Data Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Data Engineering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 121 169
Rank change year-on-year +28 +48 -25
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 41 40 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.49% 1.17% 0.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.32% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 34 20
10th Percentile £319 £473 £415
25th Percentile £506 £538 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £567 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -1.82% +29.41%
75th Percentile £709 £575 £638
90th Percentile £850 £646 £850
England median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £22.59 - -
25th Percentile £23.89 - -
Median hourly rate £26.05 - -
75th Percentile £28.21 - -
90th Percentile £29.51 - -
England median hourly rate £38.65 £73.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% +29.20% +47.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,266 3,021 4,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.19% 88.41% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,516 2,106 3,283
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £567
90th Percentile £700 £680 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 118 150
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.94 £9.98
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.72 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +7.22% +1.37% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.47 £22.08
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.13 £34.50
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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 +9 25 £642 +18.87% 21
East Midlands +29 16 £550 -4.35% 10
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 2 (4.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.44%) Apache
2 1 (2.44%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.20%) AWS
1 5 (12.20%) Azure
1 5 (12.20%) Google Analytics
2 3 (7.32%) Snowflake
3 2 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.44%) dbt
4 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (36.59%) Intrusion Detection
1 15 (36.59%) Network Security
2 5 (12.20%) SAN
2 5 (12.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (41.46%) Big Data
2 7 (17.07%) Data Lake
2 7 (17.07%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.32%) Pentaho
3 3 (7.32%) Semantic Layer
4 2 (4.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.44%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.44%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.44%) Power BI
5 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) Git
General
1 19 (46.34%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.88%) Retail
5 1 (2.44%) Back Office
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Police
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Data Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Python Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Senior
5 3 (7.32%) Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Analytics Consultant
5 3 (7.32%) Consultant
5 3 (7.32%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Security Engineer
5 3 (7.32%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Data Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Data Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Head of Analytics
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Python Developer
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 1 (2.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (36.59%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.44%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 15 (36.59%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (36.59%) Distributed Applications
2 9 (21.95%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.32%) FMCG
3 3 (7.32%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 18 (43.90%) Linux
2 13 (31.71%) Android
2 13 (31.71%) Apple iOS
2 13 (31.71%) Unix
2 13 (31.71%) Windows
3 5 (12.20%) Debian
3 5 (12.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (51.22%) Analytics
1 21 (51.22%) Data Management
2 20 (48.78%) Data Pipeline
3 15 (36.59%) Actionable Insight
3 15 (36.59%) Cybersecurity
3 15 (36.59%) Information Security
3 15 (36.59%) Security Architecture
3 15 (36.59%) SIEM
4 14 (34.15%) Data Analysis
5 13 (31.71%) Data Modelling
5 13 (31.71%) Kalman Filter
5 13 (31.71%) Security Operations
6 8 (19.51%) ETL
7 7 (17.07%) Agile
7 7 (17.07%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (14.63%) Data Analytics
9 5 (12.20%) Conceptual Models
9 5 (12.20%) Logical Data Model
9 5 (12.20%) Matrix Organization
9 5 (12.20%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) Python
2 11 (26.83%) SQL
3 4 (9.76%) Java
3 4 (9.76%) Scala
4 1 (2.44%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.44%) R
4 1 (2.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (46.34%) Security Cleared
2 18 (43.90%) DV Cleared
3 7 (17.07%) Degree
4 6 (14.63%) SC Cleared
5 3 (7.32%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (36.59%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (36.59%) Red Hat
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.20%) Google
3 5 (12.20%) VMware
4 4 (9.76%) Databricks
4 4 (9.76%) Informatica
5 3 (7.32%) Talend
6 1 (2.44%) JDA
6 1 (2.44%) Sage