Data Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 125 126
Rank change year-on-year +33 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 42 42 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.55% 1.25% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 1.32% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 34 56
10th Percentile £310 £424 £348
25th Percentile £406 £484 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.91% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £647 £561
90th Percentile £635 £696 £656
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £23.54 - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £30.44 - -
75th Percentile £35.06 - -
90th Percentile £38.33 - -
England median hourly rate £66.25 £64.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year +3.52% +41.59% +18.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,486 3,179 4,791
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 94.73% 95.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,678 2,234 3,494
10th Percentile £213 £220 £213
25th Percentile £325 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +2.70% +15.63%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £556
90th Percentile £688 £685 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 119 165
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.40 £10.93
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.12 £14.50
Median hourly rate £19.13 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £52.67 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +16 30 £513 -6.82% 28
East Midlands +32 12 £425 -5.56% 9
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 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 Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (69.05%) SQL
2 24 (57.14%) Python
3 21 (50.00%) Azure
4 16 (38.10%) ETL
4 16 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
5 14 (33.33%) Data Modelling
6 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (28.57%) Power BI
6 12 (28.57%) Power Platform
6 12 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
7 10 (23.81%) Analytics
7 10 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
8 9 (21.43%) Data Analysis
8 9 (21.43%) AWS
8 9 (21.43%) Data Engineering
9 8 (19.05%) Data Lake
9 8 (19.05%) DevOps
9 8 (19.05%) Java
10 7 (16.67%) Data Governance
10 7 (16.67%) Data Analytics
10 7 (16.67%) Visualisation
10 7 (16.67%) Git
10 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (14.29%) Databricks
11 6 (14.29%) Data Migration
11 6 (14.29%) Degree
11 6 (14.29%) Scala
11 6 (14.29%) BusinessObjects

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (9.52%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.76%) Apache
2 2 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.38%) Confluence
3 1 (2.38%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 9 (21.43%) AWS
4 6 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (11.90%) dbt
5 5 (11.90%) Snowflake
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (4.76%) GCP
8 2 (4.76%) Serverless
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (2.38%) GitHub
9 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
1 2 (4.76%) Network Security
2 1 (2.38%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) Power BI
2 10 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (19.05%) Data Lake
4 6 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
6 4 (9.52%) Big Data
6 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
6 4 (9.52%) Pentaho
6 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (7.14%) MySQL
7 3 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (7.14%) Tableau
8 2 (4.76%) Apache Hive
8 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (4.76%) BigQuery
8 2 (4.76%) OLAP
8 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) Ant
4 1 (2.38%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (2.38%) GitLab
4 1 (2.38%) Gradle
4 1 (2.38%) JUnit
4 1 (2.38%) Maven
General
1 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Banking
3 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Back Office
5 1 (2.38%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) ADO
1 3 (7.14%) Flask
1 3 (7.14%) Pandas
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Beam
2 1 (2.38%) JDBC
2 1 (2.38%) Kafka
2 1 (2.38%) Node.js
2 1 (2.38%) ODBC
2 1 (2.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.38%) FMCG
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
1 16 (38.10%) ETL
2 14 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 12 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (23.81%) Analytics
5 9 (21.43%) Data Analysis
5 9 (21.43%) Data Engineering
6 8 (19.05%) DevOps
7 7 (16.67%) Data Analytics
7 7 (16.67%) Data Governance
7 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (16.67%) Visualisation
8 6 (14.29%) Data Migration
8 6 (14.29%) Migration
9 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
9 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (11.90%) Data Management
9 5 (11.90%) Data Transformation
9 5 (11.90%) ERP
10 4 (9.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) SQL
2 24 (57.14%) Python
3 8 (19.05%) Java
4 6 (14.29%) Scala
5 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 3 (7.14%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.76%) C
6 2 (4.76%) C++
6 2 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (4.76%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.38%) C#
7 1 (2.38%) HiveQL
7 1 (2.38%) Perl
7 1 (2.38%) R
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.76%) CISSP
4 2 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Terraform
2 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 6 (14.29%) Databricks
3 5 (11.90%) Informatica
4 4 (9.52%) Talend
5 3 (7.14%) JD Edwards
6 2 (4.76%) QAD
6 2 (4.76%) Sage
7 1 (2.38%) Alteryx
7 1 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (2.38%) Cognos
7 1 (2.38%) Denodo
7 1 (2.38%) JDA
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle
7 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.38%) SAP