Data Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Data Engineering
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 94 133
Rank change year-on-year +3 +39 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 25 41 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.26% 1.52% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.44% 1.86% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 28 23
10th Percentile £321 £306 £420
25th Percentile £367 £520 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £584 £540
Median % change year-on-year -20.80% +8.15% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £731 £613
90th Percentile £661 £850 £650
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £38.96 £26.05 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.56% - -
England median hourly rate £28.75 £35.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% -53.33% +27.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,742 2,209 2,944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.02% 82.09% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,479 2,062
10th Percentile £200 £235 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -3.06% +3.16%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £593
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 170 105
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £11.88
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.60 £14.52
Median hourly rate £18.51 £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -7.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £24.66 £34.56 £32.00
90th Percentile £45.18 £55.00 £56.50
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.67% +50.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 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 +4 16 £431 -32.85% 36
East Midlands +5 8 £469 -14.77% 17
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 4 (16.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (12.00%) Apache
3 2 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (4.00%) Confluence
4 1 (4.00%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (8.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
2 5 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.00%) Serverless
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 3 (12.00%) Snowflake
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (8.00%) Collibra
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.00%) dbt
6 1 (4.00%) Pulumi
6 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) SAN
1 2 (8.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.00%) Big Data
3 4 (16.00%) Power BI
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (12.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (12.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (12.00%) Hadoop
5 2 (8.00%) BigQuery
5 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (8.00%) Delta Lake
5 2 (8.00%) GIS
5 2 (8.00%) NoSQL
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (4.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.00%) Flink
6 1 (4.00%) Metadata
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (4.00%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (4.00%) Spark SQL
6 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Automotive
6 1 (4.00%) Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Law
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Senior
2 5 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Data Migration Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Lead Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Migration Specialist
5 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) GCP Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Linux Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) PySpark
3 1 (4.00%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.00%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.00%) IoT
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) SCADA
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Debian
2 2 (8.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (64.00%) ETL
2 12 (48.00%) Data Modelling
3 11 (44.00%) Data Governance
3 11 (44.00%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (40.00%) Analytics
5 8 (32.00%) Agile
5 8 (32.00%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (28.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (28.00%) Data Security
7 5 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 5 (20.00%) Data Science
7 5 (20.00%) DevOps
7 5 (20.00%) Validation
7 5 (20.00%) Visualisation
8 4 (16.00%) Data Strategy
8 4 (16.00%) Mentoring
8 4 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (16.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Python
2 14 (56.00%) SQL
3 6 (24.00%) Java
4 5 (20.00%) Scala
5 2 (8.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (44.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Kibana
3 1 (4.00%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Databricks
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) SAP
3 2 (8.00%) Informatica
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (4.00%) Hitachi
4 1 (4.00%) Splunk
4 1 (4.00%) Virgin Media