Data Engineer Contracts in Liverpool

Data Engineer
Merseyside > Liverpool

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Liverpool is £205, 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 18 30 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 +2 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 7 3 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Liverpool 5.15% 1.61% 3.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.43% 1.70% 3.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 8
10th Percentile - - £368
25th Percentile £203 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £205 £375 £488
Median % change year-on-year -45.33% -23.08% +33.56%
75th Percentile £208 £388 £650
90th Percentile £376 - £663
Merseyside median daily rate £205 £375 £650
% change year-on-year -45.33% -42.31% +78.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Liverpool

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Liverpool. 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 Liverpool with a recognized job title 129 176 262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 94.62% 96.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 87 193
10th Percentile £140 £143 £251
25th Percentile £163 £213 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £375 £475
Median % change year-on-year +22.00% -21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £494 £545
90th Percentile £638 £593 £650
Merseyside median daily rate £400 £400 £475
% change year-on-year - -15.79% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 26 11
10th Percentile £13.28 - -
25th Percentile - £15.50 £10.09
Median hourly rate £17.44 £18.06 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +12.84% +8.47%
75th Percentile £20.00 £34.32 £18.25
90th Percentile £25.22 £37.18 £18.75
Merseyside median hourly rate £17.44 £19.97 £16.37
% change year-on-year -12.65% +21.96% +9.13%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Liverpool

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Liverpool

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Liverpool

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Liverpool

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Liverpool

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Liverpool over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Liverpool

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool

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 Liverpool region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Fibre Optics
2 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (28.57%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) Talend
4 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) PySpark
5 1 (14.29%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
5 1 (14.29%) Tech for Good
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Python
5 1 (14.29%) AWS

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Liverpool 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 2 (28.57%) GitHub
1 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Fibre Optics
2 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (14.29%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Talend
13 Data Engineer jobs in Merseyside