Data Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 255 282
Rank change year-on-year +20 +27 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 163 201 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.80% 0.86% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.96% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 138 146
10th Percentile £363 £410 £408
25th Percentile £450 £482 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £688 £688
90th Percentile £690 £775 £749
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 2
10th Percentile £26.05 - £23.57
25th Percentile £37.78 £19.00 £29.06
Median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £38.21
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% -8.39% +37.77%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £47.35
90th Percentile £64.38 £78.00 £52.84
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -52.05% +29.20% +103.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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 of England +38 47 £550 - 41
South East -2 45 £550 +4.76% 25
Midlands +38 42 £567 +4.91% 30
North West +23 26 £510 -7.27% 25
West Midlands +18 26 £642 +18.87% 24
Yorkshire +24 20 £605 +5.22% 7
East Midlands +34 16 £550 -4.35% 6
Scotland +34 13 £453 -7.55% 11
South West -1 9 £491 -26.82% 23
East of England +13 6 £575 +17.95% 13
Wales +14 1 £625 - 5
North East +14 1 £431 -28.17% 9
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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 24 (14.72%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (10.43%) Apache
3 16 (9.82%) Apache Spark
4 4 (2.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.23%) Sketch
2 1 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 46 (28.22%) AWS
1 46 (28.22%) Azure
2 22 (13.50%) Power Platform
2 22 (13.50%) Snowflake
3 21 (12.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 16 (9.82%) GCP
5 12 (7.36%) Serverless
6 8 (4.91%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.29%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.68%) Amazon EMR
8 6 (3.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (3.07%) Amazon SQS
9 5 (3.07%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (3.07%) Google Analytics
10 4 (2.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (2.45%) Azure Functions
10 4 (2.45%) GitHub
10 4 (2.45%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.84%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.82%) SAN
1 16 (9.82%) TCP/IP
2 15 (9.20%) Intrusion Detection
2 15 (9.20%) Network Security
3 5 (3.07%) FTP
4 1 (0.61%) AMQP
4 1 (0.61%) DMZ
4 1 (0.61%) Firewall
4 1 (0.61%) Modbus
4 1 (0.61%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (19.63%) Big Data
2 30 (18.40%) Data Lake
3 28 (17.18%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (13.50%) Power BI
5 12 (7.36%) Metadata
6 11 (6.75%) BigQuery
7 9 (5.52%) Hadoop
8 7 (4.29%) Flink
9 6 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (3.68%) SQL Server
9 6 (3.68%) Tableau
10 5 (3.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (3.07%) Apache Hive
10 5 (3.07%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.45%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (2.45%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (2.45%) Relational Database
12 3 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (1.84%) HBase
12 3 (1.84%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 17 (10.43%) JIRA
2 11 (6.75%) Git
3 3 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.23%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.61%) GitLab
General
1 37 (22.70%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (11.66%) Social Skills
3 15 (9.20%) Pharmaceutical
4 11 (6.75%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.29%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.68%) Finance
7 5 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.84%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.23%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.23%) Legal
9 2 (1.23%) Marketing
9 2 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Retail
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.61%) Back Office
10 1 (0.61%) Banking
10 1 (0.61%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.61%) Police
10 1 (0.61%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 60 (36.81%) Data Engineer
2 30 (18.40%) Developer
3 22 (13.50%) Python Developer
4 18 (11.04%) Senior
5 14 (8.59%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (7.98%) Senior Data Engineer
7 11 (6.75%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 9 (5.52%) Analyst
8 9 (5.52%) Architect
8 9 (5.52%) AWS Data Engineer
9 8 (4.91%) Data Architect
9 8 (4.91%) Data Manager
9 8 (4.91%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (4.29%) Lead
11 6 (3.68%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.68%) Product Manager
12 5 (3.07%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 5 (3.07%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.43%) Apache NiFi
2 10 (6.13%) XML
3 8 (4.91%) PySpark
4 7 (4.29%) FastAPI
4 7 (4.29%) Kafka
5 6 (3.68%) Flask
5 6 (3.68%) JSON
6 3 (1.84%) React
7 2 (1.23%) CSS
7 2 (1.23%) HTML
7 2 (1.23%) Node.js
8 1 (0.61%) .NET
8 1 (0.61%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.61%) PostGIS
8 1 (0.61%) REST
8 1 (0.61%) RESTful
8 1 (0.61%) SOAP
8 1 (0.61%) TensorFlow
8 1 (0.61%) Web Services
8 1 (0.61%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.20%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (9.20%) Distributed Applications
2 12 (7.36%) Management Information System
3 10 (6.13%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.52%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.07%) Reference Data
5 5 (3.07%) Smart Meter
6 4 (2.45%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.84%) Biopharmaceutical
7 3 (1.84%) FMCG
7 3 (1.84%) NHS
7 3 (1.84%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.23%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.23%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.61%) IoT
9 1 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.61%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.61%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (20.25%) Linux
2 17 (10.43%) Windows
3 16 (9.82%) Debian
3 16 (9.82%) Ubuntu
3 16 (9.82%) Unix
4 13 (7.98%) Android
4 13 (7.98%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (44.17%) Data Modelling
2 62 (38.04%) Data Pipeline
3 54 (33.13%) Analytics
4 50 (30.67%) Agile
4 50 (30.67%) ETL
5 35 (21.47%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (18.40%) Data Analysis
6 30 (18.40%) Data Management
7 28 (17.18%) DevOps
8 25 (15.34%) CI/CD
9 23 (14.11%) Data Science
10 22 (13.50%) Prototyping
11 20 (12.27%) Computer Science
12 19 (11.66%) Data Governance
13 18 (11.04%) Configuration Management
13 18 (11.04%) Matrix Organization
13 18 (11.04%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (11.04%) Visualisation
14 17 (10.43%) Actionable Insight
15 16 (9.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 90 (55.21%) Python
2 61 (37.42%) SQL
3 29 (17.79%) Java
4 26 (15.95%) Scala
5 5 (3.07%) C#
5 5 (3.07%) R
6 4 (2.45%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.45%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.84%) Perl
8 2 (1.23%) Groovy
9 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.61%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 48 (29.45%) Security Cleared
2 29 (17.79%) DV Cleared
2 29 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.82%) Degree
4 8 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.23%) IBM Certification
5 2 (1.23%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.61%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.20%) Actionable Recommendations
2 13 (7.98%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.45%) GDPR
4 2 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.23%) QA
4 2 (1.23%) SLA
5 1 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.61%) GxP
System Software
1 25 (15.34%) Docker
2 3 (1.84%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 24 (14.72%) Kubernetes
2 16 (9.82%) Terraform
3 2 (1.23%) Ansible
3 2 (1.23%) Grafana
4 1 (0.61%) Kibana
Vendors
1 27 (16.56%) Databricks
2 26 (15.95%) Red Hat
3 22 (13.50%) Microsoft
4 16 (9.82%) VMware
5 11 (6.75%) Google
6 10 (6.13%) Informatica
7 9 (5.52%) Talend
8 5 (3.07%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.23%) BT
9 2 (1.23%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.23%) IBM
9 2 (1.23%) Oracle
10 1 (0.61%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.61%) Brio
10 1 (0.61%) Facebook
10 1 (0.61%) JDA
10 1 (0.61%) Sage
10 1 (0.61%) SAP
10 1 (0.61%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.61%) Twitter