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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 121 150
Rank change year-on-year -2 +29 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 61 47 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.56% 1.14% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.36% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 33 34
10th Percentile £329 £419 £433
25th Percentile £361 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% -6.25%
75th Percentile £531 £585 £638
90th Percentile £600 £612 £648
England median daily rate £520 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -9.57% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £26.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -59.23% -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -23.08% +56.00%

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 3,486 3,446 4,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.04% 83.95% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,251 2,009 3,000
10th Percentile £268 £300 £285
25th Percentile £375 £400 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -0.08% +0.08%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £680 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 179 207
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.51 £15.74
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.68 £17.88
Median hourly rate £22.60 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.42% +27.27% +37.50%
75th Percentile £35.63 £51.89 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £63.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.54
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.24% +50.14%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -3 35 £473 -5.50% 53
Yorkshire -7 22 £475 -3.55% 29
North East -3 4 £538 -10.04% 4
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (29.51%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (11.48%) Apache
2 7 (11.48%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Maple
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 24 (39.34%) AWS
1 24 (39.34%) Azure
2 23 (37.70%) GCP
3 14 (22.95%) Power Platform
4 10 (16.39%) dbt
5 9 (14.75%) Snowflake
6 5 (8.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (8.20%) GitHub
7 4 (6.56%) PaaS
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.92%) Prefect
8 3 (4.92%) Serverless
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.28%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (3.28%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 2 (3.28%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (3.28%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (3.28%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (24.59%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (22.95%) Power BI
3 12 (19.67%) BigQuery
4 8 (13.11%) Amazon Redshift
4 8 (13.11%) Data Lake
4 8 (13.11%) Delta Lake
5 7 (11.48%) Big Data
5 7 (11.48%) Hadoop
5 7 (11.48%) Looker
6 6 (9.84%) Tableau
7 5 (8.20%) Metadata
8 4 (6.56%) DataStage
9 3 (4.92%) Apache Hive
9 3 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (4.92%) Dremio
9 3 (4.92%) HBase
9 3 (4.92%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (4.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (3.28%) Data Vault
10 2 (3.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (18.03%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (4.92%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.28%) GitLab
4 2 (3.28%) JIRA
4 2 (3.28%) MLflow
4 2 (3.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
3 6 (9.84%) Finance
4 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Banking
5 4 (6.56%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.92%) Automotive
6 3 (4.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.28%) Legal
8 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.64%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (47.54%) Data Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Architect
2 9 (14.75%) Data Architect
3 6 (9.84%) Analyst
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (6.56%) Data Analyst
4 4 (6.56%) Lead
5 3 (4.92%) Azure Data Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) BigQuery Architect
5 3 (4.92%) ETL Architect
5 3 (4.92%) GCP Architect
5 3 (4.92%) GCP Data Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Hadoop Engineer
5 3 (4.92%) Information Architect
5 3 (4.92%) Senior
6 2 (3.28%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 2 (3.28%) Data Visualisation Specialist
6 2 (3.28%) Engineering Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (22.95%) PySpark
2 5 (8.20%) Kafka
3 4 (6.56%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (3.28%) Flask
4 2 (3.28%) HTML
4 2 (3.28%) pytest
4 2 (3.28%) RESTful
5 1 (1.64%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.64%) Streamlit
5 1 (1.64%) XGBoost
5 1 (1.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.20%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.56%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.56%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.92%) Clustering
4 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.92%) Data Fabric
4 3 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.28%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.64%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) Analytics
2 25 (40.98%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (40.98%) ETL
3 23 (37.70%) Data Modelling
4 16 (26.23%) CI/CD
5 15 (24.59%) Data Science
6 14 (22.95%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (22.95%) Data Transformation
6 14 (22.95%) Machine Learning
7 12 (19.67%) Agile
7 12 (19.67%) Data Governance
8 11 (18.03%) Data Analytics
9 10 (16.39%) Artificial Intelligence
9 10 (16.39%) Data Architecture
9 10 (16.39%) Data Integration
10 9 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (13.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (13.11%) Visualisation
12 7 (11.48%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (11.48%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 36 (59.02%) SQL
2 28 (45.90%) Python
3 6 (9.84%) Scala
4 3 (4.92%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.92%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.92%) AWS Certification
2 3 (4.92%) Degree
2 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.64%) CBAP
4 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.64%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (29.51%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.92%) GDPR
4 2 (3.28%) QA
5 1 (1.64%) GMP
5 1 (1.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) Docker
2 3 (4.92%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 7 (11.48%) Terraform
2 3 (4.92%) Ansible
2 3 (4.92%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.92%) Puppet
3 2 (3.28%) Control-M
Vendors
1 23 (37.70%) Databricks
2 13 (21.31%) Google
3 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.56%) Informatica
4 4 (6.56%) Talend
5 3 (4.92%) Hitachi
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle
6 2 (3.28%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.64%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.64%) SAP