Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Data Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 50 66
Rank change year-on-year -7 +16 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 10 15 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.66% 2.09% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 2.45% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 17
10th Percentile £520 £430 £463
25th Percentile £550 £459 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £485 £575
Median % change year-on-year +23.71% -15.65% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £514 £638
90th Percentile £680 £550 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £600 £485 £575
% change year-on-year +23.71% -15.65% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 537 613 998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 89.05% 85.38% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 404 688
10th Percentile £300 £352 £356
25th Percentile £400 £419 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £541
Median % change year-on-year - -7.62% +5.61%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 20 13
10th Percentile £25.05 £12.15 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.13 £13.44 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £17.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.66% -6.58% -10.59%
75th Percentile £26.13 £35.00 £21.31
90th Percentile £26.35 £40.50 £23.26
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £20.75 £18.00
% change year-on-year +6.70% +15.28% -12.20%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Leeds

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Leeds over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Leeds

Data Engineering
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
1 7 (70.00%) GCP
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) PaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Delta Lake
2 3 (30.00%) Data Lake
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) DataStage
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (10.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Git
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Administrator
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) Data Analytics
2 4 (40.00%) ETL
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Data Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (30.00%) Data Science
3 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Scala
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Databricks
2 3 (30.00%) Google
2 3 (30.00%) Informatica
2 3 (30.00%) Talend
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) SAP