Data Engineering Contracts in Birmingham

Data Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 64 64
Rank change year-on-year +21 0 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 7 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.34% 0.39% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 0.47% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 10
10th Percentile £437 £640 £400
25th Percentile £447 £681 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £550
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +36.36% +17.33%
75th Percentile £546 £813 £647
90th Percentile £582 £850 £656
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £642 £540
% change year-on-year -22.10% +18.87% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Birmingham

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Birmingham

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Birmingham

Data Engineering
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 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Composer
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) IaaS
1 1 (14.29%) PaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
1 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
2 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) NumPy
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Analytics
2 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Data Security
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Budget Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Observability
4 1 (14.29%) Self-Awareness
4 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) Scala
4 1 (14.29%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) R
4 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) logstash
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Virgin Media