Engineering
4 14 (43.75%) Azure
4 14 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
5 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
5 11 (34.38%) Scala
5 11 (34.38%) SQL
5 11 (34.38%) Data Modelling
5 11 (34.38%) Agile
6 10 (31.25%) AWS
6 10 (31.25%) Data Quality
6 10 (31.25%) SDLC
7 8 (25.00%) Data Lake
7 8 (25.00%) ETL
8 7 (21.88%) Degree
8 7 (21.88%) Computer Science
8 7 (21.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (21.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (21.88%) PySpark
8 7 (21.88%) Apache Spark
9 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (18.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
9 6 (18.75%) Data Integration
9 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
9 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
9 6 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database

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 (21.88%) Apache Spark
2 3 (9.38%) Apache
Business Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (43.75%) Azure
2 10 (31.25%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (18.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (12.50%) dbt
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (6.25%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.13%) GCP
8 1 (3.13%) Google Workspace
8 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 6 (18.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (15.63%) Big Data
3 5 (15.63%) NoSQL
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (9.38%) Parquet
5 3 (9.38%) Power Query
5 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (6.25%) Delta Lake
7 1 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
7 1 (3.13%) Neo4j
7 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
7 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MLflow
2 2 (6.25%) Deequ
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Banking
2 6 (18.75%) Finance
2 6 (18.75%) Investment Banking
3 5 (15.63%) Front Office
4 2 (6.25%) Marketing
5 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) PySpark
2 3 (9.38%) Apache Avro
2 3 (9.38%) JSON
2 3 (9.38%) JSON Schema
3 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.25%) Great Expectations
3 2 (6.25%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Derivative
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) NHS
2 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Analytics
2 14 (43.75%) Data Engineering
2 14 (43.75%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (34.38%) Agile
3 11 (34.38%) Data Modelling
4 10 (31.25%) SDLC
5 8 (25.00%) ETL
6 7 (21.88%) Computer Science
7 6 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
7 6 (18.75%) Data Integration
7 6 (18.75%) Migration
7 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (15.63%) CI/CD
8 5 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (15.63%) Data Migration
8 5 (15.63%) Knowledge Transfer
8 5 (15.63%) MLOps
9 4 (12.50%) SFIA
9 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Python
2 11 (34.38%) Scala
2 11 (34.38%) SQL
3 2 (6.25%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.13%) Gremlin
4 1 (3.13%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (21.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (21.88%) Degree
2 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
2 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 5 (15.63%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (3.13%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) Ganglia
2 1 (3.13%) Matomo
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Databricks
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Informatica
3 1 (3.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.13%) Salesforce