Data Engineering Contracts in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 199 194 229
Rank change year-on-year -5 +35 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 428 700 898
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.15% 1.38% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.53% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 473 616
10th Percentile £405 £453 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 6
10th Percentile £30.46 £19.00 £25.69
25th Percentile £34.06 £27.36 £33.44
Median hourly rate £38.65 £73.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +29.20% +21.01%
75th Percentile £60.00 £76.88 £62.69
90th Percentile - £78.90 £77.83
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £54.25 £56.50
% change year-on-year -35.48% -3.98% +47.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,208 45,878 64,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.52% 90.28% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,179 32,145 45,991
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,233 1,631 1,786
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.23
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 24 April 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 -7 261 £588 -7.99% 243
South East -11 46 £550 +4.76% 47
North of England +32 42 £533 -3.18% 45
Midlands +30 40 £584 +8.15% 29
West Midlands +15 26 £634 +17.36% 17
Yorkshire +26 21 £600 +20.00% 8
North West +10 19 £510 -15.00% 31
East Midlands +23 14 £550 -4.35% 12
South West +1 9 £491 -25.43% 13
East of England +10 7 £525 - 13
North East +18 2 £423 -32.32% 6
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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 46 (10.75%) Apache Spark
2 41 (9.58%) Apache
3 32 (7.48%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.64%) Confluence
5 6 (1.40%) Tornado
6 3 (0.70%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.23%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.23%) Sketch
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.23%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle Utilities
2 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 164 (38.32%) Azure
2 140 (32.71%) AWS
3 62 (14.49%) GCP
4 53 (12.38%) Azure Data Factory
5 52 (12.15%) Power Platform
6 41 (9.58%) Serverless
7 37 (8.64%) Snowflake
8 34 (7.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (6.54%) Amazon S3
10 22 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
13 15 (3.50%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (3.50%) Azure Functions
13 15 (3.50%) dbt
14 14 (3.27%) Amazon Kinesis
15 13 (3.04%) Azure Key Vault
15 13 (3.04%) GitHub
16 12 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
17 9 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.67%) TCP/IP
2 18 (4.21%) SAN
3 17 (3.97%) Network Security
4 15 (3.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.17%) FTP
6 2 (0.47%) AMQP
6 2 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.47%) DHCP
6 2 (0.47%) DMZ
6 2 (0.47%) DNS
6 2 (0.47%) Firewall
6 2 (0.47%) HTTP
6 2 (0.47%) Modbus
6 2 (0.47%) MQTT
6 2 (0.47%) OSPF
6 2 (0.47%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (23.36%) Data Warehouse
2 73 (17.06%) Data Lake
3 67 (15.65%) Big Data
4 52 (12.15%) Power BI
5 29 (6.78%) SQL Server
6 23 (5.37%) Amazon Redshift
6 23 (5.37%) BigQuery
6 23 (5.37%) Flink
7 22 (5.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 19 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
8 19 (4.44%) Tableau
9 18 (4.21%) Metadata
10 17 (3.97%) Delta Lake
11 16 (3.74%) Hadoop
12 15 (3.50%) NoSQL
12 15 (3.50%) Spark SQL
13 12 (2.80%) Relational Database
14 8 (1.87%) Data Mart
14 8 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (1.87%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (7.24%) JIRA
2 23 (5.37%) Git
3 5 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.70%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.47%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.47%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.23%) Deequ
6 1 (0.23%) Maven
6 1 (0.23%) MLflow
6 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (19.63%) Social Skills
2 72 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (15.65%) Finance
4 40 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.91%) Banking
6 14 (3.27%) Retail
7 13 (3.04%) Marketing
7 13 (3.04%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (2.57%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.40%) Law
9 6 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.17%) Legal
10 5 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.93%) Back Office
11 4 (0.93%) Front Office
11 4 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.70%) Advertising
12 3 (0.70%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 223 (52.10%) Data Engineer
2 53 (12.38%) Developer
3 51 (11.92%) Senior
4 49 (11.45%) Azure Engineer
5 42 (9.81%) Lead
6 37 (8.64%) Azure Data Engineer
7 36 (8.41%) AWS Engineer
8 34 (7.94%) Python Developer
8 34 (7.94%) Senior Data Engineer
9 31 (7.24%) AWS Data Engineer
10 26 (6.07%) Architect
11 24 (5.61%) Lead Data Engineer
12 21 (4.91%) Data Architect
13 20 (4.67%) Analyst
14 17 (3.97%) Consultant
15 11 (2.57%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 10 (2.34%) Cloud Engineer
16 10 (2.34%) Python Engineer
17 9 (2.10%) Data Consultant
18 8 (1.87%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (12.85%) PySpark
2 49 (11.45%) Kafka
3 20 (4.67%) Apache NiFi
4 14 (3.27%) XML
5 13 (3.04%) FastAPI
6 12 (2.80%) Flask
7 11 (2.57%) JSON
8 10 (2.34%) Node.js
8 10 (2.34%) Pandas
8 10 (2.34%) React
9 9 (2.10%) .NET
10 8 (1.87%) pytest
10 8 (1.87%) RESTful
11 6 (1.40%) Bokeh
11 6 (1.40%) Django
11 6 (1.40%) OAuth
11 6 (1.40%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.40%) PyTorch
12 5 (1.17%) Hugging Face
12 5 (1.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.50%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (3.50%) Distributed Applications
2 12 (2.80%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.57%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.10%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.10%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.87%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.17%) Market Risk
6 5 (1.17%) Smart Meter
7 4 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (0.93%) Onboarding
7 4 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.70%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.70%) FMCG
8 3 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (0.70%) NHS
8 3 (0.70%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.70%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (0.70%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.64%) Linux
2 19 (4.44%) Windows
3 18 (4.21%) Debian
3 18 (4.21%) Ubuntu
4 16 (3.74%) Unix
5 13 (3.04%) Android
5 13 (3.04%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (34.81%) Analytics
1 149 (34.81%) Data Modelling
2 141 (32.94%) ETL
3 132 (30.84%) Data Pipeline
4 124 (28.97%) Agile
5 87 (20.33%) Business Intelligence
6 81 (18.93%) CI/CD
7 73 (17.06%) DevOps
8 63 (14.72%) Data Science
8 63 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (14.02%) Visualisation
10 54 (12.62%) Data Management
11 51 (11.92%) Data Analysis
12 50 (11.68%) Data Governance
12 50 (11.68%) Data Integration
13 42 (9.81%) Software Engineering
14 41 (9.58%) Data Visualisation
15 37 (8.64%) Machine Learning
16 34 (7.94%) Computer Science
17 29 (6.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 227 (53.04%) Python
2 223 (52.10%) SQL
3 43 (10.05%) Java
4 34 (7.94%) Scala
5 19 (4.44%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.27%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.04%) C#
7 13 (3.04%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.34%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.10%) R
10 6 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.93%) Perl
11 4 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.70%) C++
13 2 (0.47%) Go
13 2 (0.47%) Groovy
13 2 (0.47%) XPath
13 2 (0.47%) XQuery
14 1 (0.23%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 111 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 90 (21.03%) SC Cleared
3 40 (9.35%) Degree
4 31 (7.24%) DV Cleared
5 22 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.64%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.64%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.47%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.47%) CCDP
7 2 (0.47%) CCNP
7 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.47%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.47%) PhD
8 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (13.32%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.50%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (1.40%) QA
4 5 (1.17%) GDPR
5 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.47%) IFRS
5 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.23%) GRC
6 1 (0.23%) GxP
6 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 23 (5.37%) Docker
2 3 (0.70%) HDFS
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 29 (6.78%) Terraform
2 27 (6.31%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.70%) Ansible
4 2 (0.47%) Grafana
5 1 (0.23%) Kibana
5 1 (0.23%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.23%) Matomo
5 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 91 (21.26%) Databricks
2 56 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.54%) Red Hat
4 27 (6.31%) Oracle
5 26 (6.07%) Google
6 18 (4.21%) VMware
7 15 (3.50%) Informatica
8 14 (3.27%) Talend
9 13 (3.04%) SAP
10 10 (2.34%) Foundry
10 10 (2.34%) Palantir
11 5 (1.17%) Ab Initio
11 5 (1.17%) Confluent
12 4 (0.93%) IBM
13 2 (0.47%) Arista
13 2 (0.47%) Aruba
13 2 (0.47%) Cisco
13 2 (0.47%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.47%) ESRI
13 2 (0.47%) OpenAI