Data Engineering Contracts in the East Midlands

Data Engineering
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 47 81
Rank change year-on-year -1 +34 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 7 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.24% 2.08% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 2.65% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 3
10th Percentile £412 £458 £468
25th Percentile £457 £506 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% -4.35% -25.81%
75th Percentile £534 £569 £613
90th Percentile £550 £659 -
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £21.73 -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% -53.33% +27.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 486 604 901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.32% 78.34% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 408 691
10th Percentile £208 £200 £205
25th Percentile £326 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £411 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.06% -8.78% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £563 £575
90th Percentile £600 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 56 62
10th Percentile - £11.33 £11.89
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.77 £17.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.38% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £24.18 £26.15 £38.25
90th Percentile £32.56 £38.75 £64.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.18 £37.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -0.85% +50.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the East Midlands

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the East Midlands

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the East Midlands

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Northamptonshire -3 3 £413 -19.41% 1
Leicestershire +6 1 £475 +26.67% 5
Derbyshire - 1 £463 - 1
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (28.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (14.29%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SAN
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 2 (28.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (14.29%) Apache Hive
4 1 (14.29%) Big Data
4 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
4 1 (14.29%) HBase
4 1 (14.29%) Impala
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Automotive
4 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Scala Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Debian
2 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
1 5 (71.43%) ETL
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Data Governance
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Scala
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Hitachi