Data Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Data Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £423 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 64 65
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 11 14 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.46% 1.58% 2.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.64% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 20
10th Percentile £310 £401 £379
25th Percentile £335 £497 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £588 £440
Median % change year-on-year -28.09% +33.52% -2.22%
75th Percentile £484 £650 £561
90th Percentile £569 £695 £633
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.50 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £35.44 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 700 852 1,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 96.38% 95.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 568 930
10th Percentile £258 £263 £212
25th Percentile £338 £377 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +16.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 21
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.88 £12.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.42% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year +12.82% +14.71% +6.25%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 job ads across the Birmingham region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Python
2 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) Algorithms
4 3 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
4 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) ETL
4 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
5 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
5 2 (18.18%) C
5 2 (18.18%) C++
5 2 (18.18%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
5 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
5 2 (18.18%) Banking
5 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
5 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
5 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
5 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
5 2 (18.18%) Power BI
5 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
6 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (9.09%) DevOps

Data 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (9.09%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Lake
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
1 2 (18.18%) Power BI
1 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Ant
1 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
1 1 (9.09%) Gradle
1 1 (9.09%) JUnit
1 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) JDBC
1 1 (9.09%) Node.js
1 1 (9.09%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Algorithms
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
2 4 (36.36%) Data Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (27.27%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
4 2 (18.18%) ERP
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
5 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (9.09%) Computer Science
5 1 (9.09%) CRM
5 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
5 1 (9.09%) Data Privacy
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Machine Learning
5 1 (9.09%) Scrum
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 5 (45.45%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) C
3 2 (18.18%) C++
3 2 (18.18%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Cognos
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks
1 1 (9.09%) Informatica
1 1 (9.09%) JD Edwards
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Sage
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce