Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 124 135
Rank change year-on-year +31 +11 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 179 54 43
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.47% 1.38% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 1.56% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 30 33
10th Percentile £363 £333 £419
25th Percentile £413 £422 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £545 £547 £585
90th Percentile £600 £615 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £585
% change year-on-year - -10.26% -6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £53.00 £23.25 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £24.38 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £27.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +154.55% -59.26% +92.86%
75th Percentile £88.75 £29.38 £68.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £29.75 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +33.33% -12.50% -23.08%

All Process & 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 6,068 3,464 3,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.58% 88.71% 84.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,617 2,211 2,208
10th Percentile £313 £268 £300
25th Percentile £403 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £466 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% -6.80% -
75th Percentile £588 £553 £585
90th Percentile £675 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 463 204 277
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.47 £13.50
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.60 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +99.09% -1.19% -17.12%
75th Percentile £71.45 £43.39 £47.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.19 £68.80
England median hourly rate £46.90 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +86.48% -37.63% -5.12%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Engineering

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 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Engineering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 28 July 2026. 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
Yorkshire +17 83 £475 +2.70% 36
North West -16 58 £500 +5.26% 57
North East -8 40 £425 -15.00% 26
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 53 (29.61%) Apache Spark
2 27 (15.08%) Apache
3 26 (14.53%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (8.94%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.68%) SAS
6 2 (1.12%) Confluence
6 2 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.56%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ECC
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (41.34%) Azure
2 72 (40.22%) AWS
3 30 (16.76%) GCP
4 29 (16.20%) Power Platform
5 19 (10.61%) dbt
6 18 (10.06%) Snowflake
7 16 (8.94%) OpenShift
8 14 (7.82%) Azure Data Factory
9 13 (7.26%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (6.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 11 (6.15%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.91%) Serverless
13 6 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (3.35%) Azure AI
13 6 (3.35%) Google Analytics
13 6 (3.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (3.35%) Vertex AI
14 5 (2.79%) Copilot Studio
14 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (2.79%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.97%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (11.73%) Power BI
3 18 (10.06%) Metadata
4 16 (8.94%) Hadoop
5 15 (8.38%) Big Data
5 15 (8.38%) BigQuery
5 15 (8.38%) SQL Server
6 12 (6.70%) Data Lake
7 11 (6.15%) NoSQL
8 9 (5.03%) Delta Lake
9 8 (4.47%) Data Vault
9 8 (4.47%) Looker
10 7 (3.91%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (3.91%) Semantic Layer
10 7 (3.91%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (3.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (2.79%) Tableau
12 4 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.23%) Flink
12 4 (2.23%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (10.06%) Git
1 18 (10.06%) GitLab
2 8 (4.47%) JIRA
3 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (30.17%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.79%) Public Sector
3 33 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (16.20%) Finance
5 11 (6.15%) Banking
6 10 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.23%) Law
8 3 (1.68%) Retail
8 3 (1.68%) Social Science
9 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.12%) Legal
10 1 (0.56%) Advertising
10 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.56%) Marketing
10 1 (0.56%) Military
10 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (46.93%) Data Engineer
2 25 (13.97%) Lead
3 20 (11.17%) Senior
4 11 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (5.59%) AWS Data Engineer
5 10 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
5 10 (5.59%) Developer
6 9 (5.03%) Architect
6 9 (5.03%) Data Architect
7 8 (4.47%) Lead Data Engineer
7 8 (4.47%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (3.91%) Analyst
8 7 (3.91%) Consultant
8 7 (3.91%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (2.79%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 5 (2.79%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (2.79%) Data Consultant
9 5 (2.79%) Senior Architect
9 5 (2.79%) Senior Data Architect
9 5 (2.79%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (17.88%) Kafka
2 22 (12.29%) PySpark
3 8 (4.47%) JSON
4 7 (3.91%) Apache Avro
4 7 (3.91%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (3.91%) Protocol Buffers
4 7 (3.91%) REST
5 5 (2.79%) Quarkus
5 5 (2.79%) React
6 4 (2.23%) Pandas
7 1 (0.56%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.56%) CSS
7 1 (0.56%) PyArrow
7 1 (0.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.17%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.03%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.47%) AI Agents
3 8 (4.47%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.79%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.79%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.68%) Blog
7 3 (1.68%) Clustering
7 3 (1.68%) NHS
7 3 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.68%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.12%) BYOD
8 2 (1.12%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.12%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.12%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (49.72%) Analytics
2 82 (45.81%) Data Pipeline
3 76 (42.46%) CI/CD
4 54 (30.17%) ETL
5 52 (29.05%) Data Modelling
6 49 (27.37%) DevOps
7 42 (23.46%) Agile
7 42 (23.46%) AI
8 40 (22.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (20.11%) Business Intelligence
9 36 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (17.32%) Data Governance
11 26 (14.53%) Machine Learning
11 26 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 25 (13.97%) Migration
13 24 (13.41%) Cybersecurity
13 24 (13.41%) Validation
14 22 (12.29%) Data Science
14 22 (12.29%) Observability
15 21 (11.73%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 103 (57.54%) Python
2 68 (37.99%) SQL
3 14 (7.82%) Java
4 5 (2.79%) C#
5 3 (1.68%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.68%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.68%) Scala
6 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (25.14%) Security Cleared
2 40 (22.35%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (5.59%) Degree
5 3 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.68%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (26.26%) Data Quality
2 9 (5.03%) GDPR
3 5 (2.79%) QA
4 3 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.12%) SLA
6 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (13.97%) Docker
2 1 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (20.67%) Terraform
2 19 (10.61%) Kubernetes
3 7 (3.91%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.12%) Grafana
5 1 (0.56%) Ansible
5 1 (0.56%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 41 (22.91%) Databricks
2 29 (16.20%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.06%) Splunk
4 14 (7.82%) Google
5 10 (5.59%) Trend Micro
6 7 (3.91%) Foundry
7 6 (3.35%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.79%) Informatica
9 3 (1.68%) Palantir
10 2 (1.12%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.12%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.12%) SAP
11 1 (0.56%) Adobe
11 1 (0.56%) EXASOL
11 1 (0.56%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.56%) IBM
11 1 (0.56%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.56%) Oracle
11 1 (0.56%) Talend