Data Engineer Contracts in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer daily rate in England is £510 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 114 119
Rank change year-on-year +17 +5 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 837 1,155 1,649
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.26% 2.29% 2.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 2.42% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 882 1,163
10th Percentile £290 £417 £406
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £667 £669
90th Percentile £688 £730 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 8 15
10th Percentile £37.50 £35.70 £22.27
25th Percentile £49.25 £41.63 £44.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +41.59% -14.72%
75th Percentile £80.00 £77.44 £60.25
90th Percentile - £84.75 £68.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year +1.56% +41.59% -5.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
London +15 501 £525 -8.70% 192
North of England +8 77 £450 -14.29% 56
South West +27 65 £513 -2.38% 20
South East -16 58 £513 -2.38% 26
North West -3 46 £425 -15.00% 36
Midlands +22 43 £481 -12.50% 26
East of England +37 40 £185 -63.90% 16
West Midlands +21 30 £513 -6.82% 13
Yorkshire +16 30 £475 -26.92% 17
East Midlands +27 13 £456 +1.39% 13
North East +13 1 £477 -20.50% 3
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 417 (49.82%) SQL
2 384 (45.88%) Python
3 307 (36.68%) Azure
4 297 (35.48%) ETL
5 252 (30.11%) AWS
6 248 (29.63%) Data Modelling
6 248 (29.63%) Data Pipeline
7 218 (26.05%) Data Engineering
8 186 (22.22%) Analytics
9 182 (21.74%) Security Cleared
10 181 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
11 157 (18.76%) Databricks
12 154 (18.40%) SC Cleared
13 147 (17.56%) Business Intelligence
14 134 (16.01%) Azure Data Factory
15 131 (15.65%) Social Skills
16 122 (14.58%) Data Lake
17 117 (13.98%) Data Quality
18 112 (13.38%) Finance
19 109 (13.02%) Agile
20 108 (12.90%) Power BI
20 108 (12.90%) Power Platform
21 107 (12.78%) Serverless
22 105 (12.54%) Migration
23 100 (11.95%) DevOps
24 98 (11.71%) PySpark
25 96 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
26 86 (10.27%) Public Sector
26 86 (10.27%) CI/CD
27 82 (9.80%) AWS Lambda

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 67 (8.00%) Apache Spark
2 61 (7.29%) Apache Airflow
3 60 (7.17%) Apache
4 10 (1.19%) Confluence
5 5 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.48%) Luigi
7 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.36%) SAS
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.36%) ENOVIA
1 3 (0.36%) SAP PLM
1 3 (0.36%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Utilities
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 307 (36.68%) Azure
2 252 (30.11%) AWS
3 134 (16.01%) Azure Data Factory
4 108 (12.90%) Power Platform
5 107 (12.78%) Serverless
6 82 (9.80%) AWS Lambda
7 71 (8.48%) Amazon S3
8 68 (8.12%) GCP
9 64 (7.65%) Snowflake
10 57 (6.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 37 (4.42%) dbt
12 36 (4.30%) AWS Step Functions
13 35 (4.18%) Amazon Kinesis
14 33 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
15 23 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
16 22 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (2.39%) GitHub
18 19 (2.27%) Amazon MSK
19 16 (1.91%) Azure Functions
20 15 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.43%) Structured Cabling
2 7 (0.84%) Internet
3 5 (0.60%) FTP
3 5 (0.60%) VLAN
4 3 (0.36%) Firewall
4 3 (0.36%) Wireless
5 2 (0.24%) 3G
5 2 (0.24%) 4G
5 2 (0.24%) Network Security
6 1 (0.12%) 2G
6 1 (0.12%) BGP
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.12%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.12%) DHCP
6 1 (0.12%) DNS
6 1 (0.12%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.12%) GPRS
6 1 (0.12%) OSPF
6 1 (0.12%) RNC
6 1 (0.12%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (21.62%) Data Warehouse
2 122 (14.58%) Data Lake
3 108 (12.90%) Power BI
4 80 (9.56%) SQL Server
5 76 (9.08%) Big Data
6 69 (8.24%) Amazon Redshift
7 53 (6.33%) Tableau
8 48 (5.73%) Amazon Athena
9 43 (5.14%) Relational Database
10 39 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 37 (4.42%) BigQuery
12 33 (3.94%) NoSQL
13 32 (3.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 28 (3.35%) Amazon RDS
14 28 (3.35%) Flink
15 26 (3.11%) Parquet
16 25 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
17 24 (2.87%) DynamoDB
18 22 (2.63%) Metadata
19 19 (2.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (5.38%) Git
2 35 (4.18%) JIRA
3 10 (1.19%) GitLab
4 9 (1.08%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.72%) MLflow
6 5 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.48%) Maven
8 3 (0.36%) Deequ
8 3 (0.36%) Mercurial
8 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.24%) Ant
9 2 (0.24%) Gradle
9 2 (0.24%) JUnit
9 2 (0.24%) RStudio
9 2 (0.24%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.24%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.24%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.12%) CA Release Automation
10 1 (0.12%) ERwin
10 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 131 (15.65%) Social Skills
2 112 (13.38%) Finance
3 96 (11.47%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (10.27%) Public Sector
5 29 (3.46%) Banking
6 15 (1.79%) Manufacturing
7 12 (1.43%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.43%) Marketing
7 12 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.31%) Front Office
8 11 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (1.31%) Retail
8 11 (1.31%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.19%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.72%) Electronics
10 6 (0.72%) Law
11 5 (0.60%) Police
12 4 (0.48%) Aviation
12 4 (0.48%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.48%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (11.71%) PySpark
2 80 (9.56%) Kafka
3 33 (3.94%) JSON
4 25 (2.99%) Pandas
5 24 (2.87%) Apache Avro
6 17 (2.03%) NumPy
7 13 (1.55%) REST
7 13 (1.55%) XML
8 9 (1.08%) YAML
9 8 (0.96%) .NET
9 8 (0.96%) ODBC
10 7 (0.84%) ARM Templates
10 7 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.72%) Lambda Expressions
11 6 (0.72%) SOAP
12 5 (0.60%) Flask
12 5 (0.60%) GraphQL
12 5 (0.60%) Node.js
12 5 (0.60%) SciPy
13 4 (0.48%) JSON Schema
Miscellaneous
1 21 (2.51%) Algorithms
2 18 (2.15%) Data Structures
3 17 (2.03%) Onboarding
4 15 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.55%) Fibre Optics
6 11 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (0.96%) Management Information System
8 8 (0.96%) Replication
9 7 (0.84%) Data Centre
9 7 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.72%) Cloud Native
10 6 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.72%) Social Media
11 5 (0.60%) Derivative
11 5 (0.60%) NHS
12 4 (0.48%) Blockchain
12 4 (0.48%) Smart Meter
13 3 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 24 (2.87%) Linux
2 15 (1.79%) Windows
3 13 (1.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (35.48%) ETL
2 248 (29.63%) Data Modelling
2 248 (29.63%) Data Pipeline
3 218 (26.05%) Data Engineering
4 186 (22.22%) Analytics
5 147 (17.56%) Business Intelligence
6 109 (13.02%) Agile
7 105 (12.54%) Migration
8 100 (11.95%) DevOps
9 86 (10.27%) CI/CD
10 81 (9.68%) Data Integration
11 79 (9.44%) Data Migration
12 69 (8.24%) Problem-Solving
13 65 (7.77%) Data Governance
14 57 (6.81%) Data Transformation
15 56 (6.69%) Data Analysis
16 55 (6.57%) Data Science
17 54 (6.45%) Visualisation
18 50 (5.97%) Data Management
19 48 (5.73%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 417 (49.82%) SQL
2 384 (45.88%) Python
3 81 (9.68%) Java
4 61 (7.29%) Scala
5 36 (4.30%) T-SQL
6 33 (3.94%) C#
7 14 (1.67%) R
8 12 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 11 (1.31%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.08%) Bicep
10 9 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.72%) Bash
11 6 (0.72%) C++
11 6 (0.72%) Perl
12 5 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.36%) C
15 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.24%) PHP
15 2 (0.24%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 182 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 154 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.02%) Degree
4 26 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.72%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (0.36%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (0.24%) CISSP
11 2 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.24%) IBM Certification
11 2 (0.24%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.12%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.12%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (13.98%) Data Quality
2 28 (3.35%) QA
3 9 (1.08%) SLA
4 8 (0.96%) GDPR
5 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.24%) IFRS
6 2 (0.24%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.24%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.12%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.12%) GxP
7 1 (0.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (2.27%) Docker
2 4 (0.48%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (7.53%) Terraform
2 26 (3.11%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.19%) Ansible
4 6 (0.72%) Puppet
5 5 (0.60%) NetBackup
6 4 (0.48%) Argo
7 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
8 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.12%) Matomo
8 1 (0.12%) NetMRI
8 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 157 (18.76%) Databricks
2 67 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 52 (6.21%) Oracle
4 37 (4.42%) Micro Focus
5 33 (3.94%) Informatica
6 27 (3.23%) Google
7 20 (2.39%) Talend
8 15 (1.79%) SAP
9 10 (1.19%) Veritas
10 8 (0.96%) Adobe
11 6 (0.72%) Splunk
12 5 (0.60%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.60%) Cloudera
12 5 (0.60%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.60%) Twitter
13 4 (0.48%) Sage
14 3 (0.36%) JD Edwards
14 3 (0.36%) OpenAI
14 3 (0.36%) Palantir
15 2 (0.24%) Refinitiv