Data Engineer Contracts in Sheffield

Data Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 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
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 46 40
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 -18
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 7 6 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 1.85% 1.31% 3.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% 1.33% 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £400 £530 £500
25th Percentile £513 £575 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +86.92%
75th Percentile £540 £675 £650
90th Percentile £554 £690 £665
South Yorkshire median daily rate £260 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -60.00% +8.33% +86.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 340 450 373
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.71% 98.04% 96.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 314 301
10th Percentile £360 £363 £300
25th Percentile £413 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £564 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +12.75% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £563
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 12
10th Percentile £10.90 £11.10 £9.74
25th Percentile £11.33 £11.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £16.38
Median % change year-on-year +24.15% +8.21% +20.83%
75th Percentile £23.75 £22.50 £18.11
90th Percentile - £33.00 £23.55
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.60 £17.72 £17.64
% change year-on-year -23.28% +0.45% +10.25%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Sheffield

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Sheffield

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Sheffield over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Sheffield

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

For the 6 months to 3 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 Sheffield region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Service Delivery
1 6 (85.71%) Change Management
1 6 (85.71%) Replication
1 6 (85.71%) Data Protection
1 6 (85.71%) Puppet
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) VLAN
2 5 (71.43%) NetBackup
2 5 (71.43%) Veritas
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
4 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Python

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Change Management
1 6 (85.71%) Data Protection
1 6 (85.71%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Puppet
2 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (71.43%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Veritas