Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Darlington

Data Engineering
Durham > Darlington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Darlington requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 6 -
Rank change year-on-year +3 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Darlington 14.29% 5.56% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.29% 7.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Durham median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.50 -
Durham median hourly rate - £26.50 -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Darlington

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 Darlington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7 13 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Darlington 100.00% 72.22% 93.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £452 £263
25th Percentile £508 £454 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £465 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.75% +9.41% +78.95%
75th Percentile £523 £470 -
90th Percentile - - £474
Durham median daily rate £231 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -56.00% +23.53% -0.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £26.50 £15.46
Median % change year-on-year - +71.41% -
Durham median hourly rate £70.00 £26.50 £15.46
% change year-on-year +164.15% +71.41% -

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Darlington

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Darlington

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Darlington 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared