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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 157 193
Rank change year-on-year +75 +36 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1,268 451 436
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.97% 1.84% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 2.01% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 310 326
10th Percentile £397 £400 £369
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -4.02% -10.40%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £838 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 13
10th Percentile £52.90 £24.75 £30.55
25th Percentile £65.00 £28.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £38.96 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +79.67% -19.67% -36.81%
75th Percentile £82.31 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £89.25 £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 36,315 22,393 32,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.15% 91.34% 85.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,987 14,479 20,805
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £414 £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 1,020 2,369
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.80
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.64% -25.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.21 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.56% -25.45% +4.20%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +64 773 £550 -1.57% 251
North of England +23 157 £475 -5.00% 95
Midlands +16 124 £500 +8.11% 35
West Midlands +22 105 £486 -16.16% 32
South West +34 83 £500 -4.76% 40
South East -35 69 £525 +8.92% 119
Yorkshire -7 68 £480 +3.78% 26
North West 0 56 £500 - 59
North East -4 35 £450 -10.00% 10
East of England -12 23 £575 +54.08% 12
East Midlands -16 16 £525 +13.51% 3
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 (13.72%) Apache Spark
2 142 (11.20%) Apache Airflow
3 92 (7.26%) Apache
4 35 (2.76%) SAS
5 20 (1.58%) Confluence
5 20 (1.58%) Jupyter
6 16 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
7 8 (0.63%) Appian
7 8 (0.63%) SharePoint
8 7 (0.55%) Apache Superset
9 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.16%) Apache Synapse
10 2 (0.16%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.079%) Camunda
11 1 (0.079%) CICS
11 1 (0.079%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.079%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 21 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.16%) Trello
5 1 (0.079%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.079%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (0.47%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.39%) BambooHR
2 5 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.16%) Endur
4 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.16%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.16%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.16%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.079%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.079%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.079%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 536 (42.27%) Azure
2 484 (38.17%) AWS
3 287 (22.63%) Power Platform
4 172 (13.56%) GCP
5 167 (13.17%) Snowflake
6 166 (13.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 145 (11.44%) Amazon S3
8 140 (11.04%) dbt
9 127 (10.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 118 (9.31%) GitHub
11 112 (8.83%) Azure DevOps
12 109 (8.60%) Serverless
13 94 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
14 71 (5.60%) GitHub Actions
15 35 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (2.52%) Amazon EMR
17 28 (2.21%) AWS Step Functions
17 28 (2.21%) Azure AI
18 26 (2.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 25 (1.97%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.39%) 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 (20.74%) Power BI
2 236 (18.61%) Data Warehouse
3 203 (16.01%) Data Lake
4 108 (8.52%) Metadata
5 88 (6.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 87 (6.86%) Big Data
7 84 (6.62%) Delta Lake
7 84 (6.62%) SQL Server
8 74 (5.84%) BigQuery
9 73 (5.76%) Tableau
10 66 (5.21%) Amazon Athena
10 66 (5.21%) NoSQL
11 62 (4.89%) Snowflake Schema
12 51 (4.02%) Azure SQL Database
13 50 (3.94%) Relational Database
14 44 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
15 38 (3.00%) Hadoop
16 37 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 32 (2.52%) Spark SQL
18 29 (2.29%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 141 (11.12%) Git
2 66 (5.21%) GitLab
3 47 (3.71%) JIRA
4 34 (2.68%) MLflow
5 22 (1.74%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.39%) Postman
7 5 (0.39%) 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
1 312 (24.61%) Finance
2 298 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 182 (14.35%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (9.94%) Public Sector
5 82 (6.47%) Banking
6 31 (2.44%) Marketing
7 28 (2.21%) Retail
8 27 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (1.42%) Front Office
11 17 (1.34%) Telecoms
12 14 (1.10%) Financial Institution
13 12 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 10 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (0.79%) Legal
15 7 (0.55%) Law
15 7 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.47%) Back Office
16 6 (0.47%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 598 (47.16%) Data Engineer
2 184 (14.51%) Senior
3 142 (11.20%) Lead
4 137 (10.80%) Architect
5 115 (9.07%) Senior Data Engineer
6 69 (5.44%) Data Architect
7 63 (4.97%) Developer
8 61 (4.81%) Lead Data Engineer
9 59 (4.65%) AWS Engineer
10 57 (4.50%) Analyst
11 48 (3.79%) AWS Data Engineer
12 45 (3.55%) Snowflake Engineer
13 43 (3.39%) Data Scientist
13 43 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (3.23%) Azure Engineer
15 40 (3.15%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 36 (2.84%) Azure Data Engineer
16 36 (2.84%) Consultant
17 35 (2.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
18 31 (2.44%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (13.56%) PySpark
2 120 (9.46%) Kafka
3 45 (3.55%) Pandas
4 38 (3.00%) REST
5 33 (2.60%) scikit-learn
6 30 (2.37%) PyTorch
7 28 (2.21%) NumPy
8 27 (2.13%) JSON
9 24 (1.89%) React
10 23 (1.81%) Spring
11 22 (1.74%) TensorFlow
12 17 (1.34%) RESTful
13 16 (1.26%) pytest
13 16 (1.26%) Spring Boot
14 15 (1.18%) FastAPI
14 15 (1.18%) YAML
15 14 (1.10%) Great Expectations
16 13 (1.03%) LangChain
17 12 (0.95%) Django
17 12 (0.95%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 175 (13.80%) Cloud Native
2 49 (3.86%) Distributed Systems
3 48 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
4 44 (3.47%) Data Structures
5 39 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 29 (2.29%) AI Agents
7 26 (2.05%) Distributed Computing
7 26 (2.05%) Onboarding
8 22 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 18 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 16 (1.26%) Algorithms
11 14 (1.10%) Clustering
11 14 (1.10%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.10%) NHS
12 11 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
14 9 (0.71%) Equities
14 9 (0.71%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (2.05%) Linux
2 25 (1.97%) Unix
3 5 (0.39%) VMS
4 3 (0.24%) Windows
5 2 (0.16%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.079%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (50.87%) Analytics
2 591 (46.61%) Data Pipeline
3 482 (38.01%) Data Modelling
4 460 (36.28%) ETL
5 451 (35.57%) CI/CD
6 386 (30.44%) AI
7 329 (25.95%) Business Intelligence
8 314 (24.76%) Agile
9 311 (24.53%) DevOps
10 257 (20.27%) Data Governance
11 246 (19.40%) Machine Learning
12 215 (16.96%) Problem-Solving
13 209 (16.48%) Data Science
14 175 (13.80%) Data Architecture
15 171 (13.49%) Decision-Making
16 169 (13.33%) Migration
17 165 (13.01%) Validation
18 146 (11.51%) Infrastructure as Code
19 138 (10.88%) Data Transformation
20 127 (10.02%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 698 (55.05%) SQL
2 673 (53.08%) Python
3 104 (8.20%) Java
4 43 (3.39%) Scala
5 41 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 33 (2.60%) C#
7 28 (2.21%) Bash
8 25 (1.97%) T-SQL
9 21 (1.66%) PowerShell
10 19 (1.50%) JavaScript
11 17 (1.34%) PL/SQL
11 17 (1.34%) R
12 15 (1.18%) Bicep
13 11 (0.87%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.87%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.63%) SAS Macro
15 5 (0.39%) Korn
16 4 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.24%) Go
18 2 (0.16%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 244 (19.24%) Security Cleared
2 217 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 76 (5.99%) Degree
4 34 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 32 (2.52%) Azure Certification
6 27 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 23 (1.81%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 12 (0.95%) DBS Check
9 12 (0.95%) DV Cleared
10 10 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 4 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.32%) SnowPro
13 2 (0.16%) PhD
13 2 (0.16%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.16%) Tableau Certification
14 1 (0.079%) CCSP
14 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 1 (0.079%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 354 (27.92%) Data Quality
2 82 (6.47%) GDPR
3 63 (4.97%) QA
4 10 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (0.79%) SLA
5 5 (0.39%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.39%) 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
8 2 (0.16%) EMIR
8 2 (0.16%) GxP
8 2 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 2 (0.16%) PMO
9 1 (0.079%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.079%) Basel II
9 1 (0.079%) FATCA
System Software
1 116 (9.15%) Docker
2 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 177 (13.96%) Terraform
2 102 (8.04%) Kubernetes
3 22 (1.74%) Prometheus
4 11 (0.87%) 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
1 307 (24.21%) Databricks
2 213 (16.80%) Microsoft
3 66 (5.21%) Informatica
4 52 (4.10%) Oracle
5 51 (4.02%) Google
6 26 (2.05%) OpenAI
6 26 (2.05%) Talend
7 24 (1.89%) Foundry
8 23 (1.81%) SAP
9 20 (1.58%) Splunk
10 18 (1.42%) Palantir
11 15 (1.18%) Cloudera
11 15 (1.18%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.10%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.71%) Trend Micro
13 9 (0.71%) UiPath
14 8 (0.63%) Automation Anywhere
14 8 (0.63%) Denodo
15 7 (0.55%) InterSystems
16 5 (0.39%) Workday