Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 87 89
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 320 645 1,290
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.12% 2.57% 2.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.27% 2.70% 3.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 487 953
10th Percentile £362 £425 £410
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +6.08%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £743 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £49.44 £39.75 £18.55
25th Percentile £53.46 £48.13 £18.62
Median hourly rate £62.36 £64.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% +41.59% +79.01%
75th Percentile £66.64 £78.38 £65.77
90th Percentile £67.91 £86.25 £73.56
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £45.10
% change year-on-year +1.56% +41.91% +55.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,102 23,924 42,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.36% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 16,894 30,368
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 548 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.27
25th Percentile £23.37 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.87 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Engineer.

Data Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Data Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Engineer.

Data Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineer over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Data Engineer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 165 (51.56%) Python
2 161 (50.31%) SQL
3 145 (45.31%) Azure
4 126 (39.38%) ETL
5 110 (34.38%) Analytics
6 109 (34.06%) Data Engineering
7 103 (32.19%) Data Pipeline
8 94 (29.38%) Data Warehouse
9 88 (27.50%) Data Modelling
10 82 (25.63%) Business Intelligence
11 81 (25.31%) AWS
12 80 (25.00%) Databricks
13 73 (22.81%) Social Skills
14 66 (20.63%) Agile
15 59 (18.44%) Azure Data Factory
15 59 (18.44%) Data Lake
16 56 (17.50%) DevOps
17 54 (16.88%) Finance
18 53 (16.56%) Data Quality
19 52 (16.25%) PySpark
20 50 (15.63%) CI/CD
21 47 (14.69%) Power Platform
21 47 (14.69%) Power BI
22 44 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
23 42 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
24 39 (12.19%) Security Cleared
25 38 (11.88%) SQL Server
26 36 (11.25%) Data Integration
27 35 (10.94%) Big Data
27 35 (10.94%) Java

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 29 (9.06%) Apache Spark
2 22 (6.88%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.19%) Apache
4 5 (1.56%) Confluence
5 4 (1.25%) Luigi
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.63%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.63%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 145 (45.31%) Azure
2 81 (25.31%) AWS
3 59 (18.44%) Azure Data Factory
4 47 (14.69%) Power Platform
5 33 (10.31%) GCP
6 31 (9.69%) Serverless
6 31 (9.69%) Snowflake
7 30 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 27 (8.44%) dbt
9 18 (5.63%) Amazon S3
9 18 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (5.00%) GitHub
12 15 (4.69%) Amazon Kinesis
13 11 (3.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 10 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 10 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (2.81%) Azure Functions
15 9 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.25%) VLAN
2 2 (0.63%) BGP
3 1 (0.31%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (0.31%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.31%) DHCP
3 1 (0.31%) DMZ
3 1 (0.31%) DNS
3 1 (0.31%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.31%) Internet
3 1 (0.31%) LAN
3 1 (0.31%) Multicast
3 1 (0.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) OSPF
3 1 (0.31%) VPN
3 1 (0.31%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.31%) WAN
3 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (29.38%) Data Warehouse
2 59 (18.44%) Data Lake
3 47 (14.69%) Power BI
4 38 (11.88%) SQL Server
5 35 (10.94%) Big Data
6 26 (8.13%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (7.50%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (6.56%) BigQuery
9 17 (5.31%) Tableau
10 15 (4.69%) Metadata
10 15 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (3.44%) Delta Lake
12 10 (3.13%) Relational Database
12 10 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (2.50%) Snowflake Schema
14 8 (2.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (1.88%) Data Mining
15 6 (1.88%) NoSQL
15 6 (1.88%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 18 (5.63%) JIRA
2 17 (5.31%) Git
3 9 (2.81%) GitLab
4 7 (2.19%) MLflow
5 3 (0.94%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.94%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.63%) RStudio
7 1 (0.31%) Deequ
7 1 (0.31%) Gradle
General
1 73 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.88%) Finance
3 44 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 18 (5.63%) Banking
6 8 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.19%) Front Office
7 7 (2.19%) Marketing
8 5 (1.56%) Retail
9 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.94%) Law
9 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Czech Language
10 2 (0.63%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.31%) Advertising
11 1 (0.31%) Legal
11 1 (0.31%) Military
11 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (16.25%) PySpark
2 21 (6.56%) Kafka
3 8 (2.50%) Pandas
4 5 (1.56%) .NET
4 5 (1.56%) AWS CDK
4 5 (1.56%) REST
5 4 (1.25%) Spark Streaming
5 4 (1.25%) Web Services
6 3 (0.94%) .NET Core
6 3 (0.94%) Apache Avro
6 3 (0.94%) ARM Templates
6 3 (0.94%) GraphQL
6 3 (0.94%) JSON
6 3 (0.94%) PyTorch
6 3 (0.94%) SOAP
6 3 (0.94%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.94%) YAML
7 2 (0.63%) Middleware
7 2 (0.63%) NumPy
7 2 (0.63%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
1 8 (2.50%) Replication
2 6 (1.88%) Derivative
3 5 (1.56%) NHS
3 5 (1.56%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.25%) Algorithms
5 3 (0.94%) Data Structures
5 3 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (0.94%) Onboarding
5 3 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (0.63%) Cloud Native
6 2 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.63%) Hedge funds
6 2 (0.63%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.63%) Social Media
7 1 (0.31%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.31%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.38%) Linux
2 5 (1.56%) Unix
3 4 (1.25%) Windows
4 2 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (39.38%) ETL
2 110 (34.38%) Analytics
3 109 (34.06%) Data Engineering
4 103 (32.19%) Data Pipeline
5 88 (27.50%) Data Modelling
6 82 (25.63%) Business Intelligence
7 66 (20.63%) Agile
8 56 (17.50%) DevOps
9 50 (15.63%) CI/CD
10 42 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
11 36 (11.25%) Data Integration
12 33 (10.31%) Migration
13 30 (9.38%) Data Governance
14 29 (9.06%) Visualisation
15 26 (8.13%) Data Management
16 25 (7.81%) Data Science
17 21 (6.56%) Scrum
18 20 (6.25%) Data Analysis
18 20 (6.25%) Data Migration
18 20 (6.25%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 165 (51.56%) Python
2 161 (50.31%) SQL
3 35 (10.94%) Java
4 34 (10.63%) Scala
5 12 (3.75%) C#
6 8 (2.50%) Bicep
6 8 (2.50%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.19%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.88%) Bash
8 6 (1.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.56%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.56%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.25%) JavaScript
10 4 (1.25%) R
11 3 (0.94%) C++
11 3 (0.94%) Perl
12 2 (0.63%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.31%) HiveQL
13 1 (0.31%) Ruby
13 1 (0.31%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 39 (12.19%) Security Cleared
2 31 (9.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.38%) Degree
4 13 (4.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.19%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.94%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.31%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (16.56%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.19%) QA
3 3 (0.94%) Accessibility
3 3 (0.94%) IFRS
3 3 (0.94%) IFRS 17
3 3 (0.94%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.31%) GDPR
4 1 (0.31%) GxP
System Software
1 20 (6.25%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 32 (10.00%) Terraform
2 16 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (4.06%) Ansible
4 5 (1.56%) Grafana
5 4 (1.25%) NetBackup
5 4 (1.25%) Puppet
6 1 (0.31%) Matomo
6 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 80 (25.00%) Databricks
2 26 (8.13%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.94%) Oracle
4 11 (3.44%) Informatica
5 6 (1.88%) Google
5 6 (1.88%) Veritas
6 4 (1.25%) Talend
7 3 (0.94%) JD Edwards
7 3 (0.94%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.63%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.63%) Cisco
8 2 (0.63%) Commvault
8 2 (0.63%) Facebook
8 2 (0.63%) NEC
8 2 (0.63%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.63%) QAD
8 2 (0.63%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.63%) Twitter
9 1 (0.31%) Instagram
9 1 (0.31%) YouTube