Data Engineer Contracts in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer daily rate in England is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 115 124
Rank change year-on-year +15 +9 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 835 1,109 1,573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.27% 2.25% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.45% 2.38% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 850 1,126
10th Percentile £263 £413 £404
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £674
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 7 14
10th Percentile £37.50 £40.50 £21.36
25th Percentile £49.25 £52.75 £44.44
Median hourly rate £66.25 £64.00 £45.10
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +41.91% +19.47%
75th Percentile £80.00 £79.13 £57.25
90th Percentile - £85.50 £64.56
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £64.00 £45.10
% change year-on-year -0.39% +41.91% +35.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,086 46,552 67,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,604 33,063 47,842
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,372 1,853
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +3.00%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.76
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.55
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +13 499 £525 -8.70% 215
North of England 0 79 £445 -15.24% 50
South West +17 67 £513 -6.82% 31
South East -8 61 £500 - 27
North West +3 49 £425 -15.00% 34
Midlands +30 42 £463 -15.91% 36
East of England +30 37 £185 -65.58% 22
Yorkshire +19 30 £475 -9.52% 12
West Midlands +10 30 £513 -6.82% 27
East Midlands +30 12 £425 -5.56% 9
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 407 (48.74%) SQL
2 383 (45.87%) Python
3 320 (38.32%) Azure
4 289 (34.61%) ETL
5 252 (30.18%) Data Pipeline
6 239 (28.62%) Data Modelling
7 232 (27.78%) AWS
8 219 (26.23%) Data Engineering
9 186 (22.28%) Analytics
10 179 (21.44%) Data Warehouse
11 170 (20.36%) Databricks
12 169 (20.24%) Security Cleared
13 145 (17.37%) Azure Data Factory
14 144 (17.25%) Business Intelligence
15 141 (16.89%) SC Cleared
16 134 (16.05%) Social Skills
17 129 (15.45%) Data Lake
18 116 (13.89%) Power Platform
18 116 (13.89%) Power BI
19 115 (13.77%) Data Quality
20 110 (13.17%) DevOps
21 109 (13.05%) Finance
22 107 (12.81%) PySpark
23 105 (12.57%) Serverless
24 104 (12.46%) Migration
24 104 (12.46%) Agile
25 99 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
26 94 (11.26%) CI/CD
27 84 (10.06%) Public Sector
27 84 (10.06%) SQL Server

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 71 (8.50%) Apache Spark
2 59 (7.07%) Apache Airflow
3 58 (6.95%) Apache
4 8 (0.96%) Confluence
5 5 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.48%) Luigi
7 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.24%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.36%) ENOVIA
1 3 (0.36%) SAP PLM
1 3 (0.36%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.24%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 320 (38.32%) Azure
2 232 (27.78%) AWS
3 145 (17.37%) Azure Data Factory
4 116 (13.89%) Power Platform
5 105 (12.57%) Serverless
6 76 (9.10%) AWS Lambda
7 65 (7.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 64 (7.66%) GCP
9 63 (7.54%) Snowflake
10 60 (7.19%) Amazon S3
11 37 (4.43%) dbt
12 35 (4.19%) Amazon Kinesis
13 34 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
14 33 (3.95%) AWS Step Functions
15 21 (2.51%) GitHub
16 20 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
16 20 (2.40%) Azure Functions
17 19 (2.28%) Amazon MSK
18 17 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.16%) Structured Cabling
2 7 (0.84%) Internet
3 5 (0.60%) Firewall
3 5 (0.60%) FTP
3 5 (0.60%) VLAN
4 4 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (0.48%) Wireless
5 3 (0.36%) BGP
5 3 (0.36%) DMZ
5 3 (0.36%) Network Security
5 3 (0.36%) VPN
6 2 (0.24%) 3G
6 2 (0.24%) 4G
6 2 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.24%) DHCP
6 2 (0.24%) DNS
6 2 (0.24%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.24%) LAN
6 2 (0.24%) OSPF
6 2 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (21.44%) Data Warehouse
2 129 (15.45%) Data Lake
3 116 (13.89%) Power BI
4 84 (10.06%) SQL Server
5 79 (9.46%) Big Data
6 58 (6.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 53 (6.35%) Tableau
8 45 (5.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 45 (5.39%) Relational Database
9 44 (5.27%) Amazon Athena
10 37 (4.43%) BigQuery
11 35 (4.19%) NoSQL
12 33 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 29 (3.47%) Parquet
14 27 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
14 27 (3.23%) Flink
15 24 (2.87%) Metadata
16 23 (2.75%) DynamoDB
16 23 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
17 20 (2.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 44 (5.27%) Git
2 25 (2.99%) JIRA
3 10 (1.20%) GitLab
4 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.72%) MLflow
5 4 (0.48%) Deequ
6 3 (0.36%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.24%) Ant
7 2 (0.24%) Gradle
7 2 (0.24%) JUnit
7 2 (0.24%) Maven
7 2 (0.24%) RStudio
7 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.24%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.24%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.12%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.12%) ERwin
8 1 (0.12%) kappa
General
1 134 (16.05%) Social Skills
2 109 (13.05%) Finance
3 99 (11.86%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (10.06%) Public Sector
5 34 (4.07%) Banking
6 13 (1.56%) Investment Banking
6 13 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 12 (1.44%) Marketing
8 11 (1.32%) Aerospace
8 11 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.20%) Front Office
9 10 (1.20%) Retail
10 9 (1.08%) Telecoms
11 5 (0.60%) Electronics
12 4 (0.48%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.48%) Law
12 4 (0.48%) Local Government
12 4 (0.48%) Military
12 4 (0.48%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (12.81%) PySpark
2 75 (8.98%) Kafka
3 32 (3.83%) JSON
4 26 (3.11%) Apache Avro
5 24 (2.87%) Pandas
6 15 (1.80%) NumPy
7 13 (1.56%) REST
8 12 (1.44%) XML
9 9 (1.08%) .NET
9 9 (1.08%) ARM Templates
9 9 (1.08%) YAML
10 7 (0.84%) ODBC
11 6 (0.72%) SOAP
11 6 (0.72%) Spark Streaming
11 6 (0.72%) Web Services
12 5 (0.60%) Flask
12 5 (0.60%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.60%) JSON Schema
12 5 (0.60%) Node.js
13 4 (0.48%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 20 (2.40%) Algorithms
2 17 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 16 (1.92%) Onboarding
4 15 (1.80%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.56%) Fibre Optics
6 11 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (0.96%) Data Centre
8 8 (0.96%) Management Information System
9 7 (0.84%) Cloud Native
9 7 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.84%) Replication
9 7 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.72%) Social Media
11 5 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (0.60%) Derivative
11 5 (0.60%) NHS
12 4 (0.48%) Blockchain
12 4 (0.48%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.48%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 25 (2.99%) Linux
2 15 (1.80%) Windows
3 14 (1.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (34.61%) ETL
2 252 (30.18%) Data Pipeline
3 239 (28.62%) Data Modelling
4 219 (26.23%) Data Engineering
5 186 (22.28%) Analytics
6 144 (17.25%) Business Intelligence
7 110 (13.17%) DevOps
8 104 (12.46%) Agile
8 104 (12.46%) Migration
9 94 (11.26%) CI/CD
10 78 (9.34%) Data Migration
11 76 (9.10%) Data Integration
12 70 (8.38%) Problem-Solving
13 64 (7.66%) Data Governance
14 53 (6.35%) Data Management
14 53 (6.35%) Data Science
15 51 (6.11%) Data Transformation
16 50 (5.99%) Data Analysis
16 50 (5.99%) Visualisation
17 48 (5.75%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 407 (48.74%) SQL
2 383 (45.87%) Python
3 80 (9.58%) Java
4 62 (7.43%) Scala
5 36 (4.31%) T-SQL
6 33 (3.95%) C#
7 14 (1.68%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.32%) R
9 9 (1.08%) Bicep
9 9 (1.08%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.96%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.84%) Bash
11 7 (0.84%) C++
12 6 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.72%) Perl
13 3 (0.36%) C
13 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
14 2 (0.24%) PHP
14 2 (0.24%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 169 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 141 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 44 (5.27%) Degree
4 28 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.24%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.24%) CISSP
12 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.24%) IBM Certification
12 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.12%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (13.77%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.35%) QA
3 9 (1.08%) GDPR
3 9 (1.08%) SLA
4 3 (0.36%) IFRS
4 3 (0.36%) IFRS 17
4 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.12%) GxP
System Software
1 20 (2.40%) Docker
2 3 (0.36%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 64 (7.66%) Terraform
2 30 (3.59%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.20%) Ansible
4 6 (0.72%) Puppet
5 5 (0.60%) NetBackup
6 4 (0.48%) Argo
7 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.12%) Matomo
9 1 (0.12%) NetMRI
9 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 170 (20.36%) Databricks
2 68 (8.14%) Microsoft
3 42 (5.03%) Oracle
4 37 (4.43%) Micro Focus
5 29 (3.47%) Informatica
6 22 (2.63%) Google
7 17 (2.04%) Talend
8 12 (1.44%) SAP
9 9 (1.08%) Veritas
10 7 (0.84%) Adobe
11 6 (0.72%) Splunk
12 5 (0.60%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.60%) Cisco
12 5 (0.60%) Twitter
13 4 (0.48%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.48%) Sage
13 4 (0.48%) Salesforce
14 3 (0.36%) Cloudera
14 3 (0.36%) JD Edwards
14 3 (0.36%) Nexthink