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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 156 197
Rank change year-on-year +78 +41 -5
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1,308 460 453
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.02% 1.84% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 2.02% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 315 337
10th Percentile £388 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% -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 36,943 22,820 31,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.36% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,357 14,745 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,312 1,098 2,392
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.13 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +63 788 £550 -1.57% 260
North of England +24 166 £475 -5.00% 71
Midlands +31 133 £500 +8.11% 39
West Midlands +25 113 £486 -16.16% 28
South West +28 81 £500 -11.11% 32
South East -16 74 £525 +5.00% 111
Yorkshire -2 70 £480 +3.78% 13
North West -7 60 £492 -1.60% 46
North East -2 38 £425 -15.00% 12
East of England -13 25 £575 +79.74% 11
East Midlands -11 17 £525 +13.51% 11
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
1 177 (13.53%) Apache Spark
2 149 (11.39%) Apache Airflow
3 98 (7.49%) Apache
4 39 (2.98%) SAS
5 23 (1.76%) Confluence
5 23 (1.76%) Jupyter
6 16 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
7 11 (0.84%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.54%) Apache Superset
8 7 (0.54%) Appian
9 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.076%) Camunda
11 1 (0.076%) CICS
11 1 (0.076%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.076%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 22 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.076%) Notion
6 1 (0.076%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.46%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.38%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.23%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.15%) Endur
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.076%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.076%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.076%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 561 (42.89%) Azure
2 506 (38.69%) AWS
3 294 (22.48%) Power Platform
4 180 (13.76%) GCP
5 179 (13.69%) Snowflake
6 161 (12.31%) Azure Data Factory
7 149 (11.39%) Amazon S3
8 147 (11.24%) dbt
9 128 (9.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 116 (8.87%) GitHub
11 114 (8.72%) Azure DevOps
12 112 (8.56%) Serverless
13 97 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
14 69 (5.28%) GitHub Actions
15 36 (2.75%) Amazon EMR
16 33 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (2.22%) Azure AI
18 27 (2.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 26 (1.99%) Amazon Bedrock
19 26 (1.99%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) Firewall
1 5 (0.38%) RTP
2 2 (0.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.076%) 4G
3 1 (0.076%) 5G
3 1 (0.076%) MIMO
3 1 (0.076%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 271 (20.72%) Power BI
2 247 (18.88%) Data Warehouse
3 201 (15.37%) Data Lake
4 119 (9.10%) Metadata
5 96 (7.34%) Amazon Redshift
6 87 (6.65%) Big Data
7 85 (6.50%) Delta Lake
8 83 (6.35%) SQL Server
9 77 (5.89%) BigQuery
10 75 (5.73%) Tableau
11 66 (5.05%) Amazon Athena
11 66 (5.05%) NoSQL
12 63 (4.82%) Snowflake Schema
13 53 (4.05%) Relational Database
14 47 (3.59%) Azure SQL Database
15 46 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
16 39 (2.98%) Hadoop
17 35 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 30 (2.29%) Star Schema
19 29 (2.22%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 139 (10.63%) Git
2 70 (5.35%) GitLab
3 51 (3.90%) JIRA
4 33 (2.52%) MLflow
5 19 (1.45%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.46%) 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 (0.15%) ERwin
9 2 (0.15%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.15%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.076%) Ant
10 1 (0.076%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.076%) JUnit
10 1 (0.076%) Maven
10 1 (0.076%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 323 (24.69%) Social Skills
2 321 (24.54%) Finance
3 199 (15.21%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (10.78%) Public Sector
5 89 (6.80%) Banking
6 34 (2.60%) Marketing
7 32 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 30 (2.29%) Retail
9 26 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (1.45%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.22%) Front Office
12 14 (1.07%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.07%) Investment Banking
13 11 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.76%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.69%) Legal
16 8 (0.61%) Law
17 7 (0.54%) Pharmaceutical
18 6 (0.46%) Billing
18 6 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 602 (46.02%) Data Engineer
2 193 (14.76%) Senior
3 148 (11.31%) Lead
4 147 (11.24%) Architect
5 117 (8.94%) Senior Data Engineer
6 74 (5.66%) Data Architect
7 66 (5.05%) Developer
8 61 (4.66%) Analyst
9 60 (4.59%) Lead Data Engineer
10 59 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
11 48 (3.67%) AWS Data Engineer
12 47 (3.59%) Data Scientist
13 46 (3.52%) Snowflake Engineer
14 45 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
15 41 (3.13%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 39 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
17 37 (2.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 37 (2.83%) Consultant
18 34 (2.60%) Azure Data Engineer
18 34 (2.60%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (14.22%) PySpark
2 120 (9.17%) Kafka
3 42 (3.21%) Pandas
4 41 (3.13%) REST
5 33 (2.52%) scikit-learn
6 30 (2.29%) PyTorch
7 28 (2.14%) JSON
8 27 (2.06%) NumPy
9 24 (1.83%) React
9 24 (1.83%) Spring
10 22 (1.68%) TensorFlow
11 17 (1.30%) Spring Boot
12 16 (1.22%) .NET
12 16 (1.22%) RESTful
13 15 (1.15%) YAML
14 14 (1.07%) FastAPI
14 14 (1.07%) LangChain
14 14 (1.07%) OpenTelemetry
14 14 (1.07%) pytest
15 13 (0.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 173 (13.23%) Cloud Native
2 53 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
3 52 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
4 49 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 40 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 30 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 27 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
7 27 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.38%) NHS
10 16 (1.22%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.07%) Clustering
11 14 (1.07%) Fixed Income
12 12 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.92%) Virtual Team
13 11 (0.84%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.84%) Management Information System
14 9 (0.69%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.14%) Linux
2 25 (1.91%) Unix
3 5 (0.38%) VMS
4 3 (0.23%) Windows
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.076%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 670 (51.22%) Analytics
2 609 (46.56%) Data Pipeline
3 494 (37.77%) Data Modelling
4 470 (35.93%) CI/CD
5 465 (35.55%) ETL
6 394 (30.12%) AI
7 342 (26.15%) Business Intelligence
8 331 (25.31%) Agile
9 321 (24.54%) DevOps
10 262 (20.03%) Data Governance
11 252 (19.27%) Machine Learning
12 227 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
13 225 (17.20%) Data Science
14 180 (13.76%) Decision-Making
15 179 (13.69%) Migration
16 177 (13.53%) Data Architecture
16 177 (13.53%) Validation
17 153 (11.70%) Infrastructure as Code
18 148 (11.31%) Stakeholder Management
19 143 (10.93%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 713 (54.51%) SQL
2 696 (53.21%) Python
3 110 (8.41%) Java
4 43 (3.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (2.98%) Scala
6 34 (2.60%) C#
7 30 (2.29%) Bash
8 23 (1.76%) PowerShell
8 23 (1.76%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.53%) JavaScript
10 18 (1.38%) R
11 17 (1.30%) Bicep
11 17 (1.30%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.99%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.84%) SAS Macro
15 5 (0.38%) Korn
15 5 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.38%) SPARQL
16 4 (0.31%) Cypher
Qualifications
1 248 (18.96%) Security Cleared
2 220 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 85 (6.50%) Degree
4 39 (2.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 29 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (2.14%) Master's Degree
7 17 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 13 (0.99%) DBS Check
8 13 (0.99%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.46%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.23%) PhD
14 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.15%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.076%) ACCA
15 1 (0.076%) CIMA
15 1 (0.076%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 376 (28.75%) Data Quality
2 81 (6.19%) GDPR
3 63 (4.82%) QA
4 10 (0.76%) SLA
5 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.54%) Accessibility
7 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.31%) MiFID
8 4 (0.31%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
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 (0.15%) EMIR
10 2 (0.15%) GxP
10 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.15%) PMO
11 1 (0.076%) ISO 13485
11 1 (0.076%) SOC 2
System Software
1 124 (9.48%) Docker
2 3 (0.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 182 (13.91%) Terraform
2 107 (8.18%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.76%) Prometheus
4 14 (1.07%) Grafana
5 9 (0.69%) Ansible
6 4 (0.31%) Kibana
7 3 (0.23%) Argo
7 3 (0.23%) Nagios
7 3 (0.23%) Rancher
8 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.15%) logstash
8 2 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.076%) Control-M
9 1 (0.076%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.076%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.076%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.076%) Oozie
Vendors
1 316 (24.16%) Databricks
2 226 (17.28%) Microsoft
3 70 (5.35%) Informatica
4 52 (3.98%) Oracle
5 49 (3.75%) Google
6 27 (2.06%) OpenAI
7 26 (1.99%) Talend
8 24 (1.83%) Foundry
8 24 (1.83%) Palantir
8 24 (1.83%) SAP
9 22 (1.68%) Splunk
10 19 (1.45%) Salesforce
11 16 (1.22%) ServiceNow
12 15 (1.15%) Cloudera
13 12 (0.92%) Trend Micro
14 8 (0.61%) Denodo
14 8 (0.61%) UiPath
15 7 (0.54%) Automation Anywhere
15 7 (0.54%) InterSystems
16 6 (0.46%) Workday