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 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 117 139
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 108 44 39
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.88% 1.35% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 1.49% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 26 33
10th Percentile £363 £413 £425
25th Percentile £413 £427 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £522 £604 £615
90th Percentile £579 £694 £633
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 1
10th Percentile £56.00 £22.59 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £22.72 £66.25
Median hourly rate £72.13 £25.43 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +183.64% -62.33% +92.86%
75th Percentile £88.13 £28.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £29.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £25.97 £35.00
% change year-on-year +169.59% -25.81% -53.33%

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 4,950 2,946 4,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 86.24% 90.17% 86.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,207 1,865 2,601
10th Percentile £270 £263 £284
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £582
90th Percentile £644 £650 £675
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 155 363
10th Percentile £15.61 £15.00 £11.01
25th Percentile £22.67 £20.60 £12.58
Median hourly rate £45.23 £28.75 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.32% +55.41% -35.88%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £44.74
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.25 £52.78
England median hourly rate £35.00 £33.26 £32.50
% change year-on-year +5.25% +2.32% -13.33%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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
North West -4 50 £463 -2.63% 65
Yorkshire -42 36 £475 -17.39% 46
North East +6 22 £450 -5.26% 13
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 26 (24.07%) Apache Spark
2 16 (14.81%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (7.41%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) SAP ECC
1 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (37.04%) AWS
1 40 (37.04%) Azure
2 18 (16.67%) GCP
3 17 (15.74%) dbt
4 16 (14.81%) Power Platform
5 14 (12.96%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (12.04%) OpenShift
7 10 (9.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 10 (9.26%) Serverless
8 8 (7.41%) Amazon S3
8 8 (7.41%) Snowflake
9 7 (6.48%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.56%) Prefect
11 4 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.70%) GitHub
11 4 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (1.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.37%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (14.81%) Hadoop
3 15 (13.89%) Data Lake
4 12 (11.11%) Big Data
5 11 (10.19%) NoSQL
5 11 (10.19%) Power BI
6 10 (9.26%) Delta Lake
7 6 (5.56%) Data Vault
7 6 (5.56%) SQL Server
8 5 (4.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (4.63%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (3.70%) Metadata
9 4 (3.70%) Spark SQL
10 3 (2.78%) BigQuery
10 3 (2.78%) MySQL
11 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (13.89%) Git
2 5 (4.63%) GitLab
2 5 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.78%) JIRA
3 3 (2.78%) MLflow
4 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.59%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (7.41%) Finance
5 2 (1.85%) Banking
5 2 (1.85%) Health Technology
5 2 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.93%) Advertising
6 1 (0.93%) Law
6 1 (0.93%) Retail
6 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 74 (68.52%) Data Engineer
2 19 (17.59%) Lead
3 13 (12.04%) Lead Data Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) Senior
5 8 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
6 7 (6.48%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Data Scientist
7 5 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Python Data Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Python Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Analyst
8 4 (3.70%) Azure Data Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Business Analyst
9 3 (2.78%) Consultant
9 3 (2.78%) Data Consultant
9 3 (2.78%) Lead Consultant
9 3 (2.78%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (24.07%) Kafka
2 14 (12.96%) PySpark
3 7 (6.48%) Apache Avro
3 7 (6.48%) JSON
3 7 (6.48%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (6.48%) Protocol Buffers
4 5 (4.63%) XGBoost
5 4 (3.70%) FHIR
6 3 (2.78%) Pandas
6 3 (2.78%) RESTful
7 2 (1.85%) Flask
7 2 (1.85%) HTML
7 2 (1.85%) LangChain
7 2 (1.85%) REST
8 1 (0.93%) Apache Beam
8 1 (0.93%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.93%) JWT
8 1 (0.93%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.93%) PyArrow
8 1 (0.93%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.56%) Clustering
2 6 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.63%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.63%) NHS
4 3 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.85%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Life Science
6 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.93%) Replication
6 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (57.41%) Analytics
2 58 (53.70%) Data Pipeline
3 55 (50.93%) ETL
4 46 (42.59%) CI/CD
5 44 (40.74%) Data Modelling
6 31 (28.70%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (25.93%) Agile
8 25 (23.15%) Business Intelligence
8 25 (23.15%) Data Governance
9 22 (20.37%) Data Science
10 21 (19.44%) DevOps
11 20 (18.52%) Machine Learning
12 15 (13.89%) AI
12 15 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (12.96%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (12.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (12.04%) Observability
15 12 (11.11%) Data Integration
15 12 (11.11%) Validation
16 10 (9.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 66 (61.11%) Python
2 54 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (5.56%) PL/SQL
4 3 (2.78%) Java
4 3 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.85%) Bicep
5 2 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.93%) C#
6 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.56%) Degree
4 3 (2.78%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.48%) GDPR
3 2 (1.85%) HL7
3 2 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.93%) GRC
4 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.93%) NCSC
4 1 (0.93%) Solvency II
System Software
1 13 (12.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 15 (13.89%) Terraform
3 9 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 25 (23.15%) Databricks
2 16 (14.81%) Splunk
3 11 (10.19%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.85%) Brio
4 2 (1.85%) SAP
5 1 (0.93%) Google
5 1 (0.93%) Informatica
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle
5 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.93%) SnapLogic
5 1 (0.93%) Talend