Data Analytics Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Analytics Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Analytics Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 133 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analytics Engineer 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.038% 0.074% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.079% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £469 -
25th Percentile £500 £478 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% - -
75th Percentile £600 £553 -
90th Percentile - £566 -
England median daily rate £513 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -18.65% +9.57% -28.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,362 2,532 2,799
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.33% 93.16% 94.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,543 1,598 1,944
10th Percentile £214 £250 £220
25th Percentile £358 £374 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £573 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 112 108
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.60 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.19 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.34 £21.59 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +12.74% +5.29% +15.72%
75th Percentile £31.00 £42.35 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.44 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Data Analytics Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics Engineer in the Midlands

Data Analytics Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analytics Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analytics Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

Data Analytics Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analytics Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 September 2025. 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
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
Data Analytics Engineer
England

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Data Analytics 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 Midlands region featuring Data Analytics Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PySpark
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks