Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Lincolnshire

Data Engineering
East Midlands > Lincolnshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 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 20 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Lincolnshire 2.45% 2.33% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 3.03% 2.70%
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 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £525 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +13.51% -15.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £38.96 £21.73
Median % change year-on-year - +79.29% -
East Midlands median hourly rate - £38.96 £21.73
% change year-on-year - +79.29% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Lincolnshire

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 Lincolnshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 114 33 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lincolnshire 69.94% 76.74% 75.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 5 29
10th Percentile £205 £205 £181
25th Percentile £433 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -12.85%
75th Percentile £552 £519 £688
90th Percentile £634 £538 £788
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £410 £445
% change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 6
10th Percentile £21.25 £18.21 £12.28
25th Percentile £23.05 £18.45 £12.75
Median hourly rate £28.50 £18.87 £17.08
Median % change year-on-year +51.03% +10.48% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £31.09 £21.30
90th Percentile £74.25 £45.58 £31.99
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £19.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -40.87%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Lincolnshire

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Lincolnshire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Lincolnshire

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Lincolnshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Lincolnshire

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Lincolnshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineering within the Lincolnshire region over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. 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
Lincoln -8 4 £300 - 1
Data Engineering
East Midlands

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lincolnshire 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