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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 139 121 149
Rank change year-on-year -18 +28 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 73 41 37
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.56% 1.14% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.32% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 26 26
10th Percentile £337 £419 £419
25th Percentile £363 £439 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £504 £612 £597
90th Percentile £568 £706 £640
England median daily rate £523 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.13% - -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £74.26 £25.43 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +192.02% -60.88% -
England median hourly rate £74.26 £25.43 £53.65
% change year-on-year +192.02% -52.60% -16.82%

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 4,159 3,114 4,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.72% 86.69% 88.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,772 1,775 2,737
10th Percentile £215 £263 £290
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 157 191
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.42 £17.25 £17.74
Median hourly rate £29.30 £27.50 £28.44
Median % change year-on-year +6.55% -3.31% +27.82%
75th Percentile £51.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.27 £66.45 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 18 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 18 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 +2 43 £435 -11.68% 112
Yorkshire -34 19 £500 -11.11% 64
North East 0 11 £400 -33.05% 22
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 Spark
3 8 (10.96%) Apache
4 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 28 (38.36%) Azure
2 27 (36.99%) AWS
3 15 (20.55%) GCP
4 11 (15.07%) Power Platform
5 9 (12.33%) dbt
5 9 (12.33%) Serverless
6 8 (10.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (9.59%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (9.59%) GitHub
7 7 (9.59%) Snowflake
8 6 (8.22%) Amazon S3
8 6 (8.22%) Amazon SageMaker
8 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (8.22%) Prefect
9 5 (6.85%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (6.85%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (4.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (4.11%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.55%) Data Lake
2 10 (13.70%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (13.70%) Power BI
3 7 (9.59%) Delta Lake
4 6 (8.22%) Big Data
4 6 (8.22%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (6.85%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (6.85%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (6.85%) BigQuery
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (5.48%) DataStage
6 4 (5.48%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.48%) NoSQL
7 3 (4.11%) Apache Hive
7 3 (4.11%) HBase
7 3 (4.11%) Metadata
7 3 (4.11%) Spark SQL
8 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.74%) Star Schema
8 2 (2.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (20.55%) 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 16 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.44%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.22%) Finance
5 3 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.74%) Automotive
6 2 (2.74%) Health Technology
6 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.37%) Banking
7 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.37%) Legal
7 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (60.27%) Data Engineer
2 9 (12.33%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (12.33%) Senior
3 8 (10.96%) AWS Data Engineer
3 8 (10.96%) Lead
4 7 (9.59%) Analyst
4 7 (9.59%) Senior Data Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Azure Data Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Lead Data Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) Architect
7 4 (5.48%) Data Architect
8 3 (4.11%) Hadoop Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Python Data Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Security Analyst
9 2 (2.74%) GCP Data Architect
9 2 (2.74%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (24.66%) PySpark
2 6 (8.22%) RESTful
3 5 (6.85%) Flask
4 4 (5.48%) HTML
4 4 (5.48%) Kafka
4 4 (5.48%) Spark Streaming
5 3 (4.11%) FHIR
6 2 (2.74%) pytest
6 2 (2.74%) REST
6 2 (2.74%) XGBoost
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%) JSON
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%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.22%) Clustering
3 5 (6.85%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.85%) Data Structures
4 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.11%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.11%) NHS
5 2 (2.74%) Data Fabric
5 2 (2.74%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.37%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (46.58%) Analytics
1 34 (46.58%) Data Pipeline
2 30 (41.10%) CI/CD
2 30 (41.10%) ETL
3 24 (32.88%) Data Modelling
4 19 (26.03%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (23.29%) DevOps
6 16 (21.92%) AI
6 16 (21.92%) Business Intelligence
7 15 (20.55%) Agile
7 15 (20.55%) Data Science
8 14 (19.18%) Machine Learning
9 13 (17.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (17.81%) Data Architecture
10 12 (16.44%) Data Governance
11 11 (15.07%) Data Transformation
12 10 (13.70%) Data Integration
12 10 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (13.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (10.96%) MLOps
Programming Languages
1 40 (54.79%) Python
2 39 (53.42%) SQL
3 6 (8.22%) PL/SQL
4 5 (6.85%) Scala
5 3 (4.11%) Bicep
5 3 (4.11%) Java
5 3 (4.11%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.37%) C#
6 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 11 (15.07%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.74%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.74%) Degree
3 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.37%) CBAP
4 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.37%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (26.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.11%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.74%) QA
4 1 (1.37%) GMP
4 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.37%) HL7
4 1 (1.37%) NCSC
System Software
1 16 (21.92%) Docker
2 3 (4.11%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 17 (23.29%) 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 5 (6.85%) Google
4 4 (5.48%) Informatica
4 4 (5.48%) Talend
5 2 (2.74%) Brio
5 2 (2.74%) Hitachi
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle
5 2 (2.74%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.37%) SAP
6 1 (1.37%) SnapLogic