Data Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Data Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 165 201
Rank change year-on-year +25 +36 -60
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 44 45 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.94% 0.78% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.09% 0.86% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 24 33
10th Percentile £414 £414 £400
25th Percentile £450 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £548 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% -0.45% +17.33%
75th Percentile £615 £656 £638
90th Percentile £638 £725 £747
England median daily rate £561 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -8.37% +2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.65 £75.00 £59.00
% change year-on-year -48.46% +27.12% +53.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,027 5,253 6,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.66% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,466 3,653 4,642
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 209 259
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.25 £12.86
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +56.81% +2.51%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the North of England region over the 6 months to 4 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 +15 22 £510 -7.27% 27
Yorkshire +23 20 £605 +24.10% 6
North East +19 2 £423 -32.32% 7
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 13 (29.55%) Apache
2 12 (27.27%) Apache Spark
3 7 (15.91%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (47.73%) AWS
2 12 (27.27%) Azure
3 9 (20.45%) GCP
4 8 (18.18%) Snowflake
5 7 (15.91%) Power Platform
6 6 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (13.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (13.64%) Serverless
7 5 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (11.36%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (11.36%) Amazon S3
7 5 (11.36%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (4.55%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (4.55%) CloudBees
9 2 (4.55%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) FTP
2 2 (4.55%) AMQP
2 2 (4.55%) DMZ
2 2 (4.55%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) Modbus
2 2 (4.55%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (27.27%) Data Lake
2 9 (20.45%) Big Data
2 9 (20.45%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (15.91%) BigQuery
3 7 (15.91%) Power BI
3 7 (15.91%) Tableau
4 6 (13.64%) Flink
4 6 (13.64%) Hadoop
5 3 (6.82%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.82%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (6.82%) HBase
5 3 (6.82%) MySQL
5 3 (6.82%) NoSQL
6 2 (4.55%) Apache Hive
6 2 (4.55%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (4.55%) Metadata
6 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.55%) Spark SQL
6 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
7 1 (2.27%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (15.91%) Git
2 5 (11.36%) JIRA
3 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Pharmaceutical
3 8 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (15.91%) Manufacturing
5 3 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.55%) Finance
6 2 (4.55%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.27%) Advertising
7 1 (2.27%) Marketing
7 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Developer
3 6 (13.64%) Python Developer
3 6 (13.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (11.36%) Lead
4 5 (11.36%) Senior
4 5 (11.36%) Senior Data Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Data Manager
5 4 (9.09%) Product Manager
6 3 (6.82%) Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Build Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Linux Server Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Server Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.91%) FastAPI
1 7 (15.91%) JSON
1 7 (15.91%) XML
2 6 (13.64%) Flask
3 5 (11.36%) Kafka
4 2 (4.55%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (4.55%) Web Services
4 2 (4.55%) XSLT
5 1 (2.27%) Node.js
5 1 (2.27%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.82%) NHS
2 3 (6.82%) Reference Data
3 2 (4.55%) IoT
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.55%) PKI
4 1 (2.27%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.55%) Linux
1 2 (4.55%) Windows
1 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (56.82%) Data Pipeline
2 24 (54.55%) Data Modelling
3 20 (45.45%) ETL
4 17 (38.64%) CI/CD
5 14 (31.82%) Agile
5 14 (31.82%) Data Governance
6 11 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
7 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
8 9 (20.45%) Analytics
8 9 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (20.45%) TDD
9 8 (18.18%) Visualisation
10 7 (15.91%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (13.64%) Data Science
11 6 (13.64%) Process Improvement
11 6 (13.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 6 (13.64%) Scrum
11 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (13.64%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (65.91%) Python
2 26 (59.09%) SQL
3 9 (20.45%) Java
4 5 (11.36%) C#
4 5 (11.36%) Scala
5 4 (9.09%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.55%) Groovy
6 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.55%) Perl
7 1 (2.27%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 14 (31.82%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Ansible
2 2 (4.55%) Grafana
2 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.64%) Google
2 5 (11.36%) Informatica
2 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.36%) Talend
3 4 (9.09%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Anaplan
4 1 (2.27%) Brio
4 1 (2.27%) Facebook
4 1 (2.27%) SAP
4 1 (2.27%) Twitter