Data Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 123 125
Rank change year-on-year +9 +2 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 77 104 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.61% 1.78% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 1.87% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 75 77
10th Percentile £170 £408 £321
25th Percentile £256 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £534 £675 £600
90th Percentile £561 £700 £700
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.61
25th Percentile £66.25 - £17.78
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £19.62
75th Percentile £68.75 - £21.84
90th Percentile - - £22.24
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £45.10
% change year-on-year +5.47% +41.91% -0.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,460 5,554 6,974
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.11% 95.27% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,802 3,920 5,129
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £381 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £672 £680 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 162 292
10th Percentile £11.03 £13.96 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.82 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.54 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.15% +65.08% +3.35%
75th Percentile £45.94 £49.40 £31.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £65.68 £49.98
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 29 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
North West +4 46 £425 -15.00% 39
Yorkshire +20 30 £475 -26.92% 16
North East +13 1 £477 -20.50% 3
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 North of England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (41.56%) Data Pipeline
2 30 (38.96%) SQL
3 27 (35.06%) ETL
4 24 (31.17%) Data Modelling
4 24 (31.17%) Azure
5 23 (29.87%) Python
6 21 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
7 20 (25.97%) Data Engineering
8 17 (22.08%) AWS
8 17 (22.08%) Analytics
9 15 (19.48%) Data Lake
10 14 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (16.88%) Java
11 13 (16.88%) Data Integration
11 13 (16.88%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (15.58%) Databricks
12 12 (15.58%) Public Sector
13 11 (14.29%) Apache Spark
14 10 (12.99%) Data Quality
14 10 (12.99%) Migration
15 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
15 9 (11.69%) CI/CD
16 8 (10.39%) Snowflake
16 8 (10.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
16 8 (10.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
16 8 (10.39%) Data Security
16 8 (10.39%) Data Management
16 8 (10.39%) Big Data

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 11 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.79%) Apache
3 5 (6.49%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 24 (31.17%) Azure
2 17 (22.08%) AWS
3 13 (16.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (10.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 8 (10.39%) Snowflake
5 7 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 7 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 6 (7.79%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (7.79%) Serverless
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (6.49%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (6.49%) GCP
8 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.30%) Adobe Analytics
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.30%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.30%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (1.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) FTP
1 5 (6.49%) Structured Cabling
1 5 (6.49%) VLAN
2 2 (2.60%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (19.48%) Data Lake
3 8 (10.39%) Big Data
4 7 (9.09%) Power BI
4 7 (9.09%) Tableau
5 5 (6.49%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (6.49%) MySQL
5 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.19%) BigQuery
6 4 (5.19%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.90%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.90%) HBase
7 3 (3.90%) Metadata
7 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.60%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.30%) Flink
9 1 (1.30%) Navicat
9 1 (1.30%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Git
1 5 (6.49%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) RStudio
2 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.58%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.79%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.49%) Finance
5 5 (6.49%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.19%) Local Government
7 2 (2.60%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.30%) Advertising
8 1 (1.30%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) JSON
1 5 (6.49%) Kafka
1 5 (6.49%) XML
2 4 (5.19%) PySpark
3 2 (2.60%) ODBC
4 1 (1.30%) HTML
4 1 (1.30%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Replication
2 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.19%) NHS
2 4 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.60%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.30%) BBC
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.30%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Linux
1 6 (7.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.56%) Data Pipeline
2 27 (35.06%) ETL
3 24 (31.17%) Data Modelling
4 20 (25.97%) Data Engineering
5 17 (22.08%) Analytics
6 14 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (16.88%) Data Integration
8 10 (12.99%) Migration
9 9 (11.69%) CI/CD
10 8 (10.39%) Data Management
10 8 (10.39%) Data Security
10 8 (10.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
11 7 (9.09%) Agile
11 7 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (9.09%) Service Delivery
12 6 (7.79%) Change Management
12 6 (7.79%) Containerisation
12 6 (7.79%) Data Governance
12 6 (7.79%) Data Protection
12 6 (7.79%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.96%) SQL
2 23 (29.87%) Python
3 13 (16.88%) Java
4 5 (6.49%) C#
4 5 (6.49%) Scala
5 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.60%) Perl
7 1 (1.30%) Bash
7 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.30%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.30%) Degree
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.99%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.60%) QA
3 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) Puppet
2 5 (6.49%) Ansible
2 5 (6.49%) NetBackup
2 5 (6.49%) Terraform
3 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (15.58%) Databricks
2 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.49%) Google
3 5 (6.49%) Informatica
3 5 (6.49%) Talend
3 5 (6.49%) Veritas
4 3 (3.90%) Oracle
5 1 (1.30%) Adobe
5 1 (1.30%) Brio
5 1 (1.30%) Facebook
5 1 (1.30%) Isilon
5 1 (1.30%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.30%) Novell
5 1 (1.30%) OpenText
5 1 (1.30%) SAP
5 1 (1.30%) Teradata
5 1 (1.30%) Twitter
5 1 (1.30%) VMware