Data Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 118 126
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 42 45 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.53% 1.30% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 1.38% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 35 55
10th Percentile £310 £428 £322
25th Percentile £413 £494 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +11.43%
75th Percentile £550 £644 £545
90th Percentile £635 £695 £615
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £23.54 - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £30.44 - -
75th Percentile £35.06 - -
90th Percentile £38.33 - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year +5.47% +41.59% -14.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,522 3,270 4,862
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 94.54% 95.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,704 2,299 3,556
10th Percentile £213 £224 £205
25th Percentile £325 £363 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +3.66% +14.56%
75th Percentile £588 £579 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 130 179
10th Percentile £11.84 £11.98 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.13 £13.74
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +16.92% +12.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.38 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.80 £60.50 £32.10
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in the Midlands

Data 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 Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +18 30 £513 -6.82% 13
East Midlands +26 12 £463 +2.78% 16
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (69.05%) SQL
2 25 (59.52%) Python
3 21 (50.00%) Azure
4 17 (40.48%) ETL
5 16 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (33.33%) Data Modelling
7 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (28.57%) Power BI
7 12 (28.57%) Power Platform
8 11 (26.19%) Data Pipeline
9 10 (23.81%) Analytics
9 10 (23.81%) AWS
9 10 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
10 9 (21.43%) Java
10 9 (21.43%) Data Analysis
11 8 (19.05%) Data Engineering
12 7 (16.67%) Data Lake
12 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (16.67%) Migration
12 7 (16.67%) Visualisation
12 7 (16.67%) Data Governance
12 7 (16.67%) Data Migration
12 7 (16.67%) Git
12 7 (16.67%) Scala
12 7 (16.67%) Data Analytics
13 6 (14.29%) DevOps
13 6 (14.29%) Degree
13 6 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (11.90%) ERP

Data 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (11.90%) Apache Spark
2 3 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (4.76%) Apache
4 1 (2.38%) Confluence
4 1 (2.38%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (50.00%) Azure
2 12 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 10 (23.81%) AWS
4 5 (11.90%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (11.90%) Snowflake
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (9.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (7.14%) dbt
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (4.76%) GCP
7 2 (4.76%) Serverless
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Machine Learning
8 1 (2.38%) GitHub
8 1 (2.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) Firewall
1 2 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (28.57%) Power BI
2 10 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 6 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
5 5 (11.90%) Big Data
5 5 (11.90%) NoSQL
6 4 (9.52%) Pentaho
6 4 (9.52%) SQL Server
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (7.14%) MySQL
7 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
7 3 (7.14%) Semantic Layer
7 3 (7.14%) Tableau
8 2 (4.76%) Apache Hive
8 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (4.76%) BigQuery
8 2 (4.76%) Hadoop
8 2 (4.76%) OLAP
8 2 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (4.76%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (2.38%) Ant
4 1 (2.38%) CA Release Automation
4 1 (2.38%) GitLab
4 1 (2.38%) Gradle
4 1 (2.38%) JUnit
4 1 (2.38%) Maven
General
1 12 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Banking
3 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Back Office
5 1 (2.38%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) ADO
1 3 (7.14%) Flask
1 3 (7.14%) Pandas
2 2 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (2.38%) Apache Beam
3 1 (2.38%) JDBC
3 1 (2.38%) Node.js
3 1 (2.38%) ODBC
3 1 (2.38%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.76%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
2 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) ETL
2 16 (38.10%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 11 (26.19%) Data Pipeline
5 10 (23.81%) Analytics
6 9 (21.43%) Data Analysis
7 8 (19.05%) Data Engineering
8 7 (16.67%) Data Analytics
8 7 (16.67%) Data Governance
8 7 (16.67%) Data Migration
8 7 (16.67%) Migration
8 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (16.67%) Visualisation
9 6 (14.29%) DevOps
10 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
10 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (11.90%) Data Transformation
10 5 (11.90%) ERP
11 4 (9.52%) Data Integration
11 4 (9.52%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (69.05%) SQL
2 25 (59.52%) Python
3 9 (21.43%) Java
4 7 (16.67%) Scala
5 3 (7.14%) PL/SQL
5 3 (7.14%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.76%) C
6 2 (4.76%) C++
6 2 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (4.76%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.38%) C#
7 1 (2.38%) HiveQL
7 1 (2.38%) Perl
7 1 (2.38%) R
7 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 5 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.76%) CISSP
4 2 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (2.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Databricks
2 5 (11.90%) Informatica
3 4 (9.52%) Talend
4 3 (7.14%) JD Edwards
5 2 (4.76%) QAD
5 2 (4.76%) Sage
6 1 (2.38%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.38%) Cognos
6 1 (2.38%) Denodo
6 1 (2.38%) JDA
6 1 (2.38%) Oracle
6 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.38%) SAP