Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 143 157 160
Rank change year-on-year +14 +3 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 337 344 493
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.58% 1.52% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 1.61% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 269 364
10th Percentile £169 £405 £327
25th Percentile £199 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £638 £626
90th Percentile £588 £694 £722
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 1 10
10th Percentile £37.50 - £42.36
25th Percentile £58.75 £75.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £75.50 £45.10
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% +67.41% +78.61%
75th Percentile £80.00 £75.75 £50.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.35
% change year-on-year -10.60% +66.48% +56.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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 of England +6 82 £475 -20.83% 91
South West +8 67 £500 -3.61% 26
North West +3 50 £425 -27.66% 60
South East -10 50 £463 -11.06% 27
Midlands +17 46 £425 -26.09% 30
East of England +27 37 £185 -64.76% 6
Scotland +31 34 £453 -9.40% 22
West Midlands +10 34 £450 -25.00% 21
Yorkshire +17 32 £480 -26.15% 22
Wales +33 15 £500 - 4
East Midlands +15 12 £400 -11.11% 7
Northern Ireland +2 6 £175 -65.00% 5
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 129 (38.28%) SQL
2 103 (30.56%) Python
3 100 (29.67%) Azure
4 91 (27.00%) ETL
5 82 (24.33%) Data Modelling
6 69 (20.47%) Data Pipeline
7 68 (20.18%) AWS
8 66 (19.58%) Migration
9 60 (17.80%) Business Intelligence
9 60 (17.80%) Power Platform
9 60 (17.80%) Power BI
10 57 (16.91%) Data Engineering
11 55 (16.32%) Data Warehouse
11 55 (16.32%) Analytics
12 49 (14.54%) Data Migration
13 48 (14.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 47 (13.95%) Security Cleared
15 43 (12.76%) Databricks
15 43 (12.76%) Social Skills
16 41 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
17 37 (10.98%) Micro Focus
18 36 (10.68%) SQL Server
18 36 (10.68%) Data Lake
19 35 (10.39%) SC Cleared
19 35 (10.39%) Tableau
20 33 (9.79%) Java
20 33 (9.79%) DevOps
21 32 (9.50%) Snowflake
22 31 (9.20%) CI/CD
22 31 (9.20%) Agile

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (6.82%) Apache Spark
2 19 (5.64%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (4.75%) Apache
4 4 (1.19%) Confluence
5 2 (0.59%) SAS
6 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.89%) ENOVIA
1 3 (0.89%) SAP PLM
1 3 (0.89%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 100 (29.67%) Azure
2 68 (20.18%) AWS
3 60 (17.80%) Power Platform
4 48 (14.24%) Azure Data Factory
5 32 (9.50%) Snowflake
6 24 (7.12%) Amazon S3
6 24 (7.12%) GCP
7 20 (5.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 20 (5.93%) Serverless
8 17 (5.04%) dbt
9 15 (4.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (3.86%) AWS CodePipeline
11 13 (3.86%) GitHub
12 12 (3.56%) OpenShift
13 10 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (2.97%) Amazon EMR
14 7 (2.08%) Matillion
15 6 (1.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 5 (1.48%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.42%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (1.48%) Firewall
2 5 (1.48%) FTP
2 5 (1.48%) VLAN
3 3 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (0.89%) DMZ
3 3 (0.89%) VPN
3 3 (0.89%) Wireless
4 2 (0.59%) Network Security
4 2 (0.59%) SSL
5 1 (0.30%) 3G
5 1 (0.30%) 4G
5 1 (0.30%) 5G
5 1 (0.30%) DAB
5 1 (0.30%) DNS
5 1 (0.30%) GPRS
5 1 (0.30%) Internet
5 1 (0.30%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.30%) VoWiFi
5 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.80%) Power BI
2 55 (16.32%) Data Warehouse
3 36 (10.68%) Data Lake
3 36 (10.68%) SQL Server
4 35 (10.39%) Tableau
5 24 (7.12%) Relational Database
6 22 (6.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 18 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
8 17 (5.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 16 (4.75%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (4.15%) Big Data
11 13 (3.86%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 13 (3.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (3.56%) NoSQL
13 11 (3.26%) BigQuery
14 10 (2.97%) Hadoop
14 10 (2.97%) MySQL
15 9 (2.67%) Snowflake Schema
16 8 (2.37%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (4.15%) Git
2 11 (3.26%) JIRA
3 9 (2.67%) GitLab
4 4 (1.19%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.89%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.89%) Mercurial
6 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.59%) Gradle
7 1 (0.30%) Ant
7 1 (0.30%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.30%) ERwin
7 1 (0.30%) JUnit
7 1 (0.30%) Maven
7 1 (0.30%) RStudio
General
1 43 (12.76%) Social Skills
2 41 (12.17%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (7.42%) Public Sector
4 21 (6.23%) Finance
5 11 (3.26%) Aerospace
5 11 (3.26%) Manufacturing
5 11 (3.26%) Telecoms
6 9 (2.67%) Banking
7 5 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.19%) Aviation
8 4 (1.19%) Electronics
8 4 (1.19%) Local Government
8 4 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (0.89%) Investment Banking
9 3 (0.89%) Marketing
9 3 (0.89%) Multimedia
10 2 (0.59%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.59%) Military
10 2 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.59%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.75%) PySpark
2 15 (4.45%) Kafka
3 13 (3.86%) AWS CDK
4 10 (2.97%) XML
5 8 (2.37%) REST
6 6 (1.78%) Pandas
7 5 (1.48%) JSON
8 4 (1.19%) .NET
8 4 (1.19%) NumPy
8 4 (1.19%) OpenID
8 4 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.19%) PostGIS
9 3 (0.89%) Flask
9 3 (0.89%) React
9 3 (0.89%) RESTful
9 3 (0.89%) SciPy
10 2 (0.59%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.59%) Apache Beam
10 2 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.59%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.86%) Fibre Optics
2 12 (3.56%) Replication
3 10 (2.97%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.08%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.48%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.48%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.48%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.19%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.19%) NHS
7 4 (1.19%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.19%) Smart Meter
8 3 (0.89%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (0.89%) Social Media
9 2 (0.59%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.59%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.04%) Linux
1 17 (5.04%) Windows
2 6 (1.78%) Unix
3 2 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.59%) zOS
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (27.00%) ETL
2 82 (24.33%) Data Modelling
3 69 (20.47%) Data Pipeline
4 66 (19.58%) Migration
5 60 (17.80%) Business Intelligence
6 57 (16.91%) Data Engineering
7 55 (16.32%) Analytics
8 49 (14.54%) Data Migration
9 33 (9.79%) DevOps
10 31 (9.20%) Agile
10 31 (9.20%) CI/CD
11 26 (7.72%) DevSecOps
12 25 (7.42%) Data Integration
12 25 (7.42%) Data Management
12 25 (7.42%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (6.23%) Performance Optimisation
13 21 (6.23%) Scrum
14 20 (5.93%) Computer Science
15 18 (5.34%) Data Transformation
15 18 (5.34%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 129 (38.28%) SQL
2 103 (30.56%) Python
3 33 (9.79%) Java
4 15 (4.45%) Scala
5 13 (3.86%) T-SQL
6 12 (3.56%) C#
7 9 (2.67%) JavaScript
8 6 (1.78%) R
9 5 (1.48%) Perl
9 5 (1.48%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.19%) Bash
10 4 (1.19%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.59%) C
11 2 (0.59%) C++
11 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.59%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.59%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.59%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 47 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.39%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.23%) Degree
4 14 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.78%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.89%) CISSP
7 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.59%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.30%) SAS Certification
9 1 (0.30%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.90%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.45%) QA
3 6 (1.78%) GDPR
4 3 (0.89%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.59%) NIST
5 2 (0.59%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 15 (4.45%) Docker
2 2 (0.59%) HDFS
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (5.64%) Terraform
2 11 (3.26%) Ansible
3 8 (2.37%) Grafana
3 8 (2.37%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.78%) Puppet
5 5 (1.48%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.59%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (12.76%) Databricks
2 37 (10.98%) Micro Focus
3 21 (6.23%) Microsoft
4 13 (3.86%) Informatica
5 12 (3.56%) Oracle
6 8 (2.37%) Google
7 7 (2.08%) SAP
7 7 (2.08%) Talend
8 5 (1.48%) Ab Initio
8 5 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.48%) Twitter
8 5 (1.48%) Veritas
9 4 (1.19%) Splunk
10 3 (0.89%) Blue Coat
10 3 (0.89%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.89%) Cisco
10 3 (0.89%) Cloudera
10 3 (0.89%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.89%) Juniper
11 2 (0.59%) Commvault