Data Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Data Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 May 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 50 47
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 11 12 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.20% 1.62% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.48% 1.73% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 24
10th Percentile £452 £277 £428
25th Percentile £525 £310 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £398 £588
Median % change year-on-year +38.36% -32.34% +20.51%
75th Percentile £575 £453 £609
90th Percentile £619 £541 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +2.22% -21.74% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £40.50 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £35.44 -

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 444 695 860
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.98% 93.67% 96.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 485 563
10th Percentile £150 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £338 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £600
90th Percentile £660 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 42 35
10th Percentile - £13.25 £12.20
25th Percentile £12.62 £16.63 £13.10
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £22.08 £48.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £35.77 £56.25 £60.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £20.98 £20.00
% change year-on-year -9.42% +4.88% +17.65%

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 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 2025, 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 7 (63.64%) SQL
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Banking
2 6 (54.55%) Onboarding
3 5 (45.45%) Databricks
3 5 (45.45%) Snowflake
4 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Virgin Media
4 4 (36.36%) AWS
4 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
4 4 (36.36%) Java
5 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
5 3 (27.27%) Python
6 2 (18.18%) ETL
6 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (18.18%) Git
6 2 (18.18%) Data Security
6 2 (18.18%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) Analytics
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Technology Transformation
6 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 1 (9.09%) Matillion
7 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
7 1 (9.09%) Data Science
7 1 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (9.09%) Azure 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
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Snowflake
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) Matillion
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Big Data
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Git
General
1 7 (63.64%) Finance
2 6 (54.55%) Banking
3 4 (36.36%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Data Security
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) ETL
3 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (18.18%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) CRM
4 1 (9.09%) Data Integration
4 1 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (9.09%) Scrum
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 1 (9.09%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Databricks
2 4 (36.36%) Virgin Media
3 1 (9.09%) Google