Data Engineering Contracts in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 197 188
Rank change year-on-year +41 -9 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 460 456 628
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.84% 1.21% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 1.42% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 339 416
10th Percentile £400 £375 £453
25th Percentile £450 £468 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £755
90th Percentile £825 £763 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 22
10th Percentile £24.75 £30.55 £19.00
25th Percentile £28.13 £35.00 £34.44
Median hourly rate £38.96 £48.50 £76.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.67% -36.81% +37.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.00 £81.38
90th Percentile £58.25 - £90.00
UK median hourly rate £38.96 £35.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +11.31% -52.05% +46.00%

All Process and 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 22,816 32,099 42,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.35% 85.18% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,745 20,761 29,621
10th Percentile £300 £303 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £503 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,095 2,397 1,542
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.66
Median hourly rate £26.45 £38.12 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% +8.87% +36.35%
75th Percentile £55.13 £61.50 £64.50
90th Percentile £74.50 £72.50 £75.74
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 22 June 2025.

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 22 June 2025. 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 +45 307 £559 -6.88% 1,954
North of England +8 49 £500 -1.96% 504
South East +37 30 £500 -2.15% 378
Midlands -7 29 £463 -26.00% 253
North West +5 25 £500 -1.96% 263
Yorkshire +2 19 £463 -14.27% 181
South West +50 18 £563 +25.00% 197
West Midlands -12 15 £580 -9.64% 139
East of England +21 11 £320 -46.68% 182
East Midlands +7 11 £463 -15.91% 112
North East - 5 £500 - 60
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 74 (16.09%) Apache Spark
2 67 (14.57%) Apache Airflow
3 55 (11.96%) Apache
4 7 (1.52%) Confluence
5 3 (0.65%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.65%) Luigi
5 3 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.22%) CMS
6 1 (0.22%) nginx
6 1 (0.22%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.43%) Maple
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.22%) CATIA
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.87%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.43%) SAP PM
4 1 (0.22%) Endur
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 209 (45.43%) Azure
2 192 (41.74%) AWS
3 102 (22.17%) GCP
4 95 (20.65%) Power Platform
5 68 (14.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 67 (14.57%) dbt
7 60 (13.04%) Serverless
8 50 (10.87%) Snowflake
9 48 (10.43%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (9.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 39 (8.48%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (7.17%) Amazon S3
13 31 (6.74%) GitHub
14 19 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
14 19 (4.13%) OpenShift
15 17 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
17 13 (2.83%) Microsoft Purview
18 12 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
19 11 (2.39%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.30%) SAN
2 5 (1.09%) Firewall
2 5 (1.09%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.09%) VPN
3 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.22%) Network Security
3 1 (0.22%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (23.91%) Data Warehouse
2 92 (20.00%) Power BI
3 67 (14.57%) Data Lake
4 64 (13.91%) Big Data
5 41 (8.91%) BigQuery
6 40 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
6 40 (8.70%) Metadata
7 34 (7.39%) NoSQL
8 31 (6.74%) Tableau
9 28 (6.09%) Amazon Redshift
9 28 (6.09%) Hadoop
10 24 (5.22%) Dremio
11 23 (5.00%) Relational Database
12 22 (4.78%) Apache Iceberg
13 21 (4.57%) SQL Server
14 20 (4.35%) Delta Lake
15 19 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
16 17 (3.70%) Apache Ignite
16 17 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (8.26%) Git
2 19 (4.13%) JIRA
3 17 (3.70%) Artifactory
4 11 (2.39%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.09%) MLflow
6 4 (0.87%) GitLab
6 4 (0.87%) Terragrunt
7 3 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.43%) PROIV
9 1 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.22%) ERwin
9 1 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
9 1 (0.22%) SonarQube
General
1 139 (30.22%) Finance
2 125 (27.17%) Social Skills
3 73 (15.87%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (12.61%) Banking
5 35 (7.61%) Public Sector
6 34 (7.39%) Front Office
7 33 (7.17%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (2.83%) Marketing
8 13 (2.83%) Retail
9 11 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.74%) Retail Banking
10 8 (1.74%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.09%) Automotive
11 5 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.09%) Police
12 4 (0.87%) Local Government
12 4 (0.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 229 (49.78%) Data Engineer
2 62 (13.48%) Senior
3 47 (10.22%) Developer
4 43 (9.35%) Architect
5 42 (9.13%) Lead
5 42 (9.13%) Senior Data Engineer
6 39 (8.48%) AWS Engineer
6 39 (8.48%) Azure Engineer
7 35 (7.61%) Azure Data Engineer
8 34 (7.39%) Python Engineer
9 26 (5.65%) Python Developer
10 24 (5.22%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (5.00%) Data Architect
12 21 (4.57%) AWS Data Engineer
13 20 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
13 20 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 19 (4.13%) Analyst
15 18 (3.91%) Lead Data Engineer
16 15 (3.26%) Python Data Engineer
17 13 (2.83%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (16.09%) PySpark
2 69 (15.00%) Kafka
3 29 (6.30%) Pandas
4 28 (6.09%) NumPy
5 22 (4.78%) React
6 20 (4.35%) SciPy
7 18 (3.91%) AngularJS
8 17 (3.70%) FastAPI
8 17 (3.70%) J2EE
9 15 (3.26%) Flask
9 15 (3.26%) Polars
10 14 (3.04%) Vue
11 8 (1.74%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.52%) ARM Templates
12 7 (1.52%) PyTorch
13 6 (1.30%) Play Framework
13 6 (1.30%) scikit-learn
13 6 (1.30%) XGBoost
14 5 (1.09%) Plotly
14 5 (1.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.87%) Cloud Native
2 18 (3.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 14 (3.04%) Hedge funds
5 10 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 10 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 9 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.74%) Fixed Income
7 8 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
8 7 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.09%) Equities
10 5 (1.09%) Replication
11 4 (0.87%) Data Fabric
11 4 (0.87%) Distributed Computing
11 4 (0.87%) Enterprise Cloud
11 4 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.39%) Linux
2 6 (1.30%) Debian
2 6 (1.30%) Ubuntu
2 6 (1.30%) Windows
3 4 (0.87%) Unix
3 4 (0.87%) Windows Server
3 4 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (40.87%) ETL
2 184 (40.00%) Analytics
3 174 (37.83%) Data Pipeline
4 148 (32.17%) Data Modelling
5 138 (30.00%) Agile
6 135 (29.35%) CI/CD
7 119 (25.87%) Business Intelligence
8 114 (24.78%) DevOps
9 101 (21.96%) Data Governance
10 93 (20.22%) Data Science
11 87 (18.91%) Machine Learning
12 86 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
13 75 (16.30%) Artificial Intelligence
14 74 (16.09%) Data Integration
15 72 (15.65%) Visualisation
16 63 (13.70%) Decision-Making
17 61 (13.26%) Software Engineering
18 49 (10.65%) Data Visualisation
19 47 (10.22%) Data Architecture
20 45 (9.78%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 292 (63.48%) Python
2 236 (51.30%) SQL
3 84 (18.26%) Java
4 55 (11.96%) Scala
5 24 (5.22%) JavaScript
6 18 (3.91%) C#
6 18 (3.91%) C++
7 17 (3.70%) Go
8 14 (3.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (2.83%) Rust
10 12 (2.61%) R
11 8 (1.74%) Bicep
12 7 (1.52%) TypeScript
13 6 (1.30%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.22%) Bash
15 1 (0.22%) CodeQL
15 1 (0.22%) LookML
Qualifications
1 70 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 49 (10.65%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.26%) Degree
4 19 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (3.48%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.26%) DV Cleared
7 14 (3.04%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 8 (1.74%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.30%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.30%) PMP
11 3 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.43%) SnowPro
13 1 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.22%) IBM Certification
13 1 (0.22%) PhD
13 1 (0.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (24.13%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.26%) Accessibility
2 15 (3.26%) GDPR
2 15 (3.26%) QA
3 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
3 3 (0.65%) PMO
4 1 (0.22%) GRC
4 1 (0.22%) NCSC
4 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 70 (15.22%) Docker
2 4 (0.87%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.65%) HDFS
4 1 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 95 (20.65%) Terraform
2 73 (15.87%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.09%) Grafana
4 3 (0.65%) Ansible
4 3 (0.65%) Kubeflow
4 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.22%) Apache Ranger
6 1 (0.22%) Hadoop YARN
6 1 (0.22%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.22%) Kibana
6 1 (0.22%) logstash
6 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 121 (26.30%) Databricks
2 64 (13.91%) Microsoft
3 44 (9.57%) Google
4 20 (4.35%) Oracle
5 12 (2.61%) Informatica
6 11 (2.39%) SAP
7 10 (2.17%) Palantir
8 6 (1.30%) Foundry
8 6 (1.30%) IBM
8 6 (1.30%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.30%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.30%) Splunk
8 6 (1.30%) VMware
9 4 (0.87%) MicroStrategy
9 4 (0.87%) Virgin Media
10 3 (0.65%) Dataiku
10 3 (0.65%) Talend
10 3 (0.65%) Wallstreet Suite
11 2 (0.43%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.43%) Cloudera