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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 183 239
Rank change year-on-year +50 +56 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 654 418 420
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.20% 1.36% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 1.57% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 304 304
10th Percentile £358 £413 £409
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £645 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £784 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 14
10th Percentile £36.36 £23.25 £35.19
25th Percentile £38.03 £26.25 £40.16
Median hourly rate £56.61 £26.50 £71.50
Median % change year-on-year +113.62% -62.94% +43.00%
75th Percentile £83.20 £60.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £99.28 - £88.50
UK median hourly rate £74.26 £26.50 £71.50
% change year-on-year +180.23% -62.94% +43.00%

All Process and 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 26,873 26,566 35,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.44% 86.67% 88.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,087 16,208 24,291
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,743 953 1,490
10th Percentile £14.70 £15.07 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.74 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.95 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -18.13% +22.14%

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 11 November 2025.

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 11 November 2025.

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 11 November 2025. 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 +61 441 £550 -4.35% 402
North of England +5 74 £425 -15.00% 100
Midlands -12 48 £542 +8.30% 64
South East +21 41 £475 -11.63% 142
North West +4 40 £405 -16.49% 59
West Midlands -28 32 £550 +10.00% 53
Yorkshire -29 25 £475 -5.00% 32
East of England -10 18 £475 -5.00% 20
South West -12 18 £575 -13.86% 32
East Midlands -1 14 £442 -23.22% 11
North East -6 9 £425 -28.87% 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
1 113 (17.28%) Apache Airflow
2 86 (13.15%) Apache Spark
3 47 (7.19%) Apache
4 10 (1.53%) Confluence
5 3 (0.46%) SAS
5 3 (0.46%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.31%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.31%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 16 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.76%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.31%) Maple
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (1.53%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.31%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.31%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.15%) Maximo
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 275 (42.05%) Azure
2 242 (37.00%) AWS
3 120 (18.35%) Power Platform
4 118 (18.04%) GCP
5 102 (15.60%) Azure Data Factory
6 94 (14.37%) Snowflake
7 76 (11.62%) dbt
8 73 (11.16%) GitHub
9 71 (10.86%) Amazon S3
10 70 (10.70%) Azure DevOps
11 68 (10.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 61 (9.33%) Serverless
13 50 (7.65%) AWS Lambda
14 45 (6.88%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (3.98%) Azure Machine Learning
16 23 (3.52%) Amazon EMR
16 23 (3.52%) Amazon SageMaker
17 17 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
17 17 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
18 16 (2.45%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.92%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.61%) Network Security
2 4 (0.61%) SAN
3 3 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (0.46%) SSH
3 3 (0.46%) SSL
4 2 (0.31%) DNS
4 2 (0.31%) Firewall
4 2 (0.31%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.15%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (19.27%) Data Warehouse
2 116 (17.74%) Power BI
3 77 (11.77%) Data Lake
4 58 (8.87%) Big Data
5 52 (7.95%) Metadata
6 45 (6.88%) BigQuery
7 43 (6.57%) Relational Database
8 37 (5.66%) Delta Lake
8 37 (5.66%) Hadoop
9 36 (5.50%) Tableau
10 34 (5.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 32 (4.89%) NoSQL
12 29 (4.43%) SQL Server
13 26 (3.98%) PostgreSQL
14 25 (3.82%) Snowflake Schema
15 23 (3.52%) Azure SQL Database
16 17 (2.60%) Amazon Athena
16 17 (2.60%) RDBMS
17 14 (2.14%) Apache Hive
17 14 (2.14%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 110 (16.82%) Git
2 28 (4.28%) Jenkins
3 23 (3.52%) JIRA
4 19 (2.91%) MLflow
5 16 (2.45%) GitLab
6 7 (1.07%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.46%) Poetry
9 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.31%) JUnit
9 2 (0.31%) Maven
9 2 (0.31%) Mockito
9 2 (0.31%) PROIV
9 2 (0.31%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.31%) Selenium
9 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.31%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.31%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.31%) TestRail
10 1 (0.15%) ERwin
General
1 190 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 134 (20.49%) Finance
3 96 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (8.87%) Banking
5 50 (7.65%) Public Sector
6 35 (5.35%) Investment Banking
7 19 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 18 (2.75%) Retail
9 14 (2.14%) Front Office
9 14 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
10 13 (1.99%) Marketing
11 11 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.68%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.38%) Legal
12 9 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.38%) Publishing
13 6 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.76%) Military
14 5 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 271 (41.44%) Data Engineer
2 90 (13.76%) Senior
3 66 (10.09%) Architect
3 66 (10.09%) Developer
4 61 (9.33%) Lead
5 58 (8.87%) Azure Engineer
5 58 (8.87%) Senior Data Engineer
6 44 (6.73%) Azure Data Engineer
7 36 (5.50%) Analyst
8 32 (4.89%) Data Architect
8 32 (4.89%) Python Developer
9 28 (4.28%) AWS Engineer
10 26 (3.98%) Data Scientist
11 25 (3.82%) Snowflake Engineer
12 21 (3.21%) Python Engineer
13 20 (3.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 20 (3.06%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 19 (2.91%) AWS Data Engineer
14 19 (2.91%) Data Analyst
14 19 (2.91%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (12.84%) PySpark
2 67 (10.24%) Kafka
3 43 (6.57%) Pandas
4 40 (6.12%) NumPy
5 31 (4.74%) FastAPI
6 30 (4.59%) Flask
7 27 (4.13%) React
8 26 (3.98%) PyTorch
9 24 (3.67%) scikit-learn
10 22 (3.36%) RESTful
11 20 (3.06%) TensorFlow
12 19 (2.91%) Vue
13 18 (2.75%) AngularJS
13 18 (2.75%) Polars
13 18 (2.75%) SciPy
14 16 (2.45%) JSON
15 11 (1.68%) pytest
15 11 (1.68%) Spark Streaming
16 10 (1.53%) .NET
16 10 (1.53%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.72%) Cloud Native
2 30 (4.59%) Algorithms
3 27 (4.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 20 (3.06%) Hedge funds
5 18 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
7 16 (2.45%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.45%) Product Ownership
8 13 (1.99%) Fixed Income
8 13 (1.99%) Onboarding
9 11 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
10 9 (1.38%) Derivative
10 9 (1.38%) Equities
10 9 (1.38%) Genomics
10 9 (1.38%) Life Science
11 8 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.22%) Reinsurance
12 7 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (5.96%) Linux
2 7 (1.07%) Windows
3 4 (0.61%) Debian
3 4 (0.61%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.61%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (0.46%) Android
5 2 (0.31%) Unix
5 2 (0.31%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (41.90%) Data Pipeline
2 248 (37.92%) Data Modelling
3 242 (37.00%) ETL
4 235 (35.93%) CI/CD
5 229 (35.02%) Analytics
6 164 (25.08%) DevOps
7 152 (23.24%) Agile
8 150 (22.94%) Business Intelligence
8 150 (22.94%) Machine Learning
9 142 (21.71%) Data Governance
10 139 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
11 138 (21.10%) AI
11 138 (21.10%) Data Science
12 99 (15.14%) Data Architecture
13 82 (12.54%) Infrastructure as Code
14 81 (12.39%) Decision-Making
15 79 (12.08%) Data Integration
16 74 (11.31%) Visualisation
17 73 (11.16%) Containerisation
18 67 (10.24%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 412 (63.00%) Python
2 334 (51.07%) SQL
3 55 (8.41%) Java
4 46 (7.03%) Scala
5 35 (5.35%) C#
6 31 (4.74%) C++
7 28 (4.28%) JavaScript
8 19 (2.91%) Rust
9 18 (2.75%) Bicep
10 15 (2.29%) Bash
10 15 (2.29%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.14%) R
11 14 (2.14%) TypeScript
12 13 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (1.83%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.68%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.38%) PL/SQL
16 8 (1.22%) Go
17 5 (0.76%) Korn
17 5 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 108 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 87 (13.30%) SC Cleared
3 61 (9.33%) Degree
4 39 (5.96%) Azure Certification
5 28 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (4.28%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.75%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.60%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.92%) PhD
10 5 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.61%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.46%) MCP
12 3 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.15%) CBAP
14 1 (0.15%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (23.85%) Data Quality
2 47 (7.19%) GDPR
3 25 (3.82%) QA
4 15 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.22%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.92%) NIST
7 4 (0.61%) PERC
7 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.31%) NCSC
9 2 (0.31%) PMO
9 2 (0.31%) WCAG
10 1 (0.15%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.15%) EMIR
10 1 (0.15%) GMP
10 1 (0.15%) HL7
10 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 105 (16.06%) Docker
2 12 (1.83%) HDFS
3 5 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 111 (16.97%) Terraform
2 94 (14.37%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.53%) Hadoop YARN
4 9 (1.38%) Ansible
4 9 (1.38%) Grafana
5 6 (0.92%) Control-M
6 5 (0.76%) Kibana
6 5 (0.76%) logstash
6 5 (0.76%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.76%) Puppet
7 4 (0.61%) Argo
7 4 (0.61%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.46%) Istio
8 3 (0.46%) Oozie
8 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 161 (24.62%) Databricks
2 83 (12.69%) Microsoft
3 52 (7.95%) Google
4 28 (4.28%) Oracle
5 17 (2.60%) Informatica
6 14 (2.14%) Palantir
7 13 (1.99%) OpenAI
8 12 (1.83%) Foundry
9 11 (1.68%) SAP
9 11 (1.68%) Talend
10 8 (1.22%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.22%) VMware
11 7 (1.07%) Cloudera
11 7 (1.07%) Virgin Media
12 6 (0.92%) Denodo
12 6 (0.92%) Murex
12 6 (0.92%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.76%) Guidewire
13 5 (0.76%) StreamSets
14 4 (0.61%) EMC