Data Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Data Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 143 171
Rank change year-on-year +23 +28 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 46 42 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.40% 0.88% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 1.03% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 35 27
10th Percentile £413 £415 £416
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £550 £615 £650
90th Percentile £648 £638 £725
England median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £22.59 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.43 £67.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.33% +92.86% -
75th Percentile £28.75 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £29.50 - -
England median hourly rate £26.47 £38.65 £73.00
% change year-on-year -31.53% -47.05% +29.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +26 29 £488 -4.41% 55
Yorkshire +3 15 £550 -9.09% 36
North East 0 2 £475 +12.29% 12
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 6 (13.04%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.35%) Apache
2 2 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) AWS
1 15 (32.61%) Azure
2 13 (28.26%) GCP
3 9 (19.57%) dbt
4 8 (17.39%) Azure Data Factory
4 8 (17.39%) Power Platform
5 7 (15.22%) Snowflake
6 4 (8.70%) Google Compute Engine
7 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (6.52%) PaaS
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Functions
8 2 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.35%) Serverless
9 1 (2.17%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 1 (2.17%) Collibra
9 1 (2.17%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (23.91%) BigQuery
2 10 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (19.57%) Metadata
4 8 (17.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (17.39%) Power BI
4 8 (17.39%) Tableau
5 5 (10.87%) Hadoop
6 4 (8.70%) Looker
7 3 (6.52%) Big Data
7 3 (6.52%) Delta Lake
7 3 (6.52%) Dremio
7 3 (6.52%) SQL Server
7 3 (6.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (4.35%) Data Lake
8 2 (4.35%) Data Mining
8 2 (4.35%) Data Vault
8 2 (4.35%) MySQL
8 2 (4.35%) NoSQL
9 1 (2.17%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) Visual Studio
3 3 (6.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (4.35%) JIRA
General
1 16 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.22%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.70%) Banking
3 4 (8.70%) Finance
4 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Legal
5 1 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.17%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 20 (43.48%) Data Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (8.70%) Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Administrator
4 3 (6.52%) AWS Data Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Data Architect
4 3 (6.52%) GCP Architect
4 3 (6.52%) Senior
4 3 (6.52%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Analytics Developer
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Architect
6 1 (2.17%) Consultant
6 1 (2.17%) Data Analyst
6 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse Developer
6 1 (2.17%) Principal Architect
6 1 (2.17%) SAP Architect
6 1 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) PySpark
2 4 (8.70%) Kafka
3 2 (4.35%) ADO
3 2 (4.35%) XGBoost
4 1 (2.17%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.17%) Node.js
4 1 (2.17%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.17%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.17%) Shiny
4 1 (2.17%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Algorithms
1 6 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (6.52%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.17%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.17%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Linux
1 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Data Pipeline
1 21 (45.65%) ETL
2 20 (43.48%) Analytics
3 18 (39.13%) Data Science
4 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (30.43%) Data Modelling
6 11 (23.91%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (23.91%) Decision-Making
7 9 (19.57%) Data Management
7 9 (19.57%) Visualisation
8 7 (15.22%) Artificial Intelligence
8 7 (15.22%) Data Analytics
8 7 (15.22%) Data Governance
8 7 (15.22%) Machine Learning
9 6 (13.04%) Data Transformation
10 5 (10.87%) Information Retrieval
10 5 (10.87%) Pattern Recognition
10 5 (10.87%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (10.87%) Statistical Modelling
10 5 (10.87%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 23 (50.00%) Python
2 22 (47.83%) SQL
3 5 (10.87%) Scala
4 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.17%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Degree
2 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) Grafana
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 21 (45.65%) Databricks
2 10 (21.74%) Google
3 6 (13.04%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.35%) Brio
4 2 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) Ariba
5 1 (2.17%) Hitachi
5 1 (2.17%) Pega
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk