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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 205 187 246
Rank change year-on-year -18 +59 -39
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 417 659 822
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.14% 1.38% 1.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.53% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 308 443 567
10th Percentile £386 £453 £463
25th Percentile £472 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £678 £746 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £793
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 3
10th Percentile £30.55 £19.00 £56.85
25th Percentile £35.00 £34.25 £57.38
Median hourly rate £48.50 £75.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.33% +21.95% +64.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £82.50 £77.83
90th Percentile - £90.00 £85.67
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year -52.05% +23.73% +112.77%

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 31,369 43,074 63,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.13% 90.02% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,561 30,212 45,513
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,271 1,523 1,744
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%
75th Percentile £60.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 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 -19 254 £585 -6.77% 197
North of England +32 50 £515 -6.36% 42
Midlands +51 39 £584 +6.18% 33
South East -14 38 £550 +4.76% 24
North West +25 28 £510 -6.85% 27
West Midlands +25 26 £634 +15.23% 22
Yorkshire +21 21 £600 -4.00% 10
East Midlands +25 13 £550 -4.35% 11
East of England +14 9 £625 +28.21% 7
South West -4 8 £450 -33.33% 23
North East +10 1 £431 -28.17% 5
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 53 (12.71%) Apache Spark
2 37 (8.87%) Apache
3 35 (8.39%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.68%) Confluence
5 3 (0.72%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
6 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 9 (2.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.48%) Sketch
3 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 172 (41.25%) Azure
2 131 (31.41%) AWS
3 65 (15.59%) GCP
4 62 (14.87%) Azure Data Factory
5 55 (13.19%) Power Platform
6 43 (10.31%) Serverless
7 40 (9.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 35 (8.39%) Snowflake
9 28 (6.71%) Amazon S3
10 22 (5.28%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (4.80%) dbt
13 19 (4.56%) Amazon EMR
14 18 (4.32%) Azure Functions
15 15 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (3.12%) Amazon Kinesis
16 13 (3.12%) GitHub
17 12 (2.88%) Azure Logic Apps
18 11 (2.64%) Cloud Computing
19 10 (2.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.84%) Network Security
1 16 (3.84%) TCP/IP
2 14 (3.36%) Intrusion Detection
2 14 (3.36%) SAN
3 5 (1.20%) FTP
4 2 (0.48%) BGP
4 2 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.48%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.48%) DHCP
4 2 (0.48%) DNS
4 2 (0.48%) HTTP
4 2 (0.48%) OSPF
4 2 (0.48%) SNMP
5 1 (0.24%) AMQP
5 1 (0.24%) DMZ
5 1 (0.24%) Firewall
5 1 (0.24%) Modbus
5 1 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (23.74%) Data Warehouse
2 84 (20.14%) Data Lake
3 74 (17.75%) Big Data
4 55 (13.19%) Power BI
5 30 (7.19%) Azure SQL Database
6 26 (6.24%) SQL Server
7 24 (5.76%) BigQuery
8 23 (5.52%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (5.28%) Tableau
10 20 (4.80%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (4.80%) Delta Lake
11 19 (4.56%) NoSQL
12 18 (4.32%) Flink
13 16 (3.84%) Hadoop
13 16 (3.84%) Spark SQL
14 15 (3.60%) Metadata
15 12 (2.88%) Relational Database
15 12 (2.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
16 8 (1.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 31 (7.43%) JIRA
2 26 (6.24%) Git
3 5 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.72%) IntelliJ
4 3 (0.72%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.48%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.24%) Deequ
6 1 (0.24%) MLflow
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (19.90%) Social Skills
2 71 (17.03%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (16.79%) Finance
4 35 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.80%) Pharmaceutical
6 19 (4.56%) Banking
7 14 (3.36%) Retail
8 12 (2.88%) Marketing
9 9 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.20%) Front Office
11 5 (1.20%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.96%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.72%) Advertising
13 3 (0.72%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.72%) Law
13 3 (0.72%) Legal
13 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.48%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 206 (49.40%) Data Engineer
2 52 (12.47%) Developer
3 49 (11.75%) Azure Engineer
4 45 (10.79%) Senior
5 42 (10.07%) Lead
6 41 (9.83%) Azure Data Engineer
7 31 (7.43%) Senior Data Engineer
8 28 (6.71%) Python Developer
9 25 (6.00%) Analyst
9 25 (6.00%) AWS Engineer
10 24 (5.76%) Architect
11 21 (5.04%) AWS Data Engineer
12 20 (4.80%) Lead Data Engineer
13 19 (4.56%) Data Architect
14 16 (3.84%) Consultant
15 12 (2.88%) Data Analyst
15 12 (2.88%) Python Engineer
16 10 (2.40%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 10 (2.40%) Snowflake Engineer
17 9 (2.16%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (16.07%) PySpark
2 39 (9.35%) Kafka
3 18 (4.32%) Apache NiFi
4 12 (2.88%) XML
5 9 (2.16%) .NET
5 9 (2.16%) JSON
6 8 (1.92%) RESTful
7 7 (1.68%) FastAPI
7 7 (1.68%) Flask
8 6 (1.44%) React
9 5 (1.20%) Pandas
9 5 (1.20%) PyTorch
10 4 (0.96%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.96%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.96%) Hugging Face
10 4 (0.96%) LangChain
10 4 (0.96%) Node.js
10 4 (0.96%) NumPy
10 4 (0.96%) SciPy
10 4 (0.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.36%) Cyber Defence
1 14 (3.36%) Distributed Applications
2 12 (2.88%) Data Structures
2 12 (2.88%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.64%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.16%) Cloud Native
5 7 (1.68%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.20%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.20%) Smart Meter
7 4 (0.96%) FMCG
8 3 (0.72%) Biopharmaceutical
8 3 (0.72%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.72%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (0.72%) Fixed Income
8 3 (0.72%) NHS
8 3 (0.72%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.48%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.48%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.19%) Linux
2 17 (4.08%) Windows
3 15 (3.60%) Unix
4 14 (3.36%) Debian
4 14 (3.36%) Ubuntu
5 12 (2.88%) Android
5 12 (2.88%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (36.45%) Analytics
2 146 (35.01%) Data Pipeline
3 143 (34.29%) ETL
4 141 (33.81%) Data Modelling
5 126 (30.22%) Agile
6 85 (20.38%) CI/CD
7 82 (19.66%) DevOps
8 77 (18.47%) Business Intelligence
9 59 (14.15%) Data Science
10 54 (12.95%) Visualisation
11 53 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (12.23%) Data Governance
12 51 (12.23%) Data Management
13 46 (11.03%) Data Integration
14 44 (10.55%) Data Analysis
15 42 (10.07%) Data Visualisation
16 36 (8.63%) Software Engineering
17 35 (8.39%) Computer Science
17 35 (8.39%) Stakeholder Management
18 34 (8.15%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 219 (52.52%) Python
2 214 (51.32%) SQL
3 41 (9.83%) Java
4 35 (8.39%) Scala
5 14 (3.36%) T-SQL
6 13 (3.12%) C#
6 13 (3.12%) JavaScript
7 9 (2.16%) R
8 8 (1.92%) PowerShell
9 7 (1.68%) TypeScript
10 4 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.96%) Perl
11 3 (0.72%) C++
11 3 (0.72%) Go
11 3 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.48%) Groovy
12 2 (0.48%) XPath
12 2 (0.48%) XQuery
13 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 86 (20.62%) Security Cleared
2 67 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 42 (10.07%) Degree
4 24 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 24 (5.76%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.16%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.48%) CCDP
8 2 (0.48%) CCNP
8 2 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.48%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.24%) PhD
9 1 (0.24%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (14.63%) Data Quality
2 14 (3.36%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (1.44%) GDPR
4 5 (1.20%) QA
5 3 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.48%) IFRS
6 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.48%) SLA
6 2 (0.48%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.24%) GRC
7 1 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 24 (5.76%) Docker
2 3 (0.72%) HDFS
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 29 (6.95%) Terraform
2 23 (5.52%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.72%) Ansible
4 1 (0.24%) Grafana
4 1 (0.24%) Kibana
4 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.24%) Matomo
4 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 100 (23.98%) Databricks
2 50 (11.99%) Microsoft
3 29 (6.95%) Google
4 24 (5.76%) Red Hat
5 21 (5.04%) Oracle
6 14 (3.36%) Informatica
6 14 (3.36%) VMware
7 11 (2.64%) SAP
8 10 (2.40%) Foundry
8 10 (2.40%) Palantir
8 10 (2.40%) Talend
9 7 (1.68%) Ab Initio
10 4 (0.96%) IBM
11 3 (0.72%) Cloudera
11 3 (0.72%) OpenAI
11 3 (0.72%) SnapLogic
12 2 (0.48%) Arista
12 2 (0.48%) Aruba
12 2 (0.48%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.48%) Zscaler