Data Engineer Contracts in Leeds

Data Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 67 78
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 7 26 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.89% 1.96% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 2.00% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 16
10th Percentile £440 £425 £300
25th Percentile £450 £463 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £433
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +21.39% -6.49%
75th Percentile £594 £675 £581
90th Percentile £610 £696 £638
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +30.00% +8.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Leeds. 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 Leeds with a recognized job title 727 1,297 1,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 97.96% 97.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 943 1,118
10th Percentile £300 £351 £275
25th Percentile £413 £454 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £525 £494
% change year-on-year -6.67% +6.33% +9.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 22
10th Percentile £11.30 £12.75 £15.50
25th Percentile £11.88 £17.24 £18.25
Median hourly rate £12.53 £54.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -76.80% +141.07% +3.04%
75th Percentile £15.25 £70.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £18.27 - £28.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.17 £32.50 £16.85
% change year-on-year -53.32% +92.88% -22.49%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Leeds

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Leeds

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Leeds region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
4 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
4 4 (57.14%) Databricks
4 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (42.86%) Analytics
5 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
5 3 (42.86%) ETL
5 3 (42.86%) Python
5 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 3 (42.86%) NHS
5 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
6 2 (28.57%) Health Technology
6 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (28.57%) Data Security
6 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
6 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
6 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
6 2 (28.57%) AWS
7 1 (14.29%) Open Source
7 1 (14.29%) NoSQL

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Lake
1 4 (57.14%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Health Technology
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) NHS
2 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Pipeline
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Security
4 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
5 1 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (14.29%) Open Source
5 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Databricks
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Brio