Data Analytics Engineer Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Analytics Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Data Analytics Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analytics Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.17% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £550 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 536 693 810
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.33% 96.25% 96.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 453 539
10th Percentile £177 £201 £260
25th Percentile £328 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £625 £600
90th Percentile £645 £738 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -1.60% +2.04% -1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 16 26
10th Percentile - £15.61 £13.10
25th Percentile £12.62 £20.00 £15.22
Median hourly rate £14.00 £34.56 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.49% +81.91% +5.56%
75th Percentile £26.51 £53.13 £64.06
90th Percentile £34.29 £56.25 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £21.80
% change year-on-year +19.76% -3.67% +21.11%

Data Analytics Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics Engineer in Birmingham

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 20 September 2025, Data Analytics 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 Birmingham region featuring Data Analytics Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks