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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 155 207
Rank change year-on-year +70 +52 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1,227 449 427
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.91% 1.86% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.42% 2.03% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 308 319
10th Percentile £400 £393 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £681
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 £70.00 £34.48 £35.00
% change year-on-year +103.02% -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 35,884 22,080 31,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 91.32% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,739 14,300 20,579
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,242 984 2,330
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.80 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.52% -23.93% +1.99%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.45 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £74.63 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.76 £36.50
% change year-on-year +58.36% -23.95% +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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +62 749 £550 -4.35% 347
North of England +17 148 £475 -5.00% 123
Midlands +22 126 £500 +8.11% 39
West Midlands +20 105 £498 -1.58% 26
South West +31 76 £500 -4.76% 32
Yorkshire -15 68 £480 +3.78% 32
South East -23 65 £525 +10.53% 116
North West -14 53 £500 - 72
North East -1 29 £438 -12.50% 20
East of England -17 22 £575 +54.08% 17
East Midlands -16 18 £525 +13.51% 13
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 (14.18%) Apache Spark
2 136 (11.08%) Apache Airflow
3 89 (7.25%) Apache
4 34 (2.77%) SAS
5 18 (1.47%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.39%) Confluence
7 15 (1.22%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.65%) Appian
9 7 (0.57%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.41%) SharePoint
11 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
13 1 (0.081%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.081%) Camunda
13 1 (0.081%) CICS
13 1 (0.081%) CMS
13 1 (0.081%) IBM HTTP Server
13 1 (0.081%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 22 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.16%) Trello
5 1 (0.081%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (0.41%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.41%) BambooHR
2 4 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.081%) Endur
5 1 (0.081%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.081%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.081%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 537 (43.77%) Azure
2 459 (37.41%) AWS
3 278 (22.66%) Power Platform
4 174 (14.18%) GCP
5 169 (13.77%) Azure Data Factory
6 160 (13.04%) Snowflake
7 137 (11.17%) dbt
8 131 (10.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 127 (10.35%) Amazon S3
10 117 (9.54%) GitHub
11 110 (8.96%) Azure DevOps
12 92 (7.50%) Serverless
13 77 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
14 70 (5.70%) GitHub Actions
15 34 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (2.28%) Amazon EMR
17 26 (2.12%) AWS Step Functions
17 26 (2.12%) Azure AI
18 25 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 25 (2.04%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.41%) RTP
2 4 (0.33%) Firewall
3 2 (0.16%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.081%) 4G
4 1 (0.081%) 5G
4 1 (0.081%) MIMO
4 1 (0.081%) MQTT
4 1 (0.081%) Network Security
4 1 (0.081%) SMS
4 1 (0.081%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 255 (20.78%) Power BI
2 222 (18.09%) Data Warehouse
3 193 (15.73%) Data Lake
4 104 (8.48%) Metadata
5 86 (7.01%) Big Data
6 84 (6.85%) SQL Server
7 81 (6.60%) Delta Lake
8 74 (6.03%) Tableau
9 72 (5.87%) BigQuery
10 69 (5.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 67 (5.46%) NoSQL
12 62 (5.05%) Snowflake Schema
13 54 (4.40%) Azure SQL Database
14 51 (4.16%) Amazon Athena
15 49 (3.99%) Relational Database
16 43 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
17 40 (3.26%) Hadoop
18 36 (2.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 33 (2.69%) Spark SQL
20 29 (2.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 136 (11.08%) Git
2 65 (5.30%) GitLab
3 44 (3.59%) JIRA
4 33 (2.69%) MLflow
5 24 (1.96%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.49%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.41%) Postman
7 5 (0.41%) 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 (0.081%) Ant
10 1 (0.081%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.081%) JUnit
10 1 (0.081%) Maven
10 1 (0.081%) SoapUI
General
1 312 (25.43%) Finance
2 283 (23.06%) Social Skills
3 181 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (9.37%) Public Sector
5 78 (6.36%) Banking
6 31 (2.53%) Marketing
7 29 (2.36%) Retail
8 26 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 22 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (1.47%) Front Office
11 15 (1.22%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.81%) Legal
16 7 (0.57%) Law
17 6 (0.49%) Back Office
17 6 (0.49%) Manufacturing
17 6 (0.49%) Military
17 6 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 577 (47.03%) Data Engineer
2 170 (13.85%) Senior
3 134 (10.92%) Lead
4 130 (10.59%) Architect
5 107 (8.72%) Senior Data Engineer
6 67 (5.46%) Data Architect
6 67 (5.46%) Developer
7 55 (4.48%) Lead Data Engineer
8 51 (4.16%) Analyst
9 50 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
10 45 (3.67%) Snowflake Engineer
11 44 (3.59%) Azure Engineer
12 43 (3.50%) AWS Data Engineer
12 43 (3.50%) Data Scientist
13 42 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
14 40 (3.26%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 38 (3.10%) Azure Data Engineer
15 38 (3.10%) Consultant
16 31 (2.53%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
17 29 (2.36%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (13.61%) PySpark
2 123 (10.02%) Kafka
3 47 (3.83%) Pandas
4 35 (2.85%) REST
4 35 (2.85%) scikit-learn
5 33 (2.69%) PyTorch
6 29 (2.36%) NumPy
7 27 (2.20%) JSON
8 24 (1.96%) TensorFlow
9 23 (1.87%) React
9 23 (1.87%) Spring
10 17 (1.39%) RESTful
11 16 (1.30%) pytest
11 16 (1.30%) Spring Boot
11 16 (1.30%) YAML
12 15 (1.22%) FastAPI
12 15 (1.22%) Great Expectations
13 14 (1.14%) LangChain
14 12 (0.98%) Flask
14 12 (0.98%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 167 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 47 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
3 44 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
4 39 (3.18%) Data Structures
4 39 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 27 (2.20%) AI Agents
5 27 (2.20%) Distributed Computing
6 22 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 21 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
9 19 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.39%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.14%) Fixed Income
12 12 (0.98%) Clustering
12 12 (0.98%) NHS
13 11 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.81%) Equities
14 10 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (0.73%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.73%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.28%) Linux
2 25 (2.04%) Unix
3 5 (0.41%) VMS
4 3 (0.24%) Windows
5 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.081%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 621 (50.61%) Analytics
2 565 (46.05%) Data Pipeline
3 472 (38.47%) Data Modelling
4 445 (36.27%) ETL
5 428 (34.88%) CI/CD
6 358 (29.18%) AI
7 309 (25.18%) Business Intelligence
8 305 (24.86%) Agile
8 305 (24.86%) DevOps
9 254 (20.70%) Data Governance
10 233 (18.99%) Machine Learning
11 203 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
12 197 (16.06%) Data Science
13 167 (13.61%) Data Architecture
14 162 (13.20%) Decision-Making
15 161 (13.12%) Validation
16 160 (13.04%) Migration
17 136 (11.08%) Infrastructure as Code
18 134 (10.92%) Data Transformation
19 118 (9.62%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 674 (54.93%) SQL
2 641 (52.24%) Python
3 103 (8.39%) Java
4 45 (3.67%) Scala
5 39 (3.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 35 (2.85%) C#
7 28 (2.28%) Bash
8 22 (1.79%) T-SQL
9 19 (1.55%) JavaScript
9 19 (1.55%) PowerShell
10 17 (1.39%) R
11 16 (1.30%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.22%) Bicep
13 12 (0.98%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.90%) TypeScript
15 8 (0.65%) SAS Macro
16 5 (0.41%) Korn
17 4 (0.33%) Go
17 4 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
18 2 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 234 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 208 (16.95%) SC Cleared
3 77 (6.28%) Degree
4 34 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (2.44%) Azure Certification
6 24 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 21 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.14%) DBS Check
9 10 (0.81%) DV Cleared
10 7 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (0.33%) SnowPro
12 3 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 3 (0.24%) PhD
13 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.16%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.081%) OCP
14 1 (0.081%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 328 (26.73%) Data Quality
2 79 (6.44%) GDPR
3 63 (5.13%) QA
4 11 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (0.73%) SLA
6 5 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.33%) GRC
7 4 (0.33%) MiFID
7 4 (0.33%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.24%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.24%) NIST
8 3 (0.24%) PMO
9 2 (0.16%) EMIR
9 2 (0.16%) GxP
9 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 1 (0.081%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.081%) Basel II
10 1 (0.081%) FATCA
System Software
1 114 (9.29%) Docker
2 4 (0.33%) HDFS
2 4 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.081%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.081%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 154 (12.55%) Terraform
2 101 (8.23%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.87%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.90%) Grafana
5 9 (0.73%) Ansible
6 4 (0.33%) Argo
7 3 (0.24%) Kibana
7 3 (0.24%) Nagios
7 3 (0.24%) Rancher
8 2 (0.16%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.16%) logstash
8 2 (0.16%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.081%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.081%) Control-M
9 1 (0.081%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.081%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.081%) Oozie
Vendors
1 300 (24.45%) Databricks
2 204 (16.63%) Microsoft
3 62 (5.05%) Informatica
4 52 (4.24%) Google
5 48 (3.91%) Oracle
6 26 (2.12%) OpenAI
7 25 (2.04%) Talend
8 23 (1.87%) Foundry
8 23 (1.87%) SAP
9 19 (1.55%) Splunk
10 17 (1.39%) Palantir
11 16 (1.30%) Cloudera
12 12 (0.98%) ServiceNow
13 11 (0.90%) Salesforce
14 9 (0.73%) UiPath
15 8 (0.65%) Automation Anywhere
15 8 (0.65%) Denodo
16 7 (0.57%) InterSystems
16 7 (0.57%) Trend Micro
17 5 (0.41%) Workday