Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Lincoln

Data Engineering
Lincolnshire > Lincoln

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lincoln requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lincoln 4.35% 7.14% 8.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.41% 8.33% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £224 - -
25th Percentile £252 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
75th Percentile £462 - -
90th Percentile £560 - -
Lincolnshire median daily rate £300 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £38.96 £21.73
Median % change year-on-year - +79.29% -
Lincolnshire median hourly rate - £38.96 £21.73
% change year-on-year - +79.29% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lincoln

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 Lincoln.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincoln 80.43% 85.71% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 2 3
10th Percentile £224 £456 £231
25th Percentile £444 £464 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £705
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -28.19% +44.62%
75th Percentile £538 £542 £791
90th Percentile £575 £547 £812
Lincolnshire median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -12.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 3
10th Percentile - £18.36 £20.35
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.60 £20.87
Median hourly rate £25.77 £18.87 £21.73
Median % change year-on-year +36.57% -13.16% -
75th Percentile £74.00 £25.15 £31.99
90th Percentile - £26.53 £38.15
Lincolnshire median hourly rate £28.50 £18.87 £17.08
% change year-on-year +51.03% +10.48% -

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincoln

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincoln.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Lincoln

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Lincoln

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Lincoln over the 6 months to 5 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Lincoln

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincoln by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 3 (75.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
2 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (25.00%) Big Data
General
1 4 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Police
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Analytics
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
2 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) R
3 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) GDPR
2 2 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft