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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 152 201
Rank change year-on-year +73 +49 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1,322 494 449
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.01% 1.89% 1.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 2.08% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 334 330
10th Percentile £388 £383 £375
25th Percentile £449 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.33% -8.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £697
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 13
10th Percentile £53.45 £24.75 £30.55
25th Percentile £63.75 £28.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.96 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.67% -19.67% -37.82%
75th Percentile £80.88 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £89.00 £58.25 -
UK median hourly rate £69.44 £38.96 £35.00
% change year-on-year +78.23% +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 37,490 23,760 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.05% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,605 15,276 20,748
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,184 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +57 779 £550 - 404
North of England +23 171 £475 -5.00% 121
Midlands +31 141 £475 +2.70% 53
West Midlands +31 118 £469 -19.14% 35
South West +30 81 £500 -11.11% 43
South East -14 79 £525 +5.00% 127
Yorkshire +1 76 £490 +5.95% 30
North West -9 58 £500 - 66
North East -3 39 £413 -17.50% 26
East of England -11 26 £575 +71.29% 12
East Midlands -5 20 £525 +13.51% 18
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 (13.24%) Apache Spark
2 151 (11.42%) Apache Airflow
3 100 (7.56%) Apache
4 41 (3.10%) SAS
5 23 (1.74%) Confluence
5 23 (1.74%) Jupyter
6 18 (1.36%) Palantir Foundry
7 12 (0.91%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.53%) Apache Superset
9 5 (0.38%) Appian
9 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.076%) Camunda
11 1 (0.076%) CICS
11 1 (0.076%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.076%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 22 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.076%) Notion
6 1 (0.076%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (0.45%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.38%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.30%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.30%) Sage X3
3 4 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.15%) Endur
4 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.076%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.076%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.076%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 569 (43.04%) Azure
2 516 (39.03%) AWS
3 288 (21.79%) Power Platform
4 185 (13.99%) Snowflake
5 182 (13.77%) GCP
6 155 (11.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 153 (11.57%) dbt
8 151 (11.42%) Amazon S3
9 125 (9.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 114 (8.62%) Serverless
11 112 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
12 109 (8.25%) GitHub
13 97 (7.34%) AWS Lambda
14 65 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (2.87%) Amazon EMR
16 32 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
17 31 (2.34%) Azure AI
18 28 (2.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 27 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
19 27 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.38%) Firewall
1 5 (0.38%) RTP
2 2 (0.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.076%) 4G
3 1 (0.076%) 5G
3 1 (0.076%) MIMO
3 1 (0.076%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (19.82%) Power BI
2 248 (18.76%) Data Warehouse
3 193 (14.60%) Data Lake
4 121 (9.15%) Metadata
5 96 (7.26%) Amazon Redshift
6 90 (6.81%) Big Data
7 87 (6.58%) Delta Lake
8 83 (6.28%) BigQuery
9 80 (6.05%) Tableau
10 74 (5.60%) SQL Server
11 67 (5.07%) NoSQL
12 63 (4.77%) Amazon Athena
13 59 (4.46%) Snowflake Schema
14 51 (3.86%) Relational Database
15 48 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
16 41 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
17 38 (2.87%) Hadoop
18 33 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 32 (2.42%) Star Schema
20 25 (1.89%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 140 (10.59%) Git
2 67 (5.07%) GitLab
3 51 (3.86%) JIRA
4 34 (2.57%) MLflow
5 19 (1.44%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.30%) Postman
7 4 (0.30%) Selenium
8 3 (0.23%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.23%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.23%) Snyk
8 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.15%) ERwin
9 2 (0.15%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.15%) Yeoman
10 1 (0.076%) Ant
10 1 (0.076%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.076%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.076%) JUnit
10 1 (0.076%) Maven
General
1 326 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 324 (24.51%) Finance
3 206 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 148 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 94 (7.11%) Banking
6 35 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 35 (2.65%) Marketing
7 31 (2.34%) Retail
8 28 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
9 20 (1.51%) Telecoms
10 17 (1.29%) Front Office
11 16 (1.21%) Investment Banking
12 14 (1.06%) Financial Institution
13 13 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 11 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.76%) Legal
16 9 (0.68%) Law
17 8 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.53%) Billing
19 4 (0.30%) Military
Job Titles
1 609 (46.07%) Data Engineer
2 192 (14.52%) Senior
3 153 (11.57%) Architect
4 149 (11.27%) Lead
5 113 (8.55%) Senior Data Engineer
6 84 (6.35%) Data Architect
7 74 (5.60%) Developer
8 62 (4.69%) AWS Engineer
9 61 (4.61%) Analyst
9 61 (4.61%) Lead Data Engineer
10 51 (3.86%) AWS Data Engineer
11 46 (3.48%) Data Scientist
12 45 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
13 44 (3.33%) Snowflake Engineer
14 43 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
15 39 (2.95%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 38 (2.87%) Azure Data Engineer
16 38 (2.87%) Consultant
17 35 (2.65%) Data Analyst
18 34 (2.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (14.37%) PySpark
2 124 (9.38%) Kafka
3 40 (3.03%) REST
4 38 (2.87%) Pandas
5 30 (2.27%) JSON
5 30 (2.27%) scikit-learn
6 25 (1.89%) NumPy
6 25 (1.89%) PyTorch
6 25 (1.89%) Spring
7 24 (1.82%) React
8 18 (1.36%) Spring Boot
8 18 (1.36%) TensorFlow
9 17 (1.29%) .NET
10 15 (1.13%) OpenTelemetry
10 15 (1.13%) YAML
11 14 (1.06%) RESTful
12 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Graph
12 13 (0.98%) XML
13 12 (0.91%) Apache Avro
13 12 (0.91%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 181 (13.69%) Cloud Native
2 54 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 52 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (3.86%) Data Structures
5 40 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 33 (2.50%) AI Agents
7 32 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 26 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
9 22 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.59%) NHS
11 19 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
12 17 (1.29%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.06%) Clustering
13 14 (1.06%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.06%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.91%) Management Information System
14 12 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
16 10 (0.76%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.12%) Linux
2 25 (1.89%) Unix
3 5 (0.38%) VMS
4 3 (0.23%) Windows
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.076%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 683 (51.66%) Analytics
2 626 (47.35%) Data Pipeline
3 501 (37.90%) Data Modelling
4 477 (36.08%) CI/CD
5 463 (35.02%) ETL
6 393 (29.73%) AI
7 337 (25.49%) Agile
8 333 (25.19%) Business Intelligence
9 321 (24.28%) DevOps
10 271 (20.50%) Data Governance
11 254 (19.21%) Machine Learning
12 231 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
13 223 (16.87%) Data Science
14 188 (14.22%) Validation
15 187 (14.15%) Decision-Making
15 187 (14.15%) Migration
16 185 (13.99%) Data Architecture
17 166 (12.56%) Infrastructure as Code
18 157 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
19 151 (11.42%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 718 (54.31%) SQL
2 697 (52.72%) Python
3 114 (8.62%) Java
4 43 (3.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (2.95%) Scala
6 35 (2.65%) C#
7 31 (2.34%) Bash
8 23 (1.74%) PowerShell
8 23 (1.74%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.51%) R
10 17 (1.29%) Bicep
11 15 (1.13%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.98%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.91%) SAS Macro
14 6 (0.45%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.38%) Cypher
15 5 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 253 (19.14%) Security Cleared
2 223 (16.87%) SC Cleared
3 92 (6.96%) Degree
4 43 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (2.12%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.12%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.36%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.06%) DV Cleared
9 13 (0.98%) DBS Check
10 8 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 6 (0.45%) SnowPro
13 5 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.23%) PhD
14 3 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
15 2 (0.15%) CSPO
15 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
16 1 (0.076%) CISSP
16 1 (0.076%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 379 (28.67%) Data Quality
2 82 (6.20%) GDPR
3 65 (4.92%) QA
4 12 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.76%) SLA
6 6 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.30%) MiFID
8 4 (0.30%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.23%) GRC
9 3 (0.23%) GxP
9 3 (0.23%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 3 (0.23%) NIST
10 2 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.15%) EMIR
10 2 (0.15%) PMO
11 1 (0.076%) Basel II
System Software
1 123 (9.30%) Docker
2 3 (0.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 186 (14.07%) Terraform
2 106 (8.02%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.74%) Prometheus
4 14 (1.06%) Grafana
5 9 (0.68%) Ansible
6 4 (0.30%) Kibana
7 3 (0.23%) Argo
7 3 (0.23%) Nagios
7 3 (0.23%) Rancher
8 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.15%) logstash
8 2 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.076%) Control-M
9 1 (0.076%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.076%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.076%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.076%) Oozie
Vendors
1 330 (24.96%) Databricks
2 225 (17.02%) Microsoft
3 73 (5.52%) Informatica
4 53 (4.01%) Oracle
5 49 (3.71%) Google
6 29 (2.19%) Foundry
7 27 (2.04%) SAP
8 26 (1.97%) Palantir
8 26 (1.97%) Talend
9 25 (1.89%) OpenAI
10 22 (1.66%) Salesforce
10 22 (1.66%) Splunk
11 15 (1.13%) Cloudera
12 14 (1.06%) ServiceNow
13 12 (0.91%) Trend Micro
14 8 (0.61%) Denodo
15 7 (0.53%) InterSystems
16 6 (0.45%) Alteryx
16 6 (0.45%) Bloomberg
16 6 (0.45%) Workday