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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 146 200
Rank change year-on-year +66 +54 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1,363 514 453
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.05% 1.90% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.56% 2.10% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 345 335
10th Percentile £388 £400 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £694
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 13
10th Percentile £54.00 £24.75 £30.55
25th Percentile £64.38 £28.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.96 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.67% -19.67% -35.76%
75th Percentile £79.44 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £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 38,237 24,502 31,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.52% 90.81% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,096 15,746 20,754
10th Percentile £325 £300 £306
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,381 1,253 2,276
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.01 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.16 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% -6.25%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +52 797 £550 - 328
North of England +22 175 £475 -5.00% 90
Midlands +33 147 £475 +2.70% 37
West Midlands +29 124 £475 -18.10% 25
South West +27 87 £503 -12.61% 36
South East -14 81 £525 +10.53% 93
Yorkshire +5 78 £490 +5.95% 24
North West -8 59 £500 - 50
North East +2 40 £425 -15.00% 16
East of England -9 29 £575 +71.29% 11
East Midlands -4 20 £525 +13.51% 12
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
1 178 (13.06%) Apache Spark
2 156 (11.45%) Apache Airflow
3 105 (7.70%) Apache
4 42 (3.08%) SAS
5 29 (2.13%) Confluence
6 23 (1.69%) Jupyter
7 18 (1.32%) Palantir Foundry
8 12 (0.88%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.59%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 4 (0.29%) Appian
12 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
12 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.073%) Camunda
13 1 (0.073%) CICS
13 1 (0.073%) IBM HTTP Server
13 1 (0.073%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 22 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.073%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (0.66%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
3 5 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.29%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.29%) Sage X3
4 4 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Endur
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.15%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.15%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.073%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.073%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.073%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 585 (42.92%) Azure
2 526 (38.59%) AWS
3 288 (21.13%) Power Platform
4 187 (13.72%) Snowflake
5 185 (13.57%) GCP
6 160 (11.74%) dbt
7 158 (11.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 155 (11.37%) Amazon S3
9 134 (9.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 118 (8.66%) Serverless
11 114 (8.36%) Azure DevOps
12 111 (8.14%) GitHub
13 101 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
14 66 (4.84%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (2.79%) Amazon EMR
16 31 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (2.20%) Azure AI
18 28 (2.05%) Amazon Bedrock
18 28 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 27 (1.98%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) Firewall
1 5 (0.37%) RTP
2 2 (0.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.073%) 4G
3 1 (0.073%) 5G
3 1 (0.073%) MIMO
3 1 (0.073%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (19.22%) Power BI
2 254 (18.64%) Data Warehouse
3 194 (14.23%) Data Lake
4 123 (9.02%) Metadata
5 96 (7.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 91 (6.68%) Big Data
7 86 (6.31%) Delta Lake
8 83 (6.09%) BigQuery
9 81 (5.94%) Tableau
10 71 (5.21%) SQL Server
11 66 (4.84%) NoSQL
12 64 (4.70%) Amazon Athena
13 60 (4.40%) Snowflake Schema
14 53 (3.89%) Relational Database
15 50 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
16 41 (3.01%) Azure SQL Database
17 39 (2.86%) Hadoop
18 33 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 33 (2.42%) Star Schema
19 26 (1.91%) Looker
Development Applications
1 140 (10.27%) Git
2 69 (5.06%) GitLab
3 57 (4.18%) JIRA
4 33 (2.42%) MLflow
5 19 (1.39%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.44%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.29%) Postman
8 4 (0.29%) Selenium
9 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.22%) Snyk
9 3 (0.22%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.15%) ERwin
10 2 (0.15%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.15%) Yeoman
11 1 (0.073%) Ant
11 1 (0.073%) Claude Code
11 1 (0.073%) Deequ
11 1 (0.073%) Maven
11 1 (0.073%) REST Assured
General
1 335 (24.58%) Social Skills
2 327 (23.99%) Finance
3 222 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (11.23%) Public Sector
5 96 (7.04%) Banking
6 36 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (2.64%) Marketing
7 31 (2.27%) Retail
8 28 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (1.54%) Telecoms
10 19 (1.39%) Front Office
11 17 (1.25%) Investment Banking
12 15 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 13 (0.95%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.73%) Law
14 10 (0.73%) Legal
14 10 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.59%) Billing
16 5 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 632 (46.37%) Data Engineer
2 201 (14.75%) Senior
3 154 (11.30%) Architect
4 152 (11.15%) Lead
5 120 (8.80%) Senior Data Engineer
6 84 (6.16%) Data Architect
7 80 (5.87%) Developer
8 66 (4.84%) AWS Engineer
9 65 (4.77%) Analyst
10 61 (4.48%) Lead Data Engineer
11 54 (3.96%) AWS Data Engineer
12 49 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
13 48 (3.52%) Data Scientist
14 46 (3.37%) Snowflake Engineer
15 45 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
16 44 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
17 40 (2.93%) Snowflake Data Engineer
18 39 (2.86%) Consultant
19 38 (2.79%) Data Analyst
20 32 (2.35%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (14.09%) PySpark
2 128 (9.39%) Kafka
3 38 (2.79%) REST
4 37 (2.71%) Pandas
5 31 (2.27%) JSON
6 29 (2.13%) scikit-learn
7 25 (1.83%) Spring
8 24 (1.76%) NumPy
8 24 (1.76%) React
9 23 (1.69%) PyTorch
10 18 (1.32%) Spring Boot
11 17 (1.25%) .NET
11 17 (1.25%) TensorFlow
12 15 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
12 15 (1.10%) RESTful
13 14 (1.03%) YAML
14 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
15 12 (0.88%) Great Expectations
15 12 (0.88%) Node.js
15 12 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 186 (13.65%) Cloud Native
2 56 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
3 53 (3.89%) Data Structures
4 52 (3.82%) Distributed Systems
5 42 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 34 (2.49%) Onboarding
7 32 (2.35%) AI Agents
8 26 (1.91%) Distributed Computing
9 23 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
10 21 (1.54%) NHS
11 19 (1.39%) Algorithms
12 18 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.17%) Clustering
14 15 (1.10%) Fixed Income
15 14 (1.03%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.88%) Life Science
16 12 (0.88%) Management Information System
16 12 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
17 11 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.05%) Linux
2 25 (1.83%) Unix
3 5 (0.37%) VMS
4 3 (0.22%) Windows
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 701 (51.43%) Analytics
2 656 (48.13%) Data Pipeline
3 521 (38.22%) Data Modelling
4 484 (35.51%) CI/CD
5 475 (34.85%) ETL
6 391 (28.69%) AI
7 342 (25.09%) Agile
8 337 (24.72%) Business Intelligence
9 329 (24.14%) DevOps
10 280 (20.54%) Data Governance
11 260 (19.08%) Machine Learning
12 242 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
13 233 (17.09%) Data Science
14 195 (14.31%) Validation
15 193 (14.16%) Data Architecture
15 193 (14.16%) Decision-Making
16 192 (14.09%) Migration
17 173 (12.69%) Infrastructure as Code
18 158 (11.59%) Data Transformation
18 158 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 738 (54.15%) SQL
2 718 (52.68%) Python
3 120 (8.80%) Java
4 42 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 39 (2.86%) Scala
6 36 (2.64%) C#
7 31 (2.27%) Bash
8 22 (1.61%) PowerShell
8 22 (1.61%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.47%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.47%) R
10 17 (1.25%) Bicep
11 15 (1.10%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.95%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.88%) SAS Macro
14 6 (0.44%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.37%) Cypher
15 5 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.29%) Korn
Qualifications
1 268 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 233 (17.09%) SC Cleared
3 93 (6.82%) Degree
4 42 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (2.05%) Azure Certification
6 28 (2.05%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.76%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.32%) AWS Certification
9 13 (0.95%) DBS Check
10 7 (0.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.44%) SnowPro
12 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.22%) PhD
13 3 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
14 2 (0.15%) CSPO
14 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.073%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 1 (0.073%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 391 (28.69%) Data Quality
2 82 (6.02%) GDPR
3 73 (5.36%) QA
4 17 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.73%) SLA
6 6 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.29%) MiFID
7 4 (0.29%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.22%) GRC
8 3 (0.22%) GxP
8 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 3 (0.22%) NIST
8 3 (0.22%) PMO
9 2 (0.15%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 2 (0.15%) EMIR
10 1 (0.073%) Basel II
System Software
1 125 (9.17%) Docker
2 3 (0.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 191 (14.01%) Terraform
2 109 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.76%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.10%) Grafana
5 11 (0.81%) Ansible
6 5 (0.37%) Kibana
7 3 (0.22%) Argo
7 3 (0.22%) logstash
7 3 (0.22%) Nagios
7 3 (0.22%) Rancher
8 2 (0.15%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.073%) Control-M
9 1 (0.073%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.073%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.073%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.073%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.073%) Oozie
Vendors
1 331 (24.28%) Databricks
2 234 (17.17%) Microsoft
3 74 (5.43%) Informatica
4 53 (3.89%) Oracle
5 49 (3.60%) Google
6 29 (2.13%) Foundry
7 27 (1.98%) SAP
8 26 (1.91%) Palantir
8 26 (1.91%) Talend
9 24 (1.76%) OpenAI
10 22 (1.61%) Splunk
11 21 (1.54%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.10%) Cloudera
13 14 (1.03%) ServiceNow
14 12 (0.88%) Trend Micro
15 8 (0.59%) Denodo
16 7 (0.51%) Adobe
16 7 (0.51%) InterSystems
17 6 (0.44%) Alteryx
17 6 (0.44%) Bloomberg