Data Engineer Contracts in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 December 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 121 130
Rank change year-on-year +36 +9 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 817 795 1,353
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.74% 2.11% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.96% 2.26% 2.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 607 987
10th Percentile £371 £400 £425
25th Percentile £454 £462 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £646 £638 £663
90th Percentile £724 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 20
10th Percentile £38.25 £35.00 £32.83
25th Percentile £49.25 £38.79 £39.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.43 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% +2.38% +71.43%
75th Percentile £97.50 £65.75 £72.19
90th Percentile - £78.75 £105.00
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £61.43 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.79% +2.38% +71.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 27,641 35,187 61,430
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 93.42% 95.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,151 24,192 43,353
10th Percentile £300 £292 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -2.91% +5.77%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £651
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 915 1,357 1,599
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.32 £13.41
25th Percentile £21.23 £19.50 £17.27
Median hourly rate £37.00 £45.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +38.46% +62.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £64.00
90th Percentile £73.90 £77.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £44.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.35% +48.33% +50.00%

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 11 December 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 11 December 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 11 December 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 +10 502 £575 +4.55% 171
North of England +65 83 £450 -10.00% 70
South East +34 76 £544 -3.33% 35
Midlands +32 71 £490 -4.39% 36
West Midlands +27 64 £500 -4.76% 24
North West +36 40 £450 -10.00% 42
Yorkshire +36 32 £485 -7.62% 11
South West +6 30 £494 -4.82% 18
East of England +25 18 £320 -40.47% 10
North East -9 11 £374 -17.07% 18
East Midlands +4 7 £356 -29.68% 10
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 December 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.

1 483 (59.12%) Python
2 412 (50.43%) SQL
3 325 (39.78%) Azure
4 271 (33.17%) AWS
5 265 (32.44%) ETL
6 259 (31.70%) Data Pipeline
7 221 (27.05%) Data Engineering
8 204 (24.97%) Analytics
9 196 (23.99%) Data Modelling
10 180 (22.03%) Databricks
11 177 (21.66%) Data Warehouse
12 163 (19.95%) PySpark
13 159 (19.46%) Agile
14 156 (19.09%) CI/CD
15 148 (18.12%) Finance
16 138 (16.89%) Social Skills
17 137 (16.77%) Security Cleared
18 133 (16.28%) Data Quality
18 133 (16.28%) Data Lake
19 130 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
20 126 (15.42%) dbt
21 124 (15.18%) Azure Data Factory
22 116 (14.20%) DevOps
23 114 (13.95%) Java
24 113 (13.83%) SC Cleared
25 112 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
26 105 (12.85%) Apache Spark
27 103 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
28 102 (12.48%) GCP
29 100 (12.24%) Power Platform

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
1 105 (12.85%) Apache Spark
2 97 (11.87%) Apache Airflow
3 67 (8.20%) Apache
4 13 (1.59%) Confluence
5 9 (1.10%) SAS
6 5 (0.61%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.49%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.37%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.24%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.24%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.12%) Apache Synapse
10 1 (0.12%) Luigi
10 1 (0.12%) MTS
10 1 (0.12%) Mule
10 1 (0.12%) R Markdown
Applications
1 9 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.24%) Maximo
2 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.12%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 325 (39.78%) Azure
2 271 (33.17%) AWS
3 126 (15.42%) dbt
4 124 (15.18%) Azure Data Factory
5 102 (12.48%) GCP
6 100 (12.24%) Power Platform
7 89 (10.89%) Snowflake
8 74 (9.06%) Amazon S3
9 72 (8.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 54 (6.61%) Serverless
11 49 (6.00%) GitHub
12 45 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
13 42 (5.14%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (3.06%) Amazon EMR
15 24 (2.94%) Dagster
16 17 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
17 14 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
18 12 (1.47%) Azure Stack
18 12 (1.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.59%) Firewall
1 13 (1.59%) VPN
2 10 (1.22%) BGP
2 10 (1.22%) Cisco Nexus
2 10 (1.22%) DMZ
3 8 (0.98%) Network Security
4 7 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
5 5 (0.61%) DAB
5 5 (0.61%) Multicast
5 5 (0.61%) OSPF
5 5 (0.61%) Wireless
6 4 (0.49%) DNS
6 4 (0.49%) FTP
6 4 (0.49%) LAN
6 4 (0.49%) SMS
7 3 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.37%) VLAN
7 3 (0.37%) VXLAN
8 2 (0.24%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (21.66%) Data Warehouse
2 133 (16.28%) Data Lake
3 99 (12.12%) Power BI
4 75 (9.18%) Big Data
5 68 (8.32%) Amazon Athena
6 55 (6.73%) SQL Server
7 46 (5.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 42 (5.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 40 (4.90%) PostgreSQL
10 37 (4.53%) Hadoop
11 34 (4.16%) BigQuery
11 34 (4.16%) Dremio
11 34 (4.16%) Tableau
12 33 (4.04%) Apache Iceberg
13 32 (3.92%) NoSQL
14 24 (2.94%) Relational Database
15 20 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 19 (2.33%) Looker
17 18 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
18 17 (2.08%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 57 (6.98%) Git
2 24 (2.94%) JIRA
3 16 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.84%) GitLab
5 12 (1.47%) Artifactory
6 4 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.49%) MLflow
7 3 (0.37%) Deequ
7 3 (0.37%) SpecFlow
7 3 (0.37%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.24%) Maven
8 2 (0.24%) Poetry
8 2 (0.24%) Selenium
9 1 (0.12%) Gradle
9 1 (0.12%) kappa
9 1 (0.12%) Mocha
9 1 (0.12%) Mockito
9 1 (0.12%) ScalaTest
9 1 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 148 (18.12%) Finance
2 138 (16.89%) Social Skills
3 112 (13.71%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (9.55%) Banking
5 68 (8.32%) Public Sector
6 46 (5.63%) Front Office
7 23 (2.82%) Retail
8 19 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 11 (1.35%) Law
11 10 (1.22%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.10%) Marketing
13 8 (0.98%) Financial Institution
13 8 (0.98%) Retail Banking
14 7 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 6 (0.73%) Electronics
15 6 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
16 4 (0.49%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (19.95%) PySpark
2 80 (9.79%) Kafka
3 38 (4.65%) Pandas
4 30 (3.67%) NumPy
5 22 (2.69%) SciPy
6 16 (1.96%) React
7 13 (1.59%) JSON
8 12 (1.47%) REST
9 11 (1.35%) Jinja
10 10 (1.22%) J2EE
11 9 (1.10%) Spring
12 7 (0.86%) Flask
13 6 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (0.73%) pytest
13 6 (0.73%) Spring Boot
14 5 (0.61%) AngularJS
14 5 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
14 5 (0.61%) Great Expectations
14 5 (0.61%) PyTorch
14 5 (0.61%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 22 (2.69%) Data Centre
2 22 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
3 20 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
4 16 (1.96%) Smartphone
5 15 (1.84%) Algorithms
6 14 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (1.59%) Cloud Native
7 13 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (1.59%) Product Ownership
8 12 (1.47%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (0.73%) Hedge funds
10 6 (0.73%) Public Cloud
10 6 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.61%) NHS
12 4 (0.49%) Derivative
12 4 (0.49%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.49%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.49%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.35%) Linux
2 9 (1.10%) Unix
2 9 (1.10%) Windows
3 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (32.44%) ETL
2 259 (31.70%) Data Pipeline
3 221 (27.05%) Data Engineering
4 204 (24.97%) Analytics
5 196 (23.99%) Data Modelling
6 159 (19.46%) Agile
7 156 (19.09%) CI/CD
8 130 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
9 116 (14.20%) DevOps
10 103 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
11 94 (11.51%) Data Science
12 93 (11.38%) Data Integration
13 89 (10.89%) Machine Learning
13 89 (10.89%) Migration
14 76 (9.30%) Data Governance
15 71 (8.69%) Software Engineering
16 68 (8.32%) Data Migration
17 57 (6.98%) Data Transformation
18 54 (6.61%) Artificial Intelligence
19 52 (6.36%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 483 (59.12%) Python
2 412 (50.43%) SQL
3 114 (13.95%) Java
4 54 (6.61%) Scala
5 36 (4.41%) T-SQL
6 22 (2.69%) R
7 20 (2.45%) JavaScript
8 19 (2.33%) PL/SQL
9 16 (1.96%) PowerShell
10 14 (1.71%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.35%) Bash
12 10 (1.22%) Go
13 8 (0.98%) C#
14 7 (0.86%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 4 (0.49%) ANSI SQL
16 4 (0.49%) HiveQL
17 3 (0.37%) RPG
17 3 (0.37%) VBA
18 2 (0.24%) C++
Qualifications
1 137 (16.77%) Security Cleared
2 113 (13.83%) SC Cleared
3 50 (6.12%) Degree
4 29 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.30%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.35%) AWS Certification
7 9 (1.10%) Azure Certification
8 5 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.37%) JNCIP
10 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.37%) SnowPro
11 2 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.24%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.24%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.12%) CCNA
12 1 (0.12%) CCNP
12 1 (0.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (16.28%) Data Quality
2 11 (1.35%) QA
3 9 (1.10%) GDPR
4 8 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.61%) SLA
6 2 (0.24%) GxP
6 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.24%) NIST
7 1 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.12%) HL7
7 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.12%) MiFID
7 1 (0.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (3.18%) Docker
2 7 (0.86%) HDFS
3 4 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.49%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.12%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 88 (10.77%) Terraform
2 46 (5.63%) Kubernetes
3 12 (1.47%) Ansible
4 8 (0.98%) Grafana
5 6 (0.73%) Kibana
5 6 (0.73%) logstash
6 4 (0.49%) Control-M
7 3 (0.37%) Oozie
8 2 (0.24%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.24%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.24%) Puppet
9 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 180 (22.03%) Databricks
2 69 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 40 (4.90%) Oracle
4 34 (4.16%) Google
5 20 (2.45%) Informatica
6 19 (2.33%) Cisco
7 16 (1.96%) Palantir
8 15 (1.84%) SAP
9 12 (1.47%) Talend
10 10 (1.22%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.10%) Cloudera
11 9 (1.10%) F5
11 9 (1.10%) Juniper
12 8 (0.98%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.86%) CheckPoint
13 7 (0.86%) Fortinet
14 5 (0.61%) IBM
14 5 (0.61%) New Relic
14 5 (0.61%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.61%) VMware