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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 201 193
Rank change year-on-year +47 -8 +64
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 494 449 628
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.89% 1.20% 1.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 1.40% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 330 417
10th Percentile £383 £375 £454
25th Percentile £450 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.39% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £755
90th Percentile £825 £775 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 21
10th Percentile £24.75 £30.55 £19.00
25th Percentile £28.13 £35.00 £34.25
Median hourly rate £38.96 £48.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.67% -37.82% +56.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £82.50
90th Percentile £58.25 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £38.96 £35.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +11.31% -52.05% +46.00%

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 23,765 31,961 42,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.03% 85.51% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,278 20,746 29,768
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,187 2,306 1,553
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £75.82
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +53 328 £550 -8.33% 1,900
North of England +9 52 £500 -1.96% 421
South East +35 33 £500 +1.83% 355
Midlands -1 30 £463 -26.00% 232
North West +2 25 £500 -1.96% 226
Yorkshire +7 22 £463 -7.50% 153
South West +40 19 £563 +25.00% 191
West Midlands -15 16 £580 -8.48% 128
East of England +28 15 £336 -44.05% 157
East Midlands +8 11 £463 -15.91% 103
North East - 5 £500 - 42
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 80 (16.19%) Apache Airflow
2 74 (14.98%) Apache Spark
3 56 (11.34%) Apache
4 7 (1.42%) Confluence
5 4 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.61%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.61%) Luigi
7 1 (0.20%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) nginx
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 16 (3.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.40%) Maple
3 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.20%) CATIA
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.81%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.40%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.20%) Endur
4 1 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 219 (44.33%) Azure
2 202 (40.89%) AWS
3 108 (21.86%) GCP
4 102 (20.65%) Power Platform
5 74 (14.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 73 (14.78%) dbt
7 60 (12.15%) Serverless
8 56 (11.34%) Snowflake
9 48 (9.72%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (9.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 44 (8.91%) Azure DevOps
12 42 (8.50%) GitHub
13 35 (7.09%) Amazon S3
14 22 (4.45%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (3.44%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (3.44%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (3.44%) OpenShift
16 14 (2.83%) Azure Machine Learning
16 14 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
17 12 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.21%) SAN
2 5 (1.01%) Firewall
2 5 (1.01%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.01%) VPN
3 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.20%) Network Security
3 1 (0.20%) SSL
3 1 (0.20%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (23.68%) Data Warehouse
2 99 (20.04%) Power BI
3 75 (15.18%) Data Lake
4 62 (12.55%) Big Data
5 43 (8.70%) Metadata
6 42 (8.50%) BigQuery
7 38 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
8 35 (7.09%) Tableau
9 33 (6.68%) NoSQL
10 30 (6.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 29 (5.87%) Delta Lake
11 29 (5.87%) Relational Database
12 28 (5.67%) Hadoop
13 22 (4.45%) Dremio
13 22 (4.45%) SQL Server
14 20 (4.05%) Apache Iceberg
15 19 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
16 18 (3.64%) Snowflake Schema
17 17 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 46 (9.31%) Git
2 19 (3.85%) JIRA
3 15 (3.04%) Artifactory
4 14 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.42%) MLflow
6 4 (0.81%) GitLab
6 4 (0.81%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.61%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.40%) PROIV
9 1 (0.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.20%) ERwin
9 1 (0.20%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 141 (28.54%) Finance
2 140 (28.34%) Social Skills
3 78 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (11.94%) Banking
5 37 (7.49%) Public Sector
6 34 (6.88%) Investment Banking
7 32 (6.48%) Front Office
8 14 (2.83%) Retail
9 13 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (2.43%) Marketing
10 12 (2.43%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (2.23%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.62%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.01%) Automotive
13 5 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (1.01%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.01%) Military
13 5 (1.01%) Police
14 4 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 246 (49.80%) Data Engineer
2 69 (13.97%) Senior
3 53 (10.73%) Architect
4 50 (10.12%) Developer
5 49 (9.92%) Senior Data Engineer
6 42 (8.50%) Lead
7 40 (8.10%) Azure Engineer
8 38 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
9 36 (7.29%) Azure Data Engineer
10 33 (6.68%) Python Engineer
11 27 (5.47%) Data Architect
11 27 (5.47%) Python Developer
12 23 (4.66%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (4.45%) AWS Data Engineer
14 21 (4.25%) Analyst
15 18 (3.64%) AWS DevOps
15 18 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 18 (3.64%) Lead Data Engineer
16 16 (3.24%) Python Data Engineer
17 14 (2.83%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (16.19%) PySpark
2 69 (13.97%) Kafka
3 30 (6.07%) Pandas
4 29 (5.87%) NumPy
5 24 (4.86%) React
6 21 (4.25%) SciPy
7 19 (3.85%) AngularJS
8 18 (3.64%) FastAPI
9 16 (3.24%) Flask
9 16 (3.24%) Polars
9 16 (3.24%) Vue
10 15 (3.04%) J2EE
11 10 (2.02%) TensorFlow
12 9 (1.82%) PyTorch
13 8 (1.62%) Jinja
14 7 (1.42%) ARM Templates
15 6 (1.21%) Play Framework
15 6 (1.21%) scikit-learn
15 6 (1.21%) XGBoost
16 5 (1.01%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.28%) Cloud Native
2 19 (3.85%) Algorithms
2 19 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (3.04%) Hedge funds
4 11 (2.23%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
5 10 (2.02%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.02%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.62%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.62%) Fixed Income
6 8 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.42%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.01%) Distributed Computing
9 5 (1.01%) Equities
9 5 (1.01%) Replication
10 4 (0.81%) Data Fabric
10 4 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.81%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 35 (7.09%) Linux
2 6 (1.21%) Debian
2 6 (1.21%) Ubuntu
2 6 (1.21%) Windows
3 4 (0.81%) Unix
3 4 (0.81%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.20%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (41.50%) ETL
2 194 (39.27%) Data Pipeline
3 191 (38.66%) Analytics
4 163 (33.00%) Data Modelling
5 153 (30.97%) CI/CD
6 142 (28.74%) Agile
7 128 (25.91%) Business Intelligence
8 122 (24.70%) DevOps
9 104 (21.05%) Data Governance
10 98 (19.84%) Data Science
11 94 (19.03%) Machine Learning
12 92 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
13 84 (17.00%) Artificial Intelligence
14 78 (15.79%) Visualisation
15 76 (15.38%) Data Integration
16 72 (14.57%) Decision-Making
17 61 (12.35%) Software Engineering
18 51 (10.32%) Data Visualisation
19 49 (9.92%) Data Architecture
19 49 (9.92%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 312 (63.16%) Python
2 258 (52.23%) SQL
3 84 (17.00%) Java
4 61 (12.35%) Scala
5 25 (5.06%) JavaScript
6 19 (3.85%) C#
6 19 (3.85%) C++
7 15 (3.04%) Go
8 14 (2.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 14 (2.83%) Rust
9 12 (2.43%) R
10 10 (2.02%) Bicep
11 8 (1.62%) TypeScript
12 7 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.81%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.20%) CodeQL
15 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.20%) LookML
Qualifications
1 76 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 55 (11.13%) SC Cleared
3 44 (8.91%) Degree
4 21 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (4.05%) Azure Certification
6 16 (3.24%) AWS Certification
7 15 (3.04%) DV Cleared
8 13 (2.63%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.21%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.21%) PMP
11 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (0.40%) SnowPro
14 1 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.20%) IBM Certification
14 1 (0.20%) MCP
14 1 (0.20%) PhD
14 1 (0.20%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (24.09%) Data Quality
2 18 (3.64%) GDPR
3 16 (3.24%) QA
4 15 (3.04%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.81%) NIST
6 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.61%) PMO
7 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) GRC
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 69 (13.97%) Docker
2 4 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.61%) HDFS
4 1 (0.20%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 101 (20.45%) Terraform
2 72 (14.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.01%) Grafana
4 3 (0.61%) Ansible
4 3 (0.61%) Kibana
4 3 (0.61%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.61%) logstash
4 3 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.40%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.20%) Control-M
6 1 (0.20%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.20%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 133 (26.92%) Databricks
2 70 (14.17%) Microsoft
3 44 (8.91%) Google
4 23 (4.66%) Oracle
5 17 (3.44%) Informatica
6 11 (2.23%) SAP
7 10 (2.02%) Palantir
8 8 (1.62%) Talend
9 7 (1.42%) IBM
9 7 (1.42%) VMware
10 6 (1.21%) Foundry
10 6 (1.21%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.21%) Splunk
11 5 (1.01%) MicroStrategy
11 5 (1.01%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.81%) StreamSets
12 4 (0.81%) Virgin Media
13 3 (0.61%) Dataiku
13 3 (0.61%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.61%) Wallstreet Suite