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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 134 130
Rank change year-on-year +29 -4 +21
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 181 51 39
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.45% 1.28% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 1.44% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 27 29
10th Percentile £363 £321 £419
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £585
90th Percentile £600 £623 £600
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £50.00 - -
25th Percentile £65.00 £22.50 £66.25
Median hourly rate £77.50 £25.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +210.00% -62.96% +92.86%
75th Percentile £89.38 £27.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £90.00 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £52.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +10.53% -39.10%

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 6,140 3,537 3,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.28% 89.07% 83.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,616 2,251 2,078
10th Percentile £313 £268 £310
25th Percentile £402 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.74% -6.20% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £586
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 208 238
10th Percentile £16.01 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.48 £14.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £25.30
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -10.55% -13.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.26 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £73.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%

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 11 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineering in the North of England

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 11 August 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 +16 86 £475 +2.70% 41
North West -5 58 £500 +5.26% 90
North East -8 39 £425 -20.93% 23
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 49 (27.07%) Apache Spark
2 26 (14.36%) Apache
3 23 (12.71%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (8.84%) Jupyter
5 3 (1.66%) SAS
6 2 (1.10%) Confluence
6 2 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.55%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.55%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.55%) SAP ECC
2 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (42.54%) Azure
2 70 (38.67%) AWS
3 31 (17.13%) Power Platform
4 28 (15.47%) GCP
5 18 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (9.94%) dbt
5 18 (9.94%) Snowflake
6 14 (7.73%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (6.63%) OpenShift
8 11 (6.08%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (4.42%) Serverless
10 7 (3.87%) Google Analytics
11 6 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (3.31%) Azure AI
11 6 (3.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (3.31%) Vertex AI
12 5 (2.76%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (2.76%) Copilot Studio
12 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.26%) Data Warehouse
1 24 (13.26%) Power BI
2 20 (11.05%) Metadata
3 16 (8.84%) BigQuery
4 15 (8.29%) Big Data
4 15 (8.29%) Hadoop
4 15 (8.29%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.08%) Data Lake
5 11 (6.08%) NoSQL
6 9 (4.97%) Looker
6 9 (4.97%) Semantic Layer
7 8 (4.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 8 (4.42%) Data Vault
7 8 (4.42%) Delta Lake
8 7 (3.87%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (3.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (2.21%) Flink
10 4 (2.21%) Star Schema
10 4 (2.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (9.94%) Git
1 18 (9.94%) GitLab
2 7 (3.87%) JIRA
3 1 (0.55%) Toad
General
1 52 (28.73%) Social Skills
2 42 (23.20%) Public Sector
3 34 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (16.02%) Finance
5 11 (6.08%) Banking
6 5 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.66%) Law
7 3 (1.66%) Retail
7 3 (1.66%) Social Science
8 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.10%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Advertising
9 1 (0.55%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.55%) Marketing
9 1 (0.55%) Military
9 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (45.86%) Data Engineer
2 28 (15.47%) Lead
3 20 (11.05%) Senior
4 11 (6.08%) Developer
4 11 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (5.52%) AWS Data Engineer
5 10 (5.52%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (4.42%) Architect
6 8 (4.42%) Data Architect
6 8 (4.42%) Lead Data Engineer
6 8 (4.42%) Senior Data Engineer
7 7 (3.87%) Analyst
7 7 (3.87%) Consultant
7 7 (3.87%) Snowflake Engineer
8 6 (3.31%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 5 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (2.76%) Data Consultant
9 5 (2.76%) Senior Architect
9 5 (2.76%) Senior Data Architect
9 5 (2.76%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (14.92%) Kafka
2 20 (11.05%) PySpark
3 7 (3.87%) REST
4 5 (2.76%) Quarkus
4 5 (2.76%) React
5 4 (2.21%) JSON
6 3 (1.66%) Apache Avro
6 3 (1.66%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.66%) Pandas
6 3 (1.66%) Protocol Buffers
7 1 (0.55%) CSS
7 1 (0.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.60%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.97%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.42%) AI Agents
3 8 (4.42%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.76%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.76%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.66%) Blog
6 3 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.66%) NHS
6 3 (1.66%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.10%) BYOD
7 2 (1.10%) Clustering
7 2 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.10%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.10%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.21%) Linux
2 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.55%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (48.62%) Analytics
2 83 (45.86%) Data Pipeline
3 76 (41.99%) CI/CD
4 53 (29.28%) ETL
5 52 (28.73%) Data Modelling
5 52 (28.73%) DevOps
6 44 (24.31%) Agile
7 43 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
8 40 (22.10%) AI
9 39 (21.55%) Business Intelligence
10 35 (19.34%) Data Governance
11 30 (16.57%) Migration
11 30 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (15.47%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (14.92%) Cybersecurity
14 23 (12.71%) Data Integration
14 23 (12.71%) Machine Learning
14 23 (12.71%) Validation
15 21 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 20 (11.05%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 103 (56.91%) Python
2 72 (39.78%) SQL
3 16 (8.84%) Java
4 7 (3.87%) C#
5 6 (3.31%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (2.76%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.66%) Bash
7 3 (1.66%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.66%) Scala
7 3 (1.66%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 46 (25.41%) Security Cleared
2 40 (22.10%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.97%) Degree
5 4 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (28.18%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.63%) GDPR
3 5 (2.76%) QA
4 3 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.10%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.55%) NIST
6 1 (0.55%) Solvency II
System Software
1 25 (13.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (21.55%) Terraform
2 16 (8.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.21%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.66%) Grafana
5 1 (0.55%) Ansible
5 1 (0.55%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 40 (22.10%) Databricks
2 35 (19.34%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.29%) Google
4 14 (7.73%) Splunk
5 10 (5.52%) Trend Micro
6 7 (3.87%) Foundry
7 6 (3.31%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.21%) Informatica
9 3 (1.66%) Palantir
10 2 (1.10%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.10%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.10%) Remedy
10 2 (1.10%) SAP
11 1 (0.55%) Adobe
11 1 (0.55%) EXASOL
11 1 (0.55%) Guidewire
11 1 (0.55%) IBM
11 1 (0.55%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.55%) Red Hat