Data Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Data Engineer
England > North of England

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £463, 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 65 109 124
Rank change year-on-year +44 +15 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 109 77 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.31% 1.61% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.54% 1.73% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 63 75
10th Percentile £258 £170 £408
25th Percentile £400 £256 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £513 £534 £675
90th Percentile £641 £561 £700
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
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
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the North of England

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +38 68 £463 +8.82% 59
Yorkshire +4 26 £450 -5.26% 36
North East +14 15 £450 -5.66% 20
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

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 North of England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 53 (48.62%) SQL
2 50 (45.87%) Python
3 41 (37.61%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (33.94%) Data Pipeline
4 37 (33.94%) ETL
5 35 (32.11%) Data Modelling
6 32 (29.36%) Azure
6 32 (29.36%) AWS
6 32 (29.36%) Social Skills
7 28 (25.69%) Security Cleared
8 27 (24.77%) Databricks
9 24 (22.02%) Analytics
10 22 (20.18%) Data Protection
11 20 (18.35%) SC Cleared
11 20 (18.35%) Data Engineering
12 17 (15.60%) Kubernetes
12 17 (15.60%) Data Quality
12 17 (15.60%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (15.60%) Oracle
13 16 (14.68%) Containerisation
13 16 (14.68%) PySpark
14 15 (13.76%) Azure Data Factory
14 15 (13.76%) Apache Airflow
15 14 (12.84%) Docker
16 13 (11.93%) Data Transformation
16 13 (11.93%) CI/CD
16 13 (11.93%) dbt
16 13 (11.93%) Migration
17 12 (11.01%) Visualisation
17 12 (11.01%) Data Migration

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (13.76%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.17%) Apache
3 8 (7.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.83%) Confluence
4 2 (1.83%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 32 (29.36%) AWS
1 32 (29.36%) Azure
2 15 (13.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 13 (11.93%) dbt
4 11 (10.09%) Snowflake
5 10 (9.17%) Amazon S3
5 10 (9.17%) GCP
5 10 (9.17%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.34%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (7.34%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (6.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.67%) GitHub
9 4 (3.67%) OCI
9 4 (3.67%) Serverless
10 3 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.83%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.83%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.83%) AWS Data Pipeline
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.26%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.83%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.60%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (9.17%) Data Lake
2 10 (9.17%) Power BI
3 9 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
3 9 (8.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (7.34%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.42%) Metadata
6 6 (5.50%) BigQuery
6 6 (5.50%) Delta Lake
6 6 (5.50%) Hadoop
6 6 (5.50%) MySQL
6 6 (5.50%) Oracle Database
6 6 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.50%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.59%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.67%) Airbyte
8 4 (3.67%) Big Data
8 4 (3.67%) Flink
9 3 (2.75%) Dremio
9 3 (2.75%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Git
2 5 (4.59%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.67%) JIRA
4 3 (2.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.83%) GitLab
6 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.92%) Flyway
6 1 (0.92%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.92%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.92%) Vagrant
General
1 32 (29.36%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.09%) Finance
3 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.42%) Banking
4 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.83%) Digital Healthcare
6 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.83%) Retail
7 1 (0.92%) Automotive
7 1 (0.92%) Front Office
7 1 (0.92%) Games
7 1 (0.92%) Legal
7 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.92%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.68%) PySpark
2 8 (7.34%) Kafka
3 6 (5.50%) REST
4 2 (1.83%) ADO
4 2 (1.83%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (1.83%) Pandas
4 2 (1.83%) Spring
4 2 (1.83%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Beam
5 1 (0.92%) boto
5 1 (0.92%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.92%) JDBC
5 1 (0.92%) Lambda Expressions
5 1 (0.92%) Shiny
5 1 (0.92%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.26%) Fibre Optics
2 7 (6.42%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.59%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.59%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.83%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) IoT
6 1 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.92%) Linux
1 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (37.61%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (33.94%) Data Pipeline
2 37 (33.94%) ETL
3 35 (32.11%) Data Modelling
4 24 (22.02%) Analytics
5 22 (20.18%) Data Protection
6 20 (18.35%) Data Engineering
7 16 (14.68%) Containerisation
8 13 (11.93%) CI/CD
8 13 (11.93%) Data Transformation
8 13 (11.93%) Migration
9 12 (11.01%) Data Migration
9 12 (11.01%) Visualisation
10 11 (10.09%) Agile
11 10 (9.17%) Validation
12 9 (8.26%) Data Management
13 8 (7.34%) Data Integration
13 8 (7.34%) Performance Tuning
14 7 (6.42%) Data Ingestion
14 7 (6.42%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 53 (48.62%) SQL
2 50 (45.87%) Python
3 11 (10.09%) PL/SQL
4 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
4 4 (3.67%) SPARQL
5 3 (2.75%) T-SQL
6 2 (1.83%) Java
7 1 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.92%) R
7 1 (0.92%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.26%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.83%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (1.83%) Degree
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.92%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.60%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.59%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.75%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (12.84%) Docker
2 1 (0.92%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (0.92%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 17 (15.60%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.59%) Ansible
2 5 (4.59%) Terraform
3 2 (1.83%) Puppet
4 1 (0.92%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 27 (24.77%) Databricks
2 17 (15.60%) Oracle
3 9 (8.26%) Commvault
4 7 (6.42%) Google
4 7 (6.42%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.50%) Informatica
6 4 (3.67%) Talend
7 2 (1.83%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.92%) Brio
8 1 (0.92%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.92%) New Relic
8 1 (0.92%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.92%) Splunk
8 1 (0.92%) Veritas
8 1 (0.92%) Virgin Media