Data Engineer Contracts in Leicester

Data Engineer
Leicestershire > Leicester

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Leicester is £431, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 17 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 2.60% 2.65% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.17% 2.86% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £389 £321 -
25th Percentile £402 £336 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +69.01%
75th Percentile £464 £394 -
90th Percentile £478 £398 -
Leicestershire median daily rate £388 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +3.33% -16.67% +69.01%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leicester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leicester. 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 Leicester with a recognized job title 63 105 108
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 81.82% 92.92% 96.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 74 91
10th Percentile £225 £131 £263
25th Percentile £275 £318 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £451 £415
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% +8.73% +3.75%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £450
90th Percentile £651 £625 £563
Leicestershire median daily rate £446 £375 £395
% change year-on-year +19.00% -5.06% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £14.98 £13.02
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.81 £14.54
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £20.46
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +22.19% +16.91%
75th Percentile £23.75 £27.81 £32.81
90th Percentile - £28.38 £62.63
Leicestershire median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £20.46
% change year-on-year -10.00% +22.19% +9.12%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Leicester

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Leicester

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Leicester region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) dbt
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (50.00%) Luigi
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) PLM
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (50.00%) Luigi
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) dbt
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) Pulumi
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) PLM
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks