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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 151 208
Rank change year-on-year +69 +57 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1,256 452 431
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.96% 1.85% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 2.03% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 882 310 323
10th Percentile £400 £398 £365
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -12.00%
75th Percentile £629 £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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £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 £625 £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 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 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 9 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 9 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 +69 767 £550 -4.35% 235
North of England +19 151 £475 -5.00% 105
Midlands +18 128 £500 +8.11% 27
West Midlands +20 107 £498 -1.58% 25
South West +33 81 £500 -4.76% 31
Yorkshire -12 68 £480 +3.78% 26
South East -16 68 £531 +11.84% 104
North West -7 54 £500 - 64
North East +1 31 £438 -12.50% 16
East of England -22 22 £575 +54.08% 10
East Midlands -20 18 £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
1 175 (13.93%) Apache Spark
2 139 (11.07%) Apache Airflow
3 90 (7.17%) Apache
4 34 (2.71%) SAS
5 18 (1.43%) Jupyter
6 17 (1.35%) Confluence
6 17 (1.35%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.64%) Appian
8 7 (0.56%) Apache Superset
9 6 (0.48%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
12 1 (0.080%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.080%) Camunda
12 1 (0.080%) CICS
12 1 (0.080%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.080%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 22 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.56%) 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 (0.080%) 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%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.080%) Endur
4 1 (0.080%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 1 (0.080%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.080%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.080%) Sage X3
4 1 (0.080%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 540 (42.99%) Azure
2 477 (37.98%) AWS
3 284 (22.61%) Power Platform
4 175 (13.93%) GCP
5 170 (13.54%) Azure Data Factory
6 164 (13.06%) Snowflake
7 140 (11.15%) Amazon S3
7 140 (11.15%) dbt
8 132 (10.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 119 (9.47%) GitHub
10 113 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
11 104 (8.28%) Serverless
12 89 (7.09%) AWS Lambda
13 72 (5.73%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (2.31%) Amazon EMR
16 28 (2.23%) AWS Step Functions
17 26 (2.07%) Azure AI
18 25 (1.99%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 25 (1.99%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.40%) RTP
2 4 (0.32%) Firewall
3 2 (0.16%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.080%) 4G
4 1 (0.080%) 5G
4 1 (0.080%) MIMO
4 1 (0.080%) MQTT
4 1 (0.080%) Network Security
4 1 (0.080%) SMS
4 1 (0.080%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 261 (20.78%) Power BI
2 230 (18.31%) Data Warehouse
3 204 (16.24%) Data Lake
4 107 (8.52%) Metadata
5 86 (6.85%) Big Data
6 84 (6.69%) SQL Server
7 82 (6.53%) Delta Lake
8 81 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
9 74 (5.89%) Tableau
10 73 (5.81%) BigQuery
11 66 (5.25%) NoSQL
12 63 (5.02%) Snowflake Schema
13 62 (4.94%) Amazon Athena
14 53 (4.22%) Azure SQL Database
15 52 (4.14%) Relational Database
16 46 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
17 40 (3.18%) Hadoop
18 36 (2.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 33 (2.63%) Spark SQL
20 29 (2.31%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 140 (11.15%) Git
2 64 (5.10%) GitLab
3 44 (3.50%) JIRA
4 33 (2.63%) MLflow
5 24 (1.91%) 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 (0.080%) Ant
10 1 (0.080%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.080%) Maven
10 1 (0.080%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.080%) SoapUI
General
1 311 (24.76%) Finance
2 291 (23.17%) Social Skills
3 179 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 78 (6.21%) Banking
6 30 (2.39%) Marketing
7 29 (2.31%) Retail
8 27 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (1.43%) Front Office
11 16 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.11%) Financial Institution
13 13 (1.04%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
15 10 (0.80%) Legal
16 7 (0.56%) Law
16 7 (0.56%) Military
16 7 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.48%) Back Office
17 6 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 590 (46.97%) Data Engineer
2 179 (14.25%) Senior
3 134 (10.67%) Lead
4 132 (10.51%) Architect
5 111 (8.84%) Senior Data Engineer
6 69 (5.49%) Data Architect
7 66 (5.25%) Developer
8 58 (4.62%) AWS Engineer
9 57 (4.54%) Lead Data Engineer
10 55 (4.38%) Analyst
11 45 (3.58%) AWS Data Engineer
11 45 (3.58%) Snowflake Engineer
12 44 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
12 44 (3.50%) Data Scientist
13 42 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
14 40 (3.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
15 38 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
16 36 (2.87%) Consultant
17 34 (2.71%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 29 (2.31%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (13.69%) PySpark
2 124 (9.87%) Kafka
3 47 (3.74%) Pandas
4 37 (2.95%) REST
5 34 (2.71%) scikit-learn
6 32 (2.55%) PyTorch
7 29 (2.31%) NumPy
8 28 (2.23%) JSON
9 23 (1.83%) React
9 23 (1.83%) Spring
9 23 (1.83%) TensorFlow
10 17 (1.35%) RESTful
11 16 (1.27%) pytest
11 16 (1.27%) Spring Boot
11 16 (1.27%) YAML
12 15 (1.19%) FastAPI
12 15 (1.19%) Great Expectations
12 15 (1.19%) LangChain
13 12 (0.96%) Flask
13 12 (0.96%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 171 (13.61%) Cloud Native
2 49 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
4 40 (3.18%) Data Structures
4 40 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.23%) AI Agents
5 28 (2.23%) Distributed Computing
6 24 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 22 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.27%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.11%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.11%) NHS
12 12 (0.96%) Clustering
13 11 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.80%) Equities
14 10 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (0.72%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 28 (2.23%) Linux
2 25 (1.99%) Unix
3 5 (0.40%) VMS
4 3 (0.24%) Windows
5 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.080%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (50.88%) Analytics
2 585 (46.58%) Data Pipeline
3 479 (38.14%) Data Modelling
4 453 (36.07%) ETL
5 446 (35.51%) CI/CD
6 376 (29.94%) AI
7 324 (25.80%) Business Intelligence
8 312 (24.84%) Agile
9 310 (24.68%) DevOps
10 255 (20.30%) Data Governance
11 243 (19.35%) Machine Learning
12 210 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
13 206 (16.40%) Data Science
14 175 (13.93%) Data Architecture
15 165 (13.14%) Decision-Making
16 164 (13.06%) Validation
17 162 (12.90%) Migration
18 142 (11.31%) Infrastructure as Code
19 138 (10.99%) Data Transformation
20 124 (9.87%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 693 (55.18%) SQL
2 669 (53.26%) Python
3 105 (8.36%) Java
4 45 (3.58%) Scala
5 40 (3.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 36 (2.87%) C#
7 28 (2.23%) Bash
8 23 (1.83%) 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 12 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.88%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.64%) SAS Macro
15 5 (0.40%) Korn
16 4 (0.32%) Go
16 4 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
17 2 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 239 (19.03%) Security Cleared
2 212 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 77 (6.13%) Degree
4 35 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 31 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 25 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 24 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.19%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.04%) DBS Check
10 10 (0.80%) DV Cleared
11 7 (0.56%) 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 (0.080%) ACCA
15 1 (0.080%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 344 (27.39%) Data Quality
2 81 (6.45%) GDPR
3 63 (5.02%) QA
4 11 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 9 (0.72%) SLA
6 5 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.32%) MiFID
7 4 (0.32%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.24%) GRC
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 (0.080%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.080%) Basel II
10 1 (0.080%) FATCA
System Software
1 116 (9.24%) Docker
2 4 (0.32%) HDFS
2 4 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.080%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.080%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 170 (13.54%) Terraform
2 103 (8.20%) Kubernetes
3 23 (1.83%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.88%) Grafana
5 9 (0.72%) 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%) Hadoop YARN
8 2 (0.16%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.16%) logstash
8 2 (0.16%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.080%) Apache Ranger
9 1 (0.080%) Control-M
9 1 (0.080%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.080%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (0.080%) Oozie
Vendors
1 310 (24.68%) Databricks
2 207 (16.48%) Microsoft
3 62 (4.94%) Informatica
4 52 (4.14%) Google
5 50 (3.98%) Oracle
6 25 (1.99%) Foundry
6 25 (1.99%) OpenAI
6 25 (1.99%) Talend
7 23 (1.83%) SAP
8 19 (1.51%) Palantir
8 19 (1.51%) Splunk
9 16 (1.27%) Cloudera
10 13 (1.04%) Salesforce
11 12 (0.96%) ServiceNow
12 9 (0.72%) UiPath
13 8 (0.64%) Automation Anywhere
13 8 (0.64%) Denodo
14 7 (0.56%) InterSystems
14 7 (0.56%) Trend Micro
15 5 (0.40%) Workday