Data Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Data Engineer
North West > Cheshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Cheshire is £403 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 51 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 15 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 3.04% 1.50% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.25% 1.66% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 3
10th Percentile - £278 -
25th Percentile £199 £369 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year -15.26% +35.71% -36.36%
75th Percentile £515 £575 £458
90th Percentile - £665 £507
North West median daily rate £425 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -15.00% - +5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 462 483 497
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.71% 90.28% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 333 277
10th Percentile £272 £263 £182
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +8.57% -1.24%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £635 £650 £631
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 21 27
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.47 £20.00 £16.49
Median hourly rate £20.11 £30.54 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.15% +32.78% +28.49%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.00 £31.89
90th Percentile £43.75 £40.00 £60.45
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year -23.83% +70.73% +14.53%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Cheshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Cheshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Cheshire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Macclesfield -7 5 £510 +13.33%
Chester +8 4 £200 -59.08% 2
Knutsford - 2 £401 -
Runcorn - 2 - - 1
Data Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 Cheshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) ETL
3 7 (46.67%) SQL
4 6 (40.00%) Apache Spark
4 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 6 (40.00%) Big Data
4 6 (40.00%) Java
4 6 (40.00%) Apache
4 6 (40.00%) Python
4 6 (40.00%) Manufacturing
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 6 (40.00%) Data Management
4 6 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (40.00%) Snowflake
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 5 (33.33%) JSON
5 5 (33.33%) JIRA
5 5 (33.33%) FTP
5 5 (33.33%) Scrum
5 5 (33.33%) Informatica
5 5 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (33.33%) C#
5 5 (33.33%) XML
5 5 (33.33%) OOP
5 5 (33.33%) OO
5 5 (33.33%) Talend
5 5 (33.33%) Amazon EMR

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 6 (40.00%) Apache
1 6 (40.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 6 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (33.33%) Serverless
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (6.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) FTP
2 4 (26.67%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Big Data
2 3 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (13.33%) MySQL
3 2 (13.33%) Tableau
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.67%) Navicat
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Git
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) JSON
1 5 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (13.33%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) ETL
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) Data Management
2 6 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (33.33%) OO
3 5 (33.33%) OOP
3 5 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 5 (33.33%) Scrum
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Data Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Java
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 5 (33.33%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Informatica
1 5 (33.33%) Talend
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks
3 1 (6.67%) Teradata
3 1 (6.67%) VMware