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 £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 111 145
Rank change year-on-year +14 +34 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 80 96 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.73% 1.72% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.86% 1.80% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 71 74
10th Percentile £170 £405 £318
25th Percentile £199 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £600 £538
Median % change year-on-year -22.92% +11.63% +14.06%
75th Percentile £536 £675 £635
90th Percentile £576 £700 £709
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £18.62
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £19.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £19.87
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -10.60% +65.93% +19.74%

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 4,308 5,322 6,838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 95.44% 96.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,698 3,719 4,995
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £388 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £563
90th Percentile £670 £686 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 157 288
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.15 £11.24
25th Percentile £12.70 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.43 £29.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.86% +54.21% +8.57%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.40 £33.79
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.28 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

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 23 May 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 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
North West +6 50 £425 -19.05% 42
Yorkshire +20 30 £475 -26.92% 11
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 North of England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 31 (38.75%) SQL
3 27 (33.75%) ETL
3 27 (33.75%) Azure
4 25 (31.25%) Python
4 25 (31.25%) Data Modelling
5 21 (26.25%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
5 21 (26.25%) Data Engineering
6 17 (21.25%) AWS
7 16 (20.00%) Analytics
7 16 (20.00%) Data Lake
8 15 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (17.50%) Databricks
10 13 (16.25%) Data Integration
10 13 (16.25%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (16.25%) Java
11 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
12 11 (13.75%) Apache Spark
13 10 (12.50%) CI/CD
13 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
14 9 (11.25%) Migration
14 9 (11.25%) Data Quality
14 9 (11.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 9 (11.25%) Snowflake
15 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
15 8 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 8 (10.00%) Big Data
15 8 (10.00%) Data Security
15 8 (10.00%) Data Management

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 (13.75%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.50%) Apache
2 6 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 27 (33.75%) Azure
2 17 (21.25%) AWS
3 15 (18.75%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (11.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 9 (11.25%) Snowflake
5 7 (8.75%) Amazon S3
5 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
6 6 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (7.50%) Serverless
7 5 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (6.25%) GCP
8 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub
8 2 (2.50%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (1.25%) dbt
9 1 (1.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.75%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (6.25%) FTP
2 5 (6.25%) VLAN
3 2 (2.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.25%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 8 (10.00%) Big Data
4 7 (8.75%) Power BI
4 7 (8.75%) Tableau
5 5 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (6.25%) MySQL
6 4 (5.00%) BigQuery
6 4 (5.00%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.75%) HBase
7 3 (3.75%) Metadata
7 3 (3.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (2.50%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.50%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (7.50%) JIRA
2 5 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.25%) RStudio
General
1 21 (26.25%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (5.00%) Finance
6 4 (5.00%) Local Government
7 2 (2.50%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.25%) Advertising
8 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) PySpark
2 5 (6.25%) JSON
2 5 (6.25%) Kafka
2 5 (6.25%) XML
3 2 (2.50%) ODBC
4 1 (1.25%) pytest
4 1 (1.25%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Replication
2 4 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.00%) NHS
2 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.50%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.25%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Linux
1 6 (7.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 27 (33.75%) ETL
3 25 (31.25%) Data Modelling
4 21 (26.25%) Data Engineering
5 16 (20.00%) Analytics
6 13 (16.25%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (16.25%) Data Integration
7 10 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 9 (11.25%) Migration
9 8 (10.00%) Data Management
9 8 (10.00%) Data Security
9 8 (10.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 7 (8.75%) Agile
10 7 (8.75%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (8.75%) Service Delivery
11 6 (7.50%) Change Management
11 6 (7.50%) Containerisation
11 6 (7.50%) Data Protection
11 6 (7.50%) Test Automation
12 5 (6.25%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 31 (38.75%) SQL
2 25 (31.25%) Python
3 13 (16.25%) Java
4 5 (6.25%) C#
4 5 (6.25%) Scala
5 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.50%) Perl
7 1 (1.25%) Bash
7 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.25%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) Degree
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Puppet
1 6 (7.50%) Terraform
2 5 (6.25%) Ansible
2 5 (6.25%) NetBackup
3 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Databricks
2 10 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (6.25%) Informatica
3 5 (6.25%) Talend
3 5 (6.25%) Veritas
4 4 (5.00%) Google
5 3 (3.75%) Oracle
6 1 (1.25%) Brio
6 1 (1.25%) Facebook
6 1 (1.25%) Isilon
6 1 (1.25%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.25%) Novell
6 1 (1.25%) OpenText
6 1 (1.25%) SAP
6 1 (1.25%) Teradata
6 1 (1.25%) Twitter
6 1 (1.25%) VMware