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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 152 206
Rank change year-on-year +67 +54 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1,219 454 422
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 1.87% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.43% 2.05% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 858 313 314
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -1.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £626 £688 £684
90th Percentile £750 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 13
10th Percentile £52.90 £22.67 £30.55
25th Percentile £65.00 £22.72 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £30.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -38.14% -36.81%
75th Percentile £82.31 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £89.25 £56.00 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +133.33% -14.29% -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 35,555 22,136 31,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.01% 91.31% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,555 14,385 20,625
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,223 969 2,319
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.98% -23.38% -0.11%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +57 751 £550 -4.35% 393
North of England +13 140 £475 -5.00% 118
Midlands +29 126 £500 +8.11% 48
West Midlands +23 104 £500 -1.09% 34
South West +27 74 £500 -11.11% 43
South East -21 67 £538 +13.16% 131
Yorkshire -10 64 £480 -8.57% 25
North West -21 50 £506 +1.25% 71
North East -3 28 £438 -12.50% 23
East of England -23 22 £575 +54.08% 28
East Midlands -18 19 £525 +13.51% 14
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
1 175 (14.36%) Apache Spark
2 131 (10.75%) Apache Airflow
3 87 (7.14%) Apache
4 32 (2.63%) SAS
5 16 (1.31%) Confluence
6 15 (1.23%) Jupyter
6 15 (1.23%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.66%) Appian
8 7 (0.57%) Apache Superset
9 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.33%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
11 1 (0.082%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.082%) Camunda
11 1 (0.082%) CICS
11 1 (0.082%) CMS
11 1 (0.082%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.082%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 24 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.41%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.082%) Endur
5 1 (0.082%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.082%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 543 (44.54%) Azure
2 450 (36.92%) AWS
3 280 (22.97%) Power Platform
4 176 (14.44%) Azure Data Factory
5 173 (14.19%) GCP
6 160 (13.13%) Snowflake
7 133 (10.91%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 132 (10.83%) dbt
9 125 (10.25%) Amazon S3
10 117 (9.60%) GitHub
11 111 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
12 91 (7.47%) Serverless
13 73 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
14 70 (5.74%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
16 26 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
17 25 (2.05%) Azure AI
17 25 (2.05%) Dagster
18 24 (1.97%) Amazon EMR
18 24 (1.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.41%) RTP
2 4 (0.33%) Firewall
3 2 (0.16%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.082%) 4G
4 1 (0.082%) 5G
4 1 (0.082%) MIMO
4 1 (0.082%) Network Security
4 1 (0.082%) SAN
4 1 (0.082%) SMS
4 1 (0.082%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.082%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (21.16%) Power BI
2 226 (18.54%) Data Warehouse
3 199 (16.32%) Data Lake
4 104 (8.53%) Metadata
5 85 (6.97%) SQL Server
6 84 (6.89%) Big Data
7 82 (6.73%) Delta Lake
8 75 (6.15%) Tableau
9 72 (5.91%) BigQuery
10 69 (5.66%) NoSQL
11 65 (5.33%) Amazon Redshift
12 64 (5.25%) Snowflake Schema
13 58 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
14 50 (4.10%) Relational Database
15 48 (3.94%) Amazon Athena
16 43 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
17 40 (3.28%) Hadoop
18 38 (3.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 33 (2.71%) Spark SQL
20 28 (2.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 136 (11.16%) Git
2 61 (5.00%) GitLab
3 43 (3.53%) JIRA
4 33 (2.71%) MLflow
5 25 (2.05%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.49%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.41%) Postman
7 5 (0.41%) Selenium
8 3 (0.25%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.25%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.25%) Snyk
8 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.16%) ERwin
9 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.082%) Ant
10 1 (0.082%) JUnit
10 1 (0.082%) Maven
10 1 (0.082%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.082%) SoapUI
General
1 313 (25.68%) Finance
2 278 (22.81%) Social Skills
3 179 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 74 (6.07%) Banking
6 31 (2.54%) Marketing
7 28 (2.30%) Retail
8 27 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (1.48%) Front Office
11 15 (1.23%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.07%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.82%) Legal
16 6 (0.49%) Back Office
16 6 (0.49%) Law
16 6 (0.49%) Military
16 6 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 584 (47.91%) Data Engineer
2 168 (13.78%) Senior
3 133 (10.91%) Lead
4 128 (10.50%) Architect
5 108 (8.86%) Senior Data Engineer
6 66 (5.41%) Data Architect
7 63 (5.17%) Developer
8 55 (4.51%) Lead Data Engineer
9 54 (4.43%) Analyst
10 51 (4.18%) AWS Engineer
11 47 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
12 45 (3.69%) Data Scientist
12 45 (3.69%) Snowflake Engineer
13 44 (3.61%) AWS Data Engineer
14 42 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
15 41 (3.36%) Azure Data Engineer
16 40 (3.28%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 36 (2.95%) Consultant
18 30 (2.46%) Data Analyst
19 28 (2.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (13.78%) PySpark
2 123 (10.09%) Kafka
3 50 (4.10%) Pandas
4 38 (3.12%) scikit-learn
5 34 (2.79%) PyTorch
5 34 (2.79%) REST
6 31 (2.54%) NumPy
7 27 (2.21%) JSON
8 26 (2.13%) TensorFlow
9 23 (1.89%) React
9 23 (1.89%) Spring
10 17 (1.39%) YAML
11 16 (1.31%) Great Expectations
11 16 (1.31%) LangChain
11 16 (1.31%) RESTful
11 16 (1.31%) Spring Boot
12 15 (1.23%) pytest
13 14 (1.15%) FastAPI
14 12 (0.98%) Flask
14 12 (0.98%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 159 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 43 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
2 43 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
3 41 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.20%) Data Structures
5 28 (2.30%) AI Agents
6 27 (2.21%) Distributed Computing
7 22 (1.80%) Onboarding
8 20 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.39%) Algorithms
11 13 (1.07%) Fixed Income
12 12 (0.98%) Clustering
13 11 (0.90%) NHS
13 11 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.82%) Equities
14 10 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (0.74%) Data Fabric
15 9 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 29 (2.38%) Linux
2 25 (2.05%) Unix
3 5 (0.41%) VMS
4 3 (0.25%) Ubuntu
4 3 (0.25%) Windows
5 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.082%) CentOS
6 1 (0.082%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (50.86%) Analytics
2 561 (46.02%) Data Pipeline
3 470 (38.56%) Data Modelling
4 449 (36.83%) ETL
5 418 (34.29%) CI/CD
6 353 (28.96%) AI
7 313 (25.68%) Business Intelligence
8 308 (25.27%) Agile
9 304 (24.94%) DevOps
10 260 (21.33%) Data Governance
11 230 (18.87%) Machine Learning
12 201 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
13 199 (16.32%) Data Science
14 170 (13.95%) Data Architecture
15 159 (13.04%) Decision-Making
16 157 (12.88%) Migration
17 155 (12.72%) Validation
18 130 (10.66%) Infrastructure as Code
19 129 (10.58%) Data Transformation
20 116 (9.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 671 (55.05%) SQL
2 637 (52.26%) Python
3 102 (8.37%) Java
4 48 (3.94%) Scala
5 40 (3.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (2.95%) C#
7 28 (2.30%) Bash
8 23 (1.89%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.56%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.48%) JavaScript
11 17 (1.39%) R
12 16 (1.31%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.23%) Bicep
14 12 (0.98%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.82%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.57%) SAS Macro
17 6 (0.49%) Go
18 5 (0.41%) Korn
19 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
20 2 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 233 (19.11%) Security Cleared
2 207 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 78 (6.40%) Degree
4 34 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 33 (2.71%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 19 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.15%) DBS Check
9 12 (0.98%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.90%) AWS Certification
11 8 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.33%) PhD
12 4 (0.33%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.16%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.082%) CISSP
15 1 (0.082%) OCP
15 1 (0.082%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (27.15%) Data Quality
2 81 (6.64%) GDPR
3 63 (5.17%) QA
4 12 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 8 (0.66%) SLA
6 5 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.33%) MiFID
7 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.25%) GRC
8 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.25%) PMO
9 2 (0.16%) EMIR
9 2 (0.16%) GxP
9 2 (0.16%) NIST
10 1 (0.082%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.082%) Basel II
10 1 (0.082%) HL7
10 1 (0.082%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 114 (9.35%) Docker
2 4 (0.33%) HDFS
2 4 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.082%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.082%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 151 (12.39%) Terraform
2 102 (8.37%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.89%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.82%) Grafana
5 9 (0.74%) Ansible
6 5 (0.41%) Argo
7 3 (0.25%) Kibana
7 3 (0.25%) Nagios
7 3 (0.25%) Rancher
8 2 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.16%) logstash
8 2 (0.16%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.082%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.082%) Control-M
9 1 (0.082%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.082%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.082%) Oozie
Vendors
1 308 (25.27%) Databricks
2 204 (16.74%) Microsoft
3 58 (4.76%) Informatica
4 55 (4.51%) Google
5 48 (3.94%) Oracle
6 26 (2.13%) OpenAI
7 25 (2.05%) Talend
8 23 (1.89%) SAP
9 22 (1.80%) Foundry
10 19 (1.56%) Splunk
11 17 (1.39%) Palantir
12 16 (1.31%) Cloudera
13 12 (0.98%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.82%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.74%) UiPath
16 8 (0.66%) Automation Anywhere
16 8 (0.66%) Denodo
17 7 (0.57%) InterSystems
18 5 (0.41%) Workday
19 4 (0.33%) Alteryx