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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 119 133
Rank change year-on-year +23 +14 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 175 54 49
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.44% 1.41% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.89% 1.59% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 29 39
10th Percentile £363 £329 £415
25th Percentile £413 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £585
90th Percentile £600 £638 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -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 6,064 3,393 3,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.40% 88.66% 84.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,639 2,192 2,363
10th Percentile £313 £268 £298
25th Percentile £402 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £466 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -5.91% -1.04%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £580
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 442 192 361
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.30
25th Percentile £22.63 £17.71 £12.55
Median hourly rate £45.25 £25.04 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +80.73% +13.81% -3.68%
75th Percentile £71.80 £47.53 £45.88
90th Percentile £83.03 £74.88 £66.61
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -5.96%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 +2 78 £490 +5.95% 33
North West -21 58 £500 +2.56% 54
North East +2 41 £425 -15.00% 20
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 (30.29%) Apache Spark
2 27 (15.43%) Apache
2 27 (15.43%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (9.14%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.71%) SAS
5 2 (1.14%) Confluence
5 2 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.57%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.57%) SAP ECC
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (41.71%) AWS
1 73 (41.71%) Azure
2 31 (17.71%) GCP
3 29 (16.57%) Power Platform
4 18 (10.29%) dbt
5 16 (9.14%) Azure Data Factory
5 16 (9.14%) OpenShift
6 13 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.43%) Snowflake
7 12 (6.86%) Amazon S3
8 9 (5.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (4.57%) Serverless
10 7 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.86%) Azure AI
11 5 (2.86%) Google Analytics
11 5 (2.86%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.86%) PowerApps
11 5 (2.86%) SaaS
11 5 (2.86%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 19 (10.86%) Power BI
3 17 (9.71%) Big Data
4 16 (9.14%) Hadoop
5 15 (8.57%) Metadata
6 13 (7.43%) BigQuery
7 12 (6.86%) Data Lake
7 12 (6.86%) Delta Lake
8 11 (6.29%) SQL Server
9 8 (4.57%) Data Vault
9 8 (4.57%) NoSQL
10 7 (4.00%) Looker
10 7 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.43%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (3.43%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.71%) Flink
13 3 (1.71%) MySQL
13 3 (1.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (10.86%) Git
1 19 (10.86%) GitLab
2 8 (4.57%) JIRA
3 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.57%) MLflow
3 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.43%) Public Sector
3 29 (16.57%) Finance
4 28 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (7.43%) Banking
6 10 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.29%) Law
8 3 (1.71%) Retail
8 3 (1.71%) Social Science
9 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.14%) Legal
10 1 (0.57%) Advertising
10 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.57%) Marketing
10 1 (0.57%) Military
10 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 80 (45.71%) Data Engineer
2 22 (12.57%) Lead
2 22 (12.57%) Senior
3 11 (6.29%) Developer
3 11 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (5.71%) AWS Data Engineer
4 10 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (5.14%) Lead Data Engineer
6 8 (4.57%) Analyst
6 8 (4.57%) Architect
6 8 (4.57%) Data Architect
6 8 (4.57%) Senior Data Engineer
7 6 (3.43%) Consultant
8 5 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 5 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (2.86%) Senior Architect
8 5 (2.86%) Senior Data Architect
9 4 (2.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 4 (2.29%) Data Consultant
9 4 (2.29%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (18.29%) Kafka
2 22 (12.57%) PySpark
3 8 (4.57%) JSON
4 7 (4.00%) Apache Avro
4 7 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (4.00%) Protocol Buffers
5 5 (2.86%) Quarkus
5 5 (2.86%) React
5 5 (2.86%) REST
6 3 (1.71%) Pandas
7 1 (0.57%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.57%) CSS
7 1 (0.57%) FHIR
7 1 (0.57%) LangChain
7 1 (0.57%) PyArrow
7 1 (0.57%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.57%) SOAP
7 1 (0.57%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.14%) AI Agents
2 9 (5.14%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.57%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (2.86%) NHS
6 3 (1.71%) Blog
6 3 (1.71%) Clustering
6 3 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.71%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.14%) BYOD
7 2 (1.14%) Life Science
7 2 (1.14%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.57%) Linux
1 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (49.71%) Analytics
2 80 (45.71%) Data Pipeline
3 78 (44.57%) CI/CD
4 58 (33.14%) ETL
5 52 (29.71%) Data Modelling
6 49 (28.00%) DevOps
7 45 (25.71%) Agile
8 41 (23.43%) AI
9 38 (21.71%) Infrastructure as Code
10 34 (19.43%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (19.43%) Problem-Solving
11 32 (18.29%) Data Governance
12 27 (15.43%) Machine Learning
13 25 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (13.14%) Cybersecurity
15 22 (12.57%) Data Science
15 22 (12.57%) Migration
15 22 (12.57%) Validation
16 21 (12.00%) Containerisation
17 19 (10.86%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 102 (58.29%) Python
2 64 (36.57%) SQL
3 13 (7.43%) Java
4 4 (2.29%) C#
5 3 (1.71%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.71%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.71%) Scala
6 2 (1.14%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (25.14%) Security Cleared
2 39 (22.29%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (6.29%) Degree
5 3 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (25.14%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.57%) GDPR
3 4 (2.29%) QA
4 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) GRC
6 1 (0.57%) HL7
6 1 (0.57%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (14.86%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (21.71%) Terraform
2 19 (10.86%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.14%) Grafana
5 1 (0.57%) Ansible
5 1 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 42 (24.00%) Databricks
2 28 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.29%) Splunk
4 11 (6.29%) Google
5 10 (5.71%) Trend Micro
6 7 (4.00%) Foundry
7 6 (3.43%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.86%) Informatica
9 3 (1.71%) Palantir
10 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.14%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.14%) SAP
11 1 (0.57%) Adobe
11 1 (0.57%) EXASOL
11 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.57%) IBM
11 1 (0.57%) Oracle
11 1 (0.57%) Talend