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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 144 205
Rank change year-on-year +60 +61 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1,217 450 422
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.92% 1.87% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.44% 2.05% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 856 310 314
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 £627 £675 £684
90th Percentile £750 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
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 35,421 21,987 31,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.31% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,454 14,284 20,634
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 2,213 963 2,325
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% +0.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.84% -23.32% +0.29%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +63 751 £550 -4.35% 369
North of England +9 140 £475 -5.00% 119
Midlands +20 125 £500 +8.11% 50
West Midlands +18 103 £500 -1.09% 33
South West +25 73 £500 -11.11% 44
South East -20 66 £525 +10.53% 131
Yorkshire -12 64 £480 -8.57% 27
North West -17 50 £506 +1.25% 73
North East -3 28 £438 -12.50% 20
East of England -25 22 £575 +54.08% 29
East Midlands -19 19 £525 +13.51% 17
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 (14.38%) Apache Spark
2 132 (10.85%) Apache Airflow
3 87 (7.15%) Apache
4 32 (2.63%) SAS
5 17 (1.40%) Confluence
6 15 (1.23%) Jupyter
6 15 (1.23%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.66%) Appian
8 7 (0.58%) 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 (0.58%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 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
1 540 (44.37%) Azure
2 449 (36.89%) AWS
3 280 (23.01%) Power Platform
4 174 (14.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 174 (14.30%) GCP
5 159 (13.06%) Snowflake
6 134 (11.01%) dbt
7 132 (10.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 125 (10.27%) Amazon S3
9 117 (9.61%) GitHub
10 111 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
11 91 (7.48%) Serverless
12 74 (6.08%) AWS Lambda
13 70 (5.75%) GitHub Actions
14 35 (2.88%) AWS CloudFormation
15 26 (2.14%) AWS Step Functions
15 26 (2.14%) Azure AI
16 25 (2.05%) Amazon EMR
16 25 (2.05%) Dagster
17 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 (21.20%) Power BI
2 226 (18.57%) Data Warehouse
3 198 (16.27%) Data Lake
4 103 (8.46%) Metadata
5 85 (6.98%) SQL Server
6 84 (6.90%) Big Data
7 82 (6.74%) Delta Lake
8 75 (6.16%) Tableau
9 73 (6.00%) BigQuery
10 69 (5.67%) NoSQL
11 66 (5.42%) Amazon Redshift
12 64 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
13 58 (4.77%) Azure SQL Database
14 50 (4.11%) Relational Database
15 49 (4.03%) Amazon Athena
16 42 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
17 40 (3.29%) Hadoop
18 38 (3.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 33 (2.71%) Spark SQL
20 28 (2.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 138 (11.34%) Git
2 61 (5.01%) GitLab
3 44 (3.62%) 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
1 311 (25.55%) Finance
2 277 (22.76%) Social Skills
3 179 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 74 (6.08%) Banking
6 31 (2.55%) Marketing
7 28 (2.30%) Retail
8 27 (2.22%) 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
1 583 (47.90%) Data Engineer
2 169 (13.89%) Senior
3 134 (11.01%) Lead
4 127 (10.44%) Architect
5 108 (8.87%) Senior Data Engineer
6 65 (5.34%) Data Architect
7 63 (5.18%) Developer
8 55 (4.52%) Lead Data Engineer
9 53 (4.35%) Analyst
10 50 (4.11%) AWS Engineer
11 47 (3.86%) Azure Engineer
12 45 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
13 44 (3.62%) Data Scientist
14 43 (3.53%) AWS Data Engineer
15 42 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
16 41 (3.37%) Azure Data Engineer
17 40 (3.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 36 (2.96%) Consultant
19 30 (2.47%) Data Analyst
20 28 (2.30%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (13.89%) PySpark
2 122 (10.02%) Kafka
3 49 (4.03%) Pandas
4 37 (3.04%) scikit-learn
5 34 (2.79%) REST
6 33 (2.71%) PyTorch
7 30 (2.47%) NumPy
8 27 (2.22%) JSON
9 25 (2.05%) TensorFlow
10 23 (1.89%) React
10 23 (1.89%) Spring
11 17 (1.40%) YAML
12 16 (1.31%) Great Expectations
12 16 (1.31%) RESTful
12 16 (1.31%) Spring Boot
13 15 (1.23%) LangChain
13 15 (1.23%) pytest
14 14 (1.15%) FastAPI
15 12 (0.99%) Apache Avro
15 12 (0.99%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 159 (13.06%) Cloud Native
2 43 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
2 43 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
3 41 (3.37%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.20%) Data Structures
5 27 (2.22%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
6 22 (1.81%) Onboarding
7 20 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
8 18 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.40%) Algorithms
10 13 (1.07%) Fixed Income
11 12 (0.99%) Clustering
12 11 (0.90%) NHS
12 11 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.82%) Equities
13 10 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (0.74%) Low-Code
14 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 (50.94%) Analytics
2 560 (46.01%) Data Pipeline
3 470 (38.62%) Data Modelling
4 446 (36.65%) ETL
5 420 (34.51%) CI/CD
6 353 (29.01%) AI
7 313 (25.72%) Business Intelligence
8 309 (25.39%) Agile
9 303 (24.90%) DevOps
10 259 (21.28%) Data Governance
11 230 (18.90%) Machine Learning
12 201 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
13 198 (16.27%) Data Science
14 169 (13.89%) Data Architecture
15 159 (13.06%) Decision-Making
16 158 (12.98%) Migration
17 155 (12.74%) Validation
18 131 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
19 130 (10.68%) Data Transformation
20 116 (9.53%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 672 (55.22%) SQL
2 634 (52.10%) Python
3 102 (8.38%) Java
4 48 (3.94%) Scala
5 40 (3.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (2.96%) C#
7 28 (2.30%) Bash
8 23 (1.89%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.56%) PowerShell
10 18 (1.48%) JavaScript
11 17 (1.40%) R
12 16 (1.31%) PL/SQL
13 15 (1.23%) Bicep
14 12 (0.99%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.82%) TypeScript
16 7 (0.58%) SAS Macro
17 5 (0.41%) Go
17 5 (0.41%) Korn
18 3 (0.25%) Kusto Query Language
19 2 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 231 (18.98%) Security Cleared
2 206 (16.93%) SC Cleared
3 78 (6.41%) Degree
4 34 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.55%) Azure Certification
6 25 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 20 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.15%) DBS Check
9 12 (0.99%) AWS Certification
10 11 (0.90%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.58%) 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%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 1 (0.082%) OCP
15 1 (0.082%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 331 (27.20%) Data Quality
2 81 (6.66%) GDPR
3 63 (5.18%) QA
4 12 (0.99%) 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 (9.37%) 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 (12.41%) Terraform
2 102 (8.38%) 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
1 305 (25.06%) Databricks
2 203 (16.68%) Microsoft
3 59 (4.85%) Informatica
4 54 (4.44%) Google
5 48 (3.94%) Oracle
6 26 (2.14%) OpenAI
7 25 (2.05%) Talend
8 23 (1.89%) SAP
9 22 (1.81%) Foundry
10 19 (1.56%) Splunk
11 17 (1.40%) Palantir
12 16 (1.31%) Cloudera
13 12 (0.99%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.82%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.74%) UiPath
16 8 (0.66%) Automation Anywhere
16 8 (0.66%) Denodo
17 7 (0.58%) InterSystems
18 5 (0.41%) Workday
19 4 (0.33%) Alteryx