Data Engineer Contracts in the North West

Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the North West is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 96 120
Rank change year-on-year +5 +24 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 46 69 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.70% 2.18% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 2.29% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 54 51
10th Percentile £199 £402 £358
25th Percentile £363 £427 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £515 £675 £588
90th Percentile £550 £700 £696
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +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 £64.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year +5.47% +41.59% +18.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,556 3,008 3,897
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.39% 94.86% 96.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,663 2,155 2,851
10th Percentile £280 £300 £213
25th Percentile £389 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £568
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 129 166
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.63 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.32
Median % change year-on-year -23.83% +72.29% +13.49%
75th Percentile £46.18 £50.25 £42.50
90th Percentile £67.25 £66.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 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
Manchester +2 22 £500 - 28
Cheshire +12 15 £403 -15.26% 4
Lancashire +5 3 £500 -28.57% 3
Merseyside -7 3 £375 -42.31% 6
Data Engineer
England

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

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

1 23 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (45.65%) ETL
3 19 (41.30%) SQL
4 16 (34.78%) Python
4 16 (34.78%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (32.61%) AWS
6 14 (30.43%) Data Modelling
7 13 (28.26%) Data Engineering
8 12 (26.09%) Azure
8 12 (26.09%) Java
9 10 (21.74%) Apache Spark
9 10 (21.74%) Data Lake
10 9 (19.57%) Migration
10 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
11 8 (17.39%) Snowflake
11 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
11 8 (17.39%) Data Management
11 8 (17.39%) Data Integration
11 8 (17.39%) Analytics
12 7 (15.22%) Big Data
12 7 (15.22%) Data Quality
12 7 (15.22%) Amazon S3
12 7 (15.22%) Databricks
12 7 (15.22%) Agile
12 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
13 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
13 6 (13.04%) Data Security
13 6 (13.04%) Manufacturing
13 6 (13.04%) Apache
13 6 (13.04%) AWS Lambda

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (21.74%) Apache Spark
2 6 (13.04%) Apache
3 5 (10.87%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) AWS
2 12 (26.09%) Azure
3 8 (17.39%) Snowflake
4 7 (15.22%) Amazon S3
5 6 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (13.04%) Serverless
6 5 (10.87%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (10.87%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (10.87%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (10.87%) Power Platform
7 4 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.35%) GCP
9 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (2.17%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (2.17%) GitHub
10 1 (2.17%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) FTP
2 4 (8.70%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (34.78%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (21.74%) Data Lake
3 7 (15.22%) Big Data
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (10.87%) MySQL
4 5 (10.87%) Power BI
5 4 (8.70%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.52%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (6.52%) HBase
6 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (6.52%) Tableau
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (4.35%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.17%) Azkaban
8 1 (2.17%) Metadata
8 1 (2.17%) Navicat
8 1 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.17%) Spark SQL
8 1 (2.17%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Git
1 5 (10.87%) JIRA
2 1 (2.17%) RStudio
General
1 9 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.04%) Manufacturing
2 6 (13.04%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.87%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (6.52%) Local Government
5 2 (4.35%) Finance
6 1 (2.17%) Advertising
6 1 (2.17%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.87%) JSON
1 5 (10.87%) XML
2 4 (8.70%) Kafka
3 3 (6.52%) PySpark
4 2 (4.35%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (45.65%) ETL
3 14 (30.43%) Data Modelling
4 13 (28.26%) Data Engineering
5 9 (19.57%) Migration
6 8 (17.39%) Analytics
6 8 (17.39%) CI/CD
6 8 (17.39%) Data Integration
6 8 (17.39%) Data Management
7 7 (15.22%) Agile
7 7 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (13.04%) Data Security
8 6 (13.04%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 5 (10.87%) Containerisation
9 5 (10.87%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (10.87%) OO
9 5 (10.87%) OOP
9 5 (10.87%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 5 (10.87%) Scrum
9 5 (10.87%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) SQL
2 16 (34.78%) Python
3 12 (26.09%) Java
4 5 (10.87%) C#
4 5 (10.87%) Scala
5 2 (4.35%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.17%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (10.87%) Terraform
2 2 (4.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Databricks
2 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.87%) Informatica
3 5 (10.87%) Talend
4 2 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (2.17%) Facebook
5 1 (2.17%) Isilon
5 1 (2.17%) Micro Focus
5 1 (2.17%) Novell
5 1 (2.17%) OpenText
5 1 (2.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) Teradata
5 1 (2.17%) Twitter
5 1 (2.17%) VMware