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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 154 206
Rank change year-on-year +70 +52 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1,269 450 443
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 1.82% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 2.00% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 891 308 333
10th Percentile £390 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 13
10th Percentile £52.90 £24.75 £30.55
25th Percentile £65.00 £28.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.96 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.67% -19.67% -36.81%
75th Percentile £82.31 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £89.25 £58.25 -
UK median hourly rate £69.72 £38.96 £35.00
% change year-on-year +78.95% +11.31% -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 36,403 22,531 32,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.36% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,041 14,566 20,743
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,276 1,039 2,376
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £16.02
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.72% -26.59% +5.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.00 £37.09
% change year-on-year +62.81% -27.20% +5.97%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +62 772 £550 -1.57% 241
North of England +22 159 £475 -5.00% 98
Midlands +26 124 £500 +8.11% 34
West Midlands +27 105 £486 -16.16% 27
South West +34 83 £500 -4.76% 38
South East -26 69 £525 +8.92% 118
Yorkshire -6 68 £480 -4.00% 26
North West -9 57 £500 - 62
North East -2 36 £450 -10.00% 10
East of England -17 24 £575 +54.08% 16
East Midlands -17 16 £525 +13.51% 7
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
1 173 (13.63%) Apache Spark
2 144 (11.35%) Apache Airflow
3 93 (7.33%) Apache
4 37 (2.92%) SAS
5 21 (1.65%) Jupyter
6 20 (1.58%) Confluence
7 16 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.63%) Appian
8 8 (0.63%) SharePoint
9 7 (0.55%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.079%) Camunda
12 1 (0.079%) CICS
12 1 (0.079%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.079%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 21 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.079%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.079%) Notion
5 1 (0.079%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.39%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.16%) Endur
5 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.16%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.16%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.079%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.079%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.079%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 538 (42.40%) Azure
2 486 (38.30%) AWS
3 288 (22.70%) Power Platform
4 171 (13.48%) GCP
5 169 (13.32%) Snowflake
6 163 (12.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 145 (11.43%) Amazon S3
8 142 (11.19%) dbt
9 127 (10.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 119 (9.38%) GitHub
11 114 (8.98%) Azure DevOps
12 110 (8.67%) Serverless
13 94 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
14 71 (5.59%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 33 (2.60%) Amazon EMR
17 28 (2.21%) Azure AI
18 27 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
19 26 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
20 25 (1.97%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.39%) Firewall
1 5 (0.39%) RTP
2 2 (0.16%) Network Security
3 1 (0.079%) 4G
3 1 (0.079%) 5G
3 1 (0.079%) MIMO
3 1 (0.079%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (20.80%) Power BI
2 236 (18.60%) Data Warehouse
3 204 (16.08%) Data Lake
4 110 (8.67%) Metadata
5 89 (7.01%) Amazon Redshift
6 87 (6.86%) Big Data
7 84 (6.62%) Delta Lake
7 84 (6.62%) SQL Server
8 74 (5.83%) BigQuery
9 73 (5.75%) Tableau
10 67 (5.28%) Amazon Athena
11 64 (5.04%) NoSQL
11 64 (5.04%) Snowflake Schema
12 49 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 49 (3.86%) Relational Database
13 44 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
14 38 (2.99%) Hadoop
15 37 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 32 (2.52%) Spark SQL
17 30 (2.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 139 (10.95%) Git
2 67 (5.28%) GitLab
3 46 (3.62%) JIRA
4 34 (2.68%) MLflow
5 22 (1.73%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.39%) Postman
7 5 (0.39%) Selenium
8 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.24%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.24%) Snyk
8 3 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.16%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.16%) ERwin
9 2 (0.16%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.079%) Ant
10 1 (0.079%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.079%) JUnit
10 1 (0.079%) Maven
10 1 (0.079%) SoapUI
General
1 311 (24.51%) Finance
2 301 (23.72%) Social Skills
3 186 (14.66%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 82 (6.46%) Banking
6 30 (2.36%) Marketing
7 29 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (2.29%) Retail
8 24 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (1.34%) Telecoms
10 16 (1.26%) Front Office
11 14 (1.10%) Financial Institution
12 12 (0.95%) Investment Banking
13 10 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.71%) Legal
15 7 (0.55%) Law
15 7 (0.55%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.47%) Military
17 5 (0.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 596 (46.97%) Data Engineer
2 183 (14.42%) Senior
3 141 (11.11%) Lead
4 140 (11.03%) Architect
5 114 (8.98%) Senior Data Engineer
6 70 (5.52%) Data Architect
7 62 (4.89%) Developer
8 61 (4.81%) Lead Data Engineer
9 58 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
10 57 (4.49%) Analyst
11 47 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
12 46 (3.62%) Snowflake Engineer
13 44 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (3.31%) Data Scientist
15 41 (3.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 39 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
17 36 (2.84%) Consultant
18 35 (2.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 34 (2.68%) Azure Data Engineer
20 31 (2.44%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (13.55%) PySpark
2 119 (9.38%) Kafka
3 44 (3.47%) Pandas
4 37 (2.92%) REST
5 33 (2.60%) scikit-learn
6 30 (2.36%) PyTorch
7 28 (2.21%) NumPy
8 26 (2.05%) JSON
9 23 (1.81%) React
9 23 (1.81%) Spring
10 22 (1.73%) TensorFlow
11 17 (1.34%) RESTful
12 16 (1.26%) pytest
12 16 (1.26%) Spring Boot
13 15 (1.18%) FastAPI
13 15 (1.18%) YAML
14 14 (1.10%) Great Expectations
15 13 (1.02%) LangChain
16 12 (0.95%) Django
16 12 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 175 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 50 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
2 50 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
3 45 (3.55%) Data Structures
4 40 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 29 (2.29%) AI Agents
6 27 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 26 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
8 22 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.18%) Algorithms
11 15 (1.18%) NHS
12 14 (1.10%) Clustering
12 14 (1.10%) Fixed Income
13 11 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (0.71%) Equities
14 9 (0.71%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.05%) Linux
2 25 (1.97%) Unix
3 5 (0.39%) VMS
4 3 (0.24%) Windows
5 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.079%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (50.99%) Analytics
2 588 (46.34%) Data Pipeline
3 483 (38.06%) Data Modelling
4 461 (36.33%) ETL
5 456 (35.93%) CI/CD
6 386 (30.42%) AI
7 330 (26.00%) Business Intelligence
8 313 (24.67%) DevOps
9 312 (24.59%) Agile
10 255 (20.09%) Data Governance
11 245 (19.31%) Machine Learning
12 215 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
13 208 (16.39%) Data Science
14 174 (13.71%) Data Architecture
15 172 (13.55%) Decision-Making
16 171 (13.48%) Migration
17 167 (13.16%) Validation
18 150 (11.82%) Infrastructure as Code
19 139 (10.95%) Data Transformation
20 129 (10.17%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 698 (55.00%) SQL
2 672 (52.96%) Python
3 104 (8.20%) Java
4 41 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 41 (3.23%) Scala
5 32 (2.52%) C#
6 28 (2.21%) Bash
7 25 (1.97%) T-SQL
8 22 (1.73%) PowerShell
9 18 (1.42%) JavaScript
9 18 (1.42%) R
10 17 (1.34%) Bicep
10 17 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 11 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 11 (0.87%) TypeScript
12 10 (0.79%) SAS Macro
13 5 (0.39%) Korn
14 4 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.16%) Go
15 2 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 244 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 217 (17.10%) SC Cleared
3 77 (6.07%) Degree
4 35 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 17 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.02%) DBS Check
10 12 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (0.39%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.16%) PhD
13 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.16%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.079%) CCSP
14 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.079%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (27.90%) Data Quality
2 82 (6.46%) GDPR
3 63 (4.96%) QA
4 10 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (0.79%) SLA
5 5 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.32%) MiFID
6 4 (0.32%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.24%) GRC
7 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.24%) NIST
8 2 (0.16%) EMIR
8 2 (0.16%) GxP
8 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.16%) PMO
9 1 (0.079%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.079%) Basel II
9 1 (0.079%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 117 (9.22%) Docker
2 3 (0.24%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 180 (14.18%) Terraform
2 102 (8.04%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.73%) Prometheus
4 12 (0.95%) Grafana
5 9 (0.71%) Ansible
6 3 (0.24%) Argo
6 3 (0.24%) Kibana
6 3 (0.24%) Nagios
6 3 (0.24%) Rancher
7 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.16%) logstash
7 2 (0.16%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 1 (0.079%) Control-M
8 1 (0.079%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.079%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.079%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (0.079%) Oozie
Vendors
1 305 (24.03%) Databricks
2 216 (17.02%) Microsoft
3 66 (5.20%) Informatica
4 52 (4.10%) Oracle
5 51 (4.02%) Google
6 26 (2.05%) OpenAI
6 26 (2.05%) Talend
7 24 (1.89%) Foundry
7 24 (1.89%) SAP
8 21 (1.65%) Splunk
9 19 (1.50%) Palantir
10 15 (1.18%) Cloudera
10 15 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.18%) ServiceNow
11 10 (0.79%) Trend Micro
12 9 (0.71%) UiPath
13 8 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (0.63%) Denodo
14 7 (0.55%) InterSystems
15 5 (0.39%) Workday