Junior Data Engineer Contracts in England

Junior Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Junior Data Engineer daily rate in England is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 500 534 636
Rank change year-on-year +34 +102 +151
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Data Engineer 3 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.016% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.018% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 4
10th Percentile £230 £319 -
25th Percentile £256 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £350 £363
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -3.45% -
75th Percentile £364 £375 £397
90th Percentile £373 £469 £414
UK median daily rate £325 £350 £375
% change year-on-year -7.14% -6.67% +3.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,117 34,093 45,168
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.95% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,358 22,297 31,992
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £660
90th Percentile £740 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,218 2,452 1,400
10th Percentile £13.77 £13.00 £14.81
25th Percentile £17.98 £17.25 £19.47
Median hourly rate £28.34 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -6.98% +72.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.54 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.75% -5.88% +66.67%

Junior Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Junior Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Junior Data Engineer in England

Junior Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Junior Data Engineer in England

Junior Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Junior Data Engineer in England

Junior Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior Data Engineer in England

Junior Data Engineer
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 Junior Data Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 13 July 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 +30 1 £325 -7.14% 8
East Midlands - 1 £373 -
Midlands - 1 £373 -
South West - 1 £225 - 3
Junior Data Engineer
UK

Junior Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 July 2025, Junior Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Junior Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Matillion
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Business Development
2 1 (33.33%) Degree

Junior Data Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (33.33%) Matillion
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Business Development
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft