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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 133 118
Rank change year-on-year +34 -15 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 187 57 48
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.47% 1.44% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 1.62% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 37 33
10th Percentile £363 £283 £419
25th Percentile £402 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -6.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £585
90th Percentile £609 £600 £612
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £72.66 - £26.50
England median hourly rate £66.25 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +26.19% -12.50% -20.53%

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 6,285 3,516 3,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 82.85% 88.81% 84.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,644 2,293 1,958
10th Percentile £313 £268 £300
25th Percentile £406 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £585
90th Percentile £675 £663 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 528 201 180
10th Percentile £14.06 £13.85 £13.63
25th Percentile £20.97 £17.44 £16.44
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.58 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.73% -35.50% +27.27%
75th Percentile £69.81 £35.50 £51.88
90th Percentile £77.33 £67.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.95%

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 22 September 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
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 22 September 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 +28 95 £500 +5.26% 64
North West -27 58 £513 +17.14% 165
North East -3 36 £425 -32.00% 40
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 38 (20.32%) Apache Spark
2 27 (14.44%) Apache
3 22 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (8.56%) Jupyter
5 6 (3.21%) Confluence
6 5 (2.67%) SAS
7 4 (2.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (1.07%) nginx
9 1 (0.53%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 84 (44.92%) Azure
2 75 (40.11%) AWS
3 41 (21.93%) GCP
4 35 (18.72%) Power Platform
5 19 (10.16%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 16 (8.56%) Snowflake
8 14 (7.49%) Serverless
9 13 (6.95%) dbt
10 12 (6.42%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (4.28%) GitHub
13 7 (3.74%) Amazon EMR
13 7 (3.74%) Azure AI
13 7 (3.74%) Google Analytics
14 6 (3.21%) Azure Databricks
14 6 (3.21%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (3.21%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 6 (3.21%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.67%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (19.25%) Metadata
2 29 (15.51%) Power BI
3 27 (14.44%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (13.90%) BigQuery
5 14 (7.49%) Big Data
5 14 (7.49%) Data Lake
6 12 (6.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (5.88%) SQL Server
8 10 (5.35%) Semantic Layer
9 9 (4.81%) Looker
10 7 (3.74%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (3.74%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (3.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.21%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (2.14%) Data Vault
13 4 (2.14%) Flink
13 4 (2.14%) NoSQL
13 4 (2.14%) Star Schema
13 4 (2.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (10.16%) Git
1 19 (10.16%) GitLab
2 11 (5.88%) JIRA
3 1 (0.53%) Applitools
3 1 (0.53%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.53%) JMeter
3 1 (0.53%) MLflow
3 1 (0.53%) Newman
3 1 (0.53%) Postman
3 1 (0.53%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.53%) Toad
General
1 56 (29.95%) Social Skills
2 42 (22.46%) Public Sector
3 38 (20.32%) Finance
4 31 (16.58%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (8.02%) Banking
6 5 (2.67%) Law
7 4 (2.14%) Publishing
8 3 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.60%) Social Science
9 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.07%) Legal
9 2 (1.07%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.07%) Retail
10 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing
10 1 (0.53%) Military
10 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (39.57%) Data Engineer
2 26 (13.90%) Senior
3 20 (10.70%) Lead
4 12 (6.42%) Developer
4 12 (6.42%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (5.88%) AWS Data Engineer
5 11 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 10 (5.35%) Architect
7 8 (4.28%) Data Architect
8 7 (3.74%) Snowflake Engineer
9 6 (3.21%) Analyst
9 6 (3.21%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 5 (2.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
10 5 (2.67%) Consultant
10 5 (2.67%) Senior Architect
10 5 (2.67%) Senior Data Architect
10 5 (2.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (2.14%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 4 (2.14%) Palantir Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (25.13%) Terraform
2 22 (11.76%) PySpark
3 14 (7.49%) Kafka
4 9 (4.81%) REST
5 5 (2.67%) Quarkus
5 5 (2.67%) React
6 3 (1.60%) JSON
7 2 (1.07%) .NET
7 2 (1.07%) JWT
7 2 (1.07%) LangChain
7 2 (1.07%) OAuth
7 2 (1.07%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.07%) Pandas
8 1 (0.53%) CSS
8 1 (0.53%) LangGraph
8 1 (0.53%) LlamaIndex
8 1 (0.53%) Model Context Protocol
8 1 (0.53%) Playwright
8 1 (0.53%) SOAP
8 1 (0.53%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 30 (16.04%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.95%) Data Structures
3 12 (6.42%) AI Agents
4 9 (4.81%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.28%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.21%) Data Fabric
7 5 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.67%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (2.14%) NHS
9 3 (1.60%) Blog
9 3 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.60%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.60%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.07%) BYOD
10 2 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
10 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.07%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.67%) Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.53%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.53%) Unix
2 1 (0.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (48.13%) Analytics
2 83 (44.39%) Data Pipeline
3 75 (40.11%) CI/CD
4 62 (33.16%) Data Modelling
5 56 (29.95%) AI
6 54 (28.88%) DevOps
7 52 (27.81%) Infrastructure as Code
8 49 (26.20%) ETL
9 42 (22.46%) Agile
10 41 (21.93%) Data Governance
11 39 (20.86%) Data Integration
12 35 (18.72%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (16.58%) Migration
13 31 (16.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (15.51%) Machine Learning
15 28 (14.97%) Cybersecurity
16 27 (14.44%) Data Architecture
17 26 (13.90%) Problem-Solving
17 26 (13.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 26 (13.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 114 (60.96%) Python
2 87 (46.52%) SQL
3 19 (10.16%) Java
4 11 (5.88%) C#
5 7 (3.74%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (3.21%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.14%) Bash
7 4 (2.14%) Scala
8 3 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.60%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.07%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.53%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 39 (20.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.28%) Degree
5 4 (2.14%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.60%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.07%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (37.43%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.81%) GDPR
3 6 (3.21%) QA
4 4 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.07%) SLA
7 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.53%) NCSC
7 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (12.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (6.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.14%) Grafana
3 2 (1.07%) Ansible
3 2 (1.07%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.53%) IBM Guardium
4 1 (0.53%) Kibana
4 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 46 (24.60%) Databricks
2 31 (16.58%) Microsoft
3 24 (12.83%) Google
4 10 (5.35%) Trend Micro
5 9 (4.81%) Foundry
6 5 (2.67%) Informatica
6 5 (2.67%) Palantir
6 5 (2.67%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.60%) Splunk
8 2 (1.07%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.07%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.07%) Remedy
9 1 (0.53%) Adobe
9 1 (0.53%) EXASOL
9 1 (0.53%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.53%) IBM
9 1 (0.53%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.53%) Oracle
9 1 (0.53%) OutSystems
9 1 (0.53%) Red Hat