Data Engineering Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 201 169
Rank change year-on-year +38 -32 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 199 318 721
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.33% 1.26% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.41% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 238 508
10th Percentile £325 £453 £456
25th Percentile £453 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £552
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £636 £719 £650
90th Percentile £702 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 3
10th Percentile - £18.60 £21.06
25th Percentile £35.00 £19.00 £22.77
Median hourly rate £41.75 £19.49 £26.27
Median % change year-on-year +114.21% -25.81% -5.27%
75th Percentile £57.56 £20.47 £41.70
90th Percentile £64.38 £84.00 £50.58
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -52.05% +29.20% +80.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Data Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Engineering trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
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 Engineering.

Data Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Data Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
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 Engineering.

Data Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Data Engineering hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
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 24 (12.06%) Apache Airflow
2 22 (11.06%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.52%) Apache
4 6 (3.02%) Confluence
5 1 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 72 (36.18%) Azure
2 61 (30.65%) AWS
3 32 (16.08%) GCP
4 26 (13.07%) Snowflake
5 25 (12.56%) Power Platform
6 23 (11.56%) Serverless
7 21 (10.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 19 (9.55%) dbt
9 15 (7.54%) Amazon S3
10 14 (7.04%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (6.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (6.03%) Amazon EMR
12 12 (6.03%) GitHub
13 11 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (4.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (4.02%) Azure Functions
15 8 (4.02%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (3.52%) Google Analytics
17 6 (3.02%) Azure Logic Apps
18 5 (2.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.53%) TCP/IP
2 11 (5.53%) SAN
3 2 (1.01%) BGP
3 2 (1.01%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (1.01%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.01%) DHCP
3 2 (1.01%) DNS
3 2 (1.01%) HTTP
3 2 (1.01%) Network Security
3 2 (1.01%) OSPF
3 2 (1.01%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (29.65%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (19.60%) Data Lake
3 25 (12.56%) Big Data
3 25 (12.56%) Power BI
4 18 (9.05%) Amazon Redshift
5 16 (8.04%) BigQuery
6 13 (6.53%) Azure SQL Database
7 12 (6.03%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (5.53%) SQL Server
9 10 (5.03%) Delta Lake
10 8 (4.02%) Metadata
11 7 (3.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 7 (3.52%) Tableau
12 6 (3.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (2.51%) NoSQL
13 5 (2.51%) Spark SQL
14 4 (2.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 4 (2.01%) Hadoop
14 4 (2.01%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 4 (2.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (8.54%) JIRA
2 11 (5.53%) Git
3 4 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.50%) GitLab
5 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.50%) MLflow
General
1 40 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.59%) Finance
3 24 (12.06%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.02%) Banking
5 6 (3.02%) Marketing
6 4 (2.01%) Retail
7 3 (1.51%) Law
7 3 (1.51%) Legal
7 3 (1.51%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.01%) Advertising
8 2 (1.01%) Czech Language
8 2 (1.01%) Electronics
8 2 (1.01%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.50%) Billing
9 1 (0.50%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 107 (53.77%) Data Engineer
2 33 (16.58%) Lead
3 26 (13.07%) Developer
4 23 (11.56%) Senior
5 21 (10.55%) AWS Engineer
6 20 (10.05%) Azure Engineer
7 17 (8.54%) Azure Data Engineer
8 16 (8.04%) Lead Data Engineer
8 16 (8.04%) Senior Data Engineer
9 15 (7.54%) AWS Data Engineer
10 13 (6.53%) Python Developer
11 9 (4.52%) Analyst
11 9 (4.52%) Architect
11 9 (4.52%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.52%) Snowflake Data Engineer
13 6 (3.02%) Python Engineer
14 5 (2.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 5 (2.51%) Full-Stack C# Developer
14 5 (2.51%) GCP Engineer
14 5 (2.51%) Lead Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (16.58%) PySpark
2 14 (7.04%) Kafka
3 7 (3.52%) .NET
4 6 (3.02%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.51%) ASP.NET
5 5 (2.51%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.01%) RESTful
7 3 (1.51%) Hugging Face
7 3 (1.51%) LangChain
7 3 (1.51%) Middleware
7 3 (1.51%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.01%) Spark Streaming
9 1 (0.50%) Apache Avro
9 1 (0.50%) FastAPI
9 1 (0.50%) JSON
9 1 (0.50%) JSON Schema
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.50%) Pandas
9 1 (0.50%) pytest
9 1 (0.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 5 (2.51%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.01%) Product Ownership
3 3 (1.51%) NHS
3 3 (1.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (1.01%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.01%) Clustering
4 2 (1.01%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.01%) Replication
4 2 (1.01%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.50%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.50%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.50%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.50%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.03%) Linux
2 11 (5.53%) Debian
2 11 (5.53%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.50%) Unix
3 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (37.69%) ETL
2 71 (35.68%) Data Modelling
3 68 (34.17%) Agile
4 66 (33.17%) Analytics
5 61 (30.65%) Data Pipeline
6 47 (23.62%) DevOps
7 43 (21.61%) Business Intelligence
8 36 (18.09%) CI/CD
9 32 (16.08%) Data Science
10 29 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (11.06%) Visualisation
12 21 (10.55%) Machine Learning
12 21 (10.55%) Software Engineering
13 19 (9.55%) Data Governance
14 18 (9.05%) Computer Science
14 18 (9.05%) Data Transformation
15 17 (8.54%) Data Management
15 17 (8.54%) Data Visualisation
16 16 (8.04%) Data Integration
16 16 (8.04%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 115 (57.79%) Python
2 87 (43.72%) SQL
3 31 (15.58%) Scala
4 20 (10.05%) Java
5 7 (3.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (3.02%) C#
7 4 (2.01%) Perl
8 3 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.01%) C++
9 2 (1.01%) Groovy
9 2 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (1.01%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.01%) R
9 2 (1.01%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.01%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.50%) Bash
10 1 (0.50%) Bicep
10 1 (0.50%) Go
10 1 (0.50%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 37 (18.59%) Security Cleared
2 34 (17.09%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.04%) Degree
4 12 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 9 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.02%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.01%) CCDP
7 2 (1.01%) CCNP
7 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (10.55%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.51%) IFRS
2 3 (1.51%) IFRS 17
2 3 (1.51%) Solvency II
3 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.50%) GxP
4 1 (0.50%) QA
System Software
1 14 (7.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (10.05%) Terraform
2 13 (6.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.51%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Matomo
Vendors
1 52 (26.13%) Databricks
2 29 (14.57%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.54%) Google
4 12 (6.03%) Oracle
5 11 (5.53%) Red Hat
5 11 (5.53%) VMware
6 7 (3.52%) Ab Initio
7 6 (3.02%) Informatica
8 5 (2.51%) SAP
9 4 (2.01%) Foundry
9 4 (2.01%) Palantir
10 2 (1.01%) Arista
10 2 (1.01%) Aruba
10 2 (1.01%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.01%) Cisco
10 2 (1.01%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.01%) Talend
10 2 (1.01%) Zscaler
11 1 (0.50%) Ariba
11 1 (0.50%) Sage