Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Dudley

Data Engineering
West Midlands > Dudley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Dudley 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 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dudley 16.67% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £410 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 - -
75th Percentile £430 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £534 £500 £613
% change year-on-year +6.75% -18.37% +13.43%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dudley

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 Dudley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dudley 100.00% 40.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile - - £316
25th Percentile £400 £170 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £180 £400
Median % change year-on-year +127.78% -55.00% +46.12%
75th Percentile £430 £190 £513
90th Percentile - - £556
West Midlands median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% -5.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Dudley

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Dudley

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dudley 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%) Delta Lake
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
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
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow