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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 122 135
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 125 42 44
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.09% 1.31% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.45% 1.45% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 25 37
10th Percentile £363 £413 £418
25th Percentile £413 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% -3.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £615
90th Percentile £600 £668 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile £56.00 £22.59 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £22.72 £66.25
Median hourly rate £72.13 £25.43 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +183.64% -62.33% +92.86%
75th Percentile £88.13 £28.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £29.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £25.97 £35.00
% change year-on-year +169.59% -25.81% -52.05%

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 5,093 2,893 4,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.08% 90.24% 85.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,252 1,872 2,523
10th Percentile £300 £263 £280
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £563 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 156 352
10th Percentile £16.14 £14.23 £11.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £18.13 £12.48
Median hourly rate £48.00 £28.75 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +66.96% +62.25% -36.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £52.81 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.67 £51.91
England median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
% change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 55 £480 -14.67% 31
North West -10 51 £480 +1.05% 45
North East +2 21 £463 -2.63% 11
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 29 (23.20%) Apache Spark
2 15 (12.00%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (5.60%) Apache
4 2 (1.60%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.80%) SAP ECC
2 1 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 51 (40.80%) Azure
2 45 (36.00%) AWS
3 24 (19.20%) GCP
4 19 (15.20%) dbt
5 17 (13.60%) Power Platform
6 16 (12.80%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (11.20%) OpenShift
8 10 (8.00%) Snowflake
9 9 (7.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 9 (7.20%) Serverless
10 7 (5.60%) Amazon S3
10 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (4.80%) Prefect
12 4 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.20%) GitHub
12 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (3.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 4 (3.20%) Vertex AI
13 3 (2.40%) Amazon EMR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (18.40%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (12.00%) Data Lake
2 15 (12.00%) Hadoop
3 13 (10.40%) Big Data
4 11 (8.80%) NoSQL
4 11 (8.80%) Power BI
4 11 (8.80%) SQL Server
5 9 (7.20%) Delta Lake
6 7 (5.60%) BigQuery
6 7 (5.60%) Data Vault
7 6 (4.80%) Metadata
7 6 (4.80%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (2.40%) MySQL
10 3 (2.40%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (1.60%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (13.60%) Git
2 8 (6.40%) JIRA
3 3 (2.40%) GitLab
3 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.80%) MLflow
4 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.60%) Public Sector
3 19 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (12.80%) Finance
5 8 (6.40%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (4.00%) Banking
7 2 (1.60%) Health Technology
7 2 (1.60%) Law
8 1 (0.80%) Advertising
8 1 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Legal
8 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.80%) Military
8 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.80%) Retail
8 1 (0.80%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.80%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 72 (57.60%) Data Engineer
2 20 (16.00%) Lead
3 14 (11.20%) Senior
4 11 (8.80%) Lead Data Engineer
5 7 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (4.80%) AWS Data Engineer
6 6 (4.80%) Senior Data Engineer
7 5 (4.00%) Analyst
7 5 (4.00%) Data Scientist
7 5 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) Consultant
8 4 (3.20%) Data Consultant
8 4 (3.20%) Developer
8 4 (3.20%) Lead Consultant
8 4 (3.20%) Senior Manager
8 4 (3.20%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 4 (3.20%) Snowflake Engineer
9 3 (2.40%) Python Data Engineer
9 3 (2.40%) Python Engineer
9 3 (2.40%) Senior Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.40%) Kafka
2 11 (8.80%) PySpark
3 7 (5.60%) Apache Avro
3 7 (5.60%) JSON
3 7 (5.60%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (5.60%) Protocol Buffers
4 5 (4.00%) XGBoost
5 4 (3.20%) FHIR
5 4 (3.20%) Pandas
5 4 (3.20%) Quarkus
5 4 (3.20%) React
6 2 (1.60%) LangChain
6 2 (1.60%) REST
7 1 (0.80%) .NET
7 1 (0.80%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.80%) CSS
7 1 (0.80%) NumPy
7 1 (0.80%) OAuth
7 1 (0.80%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.80%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.60%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.40%) NHS
3 6 (4.80%) AI Agents
3 6 (4.80%) Clustering
3 6 (4.80%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.40%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.60%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.60%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.80%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.80%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.80%) Life Science
8 1 (0.80%) Replication
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.80%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (55.20%) Analytics
2 58 (46.40%) Data Pipeline
3 55 (44.00%) ETL
4 47 (37.60%) CI/CD
4 47 (37.60%) Data Modelling
5 35 (28.00%) Agile
6 31 (24.80%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (20.00%) Data Governance
7 25 (20.00%) DevOps
8 24 (19.20%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (18.40%) AI
10 22 (17.60%) Data Science
11 21 (16.80%) Machine Learning
12 15 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (11.20%) Observability
13 14 (11.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (10.40%) Validation
15 12 (9.60%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 69 (55.20%) Python
2 53 (42.40%) SQL
3 8 (6.40%) Java
4 6 (4.80%) PL/SQL
5 4 (3.20%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.80%) Bicep
6 1 (0.80%) C#
6 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.80%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.80%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (16.80%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (4.80%) Degree
4 3 (2.40%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (25.60%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.40%) GDPR
3 2 (1.60%) HL7
3 2 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.80%) GRC
4 1 (0.80%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.80%) NCSC
4 1 (0.80%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (8.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (16.80%) Terraform
2 19 (15.20%) Kubernetes
3 9 (7.20%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.60%) Grafana
5 1 (0.80%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 28 (22.40%) Databricks
2 17 (13.60%) Microsoft
3 16 (12.80%) Splunk
4 8 (6.40%) Google
5 4 (3.20%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.60%) Brio
6 2 (1.60%) SAP
7 1 (0.80%) Foundry
7 1 (0.80%) IBM
7 1 (0.80%) Informatica
7 1 (0.80%) Oracle
7 1 (0.80%) SnapLogic
7 1 (0.80%) Talend