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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 124 149
Rank change year-on-year -11 +25 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 73 42 37
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.58% 1.11% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 1.29% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 26 26
10th Percentile £331 £419 £419
25th Percentile £363 £439 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -11.11% -6.25%
75th Percentile £508 £604 £597
90th Percentile £600 £706 £646
England median daily rate £525 £575 £589
% change year-on-year -8.70% -2.34% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £74.26 £25.97 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +186.00% -60.05% -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £25.43 £53.65
% change year-on-year +192.02% -52.60% +7.31%

All Process and 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 4,102 3,255 4,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.96% 85.93% 88.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,734 1,824 2,801
10th Percentile £213 £263 £281
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 170 190
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.00 £15.98
25th Percentile £19.05 £17.44 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -13.28% +2.47% +31.63%
75th Percentile £45.88 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £68.33 £61.99
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%

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 7 December 2025.

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
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 7 December 2025. 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
North West +7 42 £425 -12.37% 73
Yorkshire -36 21 £500 - 45
North East +2 10 £400 -33.05% 10
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 22 (30.14%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (12.33%) Apache
2 9 (12.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.74%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 31 (42.47%) AWS
2 28 (38.36%) Azure
3 18 (24.66%) GCP
4 9 (12.33%) Serverless
5 8 (10.96%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (9.59%) Amazon S3
6 7 (9.59%) dbt
6 7 (9.59%) Power Platform
6 7 (9.59%) Snowflake
7 6 (8.22%) Amazon SageMaker
7 6 (8.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (8.22%) GitHub
7 6 (8.22%) Prefect
8 5 (6.85%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (6.85%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (5.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (5.48%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.81%) Data Lake
2 12 (16.44%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (9.59%) Amazon Redshift
3 7 (9.59%) Big Data
3 7 (9.59%) Delta Lake
3 7 (9.59%) Power BI
4 6 (8.22%) BigQuery
4 6 (8.22%) Snowflake Schema
5 4 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.48%) DataStage
5 4 (5.48%) Hadoop
5 4 (5.48%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.11%) Apache Hive
6 3 (4.11%) HBase
7 2 (2.74%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.74%) Spark SQL
7 2 (2.74%) Star Schema
7 2 (2.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (19.18%) Git
2 8 (10.96%) Jenkins
3 6 (8.22%) GitLab
4 4 (5.48%) MLflow
5 3 (4.11%) JIRA
6 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (28.77%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.55%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.59%) Finance
5 4 (5.48%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.11%) Automotive
6 3 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.37%) Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.37%) Legal
8 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 40 (54.79%) Data Engineer
2 9 (12.33%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) AWS Data Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Senior
4 7 (9.59%) Analyst
4 7 (9.59%) Architect
4 7 (9.59%) Data Architect
4 7 (9.59%) Lead
5 6 (8.22%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Azure Data Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) ETL Architect
8 3 (4.11%) GCP Architect
8 3 (4.11%) GCP Data Architect
8 3 (4.11%) Hadoop Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Python Data Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.92%) PySpark
2 6 (8.22%) RESTful
3 5 (6.85%) Flask
4 4 (5.48%) HTML
4 4 (5.48%) Spark Streaming
5 3 (4.11%) FHIR
5 3 (4.11%) Kafka
6 2 (2.74%) pytest
7 1 (1.37%) .NET
7 1 (1.37%) Apache Beam
7 1 (1.37%) Django
7 1 (1.37%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.37%) JWT
7 1 (1.37%) Node.js
7 1 (1.37%) OAuth
7 1 (1.37%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.37%) React
7 1 (1.37%) REST
7 1 (1.37%) XGBoost
7 1 (1.37%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.22%) Clustering
2 6 (8.22%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.85%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.48%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
5 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
5 3 (4.11%) NHS
6 2 (2.74%) Data Fabric
6 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.21%) Analytics
2 31 (42.47%) Data Pipeline
3 29 (39.73%) CI/CD
4 28 (38.36%) ETL
5 24 (32.88%) Data Modelling
6 17 (23.29%) Data Science
6 17 (23.29%) DevOps
6 17 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (21.92%) AI
7 16 (21.92%) Machine Learning
8 15 (20.55%) Data Architecture
9 14 (19.18%) Agile
10 13 (17.81%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (16.44%) Data Transformation
12 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 11 (15.07%) Data Governance
12 11 (15.07%) Data Integration
13 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (10.96%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 41 (56.16%) SQL
2 39 (53.42%) Python
3 6 (8.22%) PL/SQL
3 6 (8.22%) Scala
4 3 (4.11%) Java
4 3 (4.11%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.74%) Bicep
6 1 (1.37%) C#
6 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.74%) Degree
4 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.37%) CBAP
5 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (24.66%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.48%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) NCSC
3 2 (2.74%) QA
4 1 (1.37%) GMP
4 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.37%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (21.92%) Docker
2 3 (4.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (26.03%) Terraform
2 14 (19.18%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.11%) Ansible
3 3 (4.11%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (4.11%) Prometheus
3 3 (4.11%) Puppet
4 2 (2.74%) Control-M
4 2 (2.74%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (32.88%) Databricks
2 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.96%) Google
4 4 (5.48%) Informatica
4 4 (5.48%) Talend
5 3 (4.11%) Hitachi
6 2 (2.74%) Brio
6 2 (2.74%) Oracle
6 2 (2.74%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.37%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.37%) SAP
7 1 (1.37%) SnapLogic