Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Brierley Hill

Data Engineer
West Midlands > Brierley Hill

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Brierley Hill is £498, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Brierley Hill 50.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 50.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £486 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 - -
75th Percentile £509 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £510 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +3.03% -5.71% -4.55%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Brierley Hill

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Brierley Hill. 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 Brierley Hill with a recognized job title 2 0 0
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £384 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 - -
75th Percentile £486 - -
90th Percentile £500 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.06%

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brierley Hill

For the 6 months to 18 February 2026, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Brierley Hill region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Brierley Hill by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Delta Lake
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ETL Development
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft