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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 153 205
Rank change year-on-year +74 +52 -15
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1,346 507 449
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.03% 1.90% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.54% 2.09% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 954 342 331
10th Percentile £386 £400 £375
25th Percentile £449 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £700
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 37,991 24,251 31,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.46% 90.90% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,934 15,590 20,626
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.65% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.28% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,364 1,224 2,273
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.98 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -4.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.81 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.20 £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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +57 791 £550 - 307
North of England +20 174 £475 -5.00% 89
Midlands +32 145 £475 +2.70% 45
West Midlands +30 122 £475 -18.10% 24
South West +22 81 £500 -13.04% 33
South East -23 81 £525 +10.53% 96
Yorkshire +14 78 £490 +5.95% 19
North West -16 58 £500 - 54
North East -2 40 £425 -15.00% 16
East of England -12 28 £575 +71.29% 15
East Midlands -4 20 £525 +13.51% 21
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 (13.22%) Apache Spark
2 155 (11.52%) Apache Airflow
3 104 (7.73%) Apache
4 41 (3.05%) SAS
5 24 (1.78%) Confluence
6 23 (1.71%) Jupyter
7 18 (1.34%) Palantir Foundry
8 12 (0.89%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.59%) Apache Superset
10 5 (0.37%) Appian
10 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Synapse
11 2 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.074%) Camunda
12 1 (0.074%) CICS
12 1 (0.074%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.074%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 22 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.074%) Notion
Business Applications
1 9 (0.67%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.37%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.37%) 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 (0.074%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.074%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.074%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 580 (43.09%) Azure
2 525 (39.00%) AWS
3 289 (21.47%) Power Platform
4 186 (13.82%) Snowflake
5 185 (13.74%) GCP
6 158 (11.74%) dbt
7 157 (11.66%) Azure Data Factory
8 155 (11.52%) Amazon S3
9 131 (9.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 118 (8.77%) Serverless
11 114 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
12 112 (8.32%) GitHub
13 101 (7.50%) AWS Lambda
14 67 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
15 38 (2.82%) Amazon EMR
16 31 (2.30%) AWS CloudFormation
16 31 (2.30%) Azure AI
17 28 (2.08%) Amazon Bedrock
17 28 (2.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 27 (2.01%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.37%) Firewall
1 5 (0.37%) RTP
2 2 (0.15%) Network Security
3 1 (0.074%) 4G
3 1 (0.074%) 5G
3 1 (0.074%) MIMO
3 1 (0.074%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 263 (19.54%) Power BI
2 251 (18.65%) Data Warehouse
3 194 (14.41%) Data Lake
4 121 (8.99%) Metadata
5 96 (7.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 91 (6.76%) Big Data
7 88 (6.54%) Delta Lake
8 83 (6.17%) BigQuery
9 81 (6.02%) Tableau
10 74 (5.50%) SQL Server
11 66 (4.90%) NoSQL
12 65 (4.83%) Amazon Athena
13 59 (4.38%) Snowflake Schema
14 52 (3.86%) Relational Database
15 49 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
16 40 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
17 39 (2.90%) Hadoop
18 33 (2.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 33 (2.45%) Star Schema
19 26 (1.93%) Looker
Development Applications
1 139 (10.33%) Git
2 69 (5.13%) GitLab
3 51 (3.79%) JIRA
4 34 (2.53%) MLflow
5 19 (1.41%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.45%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.30%) Postman
8 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.074%) Ant
11 1 (0.074%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.074%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.074%) JUnit
11 1 (0.074%) Maven
General
1 330 (24.52%) Social Skills
2 324 (24.07%) Finance
3 210 (15.60%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (11.29%) Public Sector
5 96 (7.13%) Banking
6 36 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 36 (2.67%) Marketing
7 31 (2.30%) Retail
8 28 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 21 (1.56%) Telecoms
10 19 (1.41%) Front Office
11 17 (1.26%) Investment Banking
12 15 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 13 (0.97%) Manufacturing
14 10 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.74%) Legal
15 9 (0.67%) Law
15 9 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.59%) Billing
17 5 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 626 (46.51%) Data Engineer
2 201 (14.93%) Senior
3 155 (11.52%) Architect
4 145 (10.77%) Lead
5 120 (8.92%) Senior Data Engineer
6 85 (6.32%) Data Architect
7 77 (5.72%) Developer
8 66 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
9 63 (4.68%) Analyst
10 59 (4.38%) Lead Data Engineer
11 54 (4.01%) AWS Data Engineer
12 47 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
13 46 (3.42%) Data Scientist
13 46 (3.42%) Snowflake Engineer
14 45 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
15 42 (3.12%) Azure Data Engineer
16 40 (2.97%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 38 (2.82%) Consultant
18 36 (2.67%) Data Analyst
19 33 (2.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (14.26%) PySpark
2 127 (9.44%) Kafka
3 40 (2.97%) REST
4 39 (2.90%) Pandas
5 30 (2.23%) JSON
5 30 (2.23%) scikit-learn
6 25 (1.86%) NumPy
6 25 (1.86%) Spring
7 24 (1.78%) PyTorch
7 24 (1.78%) React
8 18 (1.34%) Spring Boot
8 18 (1.34%) TensorFlow
9 17 (1.26%) .NET
10 15 (1.11%) OpenTelemetry
10 15 (1.11%) RESTful
11 14 (1.04%) YAML
12 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Graph
13 12 (0.89%) Apache Avro
13 12 (0.89%) Node.js
13 12 (0.89%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 185 (13.74%) Cloud Native
2 56 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
3 52 (3.86%) Data Structures
3 52 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 33 (2.45%) Onboarding
6 32 (2.38%) AI Agents
7 26 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
8 23 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
9 21 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
9 21 (1.56%) NHS
10 19 (1.41%) Algorithms
11 18 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.19%) Clustering
13 15 (1.11%) Fixed Income
14 14 (1.04%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.89%) Management Information System
15 12 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (0.82%) Hybrid Cloud
16 11 (0.82%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.08%) Linux
2 25 (1.86%) Unix
3 5 (0.37%) VMS
4 3 (0.22%) Windows
5 2 (0.15%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (51.71%) Analytics
2 642 (47.70%) Data Pipeline
3 514 (38.19%) Data Modelling
4 484 (35.96%) CI/CD
5 474 (35.22%) ETL
6 393 (29.20%) AI
7 340 (25.26%) Agile
8 335 (24.89%) Business Intelligence
9 326 (24.22%) DevOps
10 272 (20.21%) Data Governance
11 258 (19.17%) Machine Learning
12 236 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
13 226 (16.79%) Data Science
14 192 (14.26%) Validation
15 191 (14.19%) Decision-Making
15 191 (14.19%) Migration
16 190 (14.12%) Data Architecture
17 172 (12.78%) Infrastructure as Code
18 157 (11.66%) Data Transformation
19 156 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 732 (54.38%) SQL
2 711 (52.82%) Python
3 117 (8.69%) Java
4 42 (3.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 38 (2.82%) Scala
6 36 (2.67%) C#
7 31 (2.30%) Bash
8 23 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 23 (1.71%) T-SQL
9 20 (1.49%) JavaScript
9 20 (1.49%) R
10 18 (1.34%) Bicep
11 15 (1.11%) PL/SQL
12 13 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.97%) TypeScript
13 12 (0.89%) SAS Macro
14 6 (0.45%) SPARQL
15 5 (0.37%) Cypher
15 5 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 259 (19.24%) Security Cleared
2 228 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 92 (6.84%) Degree
4 42 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (2.15%) Azure Certification
7 28 (2.08%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.34%) AWS Certification
9 16 (1.19%) DV Cleared
10 13 (0.97%) DBS Check
11 8 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 6 (0.45%) SnowPro
14 5 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 3 (0.22%) PhD
15 3 (0.22%) Tableau Certification
16 2 (0.15%) CSPO
16 2 (0.15%) PMI Certification
17 1 (0.074%) CISSP
17 1 (0.074%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 382 (28.38%) Data Quality
2 82 (6.09%) GDPR
3 66 (4.90%) QA
4 15 (1.11%) Accessibility
5 10 (0.74%) SLA
6 6 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.30%) MiFID
7 4 (0.30%) 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 (0.074%) Basel II
System Software
1 125 (9.29%) Docker
2 3 (0.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.15%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 191 (14.19%) Terraform
2 108 (8.02%) Kubernetes
3 24 (1.78%) Prometheus
4 15 (1.11%) Grafana
5 11 (0.82%) 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 (0.074%) Control-M
9 1 (0.074%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.074%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.074%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.074%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.074%) Oozie
Vendors
1 332 (24.67%) Databricks
2 232 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 73 (5.42%) Informatica
4 53 (3.94%) Oracle
5 49 (3.64%) Google
6 29 (2.15%) Foundry
7 27 (2.01%) SAP
8 26 (1.93%) Palantir
8 26 (1.93%) Talend
9 25 (1.86%) OpenAI
10 22 (1.63%) Splunk
11 21 (1.56%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.11%) Cloudera
13 14 (1.04%) ServiceNow
14 12 (0.89%) Trend Micro
15 8 (0.59%) Denodo
16 7 (0.52%) Adobe
16 7 (0.52%) InterSystems
17 6 (0.45%) Alteryx
17 6 (0.45%) Bloomberg