Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Luton

Data Engineering
Bedfordshire > Luton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Luton requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Luton 4.08% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £356 - -
25th Percentile £383 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 - -
75th Percentile £477 - -
90th Percentile £491 - -
Bedfordshire median daily rate £441 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Luton

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 Luton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 131 84 160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Luton 89.12% 95.45% 89.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 45 112
10th Percentile £313 £218 £450
25th Percentile £409 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £553
90th Percentile £638 £700 £600
Bedfordshire median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 3
10th Percentile £65.95 £20.26 £53.00
25th Percentile £80.81 £45.38 £53.75
Median hourly rate £90.50 £55.65 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +62.62% +1.18% -3.93%
75th Percentile £91.50 £65.80 £60.25
90th Percentile - £68.00 £61.90
Bedfordshire median hourly rate £84.50 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +69.00% -9.09% -3.51%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Luton

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Luton

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Luton

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Luton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Luton over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Luton

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Luton 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Metadata
1 3 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Aviation
3 2 (33.33%) Marketing
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Data Steward
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft BI Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Analytics
1 5 (83.33%) Data Governance
2 3 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 3 (50.00%) Data Sharing
2 3 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 3 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 3 (50.00%) Monte Carlo Method
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) API Integration
3 2 (33.33%) CRM
3 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft