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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 121 127
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 132 42 50
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.04% 1.28% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 1.43% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 23 42
10th Percentile £368 £363 £419
25th Percentile £413 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -2.91% -6.36%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £633 £635
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £53.00 £22.59 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £22.72 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £25.43 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +175.27% -62.33% +92.86%
75th Percentile £88.75 £28.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £29.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £27.50 £41.75
% change year-on-year +154.55% -34.13% -44.33%

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 5,450 2,941 3,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.23% 89.88% 85.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,376 1,897 2,407
10th Percentile £313 £263 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £551 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 146 369
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.50 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.68 £18.87 £12.50
Median hourly rate £51.89 £27.13 £18.11
Median % change year-on-year +91.29% +49.78% -34.62%
75th Percentile £71.50 £55.43 £45.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £76.88 £60.25
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -15 58 £478 -15.11% 25
North West -13 52 £500 - 63
North East -5 24 £450 -5.26% 27
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 34 (25.76%) Apache Spark
2 16 (12.12%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (9.09%) Apache
4 5 (3.79%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.52%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.76%) Confluence
6 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) SAP ECC
2 1 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (40.15%) Azure
2 50 (37.88%) AWS
3 26 (19.70%) GCP
4 19 (14.39%) Power Platform
5 17 (12.88%) dbt
6 16 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (10.61%) OpenShift
8 10 (7.58%) Snowflake
9 9 (6.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (5.30%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.30%) Serverless
11 5 (3.79%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (3.79%) Vertex AI
12 4 (3.03%) GitHub
12 4 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.27%) Amazon EMR
13 3 (2.27%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.91%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (12.12%) Big Data
2 16 (12.12%) Hadoop
3 13 (9.85%) Power BI
4 12 (9.09%) Data Lake
5 11 (8.33%) Delta Lake
5 11 (8.33%) SQL Server
6 8 (6.06%) BigQuery
6 8 (6.06%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.30%) Data Vault
7 7 (5.30%) Metadata
8 6 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (3.79%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (2.27%) MySQL
11 3 (2.27%) Spark SQL
12 2 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (1.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.52%) Parquet
12 2 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (9.09%) Git
2 8 (6.06%) GitLab
3 7 (5.30%) JIRA
4 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.76%) MLflow
4 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 30 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.94%) Public Sector
3 19 (14.39%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.88%) Finance
5 8 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.79%) Banking
7 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.52%) Law
7 2 (1.52%) Legal
7 2 (1.52%) Retail
8 1 (0.76%) Advertising
8 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Marketing
8 1 (0.76%) Military
8 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.76%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 73 (55.30%) Data Engineer
2 20 (15.15%) Lead
3 16 (12.12%) Senior
4 10 (7.58%) Lead Data Engineer
5 9 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (6.06%) AWS Data Engineer
6 8 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (3.79%) Analyst
7 5 (3.79%) Data Scientist
7 5 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.79%) Snowflake Engineer
8 4 (3.03%) Consultant
8 4 (3.03%) Data Consultant
8 4 (3.03%) Developer
8 4 (3.03%) Lead Consultant
8 4 (3.03%) Senior Manager
8 4 (3.03%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 3 (2.27%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (2.27%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
9 3 (2.27%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.21%) Kafka
2 14 (10.61%) PySpark
3 9 (6.82%) JSON
4 7 (5.30%) Apache Avro
4 7 (5.30%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (5.30%) Protocol Buffers
5 5 (3.79%) Quarkus
5 5 (3.79%) React
5 5 (3.79%) XGBoost
6 4 (3.03%) Pandas
7 3 (2.27%) REST
8 2 (1.52%) LangChain
9 1 (0.76%) Apache Beam
9 1 (0.76%) ARM Templates
9 1 (0.76%) CSS
9 1 (0.76%) FHIR
9 1 (0.76%) NumPy
9 1 (0.76%) PyArrow
9 1 (0.76%) PyTorch
9 1 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.30%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.79%) NHS
5 4 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.27%) Clustering
6 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.52%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.52%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.76%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.76%) Life Science
8 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.76%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.76%) Linux
1 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (53.03%) Analytics
2 60 (45.45%) Data Pipeline
3 55 (41.67%) ETL
4 45 (34.09%) CI/CD
4 45 (34.09%) Data Modelling
5 33 (25.00%) Agile
6 30 (22.73%) AI
7 28 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (20.45%) Data Governance
9 25 (18.94%) DevOps
10 24 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
10 24 (18.18%) Machine Learning
11 21 (15.91%) Data Science
12 20 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (12.12%) Migration
14 14 (10.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (10.61%) Validation
15 12 (9.09%) Observability
15 12 (9.09%) Test Automation
16 11 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 75 (56.82%) Python
2 56 (42.42%) SQL
3 7 (5.30%) Java
4 3 (2.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.27%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.76%) Bicep
5 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.76%) Scala
5 1 (0.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.42%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.30%) Degree
4 6 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.52%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (23.48%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.30%) GDPR
3 2 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.76%) GRC
4 1 (0.76%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.76%) HL7
4 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.76%) QA
4 1 (0.76%) SLA
4 1 (0.76%) Solvency II
System Software
1 10 (7.58%) Docker
2 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (15.91%) Terraform
2 13 (9.85%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.30%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 29 (21.97%) Databricks
2 16 (12.12%) Splunk
3 15 (11.36%) Microsoft
4 8 (6.06%) Google
5 4 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.27%) Foundry
6 3 (2.27%) Palantir
7 2 (1.52%) Informatica
7 2 (1.52%) SAP
8 1 (0.76%) EXASOL
8 1 (0.76%) IBM
8 1 (0.76%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle
8 1 (0.76%) SnapLogic
8 1 (0.76%) Talend