Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 154 192
Rank change year-on-year +73 +38 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1,278 456 455
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 1.83% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 2.01% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 898 313 339
10th Percentile £390 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 13
10th Percentile £52.90 £24.75 £30.55
25th Percentile £65.00 £28.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.96 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.67% -19.67% -36.81%
75th Percentile £82.31 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £89.25 £58.25 -
UK median hourly rate £69.72 £38.96 £35.00
% change year-on-year +78.95% +11.31% -52.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,727 22,725 32,193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 91.37% 85.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,194 14,704 20,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,299 1,073 2,390
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.13 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.27% -27.91% +5.54%
75th Percentile £68.55 £56.25 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.40 £37.50
% change year-on-year +73.07% -32.27% +7.05%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 19 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 19 June 2026. 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 +60 770 £550 -2.22% 239
North of England +29 163 £475 -5.00% 80
Midlands +25 128 £500 +8.11% 37
West Midlands +23 108 £486 -16.16% 28
South West +37 82 £500 -4.76% 30
South East -25 72 £525 +8.92% 124
Yorkshire -9 70 £480 +3.78% 13
North West -3 58 £500 - 56
North East -3 37 £425 -15.00% 11
East of England -15 24 £575 +79.74% 11
East Midlands -11 17 £525 +13.51% 9
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 172 (13.46%) Apache Spark
2 147 (11.50%) Apache Airflow
3 94 (7.36%) Apache
4 38 (2.97%) SAS
5 23 (1.80%) Confluence
5 23 (1.80%) Jupyter
6 16 (1.25%) Palantir Foundry
7 10 (0.78%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.55%) Apache Superset
8 7 (0.55%) Appian
9 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.078%) Camunda
11 1 (0.078%) CICS
11 1 (0.078%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.078%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 22 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.078%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.078%) Notion
6 1 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.39%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Endur
5 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.16%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.16%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.078%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.078%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.078%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 545 (42.64%) Azure
2 494 (38.65%) AWS
3 286 (22.38%) Power Platform
4 174 (13.62%) GCP
5 173 (13.54%) Snowflake
6 159 (12.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 147 (11.50%) Amazon S3
7 147 (11.50%) dbt
8 124 (9.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 115 (9.00%) GitHub
10 112 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
11 109 (8.53%) Serverless
12 94 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
13 68 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (2.74%) Amazon EMR
14 35 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (2.27%) Azure AI
16 27 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 26 (2.03%) Amazon Bedrock
18 25 (1.96%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.39%) Firewall
1 5 (0.39%) RTP
2 2 (0.16%) Network Security
3 1 (0.078%) 4G
3 1 (0.078%) 5G
3 1 (0.078%) MIMO
3 1 (0.078%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (20.58%) Power BI
2 240 (18.78%) Data Warehouse
3 198 (15.49%) Data Lake
4 114 (8.92%) Metadata
5 92 (7.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 86 (6.73%) Big Data
7 82 (6.42%) Delta Lake
8 80 (6.26%) SQL Server
9 75 (5.87%) Tableau
10 74 (5.79%) BigQuery
11 65 (5.09%) Amazon Athena
11 65 (5.09%) NoSQL
12 64 (5.01%) Snowflake Schema
13 50 (3.91%) Relational Database
14 47 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
15 45 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
16 39 (3.05%) Hadoop
17 34 (2.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 30 (2.35%) Star Schema
19 29 (2.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 138 (10.80%) Git
2 69 (5.40%) GitLab
3 50 (3.91%) JIRA
4 33 (2.58%) MLflow
5 19 (1.49%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.31%) Postman
7 4 (0.31%) Selenium
8 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.23%) Snyk
8 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.16%) ERwin
9 2 (0.16%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.078%) Ant
10 1 (0.078%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.078%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.078%) JUnit
10 1 (0.078%) Maven
General
1 316 (24.73%) Finance
2 307 (24.02%) Social Skills
3 193 (15.10%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 89 (6.96%) Banking
6 31 (2.43%) Marketing
7 30 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 29 (2.27%) Retail
9 25 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (1.41%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.25%) Front Office
12 14 (1.10%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.70%) Legal
15 8 (0.63%) Law
16 7 (0.55%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.47%) Military
18 5 (0.39%) Billing
Job Titles
1 595 (46.56%) Data Engineer
2 190 (14.87%) Senior
3 143 (11.19%) Lead
4 142 (11.11%) Architect
5 117 (9.15%) Senior Data Engineer
6 71 (5.56%) Data Architect
7 64 (5.01%) Developer
8 59 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
8 59 (4.62%) Lead Data Engineer
9 58 (4.54%) Analyst
10 48 (3.76%) AWS Data Engineer
11 45 (3.52%) Snowflake Engineer
11 45 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
12 44 (3.44%) Data Scientist
13 40 (3.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 39 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
15 37 (2.90%) Consultant
16 35 (2.74%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 34 (2.66%) Azure Data Engineer
18 32 (2.50%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (13.85%) PySpark
2 116 (9.08%) Kafka
3 42 (3.29%) Pandas
4 41 (3.21%) REST
5 33 (2.58%) scikit-learn
6 30 (2.35%) PyTorch
7 27 (2.11%) JSON
7 27 (2.11%) NumPy
8 23 (1.80%) React
8 23 (1.80%) Spring
9 22 (1.72%) TensorFlow
10 16 (1.25%) RESTful
10 16 (1.25%) Spring Boot
11 15 (1.17%) YAML
12 14 (1.10%) FastAPI
12 14 (1.10%) pytest
13 13 (1.02%) .NET
13 13 (1.02%) Great Expectations
13 13 (1.02%) LangChain
13 13 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 171 (13.38%) Cloud Native
2 51 (3.99%) Distributed Systems
2 51 (3.99%) Legacy Systems
3 46 (3.60%) Data Structures
4 40 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 30 (2.35%) AI Agents
6 27 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 26 (2.03%) Distributed Computing
8 22 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 16 (1.25%) NHS
12 15 (1.17%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.10%) Clustering
13 14 (1.10%) Fixed Income
14 12 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (0.78%) Management Information System
17 9 (0.70%) Equities
17 9 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (2.11%) Linux
2 25 (1.96%) Unix
3 5 (0.39%) VMS
4 3 (0.23%) Windows
5 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.078%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (51.49%) Analytics
2 594 (46.48%) Data Pipeline
3 488 (38.18%) Data Modelling
4 459 (35.92%) CI/CD
5 454 (35.52%) ETL
6 386 (30.20%) AI
7 332 (25.98%) Business Intelligence
8 318 (24.88%) Agile
9 315 (24.65%) DevOps
10 256 (20.03%) Data Governance
11 248 (19.41%) Machine Learning
12 221 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
13 214 (16.74%) Data Science
14 175 (13.69%) Decision-Making
15 174 (13.62%) Migration
16 173 (13.54%) Data Architecture
17 169 (13.22%) Validation
18 150 (11.74%) Infrastructure as Code
19 139 (10.88%) Data Transformation
20 135 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 697 (54.54%) SQL
2 680 (53.21%) Python
3 107 (8.37%) Java
4 40 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (3.05%) Scala
6 34 (2.66%) C#
7 29 (2.27%) Bash
8 23 (1.80%) T-SQL
9 21 (1.64%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.49%) JavaScript
11 18 (1.41%) R
12 17 (1.33%) PL/SQL
13 16 (1.25%) Bicep
14 13 (1.02%) TypeScript
15 12 (0.94%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.78%) SAS Macro
17 5 (0.39%) Korn
17 5 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
18 3 (0.23%) SPARQL
19 2 (0.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 244 (19.09%) Security Cleared
2 216 (16.90%) SC Cleared
3 80 (6.26%) Degree
4 36 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 29 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 25 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.41%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.02%) DBS Check
8 13 (1.02%) DV Cleared
9 10 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 5 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.39%) SnowPro
12 2 (0.16%) PhD
12 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.16%) Tableau Certification
13 1 (0.078%) CCSP
13 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 1 (0.078%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 361 (28.25%) Data Quality
2 80 (6.26%) GDPR
3 61 (4.77%) QA
4 10 (0.78%) SLA
5 8 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.55%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.31%) MiFID
8 4 (0.31%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.23%) GRC
9 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.23%) NIST
10 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.16%) EMIR
10 2 (0.16%) GxP
10 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.16%) PMO
11 1 (0.078%) FATCA
11 1 (0.078%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 119 (9.31%) Docker
2 3 (0.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 178 (13.93%) Terraform
2 101 (7.90%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.72%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.94%) Grafana
5 9 (0.70%) Ansible
6 3 (0.23%) Argo
6 3 (0.23%) Kibana
6 3 (0.23%) Nagios
6 3 (0.23%) Rancher
7 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.16%) logstash
7 2 (0.16%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.078%) Control-M
8 1 (0.078%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.078%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.078%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.078%) Oozie
Vendors
1 307 (24.02%) Databricks
2 218 (17.06%) Microsoft
3 68 (5.32%) Informatica
4 52 (4.07%) Oracle
5 50 (3.91%) Google
6 26 (2.03%) Talend
7 25 (1.96%) OpenAI
8 24 (1.88%) Foundry
9 23 (1.80%) SAP
10 21 (1.64%) Palantir
10 21 (1.64%) Splunk
11 17 (1.33%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.17%) Cloudera
12 15 (1.17%) ServiceNow
13 12 (0.94%) Trend Micro
14 8 (0.63%) Denodo
14 8 (0.63%) UiPath
15 7 (0.55%) Automation Anywhere
15 7 (0.55%) InterSystems
16 6 (0.47%) Workday