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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 125 119
Rank change year-on-year +26 -6 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 189 62 47
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.47% 1.53% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 1.72% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 40 32
10th Percentile £363 £268 £420
25th Percentile £400 £349 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £443 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.34% -19.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £545 £525 £586
90th Percentile £688 £600 £612
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £70.27 - -
25th Percentile £70.67 - -
Median hourly rate £71.33 - £26.50
75th Percentile £72.00 - -
90th Percentile £72.39 - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% -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 6,343 3,608 3,470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.05% 88.78% 84.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,649 2,365 1,907
10th Percentile £310 £254 £300
25th Percentile £406 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £470 £495
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -5.05% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 204 180
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.20 £13.75
25th Percentile £18.88 £17.42 £17.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £23.57 £35.18
Median % change year-on-year +86.55% -33.02% +27.93%
75th Percentile £69.81 £40.49 £51.91
90th Percentile £77.00 £66.65 £70.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +29 91 £488 +2.63% 95
North West -20 61 £525 +23.53% 179
North East -3 39 £425 -5.56% 56
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 35 (18.52%) Apache Spark
2 31 (16.40%) Apache
3 24 (12.70%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (8.47%) Jupyter
5 5 (2.65%) Confluence
5 5 (2.65%) SAS
6 4 (2.12%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (1.06%) nginx
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 83 (43.92%) Azure
2 75 (39.68%) AWS
3 45 (23.81%) GCP
4 38 (20.11%) Power Platform
5 21 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (10.05%) Amazon S3
7 18 (9.52%) Snowflake
8 15 (7.94%) Serverless
9 14 (7.41%) dbt
10 12 (6.35%) AWS Lambda
10 12 (6.35%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (5.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 10 (5.29%) GitHub
13 7 (3.70%) Amazon EMR
14 6 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (3.17%) Azure AI
14 6 (3.17%) Azure Databricks
14 6 (3.17%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (2.65%) Collibra
15 5 (2.65%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.65%) DNS
2 1 (0.53%) Internet
2 1 (0.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (20.11%) Metadata
2 32 (16.93%) Power BI
3 29 (15.34%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (13.76%) BigQuery
5 13 (6.88%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (6.35%) Big Data
6 12 (6.35%) Data Lake
6 12 (6.35%) SQL Server
7 10 (5.29%) Looker
7 10 (5.29%) Semantic Layer
8 8 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
9 7 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (3.17%) Delta Lake
10 6 (3.17%) NoSQL
11 5 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (2.12%) DynamoDB
12 4 (2.12%) Flink
12 4 (2.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (10.58%) GitLab
2 19 (10.05%) Git
3 11 (5.82%) JIRA
4 2 (1.06%) Applitools
4 2 (1.06%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.06%) JMeter
4 2 (1.06%) Newman
4 2 (1.06%) Postman
4 2 (1.06%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.53%) MLflow
5 1 (0.53%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.53%) Toad
General
1 55 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 43 (22.75%) Public Sector
3 35 (18.52%) Finance
4 31 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.94%) Banking
6 5 (2.65%) Law
7 4 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.12%) Publishing
8 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.06%) Retail
8 2 (1.06%) Social Science
9 1 (0.53%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.53%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.53%) Legal
9 1 (0.53%) Marketing
9 1 (0.53%) Military
9 1 (0.53%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 75 (39.68%) Data Engineer
2 26 (13.76%) Senior
3 24 (12.70%) Lead
4 13 (6.88%) Senior Data Engineer
5 12 (6.35%) Architect
6 11 (5.82%) Developer
6 11 (5.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (4.76%) AWS Data Engineer
7 9 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
8 8 (4.23%) Data Architect
9 7 (3.70%) Analyst
9 7 (3.70%) Snowflake Engineer
10 5 (2.65%) Consultant
10 5 (2.65%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 5 (2.65%) Data Analytics Engineer
10 5 (2.65%) Senior Architect
10 5 (2.65%) Senior Data Architect
10 5 (2.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 4 (2.12%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
11 4 (2.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (25.40%) Terraform
2 25 (13.23%) PySpark
3 14 (7.41%) Kafka
4 10 (5.29%) REST
5 5 (2.65%) LangChain
6 4 (2.12%) LlamaIndex
7 3 (1.59%) JSON
7 3 (1.59%) pytest
7 3 (1.59%) Quarkus
7 3 (1.59%) React
7 3 (1.59%) Web Services
8 2 (1.06%) .NET
8 2 (1.06%) JWT
8 2 (1.06%) OAuth
8 2 (1.06%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.06%) Pandas
8 2 (1.06%) Playwright
8 2 (1.06%) YAML
9 1 (0.53%) Dask
9 1 (0.53%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 34 (17.99%) Cloud Native
2 12 (6.35%) AI Agents
2 12 (6.35%) Data Structures
3 11 (5.82%) Onboarding
4 10 (5.29%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.17%) Data Fabric
6 5 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (2.65%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.65%) Product Ownership
7 4 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.59%) Blog
8 3 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.06%) BYOD
9 2 (1.06%) Clustering
9 2 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Reference Data
9 2 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.65%) 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 88 (46.56%) Analytics
2 85 (44.97%) CI/CD
3 82 (43.39%) Data Pipeline
4 65 (34.39%) Data Modelling
5 59 (31.22%) DevOps
6 57 (30.16%) AI
7 54 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 51 (26.98%) ETL
9 47 (24.87%) Agile
10 43 (22.75%) Data Governance
10 43 (22.75%) Data Integration
11 39 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
12 35 (18.52%) Machine Learning
13 32 (16.93%) Migration
13 32 (16.93%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (16.40%) Observability
15 30 (15.87%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
16 29 (15.34%) Validation
17 26 (13.76%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 117 (61.90%) Python
2 98 (51.85%) SQL
3 18 (9.52%) Java
4 13 (6.88%) C#
5 7 (3.70%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (3.17%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.65%) Scala
8 4 (2.12%) Bash
9 3 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.59%) JavaScript
9 3 (1.59%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.59%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.53%) Go
10 1 (0.53%) R
10 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.58%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.76%) Degree
5 5 (2.65%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.65%) DV Cleared
6 4 (2.12%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.53%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.53%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (38.62%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.23%) GDPR
3 6 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.17%) QA
4 3 (1.59%) NCSC
5 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.06%) SLA
6 1 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.53%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (13.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.65%) Grafana
3 3 (1.59%) Ansible
3 3 (1.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.53%) Kibana
4 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 46 (24.34%) Databricks
2 32 (16.93%) Microsoft
3 22 (11.64%) Google
4 10 (5.29%) Trend Micro
5 8 (4.23%) Foundry
6 5 (2.65%) Informatica
6 5 (2.65%) Palantir
6 5 (2.65%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.59%) Oracle
7 3 (1.59%) OutSystems
7 3 (1.59%) Splunk
8 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.06%) IBM
8 2 (1.06%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.06%) Remedy
8 2 (1.06%) SAP
9 1 (0.53%) Adobe
9 1 (0.53%) EXASOL
9 1 (0.53%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.53%) Red Hat