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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 119 129
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 140 46 52
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.12% 1.38% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 1.54% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 26 44
10th Percentile £365 £350 £419
25th Percentile £413 £450 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% -14.17%
75th Percentile £559 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £638 £631
England median daily rate £528 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.09% -1.79% -10.40%
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 £30.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year +133.33% -38.14% -36.81%

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 5,547 2,992 4,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.19% 89.82% 84.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,413 1,927 2,426
10th Percentile £313 £268 £300
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £669 £645 £675
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 363 150 387
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.93 £12.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% +21.09% -23.64%
75th Percentile £71.50 £51.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.00 £76.38 £63.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -12 64 £480 -8.57% 25
North West -17 50 £506 +1.25% 72
North East -3 28 £438 -12.50% 21
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 41 (29.29%) Apache Spark
2 20 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (12.14%) Apache
4 10 (7.14%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.43%) Confluence
5 2 (1.43%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) SAP ECC
2 1 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 56 (40.00%) Azure
2 54 (38.57%) AWS
3 25 (17.86%) GCP
4 22 (15.71%) Power Platform
5 17 (12.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 17 (12.14%) dbt
6 14 (10.00%) OpenShift
7 11 (7.86%) Snowflake
8 9 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (6.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (5.71%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.00%) Serverless
11 5 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (3.57%) Vertex AI
12 4 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.86%) Amazon EMR
12 4 (2.86%) GitHub
12 4 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (2.14%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (12.14%) Big Data
3 16 (11.43%) Hadoop
4 15 (10.71%) Power BI
5 11 (7.86%) Data Lake
5 11 (7.86%) Delta Lake
5 11 (7.86%) SQL Server
6 8 (5.71%) NoSQL
7 7 (5.00%) BigQuery
7 7 (5.00%) Data Vault
7 7 (5.00%) Metadata
8 6 (4.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (3.57%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (2.14%) MySQL
10 3 (2.14%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.43%) Parquet
11 2 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (9.29%) GitLab
2 12 (8.57%) Git
3 8 (5.71%) JIRA
4 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.71%) MLflow
4 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (23.57%) Social Skills
2 30 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 19 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (12.14%) Finance
5 8 (5.71%) Banking
5 8 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.14%) Retail
7 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.43%) Law
7 2 (1.43%) Legal
8 1 (0.71%) Advertising
8 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Marketing
8 1 (0.71%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.71%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 73 (52.14%) Data Engineer
2 20 (14.29%) Lead
3 17 (12.14%) Senior
4 10 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
5 8 (5.71%) AWS Data Engineer
5 8 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (5.00%) Analyst
6 7 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (4.29%) Snowflake Engineer
8 5 (3.57%) Consultant
8 5 (3.57%) Data Scientist
8 5 (3.57%) Developer
9 4 (2.86%) Business Analyst
9 4 (2.86%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 4 (2.86%) Data Consultant
9 4 (2.86%) Lead Consultant
9 4 (2.86%) Senior Manager
9 4 (2.86%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 3 (2.14%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.71%) Kafka
2 15 (10.71%) PySpark
3 9 (6.43%) JSON
4 7 (5.00%) Apache Avro
4 7 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (5.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 5 (3.57%) Quarkus
5 5 (3.57%) React
5 5 (3.57%) XGBoost
6 4 (2.86%) Pandas
7 3 (2.14%) REST
8 1 (0.71%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.71%) CSS
8 1 (0.71%) FHIR
8 1 (0.71%) LangChain
8 1 (0.71%) NumPy
8 1 (0.71%) PyArrow
8 1 (0.71%) PyTorch
8 1 (0.71%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.29%) Cloud Native
2 7 (5.00%) AI Agents
2 7 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 6 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (3.57%) NHS
5 3 (2.14%) Clustering
5 3 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.14%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.43%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.43%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.71%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.71%) Linux
1 1 (0.71%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.71%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (51.43%) Analytics
2 64 (45.71%) Data Pipeline
3 53 (37.86%) ETL
4 51 (36.43%) CI/CD
5 43 (30.71%) Data Modelling
6 35 (25.00%) Agile
7 33 (23.57%) AI
8 30 (21.43%) Data Governance
8 30 (21.43%) DevOps
9 27 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (18.57%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (18.57%) Machine Learning
11 25 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
12 23 (16.43%) Data Science
13 17 (12.14%) Migration
13 17 (12.14%) Validation
14 15 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
15 14 (10.00%) Observability
15 14 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (8.57%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 79 (56.43%) Python
2 55 (39.29%) SQL
3 7 (5.00%) Java
4 3 (2.14%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.14%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.71%) Bicep
6 1 (0.71%) C#
6 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.71%) Scala
6 1 (0.71%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (22.14%) Security Cleared
2 27 (19.29%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.71%) Degree
4 7 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.71%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.14%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.29%) GDPR
3 2 (1.43%) QA
3 2 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.71%) GRC
4 1 (0.71%) HL7
4 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.71%) SLA
4 1 (0.71%) Solvency II
System Software
1 14 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (17.86%) Terraform
2 12 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.71%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 31 (22.14%) Databricks
2 16 (11.43%) Splunk
3 14 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.71%) Google
5 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.86%) Trend Micro
6 3 (2.14%) Foundry
6 3 (2.14%) Informatica
6 3 (2.14%) Palantir
7 2 (1.43%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.43%) SAP
8 1 (0.71%) EXASOL
8 1 (0.71%) IBM
8 1 (0.71%) Oracle
8 1 (0.71%) Talend