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 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 115 124
Rank change year-on-year +16 +9 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 840 1,121 1,627
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.28% 2.24% 2.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.46% 2.37% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 856 1,152
10th Percentile £290 £413 £405
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £602 £675 £669
90th Percentile £688 £738 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 7 16
10th Percentile £37.50 £40.50 £18.56
25th Percentile £49.25 £52.75 £40.13
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £45.10
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +41.91% -0.88%
75th Percentile £80.00 £79.13 £59.50
90th Percentile - £85.50 £67.89
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £45.10
% change year-on-year +1.56% +41.91% +18.68%

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 34,178 47,326 67,913
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,701 33,606 48,311
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,407 1,890
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.37 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +17 506 £525 -8.70% 199
North of England +6 77 £450 -11.76% 53
South West +24 65 £513 -4.65% 24
South East -13 58 £513 +2.50% 28
North West 0 46 £425 -15.00% 38
Midlands +27 43 £481 -12.50% 40
East of England +32 39 £185 -64.76% 22
Yorkshire +18 30 £475 -9.52% 12
West Midlands +14 29 £525 -4.55% 25
East Midlands +33 14 £450 - 15
North East +12 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 4 May 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.

1 420 (50.00%) SQL
2 387 (46.07%) Python
3 323 (38.45%) Azure
4 297 (35.36%) ETL
5 252 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
6 249 (29.64%) Data Modelling
7 237 (28.21%) AWS
8 219 (26.07%) Data Engineering
9 191 (22.74%) Analytics
10 185 (22.02%) Data Warehouse
11 172 (20.48%) Security Cleared
12 170 (20.24%) Databricks
13 154 (18.33%) Business Intelligence
14 147 (17.50%) Azure Data Factory
15 144 (17.14%) SC Cleared
16 138 (16.43%) Social Skills
17 128 (15.24%) Data Lake
18 118 (14.05%) Power Platform
18 118 (14.05%) Power BI
19 116 (13.81%) Data Quality
20 109 (12.98%) Finance
20 109 (12.98%) Migration
21 108 (12.86%) DevOps
22 107 (12.74%) Serverless
23 106 (12.62%) Agile
24 105 (12.50%) PySpark
25 98 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
26 94 (11.19%) CI/CD
27 85 (10.12%) Public Sector
27 85 (10.12%) SQL Server

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 72 (8.57%) Apache Spark
2 61 (7.26%) Apache
3 59 (7.02%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (0.83%) Confluence
5 5 (0.60%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.48%) Luigi
7 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.24%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
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%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (0.24%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.24%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle Utilities
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 323 (38.45%) Azure
2 237 (28.21%) AWS
3 147 (17.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 118 (14.05%) Power Platform
5 107 (12.74%) Serverless
6 79 (9.40%) AWS Lambda
7 68 (8.10%) GCP
8 65 (7.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 64 (7.62%) Amazon S3
10 62 (7.38%) Snowflake
11 37 (4.40%) dbt
12 35 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
12 35 (4.17%) AWS Step Functions
13 34 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
14 22 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.62%) Amazon EMR
15 20 (2.38%) GitHub
16 19 (2.26%) Amazon MSK
16 19 (2.26%) Azure Functions
17 17 (2.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.43%) Structured Cabling
2 7 (0.83%) Internet
3 5 (0.60%) FTP
3 5 (0.60%) VLAN
4 4 (0.48%) Firewall
5 3 (0.36%) Wireless
6 2 (0.24%) 3G
6 2 (0.24%) 4G
6 2 (0.24%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.24%) Network Security
7 1 (0.12%) BGP
7 1 (0.12%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.12%) DMZ
7 1 (0.12%) DNS
7 1 (0.12%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.12%) GPRS
7 1 (0.12%) LAN
7 1 (0.12%) OSPF
7 1 (0.12%) VoLTE
7 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (22.02%) Data Warehouse
2 128 (15.24%) Data Lake
3 118 (14.05%) Power BI
4 85 (10.12%) SQL Server
5 81 (9.64%) Big Data
6 61 (7.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 53 (6.31%) Tableau
8 46 (5.48%) Relational Database
9 45 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
10 44 (5.24%) Azure SQL Database
11 38 (4.52%) BigQuery
12 35 (4.17%) NoSQL
13 34 (4.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 30 (3.57%) Parquet
15 27 (3.21%) Amazon RDS
15 27 (3.21%) Flink
16 25 (2.98%) Metadata
17 24 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
18 23 (2.74%) DynamoDB
19 20 (2.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (5.36%) Git
2 28 (3.33%) JIRA
3 10 (1.19%) GitLab
4 8 (0.95%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.71%) MLflow
6 5 (0.60%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.48%) Deequ
7 4 (0.48%) Maven
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%) kappa
General
1 138 (16.43%) Social Skills
2 109 (12.98%) Finance
3 98 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (10.12%) Public Sector
5 30 (3.57%) Banking
6 14 (1.67%) Manufacturing
7 12 (1.43%) Investment Banking
7 12 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (1.31%) Marketing
8 11 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (1.31%) Retail
9 10 (1.19%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.19%) Front Office
10 9 (1.07%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.71%) Law
12 5 (0.60%) Electronics
13 4 (0.48%) Aviation
13 4 (0.48%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.48%) Local Government
13 4 (0.48%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (12.50%) PySpark
2 77 (9.17%) Kafka
3 33 (3.93%) JSON
4 27 (3.21%) Apache Avro
5 24 (2.86%) Pandas
6 16 (1.90%) NumPy
7 13 (1.55%) REST
7 13 (1.55%) XML
8 9 (1.07%) .NET
8 9 (1.07%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.07%) YAML
9 8 (0.95%) ODBC
10 6 (0.71%) SOAP
10 6 (0.71%) Spark Streaming
10 6 (0.71%) Web Services
11 5 (0.60%) Flask
11 5 (0.60%) GraphQL
11 5 (0.60%) JSON Schema
11 5 (0.60%) Lambda Expressions
11 5 (0.60%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (2.38%) Algorithms
2 17 (2.02%) Data Structures
3 16 (1.90%) Onboarding
4 15 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 13 (1.55%) Fibre Optics
6 11 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 8 (0.95%) Replication
9 7 (0.83%) Cloud Native
9 7 (0.83%) Data Centre
9 7 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.71%) Social Media
11 5 (0.60%) Derivative
11 5 (0.60%) NHS
12 4 (0.48%) Blockchain
12 4 (0.48%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.48%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 26 (3.10%) Linux
2 15 (1.79%) Windows
3 13 (1.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (35.36%) ETL
2 252 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 249 (29.64%) Data Modelling
4 219 (26.07%) Data Engineering
5 191 (22.74%) Analytics
6 154 (18.33%) Business Intelligence
7 109 (12.98%) Migration
8 108 (12.86%) DevOps
9 106 (12.62%) Agile
10 94 (11.19%) CI/CD
11 81 (9.64%) Data Migration
12 78 (9.29%) Data Integration
13 71 (8.45%) Problem-Solving
14 70 (8.33%) Data Governance
15 55 (6.55%) Data Transformation
16 54 (6.43%) Data Science
17 52 (6.19%) Data Management
17 52 (6.19%) Visualisation
18 51 (6.07%) Data Analysis
19 49 (5.83%) Data Ingestion
Programming Languages
1 420 (50.00%) SQL
2 387 (46.07%) Python
3 82 (9.76%) Java
4 64 (7.62%) Scala
5 38 (4.52%) T-SQL
6 34 (4.05%) C#
7 14 (1.67%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.43%) R
9 10 (1.19%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.07%) Bicep
10 9 (1.07%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.83%) Bash
11 7 (0.83%) C++
12 6 (0.71%) Perl
13 5 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.36%) C
16 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.24%) PHP
16 2 (0.24%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 172 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 144 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 42 (5.00%) Degree
4 27 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.19%) AWS Certification
7 10 (1.19%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
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
1 116 (13.81%) Data Quality
2 29 (3.45%) QA
3 9 (1.07%) SLA
4 8 (0.95%) GDPR
5 3 (0.36%) IFRS
5 3 (0.36%) IFRS 17
5 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
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
System Software
1 19 (2.26%) 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 65 (7.74%) Terraform
2 28 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.19%) Ansible
4 6 (0.71%) Puppet
5 5 (0.60%) NetBackup
6 4 (0.48%) Argo
7 3 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.12%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.12%) Matomo
9 1 (0.12%) NetMRI
9 1 (0.12%) Podman
Vendors
1 170 (20.24%) Databricks
2 71 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 47 (5.60%) Oracle
4 37 (4.40%) Micro Focus
5 31 (3.69%) Informatica
6 27 (3.21%) Google
7 20 (2.38%) Talend
8 14 (1.67%) SAP
9 9 (1.07%) Veritas
10 8 (0.95%) Adobe
11 6 (0.71%) Splunk
12 5 (0.60%) Ab Initio
12 5 (0.60%) Salesforce
12 5 (0.60%) Twitter
13 4 (0.48%) Cloudera
13 4 (0.48%) OpenAI
13 4 (0.48%) Sage
14 3 (0.36%) JD Edwards
14 3 (0.36%) Nexthink
14 3 (0.36%) Palantir