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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 181 235
Rank change year-on-year +50 +54 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 660 418 415
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.25% 1.35% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 1.56% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 304 299
10th Percentile £358 £413 £411
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £700
90th Percentile £750 £784 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.38% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 13
10th Percentile £36.73 £23.25 £35.13
25th Percentile £38.96 £26.25 £39.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £26.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +145.28% -66.03% +56.00%
75th Percentile £74.26 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £95.70 - £89.00
UK median hourly rate £69.63 £26.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +162.75% -66.03% +56.00%

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 26,593 26,760 35,274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.56% 86.55% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,884 16,311 24,240
10th Percentile £299 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £639 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,719 969 1,479
10th Percentile £14.74 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.07 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.94% -14.45% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.45 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.87% -20.09% +26.43%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +67 445 £550 -5.25% 410
North of England -7 75 £425 -19.05% 83
Midlands -10 50 £533 -0.79% 51
North West -1 42 £405 -16.49% 47
South East +17 40 £445 -16.24% 316
West Midlands -19 35 £550 +10.00% 37
Yorkshire -21 23 £475 -5.00% 28
South West -3 18 £575 -13.86% 26
East of England -4 18 £475 -5.00% 17
East Midlands -5 12 £442 -23.22% 14
North East -6 10 £425 -28.87% 8
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 (17.12%) Apache Airflow
2 80 (12.12%) Apache Spark
3 47 (7.12%) Apache
4 10 (1.52%) Confluence
5 3 (0.45%) SAS
5 3 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.30%) Luigi
7 1 (0.15%) Apache Pig
7 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
Applications
1 17 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (0.61%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.30%) Maple
5 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (1.52%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.30%) Eagle PACE
3 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.30%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.15%) Maximo
4 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 281 (42.58%) Azure
2 246 (37.27%) AWS
3 121 (18.33%) Power Platform
4 120 (18.18%) GCP
5 103 (15.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 95 (14.39%) Snowflake
7 77 (11.67%) dbt
8 71 (10.76%) Amazon S3
8 71 (10.76%) GitHub
9 69 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
9 69 (10.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 61 (9.24%) Serverless
11 49 (7.42%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (3.94%) Azure Machine Learning
14 23 (3.48%) Amazon EMR
14 23 (3.48%) Amazon SageMaker
15 17 (2.58%) Amazon Kinesis
15 17 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
16 15 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.91%) TCP/IP
2 4 (0.61%) Network Security
2 4 (0.61%) SAN
3 3 (0.45%) SSH
3 3 (0.45%) SSL
4 2 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (0.30%) DNS
4 2 (0.30%) Firewall
4 2 (0.30%) VPN
5 1 (0.15%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.15%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (19.70%) Data Warehouse
2 117 (17.73%) Power BI
3 79 (11.97%) Data Lake
4 58 (8.79%) Big Data
5 56 (8.48%) Metadata
6 46 (6.97%) BigQuery
7 41 (6.21%) Delta Lake
8 40 (6.06%) Relational Database
9 36 (5.45%) Tableau
10 35 (5.30%) Amazon Redshift
10 35 (5.30%) Hadoop
11 31 (4.70%) SQL Server
12 28 (4.24%) NoSQL
13 26 (3.94%) Snowflake Schema
14 25 (3.79%) Azure SQL Database
14 25 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
15 18 (2.73%) Amazon Athena
16 16 (2.42%) RDBMS
17 14 (2.12%) Apache Hive
18 13 (1.97%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 109 (16.52%) Git
2 28 (4.24%) Jenkins
3 23 (3.48%) JIRA
4 18 (2.73%) MLflow
5 16 (2.42%) GitLab
6 7 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (0.76%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.45%) Poetry
9 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.30%) JUnit
9 2 (0.30%) Maven
9 2 (0.30%) Mockito
9 2 (0.30%) PROIV
9 2 (0.30%) PyCharm
9 2 (0.30%) Selenium
9 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.30%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.30%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.30%) TestRail
10 1 (0.15%) ERwin
General
1 196 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 138 (20.91%) Finance
3 95 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.94%) Banking
5 50 (7.58%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.45%) Investment Banking
7 22 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (2.88%) Retail
9 15 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (2.12%) Front Office
10 14 (2.12%) Marketing
11 11 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.67%) Telecoms
12 10 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.36%) Publishing
14 8 (1.21%) Legal
15 6 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.76%) Military
16 5 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 274 (41.52%) Data Engineer
2 89 (13.48%) Senior
3 67 (10.15%) Architect
4 65 (9.85%) Developer
5 61 (9.24%) Lead
6 60 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
7 56 (8.48%) Azure Engineer
8 44 (6.67%) Azure Data Engineer
9 38 (5.76%) Analyst
10 32 (4.85%) Data Architect
10 32 (4.85%) Python Developer
11 28 (4.24%) AWS Engineer
12 26 (3.94%) Data Scientist
12 26 (3.94%) Snowflake Engineer
13 21 (3.18%) Data Analyst
13 21 (3.18%) Python Engineer
13 21 (3.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
14 20 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 19 (2.88%) AWS Data Engineer
15 19 (2.88%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (12.42%) PySpark
2 69 (10.45%) Kafka
3 44 (6.67%) Pandas
4 41 (6.21%) NumPy
5 32 (4.85%) FastAPI
6 31 (4.70%) Flask
7 27 (4.09%) React
8 25 (3.79%) PyTorch
9 23 (3.48%) scikit-learn
10 22 (3.33%) RESTful
11 20 (3.03%) Vue
12 19 (2.88%) AngularJS
12 19 (2.88%) Polars
12 19 (2.88%) SciPy
12 19 (2.88%) TensorFlow
13 15 (2.27%) JSON
14 11 (1.67%) Spark Streaming
15 10 (1.52%) .NET
15 10 (1.52%) ARM Templates
15 10 (1.52%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.18%) Cloud Native
2 29 (4.39%) Algorithms
3 28 (4.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 21 (3.18%) Hedge funds
5 20 (3.03%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (2.58%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.42%) Distributed Computing
8 15 (2.27%) Product Ownership
9 14 (2.12%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.97%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.36%) Equities
14 8 (1.21%) Data Fabric
14 8 (1.21%) Derivative
14 8 (1.21%) Genomics
14 8 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (1.21%) Life Science
14 8 (1.21%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 40 (6.06%) Linux
2 7 (1.06%) 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 (0.45%) Android
5 2 (0.30%) Unix
6 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (41.67%) Data Pipeline
2 253 (38.33%) Data Modelling
3 243 (36.82%) ETL
4 233 (35.30%) Analytics
5 232 (35.15%) CI/CD
6 163 (24.70%) DevOps
7 153 (23.18%) Business Intelligence
8 150 (22.73%) Agile
9 146 (22.12%) Machine Learning
10 145 (21.97%) Data Governance
11 141 (21.36%) AI
11 141 (21.36%) Data Science
12 137 (20.76%) Problem-Solving
13 96 (14.55%) Data Architecture
14 85 (12.88%) Data Integration
15 82 (12.42%) Infrastructure as Code
16 80 (12.12%) Decision-Making
17 74 (11.21%) Visualisation
18 73 (11.06%) Containerisation
19 69 (10.45%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 415 (62.88%) Python
2 336 (50.91%) SQL
3 55 (8.33%) Java
4 45 (6.82%) Scala
5 36 (5.45%) C#
6 31 (4.70%) C++
7 29 (4.39%) JavaScript
8 20 (3.03%) Rust
9 18 (2.73%) Bicep
10 15 (2.27%) Bash
10 15 (2.27%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.12%) TypeScript
12 13 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (1.82%) R
13 12 (1.82%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.67%) T-SQL
15 9 (1.36%) PL/SQL
16 7 (1.06%) Go
17 5 (0.76%) Korn
17 5 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 106 (16.06%) Security Cleared
2 83 (12.58%) SC Cleared
3 62 (9.39%) Degree
4 36 (5.45%) Azure Certification
5 30 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (4.24%) Master's Degree
7 18 (2.73%) AWS Certification
8 17 (2.58%) DV Cleared
9 8 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.91%) PhD
11 5 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.76%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.45%) MCP
12 3 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
13 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.15%) CBAP
14 1 (0.15%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 163 (24.70%) Data Quality
2 47 (7.12%) GDPR
3 25 (3.79%) QA
4 14 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.21%) HIPAA
6 6 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.91%) NIST
7 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.45%) PERC
9 2 (0.30%) NCSC
9 2 (0.30%) PMO
9 2 (0.30%) 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
1 102 (15.45%) Docker
2 12 (1.82%) HDFS
3 5 (0.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 109 (16.52%) Terraform
2 93 (14.09%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.52%) Hadoop YARN
4 9 (1.36%) Ansible
5 8 (1.21%) Grafana
6 6 (0.91%) Control-M
7 5 (0.76%) Kibana
7 5 (0.76%) logstash
7 5 (0.76%) Puppet
8 4 (0.61%) Argo
8 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.61%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.45%) Istio
9 3 (0.45%) Oozie
9 3 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.15%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 163 (24.70%) Databricks
2 85 (12.88%) Microsoft
3 53 (8.03%) Google
4 32 (4.85%) Oracle
5 19 (2.88%) Informatica
6 14 (2.12%) Palantir
6 14 (2.12%) SAP
7 13 (1.97%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.67%) Foundry
8 11 (1.67%) Talend
9 8 (1.21%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.21%) VMware
10 7 (1.06%) Cloudera
10 7 (1.06%) Virgin Media
11 6 (0.91%) Denodo
11 6 (0.91%) Murex
11 6 (0.91%) Red Hat
11 6 (0.91%) StreamSets
12 5 (0.76%) Guidewire
13 4 (0.61%) Sage