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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 122 129
Rank change year-on-year +25 +7 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 171 51 51
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.45% 1.43% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 1.60% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 28 41
10th Percentile £363 £325 £419
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -15.00%
75th Percentile £545 £563 £585
90th Percentile £600 £638 £615
England median daily rate £525 £533 £575
% change year-on-year -1.50% -7.30% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 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 £38.96 £48.50
% change year-on-year +79.67% -19.67% -37.82%

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 5,889 3,196 4,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.48% 89.42% 83.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,524 2,072 2,401
10th Percentile £313 £273 £300
25th Percentile £402 £377 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £465 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -6.06% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £553 £582
90th Percentile £675 £649 £665
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 426 181 381
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.63 £17.44 £12.55
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.08 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.46% +13.98% -12.00%
75th Percentile £71.50 £50.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.23 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.32% -33.83% +1.65%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +2 75 £480 +3.78% 13
North West -11 60 £496 -0.80% 40
North East -1 38 £425 -15.00% 15
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 52 (30.41%) Apache Spark
2 27 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (15.20%) Apache
4 16 (9.36%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.17%) Confluence
5 2 (1.17%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (1.17%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.58%) SAP ECC
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (42.11%) Azure
2 71 (41.52%) AWS
3 31 (18.13%) GCP
4 28 (16.37%) Power Platform
5 19 (11.11%) dbt
6 16 (9.36%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (9.36%) OpenShift
7 14 (8.19%) Snowflake
8 13 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
9 10 (5.85%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (4.09%) Serverless
12 6 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (2.92%) Azure AI
13 5 (2.92%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (2.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (2.92%) PowerApps
13 5 (2.92%) SaaS
13 5 (2.92%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.45%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (10.53%) Power BI
3 17 (9.94%) Big Data
4 16 (9.36%) Hadoop
5 14 (8.19%) Metadata
6 12 (7.02%) BigQuery
6 12 (7.02%) Delta Lake
7 11 (6.43%) Data Lake
7 11 (6.43%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.68%) NoSQL
8 8 (4.68%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (4.09%) Data Vault
10 6 (3.51%) Looker
10 6 (3.51%) Semantic Layer
10 6 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (2.92%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.75%) Flink
13 3 (1.75%) MySQL
13 3 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (11.11%) Git
1 19 (11.11%) GitLab
2 8 (4.68%) JIRA
3 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.58%) MLflow
3 1 (0.58%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 39 (22.81%) Public Sector
3 27 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (14.62%) Finance
5 12 (7.02%) Banking
6 10 (5.85%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.34%) Law
8 3 (1.75%) Retail
8 3 (1.75%) Social Science
9 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.17%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Marketing
10 1 (0.58%) Military
10 1 (0.58%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (45.03%) Data Engineer
2 21 (12.28%) Lead
2 21 (12.28%) Senior
3 11 (6.43%) Developer
3 11 (6.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (5.26%) AWS Data Engineer
4 9 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
5 8 (4.68%) Analyst
5 8 (4.68%) Architect
5 8 (4.68%) Data Architect
6 7 (4.09%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (3.51%) Consultant
8 5 (2.92%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (2.92%) Senior Architect
8 5 (2.92%) Senior Data Architect
8 5 (2.92%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (2.34%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 4 (2.34%) Data Analytics Engineer
9 4 (2.34%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.71%) Kafka
2 20 (11.70%) PySpark
3 8 (4.68%) JSON
4 7 (4.09%) Apache Avro
4 7 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (4.09%) Protocol Buffers
5 5 (2.92%) Quarkus
5 5 (2.92%) React
5 5 (2.92%) REST
6 3 (1.75%) Pandas
6 3 (1.75%) XGBoost
7 1 (0.58%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.58%) CSS
7 1 (0.58%) FHIR
7 1 (0.58%) LangChain
7 1 (0.58%) PyArrow
7 1 (0.58%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.58%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.70%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.26%) AI Agents
2 9 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.68%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.92%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.92%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (2.92%) NHS
6 4 (2.34%) Clustering
7 3 (1.75%) Blog
7 3 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.17%) BYOD
8 2 (1.17%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.17%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.58%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.58%) Linux
1 1 (0.58%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.58%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (49.12%) Analytics
2 76 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 76 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
3 57 (33.33%) ETL
4 49 (28.65%) Data Modelling
5 47 (27.49%) DevOps
6 43 (25.15%) Agile
7 40 (23.39%) AI
8 35 (20.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (19.30%) Business Intelligence
9 33 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (18.13%) Data Governance
11 27 (15.79%) Machine Learning
12 24 (14.04%) Data Science
13 23 (13.45%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (12.87%) Cybersecurity
14 22 (12.87%) Validation
15 21 (12.28%) Migration
16 20 (11.70%) Containerisation
17 19 (11.11%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 102 (59.65%) Python
2 62 (36.26%) SQL
3 13 (7.60%) Java
4 4 (2.34%) C#
5 3 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.17%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.17%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.17%) Scala
7 1 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (25.15%) Security Cleared
2 38 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (5.26%) Degree
4 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.17%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.58%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (23.98%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.09%) GDPR
3 3 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 3 (1.75%) QA
4 2 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.17%) SLA
5 1 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.58%) GRC
5 1 (0.58%) HL7
5 1 (0.58%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (14.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (21.05%) Terraform
2 18 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.09%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.17%) Grafana
5 1 (0.58%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 39 (22.81%) Databricks
2 26 (15.20%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.53%) Splunk
4 10 (5.85%) Google
4 10 (5.85%) Trend Micro
5 7 (4.09%) Foundry
6 6 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.34%) Informatica
8 3 (1.75%) Palantir
9 2 (1.17%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.17%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.17%) SAP
10 1 (0.58%) Adobe
10 1 (0.58%) EXASOL
10 1 (0.58%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.58%) IBM
10 1 (0.58%) Oracle
10 1 (0.58%) Talend