Data Engineering Contracts in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 202 196 233
Rank change year-on-year -6 +37 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 423 702 894
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.14% 1.39% 1.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.54% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 479 613
10th Percentile £402 £453 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £700
90th Percentile £750 £800 £785
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 5
10th Percentile £30.46 £19.00 £37.98
25th Percentile £34.06 £27.36 -
Median hourly rate £38.65 £73.00 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% +29.20% +21.01%
75th Percentile £60.00 £76.88 £64.75
90th Percentile - £78.90 £80.44
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £54.25 £56.50
% change year-on-year -35.48% -3.98% +47.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 -14 257 £586 -6.57% 183
South East +3 46 £550 +4.76% 28
North of England +25 42 £533 -3.18% 40
Midlands +20 39 £583 +7.96% 24
West Midlands +17 25 £642 +18.87% 14
Yorkshire +21 21 £600 +23.08% 6
North West +6 19 £510 -11.30% 27
East Midlands +28 14 £550 -4.35% 10
South West +6 9 £491 -25.43% 15
East of England +13 7 £525 +7.69% 10
North East +20 2 £423 -32.32% 7
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 44 (10.40%) Apache Spark
2 38 (8.98%) Apache
3 31 (7.33%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.65%) Confluence
5 6 (1.42%) Tornado
6 3 (0.71%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.47%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.24%) Sketch
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle Utilities
2 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 164 (38.77%) Azure
2 136 (32.15%) AWS
3 62 (14.66%) GCP
4 54 (12.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 51 (12.06%) Power Platform
6 40 (9.46%) Serverless
7 38 (8.98%) Snowflake
8 34 (8.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 28 (6.62%) Amazon S3
10 21 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (3.55%) Amazon EMR
11 15 (3.55%) Azure Functions
11 15 (3.55%) dbt
12 13 (3.07%) Azure Key Vault
12 13 (3.07%) GitHub
13 12 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
14 11 (2.60%) Amazon Kinesis
15 9 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.73%) TCP/IP
2 18 (4.26%) SAN
3 17 (4.02%) Network Security
4 15 (3.55%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.18%) FTP
6 2 (0.47%) AMQP
6 2 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.47%) DHCP
6 2 (0.47%) DMZ
6 2 (0.47%) DNS
6 2 (0.47%) Firewall
6 2 (0.47%) HTTP
6 2 (0.47%) Modbus
6 2 (0.47%) MQTT
6 2 (0.47%) OSPF
6 2 (0.47%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (22.70%) Data Warehouse
2 74 (17.49%) Data Lake
3 65 (15.37%) Big Data
4 51 (12.06%) Power BI
5 28 (6.62%) SQL Server
6 24 (5.67%) Azure SQL Database
7 23 (5.44%) BigQuery
8 22 (5.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 22 (5.20%) Flink
9 18 (4.26%) Tableau
10 17 (4.02%) Delta Lake
10 17 (4.02%) Metadata
11 16 (3.78%) NoSQL
12 15 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
12 15 (3.55%) Spark SQL
13 14 (3.31%) Hadoop
14 12 (2.84%) Relational Database
15 8 (1.89%) Data Mart
15 8 (1.89%) Star Schema
16 7 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 31 (7.33%) JIRA
2 23 (5.44%) Git
3 5 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.71%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.47%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.47%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.24%) Deequ
6 1 (0.24%) MLflow
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 81 (19.15%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (15.84%) Finance
4 40 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.73%) Banking
6 14 (3.31%) Retail
7 13 (3.07%) Marketing
7 13 (3.07%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.18%) Law
10 5 (1.18%) Legal
10 5 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Back Office
11 4 (0.95%) Front Office
11 4 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.71%) Advertising
12 3 (0.71%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 218 (51.54%) Data Engineer
2 54 (12.77%) Developer
3 50 (11.82%) Azure Engineer
3 50 (11.82%) Senior
4 41 (9.69%) Lead
5 38 (8.98%) Azure Data Engineer
6 35 (8.27%) Python Developer
7 34 (8.04%) Senior Data Engineer
8 31 (7.33%) AWS Engineer
9 26 (6.15%) AWS Data Engineer
10 25 (5.91%) Architect
11 23 (5.44%) Lead Data Engineer
12 20 (4.73%) Analyst
12 20 (4.73%) Data Architect
13 17 (4.02%) Consultant
14 11 (2.60%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 10 (2.36%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (2.36%) Python Engineer
16 9 (2.13%) Data Consultant
17 8 (1.89%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (13.00%) PySpark
2 48 (11.35%) Kafka
3 20 (4.73%) Apache NiFi
4 14 (3.31%) XML
5 13 (3.07%) FastAPI
6 12 (2.84%) Flask
7 11 (2.60%) JSON
8 10 (2.36%) Node.js
8 10 (2.36%) Pandas
8 10 (2.36%) React
9 9 (2.13%) .NET
10 8 (1.89%) pytest
10 8 (1.89%) RESTful
11 6 (1.42%) Bokeh
11 6 (1.42%) Django
11 6 (1.42%) OAuth
11 6 (1.42%) OAuth2
11 6 (1.42%) PyTorch
12 5 (1.18%) Hugging Face
12 5 (1.18%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.55%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (3.55%) Distributed Applications
2 11 (2.60%) Data Structures
2 11 (2.60%) Management Information System
3 9 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 9 (2.13%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.89%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.18%) Market Risk
5 5 (1.18%) Smart Meter
6 4 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (0.95%) Onboarding
6 4 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.71%) Fixed Income
7 3 (0.71%) FMCG
7 3 (0.71%) NHS
7 3 (0.71%) Reference Data
7 3 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (0.71%) Solar Panel
8 2 (0.47%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.75%) Linux
2 19 (4.49%) Windows
3 18 (4.26%) Debian
3 18 (4.26%) Ubuntu
4 16 (3.78%) Unix
5 13 (3.07%) Android
5 13 (3.07%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (34.99%) Analytics
2 145 (34.28%) Data Modelling
3 139 (32.86%) ETL
4 130 (30.73%) Data Pipeline
5 123 (29.08%) Agile
6 86 (20.33%) Business Intelligence
7 81 (19.15%) CI/CD
8 73 (17.26%) DevOps
9 60 (14.18%) Data Science
10 59 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (13.95%) Visualisation
11 53 (12.53%) Data Management
12 51 (12.06%) Data Analysis
12 51 (12.06%) Data Integration
13 50 (11.82%) Data Governance
14 42 (9.93%) Software Engineering
15 40 (9.46%) Data Visualisation
16 36 (8.51%) Machine Learning
17 32 (7.57%) Computer Science
18 29 (6.86%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 226 (53.43%) Python
2 220 (52.01%) SQL
3 42 (9.93%) Java
4 33 (7.80%) Scala
5 19 (4.49%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.31%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.07%) C#
7 13 (3.07%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 9 (2.13%) R
10 6 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.95%) Perl
11 4 (0.95%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.71%) C++
13 2 (0.47%) Go
13 2 (0.47%) Groovy
13 2 (0.47%) XPath
13 2 (0.47%) XQuery
14 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 110 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 89 (21.04%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.75%) Degree
4 31 (7.33%) DV Cleared
5 20 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.65%) Azure Certification
6 7 (1.65%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.47%) CCDP
7 2 (0.47%) CCNP
7 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.47%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.47%) PhD
8 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.53%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (1.42%) QA
4 5 (1.18%) GDPR
5 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.47%) IFRS
5 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) GxP
6 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 23 (5.44%) Docker
2 3 (0.71%) HDFS
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.91%) Terraform
3 3 (0.71%) Ansible
4 2 (0.47%) Grafana
5 1 (0.24%) Kibana
5 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.24%) Matomo
5 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 92 (21.75%) Databricks
2 55 (13.00%) Microsoft
3 28 (6.62%) Red Hat
4 26 (6.15%) Google
4 26 (6.15%) Oracle
5 18 (4.26%) VMware
6 15 (3.55%) Informatica
7 14 (3.31%) Talend
8 13 (3.07%) SAP
9 10 (2.36%) Foundry
9 10 (2.36%) Palantir
10 5 (1.18%) Ab Initio
10 5 (1.18%) Confluent
11 4 (0.95%) IBM
12 2 (0.47%) Aruba
12 2 (0.47%) Cadence
12 2 (0.47%) Cisco
12 2 (0.47%) ESRI
12 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
12 2 (0.47%) SnapLogic