Data Engineering Contracts in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 203 192
Rank change year-on-year +51 -11 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 455 427 695
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.87% 1.15% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.33% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 314 473
10th Percentile £400 £400 £453
25th Percentile £451 £475 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £688 £675 £738
90th Percentile £838 £750 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 19
10th Percentile £22.00 £30.46 £19.00
25th Percentile £22.38 £34.06 £27.36
Median hourly rate £26.47 £38.65 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.53% -47.05% +29.20%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £76.88
90th Percentile £63.88 - £78.90
UK median hourly rate £25.43 £35.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year -27.34% -35.48% -3.98%

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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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 +48 307 £575 -1.71% 541
North of England +23 46 £500 -3.85% 103
South East +29 29 £500 -9.09% 202
North West +26 29 £488 -4.41% 55
South West +56 19 £613 +24.68% 48
Midlands 0 19 £488 -13.95% 51
Yorkshire +3 15 £550 -9.09% 36
West Midlands +2 13 £500 -22.10% 29
East of England +34 11 £373 -28.92% 32
East Midlands 0 6 £475 -13.64% 19
North East 0 2 £475 +12.29% 12
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 86 (18.90%) Apache Spark
2 78 (17.14%) Apache Airflow
3 73 (16.04%) Apache
4 11 (2.42%) Confluence
5 4 (0.88%) Cloud Foundry
5 4 (0.88%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.66%) nginx
7 2 (0.44%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.44%) Luigi
8 1 (0.22%) CMS
8 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.22%) CATIA
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.22%) Endur
2 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 197 (43.30%) Azure
2 192 (42.20%) AWS
3 90 (19.78%) GCP
4 89 (19.56%) Power Platform
5 78 (17.14%) dbt
6 70 (15.38%) Serverless
7 61 (13.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 54 (11.87%) AWS Lambda
9 50 (10.99%) Snowflake
10 38 (8.35%) GitHub
11 35 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 35 (7.69%) OpenShift
12 30 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
12 30 (6.59%) Amazon S3
13 22 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
14 16 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 14 (3.08%) SaaS
16 11 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (2.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.88%) Firewall
1 4 (0.88%) VPN
2 2 (0.44%) SAN
2 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (21.98%) Data Warehouse
2 86 (18.90%) Power BI
3 77 (16.92%) Data Lake
4 64 (14.07%) Big Data
5 57 (12.53%) Amazon Athena
6 42 (9.23%) Dremio
7 40 (8.79%) Apache Iceberg
8 35 (7.69%) NoSQL
9 34 (7.47%) Metadata
9 34 (7.47%) Tableau
10 32 (7.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 32 (7.03%) BigQuery
11 28 (6.15%) Apache Arrow
11 28 (6.15%) Apache Ignite
12 26 (5.71%) Hadoop
13 25 (5.49%) SQL Server
14 22 (4.84%) Relational Database
15 20 (4.40%) Snowflake Schema
16 19 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
17 18 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (6.37%) Artifactory
2 28 (6.15%) Git
3 18 (3.96%) JIRA
4 10 (2.20%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.10%) MLflow
5 5 (1.10%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.88%) GitLab
7 3 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.66%) Terragrunt
8 2 (0.44%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.22%) ERwin
9 1 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 142 (31.21%) Finance
2 113 (24.84%) Social Skills
3 65 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.77%) Banking
4 49 (10.77%) Front Office
5 40 (8.79%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.84%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.52%) Retail
8 14 (3.08%) Marketing
9 12 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.54%) Retail Banking
10 7 (1.54%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.88%) Automotive
13 4 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (0.88%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.66%) Legal
14 3 (0.66%) Local Government
14 3 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 243 (53.41%) Data Engineer
2 57 (12.53%) Python Engineer
3 55 (12.09%) AWS Engineer
4 51 (11.21%) Senior
5 42 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
5 42 (9.23%) Lead
6 37 (8.13%) Architect
7 34 (7.47%) Senior Data Engineer
8 33 (7.25%) AWS DevOps
8 33 (7.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 33 (7.25%) Developer
9 30 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
10 24 (5.27%) AWS Data Engineer
11 23 (5.05%) Azure Data Engineer
12 22 (4.84%) Python Data Engineer
13 21 (4.62%) Data Architect
14 20 (4.40%) Python Developer
15 19 (4.18%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (3.30%) Data Scientist
17 13 (2.86%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (19.56%) PySpark
2 81 (17.80%) Kafka
3 31 (6.81%) Pandas
4 30 (6.59%) NumPy
5 28 (6.15%) J2EE
6 23 (5.05%) SciPy
7 22 (4.84%) React
8 17 (3.74%) FastAPI
9 13 (2.86%) AngularJS
10 12 (2.64%) TensorFlow
11 11 (2.42%) Flask
11 11 (2.42%) Polars
11 11 (2.42%) PyTorch
12 9 (1.98%) Vue
13 8 (1.76%) Plotly
13 8 (1.76%) scikit-learn
14 7 (1.54%) .NET
14 7 (1.54%) ARM Templates
15 6 (1.32%) pytest
15 6 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.15%) Cloud Native
2 24 (5.27%) Algorithms
3 14 (3.08%) Data Structures
4 9 (1.98%) Hedge funds
4 9 (1.98%) Management Information System
4 9 (1.98%) Onboarding
5 8 (1.76%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (1.76%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.76%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
8 5 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.10%) Replication
9 4 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.66%) FMCG
10 3 (0.66%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (0.66%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.49%) Linux
2 5 (1.10%) Unix
3 2 (0.44%) Debian
3 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (37.80%) Analytics
2 168 (36.92%) ETL
3 167 (36.70%) Data Pipeline
4 143 (31.43%) CI/CD
5 130 (28.57%) Agile
6 118 (25.93%) Data Modelling
7 113 (24.84%) DevOps
8 110 (24.18%) Business Intelligence
9 94 (20.66%) Data Science
10 86 (18.90%) Machine Learning
11 85 (18.68%) Data Governance
11 85 (18.68%) Software Engineering
12 81 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
13 72 (15.82%) Artificial Intelligence
13 72 (15.82%) Visualisation
14 64 (14.07%) Data Integration
15 57 (12.53%) Decision-Making
16 48 (10.55%) Data Visualisation
17 44 (9.67%) Migration
18 43 (9.45%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 294 (64.62%) Python
2 231 (50.77%) SQL
3 91 (20.00%) Java
4 52 (11.43%) Scala
5 29 (6.37%) Go
6 24 (5.27%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.30%) R
8 14 (3.08%) T-SQL
9 13 (2.86%) C++
10 11 (2.42%) C#
11 9 (1.98%) Rust
12 7 (1.54%) TypeScript
13 6 (1.32%) Bicep
14 5 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.66%) ANSI SQL
15 3 (0.66%) PowerShell
16 2 (0.44%) Bash
16 2 (0.44%) PL/SQL
17 1 (0.22%) PROC SQL
17 1 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (14.73%) Security Cleared
2 46 (10.11%) SC Cleared
3 39 (8.57%) Degree
4 16 (3.52%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.42%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.98%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.88%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.88%) PMP
11 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.44%) MBA
13 1 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.22%) IBM Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
13 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (22.86%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.74%) GDPR
4 15 (3.30%) QA
5 3 (0.66%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 80 (17.58%) Docker
2 4 (0.88%) HDFS
3 2 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 94 (20.66%) Terraform
2 82 (18.02%) Kubernetes
3 7 (1.54%) Grafana
4 4 (0.88%) Ansible
4 4 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.66%) HAProxy
5 3 (0.66%) Kubeflow
6 2 (0.44%) Kibana
6 2 (0.44%) logstash
6 2 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Ranger
7 1 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 121 (26.59%) Databricks
2 60 (13.19%) Microsoft
3 39 (8.57%) Google
4 14 (3.08%) Oracle
5 10 (2.20%) SAP
6 9 (1.98%) Palantir
7 7 (1.54%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.32%) Informatica
8 6 (1.32%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.10%) Foundry
9 5 (1.10%) IBM
10 4 (0.88%) Splunk
10 4 (0.88%) Virgin Media
11 3 (0.66%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.66%) MicroStrategy
11 3 (0.66%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.44%) Adobe
12 2 (0.44%) Brio
12 2 (0.44%) Hitachi
12 2 (0.44%) VMware