Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Data Engineering
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 50 52
Rank change year-on-year -14 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 11 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.59% 1.29% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 1.50% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile £263 £482 -
25th Percentile £329 £560 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -32.17% +27.78% -
75th Percentile £414 £585 -
90th Percentile £444 £587 -
North West median daily rate £425 £485 £500
% change year-on-year -12.37% -3.00% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 623 467 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 90.16% 86.32% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 286 218
10th Percentile £271 £325 £286
25th Percentile £358 £383 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £522 £567 £586
90th Percentile £688 £650 £625
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 20 29
10th Percentile £12.82 £16.00 £15.80
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.05 £17.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £35.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% +34.62% +61.79%
75th Percentile £37.56 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £44.13 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.64% +15.21% +40.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Cheshire over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Cheshire

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 18 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -7 8 £390 -9.30% 1
Macclesfield -4 3 - -
Data Engineering
North West

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (9.09%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Big Data
2 3 (27.27%) Metadata
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) GitLab
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 4 (36.36%) MLflow
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (27.27%) Pharmaceutical
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Business Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Data Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Information Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Security Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Junior
4 1 (9.09%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Junior Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Junior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) PySpark
2 4 (36.36%) Flask
2 4 (36.36%) HTML
2 4 (36.36%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Fabric
1 3 (27.27%) Data Structures
1 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) AI
1 5 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
1 5 (45.45%) Machine Learning
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
2 4 (36.36%) MLOps
2 4 (36.36%) Use Case
3 3 (27.27%) Conceptual Models
3 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
3 3 (27.27%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
3 3 (27.27%) Data Modelling
3 3 (27.27%) Front End Development
3 3 (27.27%) Information Architecture
3 3 (27.27%) Logical Data Model
3 3 (27.27%) Matrix Organization
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Analytics
4 2 (18.18%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (18.18%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CBAP
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GMP
1 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Databricks
2 1 (9.09%) OpenAI