Data Engineer Contracts in the Midlands

Data Engineer
England > Midlands

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the Midlands is £468, 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 57 90 123
Rank change year-on-year +33 +33 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 57 43 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.98% 1.56% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.30% 1.70% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 26 35
10th Percentile £363 £336 £428
25th Percentile £381 £411 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -12.50% +12.53%
75th Percentile £562 £547 £644
90th Percentile £643 £635 £695
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £30.44 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year -3.70% +5.47% +41.91%

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 1,725 2,532 3,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 91.84% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,707 2,290
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.26%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 213 128
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.84 £12.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.21
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.88
90th Percentile £35.58 £54.60 £61.50
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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
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 1 May 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 +29 45 £488 -7.14% 25
East Midlands +8 12 £399 -11.39% 11
Data Engineer
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (47.37%) SQL
2 20 (35.09%) ETL
3 19 (33.33%) Python
4 17 (29.82%) Data Modelling
4 17 (29.82%) Azure
5 16 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (26.32%) Analytics
7 14 (24.56%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (24.56%) Data Pipeline
8 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
9 12 (21.05%) Databricks
9 12 (21.05%) Data Engineering
10 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
10 11 (19.30%) AWS
10 11 (19.30%) Data Transformation
10 11 (19.30%) Finance
10 11 (19.30%) Agile
11 10 (17.54%) Data Quality
11 10 (17.54%) Snowflake
12 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
12 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
12 9 (15.79%) Data Integration
13 8 (14.04%) Visualisation
13 8 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (14.04%) Apache
13 8 (14.04%) Java
13 8 (14.04%) Onboarding
13 8 (14.04%) PySpark
14 7 (12.28%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (12.28%) Banking

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 8 (14.04%) Apache
2 4 (7.02%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (7.02%) Apache Spark
2 4 (7.02%) Confluence
3 3 (5.26%) R Markdown
4 1 (1.75%) IBM Notes
4 1 (1.75%) Luigi
4 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.82%) Azure
2 11 (19.30%) AWS
3 10 (17.54%) Snowflake
4 7 (12.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (8.77%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.51%) GCP
7 2 (3.51%) GitHub
8 1 (1.75%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.75%) IaaS
8 1 (1.75%) Matillion
8 1 (1.75%) PaaS
8 1 (1.75%) Pulumi
8 1 (1.75%) Serverless
8 1 (1.75%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.56%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (10.53%) Data Lake
3 5 (8.77%) Power BI
4 4 (7.02%) Big Data
4 4 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.02%) Hadoop
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.26%) Apache Hive
5 3 (5.26%) HBase
5 3 (5.26%) Impala
5 3 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.51%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.51%) Spark SQL
6 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.75%) Flink
7 1 (1.75%) Metadata
7 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Git
2 5 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.02%) JIRA
4 3 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 11 (19.30%) Finance
2 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.28%) Banking
5 5 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.02%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.75%) Law
8 1 (1.75%) Legal
8 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) PySpark
2 5 (8.77%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (5.26%) Kafka
3 3 (5.26%) Shiny
4 2 (3.51%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.51%) REST
5 1 (1.75%) Keycloak
5 1 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.75%) NumPy
5 1 (1.75%) Pandas
5 1 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (3.51%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.51%) Replication
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.09%) ETL
2 17 (29.82%) Data Modelling
3 16 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (26.32%) Analytics
5 14 (24.56%) Data Pipeline
6 12 (21.05%) Data Engineering
7 11 (19.30%) Agile
7 11 (19.30%) Data Transformation
8 9 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 9 (15.79%) Data Integration
9 8 (14.04%) Visualisation
10 7 (12.28%) Data Governance
11 6 (10.53%) Data Security
12 5 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (8.77%) Data Ingestion
12 5 (8.77%) Data Management
12 5 (8.77%) Data Science
12 5 (8.77%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 5 (8.77%) Migration
12 5 (8.77%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 27 (47.37%) SQL
2 19 (33.33%) Python
3 8 (14.04%) Java
4 4 (7.02%) R
4 4 (7.02%) Scala
5 3 (5.26%) PL/SQL
5 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
6 2 (3.51%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.75%) ANSI SQL
7 1 (1.75%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) Azure Certification
3 3 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.51%) Degree
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.54%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.53%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.26%) GDPR
3 3 (5.26%) WCAG
4 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
3 2 (3.51%) Kibana
3 2 (3.51%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (21.05%) Databricks
2 4 (7.02%) Virgin Media
3 3 (5.26%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.26%) Denodo
3 3 (5.26%) IBM
4 2 (3.51%) Epicor
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.51%) Talend
5 1 (1.75%) Google
5 1 (1.75%) Lotus
5 1 (1.75%) QAD
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.75%) SAP