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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 150 200
Rank change year-on-year +67 +50 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1,262 449 435
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 1.84% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 2.01% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 886 308 327
10th Percentile £400 £400 £370
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -3.79% -10.40%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 13
10th Percentile £52.90 £22.65 £30.55
25th Percentile £65.00 £25.37 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £34.48 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +103.02% -28.91% -36.81%
75th Percentile £82.31 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £89.25 £57.13 -
UK median hourly rate £69.72 £34.48 £35.00
% change year-on-year +102.20% -1.49% -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 36,262 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,961 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -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 2,273 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -4.35% 241
North of England +14 154 £475 -5.00% 91
Midlands +12 125 £500 +8.11% 29
West Midlands +22 105 £486 -16.16% 27
South West +34 83 £500 -4.76% 32
Yorkshire -5 68 £480 +3.78% 24
South East -23 68 £525 +8.92% 113
North West -14 55 £496 -0.80% 54
North East 0 33 £450 -10.00% 13
East of England -15 22 £575 +54.08% 12
East Midlands -20 17 £525 +13.51% 2
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
1 174 (13.79%) Apache Spark
2 140 (11.09%) Apache Airflow
3 91 (7.21%) Apache
4 35 (2.77%) SAS
5 19 (1.51%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.35%) Confluence
7 16 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.63%) Appian
9 7 (0.55%) Apache Superset
9 7 (0.55%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.32%) 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 22 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.16%) Trello
5 1 (0.079%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.40%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.40%) BambooHR
1 5 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.16%) Endur
3 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
3 2 (0.16%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.079%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.079%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.079%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.079%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 534 (42.31%) Azure
2 481 (38.11%) AWS
3 286 (22.66%) Power Platform
4 172 (13.63%) GCP
5 166 (13.15%) Azure Data Factory
5 166 (13.15%) Snowflake
6 142 (11.25%) Amazon S3
7 139 (11.01%) dbt
8 128 (10.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 118 (9.35%) GitHub
10 112 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
11 105 (8.32%) Serverless
12 90 (7.13%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (2.85%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (2.30%) Amazon EMR
16 28 (2.22%) AWS Step Functions
17 26 (2.06%) Azure AI
17 26 (2.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 25 (1.98%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.40%) RTP
2 4 (0.32%) Firewall
3 1 (0.079%) 4G
3 1 (0.079%) 5G
3 1 (0.079%) MIMO
3 1 (0.079%) MQTT
3 1 (0.079%) Network Security
3 1 (0.079%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (20.84%) Power BI
2 230 (18.23%) Data Warehouse
3 205 (16.24%) Data Lake
4 106 (8.40%) Metadata
5 87 (6.89%) Big Data
6 84 (6.66%) Delta Lake
6 84 (6.66%) SQL Server
7 83 (6.58%) Amazon Redshift
8 75 (5.94%) Tableau
9 73 (5.78%) BigQuery
10 66 (5.23%) NoSQL
11 64 (5.07%) Amazon Athena
12 62 (4.91%) Snowflake Schema
13 51 (4.04%) Azure SQL Database
14 50 (3.96%) Relational Database
15 45 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
16 38 (3.01%) Hadoop
17 36 (2.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 32 (2.54%) Spark SQL
19 29 (2.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 137 (10.86%) Git
2 63 (4.99%) GitLab
3 43 (3.41%) JIRA
4 34 (2.69%) MLflow
5 23 (1.82%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.48%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.40%) Postman
7 5 (0.40%) 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
1 314 (24.88%) Finance
2 295 (23.38%) Social Skills
3 181 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (9.90%) Public Sector
5 82 (6.50%) Banking
6 31 (2.46%) Marketing
7 29 (2.30%) Retail
8 26 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (1.51%) Front Office
11 16 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.03%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.79%) Legal
16 7 (0.55%) Back Office
16 7 (0.55%) Law
16 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.48%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 592 (46.91%) Data Engineer
2 181 (14.34%) Senior
3 139 (11.01%) Lead
4 135 (10.70%) Architect
5 112 (8.87%) Senior Data Engineer
6 68 (5.39%) Data Architect
7 65 (5.15%) Developer
8 60 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
9 58 (4.60%) Analyst
9 58 (4.60%) Lead Data Engineer
10 48 (3.80%) AWS Data Engineer
11 45 (3.57%) Snowflake Engineer
12 44 (3.49%) Data Scientist
13 43 (3.41%) Azure Engineer
14 42 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
15 40 (3.17%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 37 (2.93%) Azure Data Engineer
17 36 (2.85%) Consultant
18 35 (2.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 31 (2.46%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 170 (13.47%) PySpark
2 123 (9.75%) Kafka
3 46 (3.65%) Pandas
4 38 (3.01%) REST
5 34 (2.69%) scikit-learn
6 31 (2.46%) PyTorch
7 29 (2.30%) NumPy
8 27 (2.14%) JSON
9 24 (1.90%) React
10 23 (1.82%) Spring
10 23 (1.82%) TensorFlow
11 17 (1.35%) RESTful
12 16 (1.27%) pytest
12 16 (1.27%) Spring Boot
13 15 (1.19%) FastAPI
13 15 (1.19%) Great Expectations
13 15 (1.19%) YAML
14 14 (1.11%) LangChain
15 12 (0.95%) Node.js
15 12 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 174 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 49 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
4 43 (3.41%) Data Structures
5 40 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 26 (2.06%) Distributed Computing
8 24 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 22 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 19 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.27%) Algorithms
13 14 (1.11%) Clustering
13 14 (1.11%) Fixed Income
13 14 (1.11%) NHS
14 11 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.79%) Equities
15 10 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
16 9 (0.71%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.06%) Linux
2 25 (1.98%) Unix
3 5 (0.40%) VMS
4 3 (0.24%) Windows
5 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.079%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (51.11%) Analytics
2 590 (46.75%) Data Pipeline
3 478 (37.88%) Data Modelling
4 458 (36.29%) ETL
5 447 (35.42%) CI/CD
6 382 (30.27%) AI
7 328 (25.99%) Business Intelligence
8 310 (24.56%) Agile
9 307 (24.33%) DevOps
10 254 (20.13%) Data Governance
11 243 (19.26%) Machine Learning
12 213 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
13 209 (16.56%) Data Science
14 174 (13.79%) Data Architecture
15 170 (13.47%) Decision-Making
16 167 (13.23%) Migration
17 164 (13.00%) Validation
18 142 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
19 137 (10.86%) Data Transformation
20 128 (10.14%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 696 (55.15%) SQL
2 669 (53.01%) Python
3 104 (8.24%) Java
4 44 (3.49%) Scala
5 41 (3.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 35 (2.77%) C#
7 28 (2.22%) Bash
8 24 (1.90%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 19 (1.51%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.35%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.35%) R
11 15 (1.19%) Bicep
12 11 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.87%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.63%) SAS Macro
14 5 (0.40%) Korn
15 4 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.24%) Go
17 2 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 239 (18.94%) Security Cleared
2 212 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 77 (6.10%) Degree
4 34 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.38%) Azure Certification
6 25 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 15 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 12 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 11 (0.87%) DV Cleared
11 8 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.32%) SnowPro
13 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 3 (0.24%) PhD
14 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.16%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.079%) Cisco Certification
15 1 (0.079%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 349 (27.65%) Data Quality
2 82 (6.50%) GDPR
3 63 (4.99%) QA
4 10 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (0.79%) SLA
5 5 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.40%) 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
7 3 (0.24%) PMO
8 2 (0.16%) EMIR
8 2 (0.16%) GxP
8 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.079%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.079%) Basel II
9 1 (0.079%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 114 (9.03%) Docker
2 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.16%) HDFS
4 1 (0.079%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 173 (13.71%) Terraform
2 101 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.74%) Prometheus
4 10 (0.79%) Grafana
5 9 (0.71%) Ansible
6 4 (0.32%) Argo
7 3 (0.24%) Kibana
7 3 (0.24%) Nagios
7 3 (0.24%) Rancher
8 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.16%) logstash
8 2 (0.16%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.079%) Control-M
9 1 (0.079%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.079%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.079%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.079%) Oozie
Vendors
1 310 (24.56%) Databricks
2 210 (16.64%) Microsoft
3 63 (4.99%) Informatica
4 52 (4.12%) Google
5 51 (4.04%) Oracle
6 26 (2.06%) OpenAI
6 26 (2.06%) Talend
7 24 (1.90%) Foundry
8 23 (1.82%) SAP
9 19 (1.51%) Splunk
10 18 (1.43%) Palantir
11 15 (1.19%) Cloudera
12 14 (1.11%) Salesforce
13 12 (0.95%) ServiceNow
14 9 (0.71%) UiPath
15 8 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
15 8 (0.63%) Denodo
15 8 (0.63%) Trend Micro
16 7 (0.55%) InterSystems
17 5 (0.40%) Workday