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 16 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 119 130
Rank change year-on-year +22 +11 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 161 50 53
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.36% 1.45% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 1.61% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 29 43
10th Percentile £363 £329 £419
25th Percentile £413 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% -15.00%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £648 £633
England median daily rate £525 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £53.00 £23.25 -
25th Percentile £65.00 £24.38 £66.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £27.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +154.55% -59.26% +92.86%
75th Percentile £88.75 £29.38 £68.75
90th Percentile £90.00 £29.75 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £38.96 £48.50
% change year-on-year +79.67% -19.67% -36.81%

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 5,745 3,098 4,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.14% 89.82% 83.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,482 1,999 2,408
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £400 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £586 £550 £585
90th Percentile £675 £650 £669
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 158 397
10th Percentile £16.45 £12.82 £11.10
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.93 £12.55
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% +14.32% -12.00%
75th Percentile £71.50 £51.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.20 £76.63 £63.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -8 69 £478 -4.50% 30
North West -9 57 £500 - 65
North East -1 37 £438 -12.50% 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 49 (30.43%) Apache Spark
2 27 (16.77%) Apache Airflow
3 24 (14.91%) Apache
4 15 (9.32%) Jupyter
5 2 (1.24%) Confluence
5 2 (1.24%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.62%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.62%) SAP ECC
2 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 66 (40.99%) Azure
2 65 (40.37%) AWS
3 28 (17.39%) GCP
4 26 (16.15%) Power Platform
5 21 (13.04%) dbt
6 17 (10.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (9.32%) OpenShift
8 13 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (7.45%) Snowflake
10 11 (6.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (5.59%) Amazon S3
12 8 (4.97%) Serverless
13 6 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (3.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
14 5 (3.11%) Prefect
14 5 (3.11%) Vertex AI
15 4 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
15 4 (2.48%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (2.48%) GitHub
15 4 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.91%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (11.18%) Power BI
3 17 (10.56%) Big Data
4 16 (9.94%) Hadoop
5 12 (7.45%) Delta Lake
5 12 (7.45%) Metadata
6 11 (6.83%) Data Lake
6 11 (6.83%) SQL Server
7 9 (5.59%) BigQuery
8 8 (4.97%) NoSQL
9 7 (4.35%) Data Vault
9 7 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (3.73%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (3.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.86%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.86%) MySQL
12 3 (1.86%) Spark SQL
13 2 (1.24%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 2 (1.24%) Parquet
13 2 (1.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (11.18%) GitLab
2 16 (9.94%) Git
3 8 (4.97%) JIRA
4 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.62%) MLflow
4 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (26.71%) Social Skills
2 38 (23.60%) Public Sector
3 23 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (11.80%) Finance
5 11 (6.83%) Banking
6 9 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.86%) Law
7 3 (1.86%) Retail
8 2 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.24%) Legal
8 2 (1.24%) Social Science
9 1 (0.62%) Advertising
9 1 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Marketing
9 1 (0.62%) Military
9 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.62%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 79 (49.07%) Data Engineer
2 21 (13.04%) Lead
3 20 (12.42%) Senior
4 11 (6.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 10 (6.21%) Lead Data Engineer
6 9 (5.59%) AWS Data Engineer
6 9 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (4.97%) Senior Data Engineer
8 7 (4.35%) Analyst
8 7 (4.35%) Developer
9 6 (3.73%) Consultant
9 6 (3.73%) Snowflake Engineer
10 4 (2.48%) Architect
10 4 (2.48%) Business Analyst
10 4 (2.48%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 4 (2.48%) Data Architect
10 4 (2.48%) Data Consultant
10 4 (2.48%) Lead Consultant
10 4 (2.48%) Senior Manager
10 4 (2.48%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (19.25%) Kafka
2 19 (11.80%) PySpark
3 9 (5.59%) JSON
4 7 (4.35%) Apache Avro
4 7 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (4.35%) Protocol Buffers
5 5 (3.11%) Quarkus
5 5 (3.11%) React
5 5 (3.11%) REST
6 4 (2.48%) Pandas
6 4 (2.48%) XGBoost
7 1 (0.62%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.62%) CSS
7 1 (0.62%) FHIR
7 1 (0.62%) LangChain
7 1 (0.62%) NumPy
7 1 (0.62%) PyArrow
7 1 (0.62%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.62%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.94%) Cloud Native
2 8 (4.97%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.35%) AI Agents
3 7 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (3.73%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.11%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (3.11%) NHS
6 4 (2.48%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.86%) Blog
7 3 (1.86%) Clustering
7 3 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.86%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.24%) BYOD
8 2 (1.24%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.24%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.24%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.24%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.62%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.62%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.62%) Linux
1 1 (0.62%) Ubuntu
1 1 (0.62%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (50.31%) Analytics
2 73 (45.34%) Data Pipeline
3 66 (40.99%) CI/CD
4 58 (36.02%) ETL
5 49 (30.43%) Data Modelling
6 41 (25.47%) DevOps
7 40 (24.84%) Agile
8 36 (22.36%) AI
9 33 (20.50%) Data Governance
10 31 (19.25%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (19.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 29 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (16.77%) Machine Learning
13 25 (15.53%) Data Science
14 21 (13.04%) Validation
15 20 (12.42%) Cybersecurity
16 19 (11.80%) Migration
17 18 (11.18%) Containerisation
18 16 (9.94%) Observability
18 16 (9.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (59.01%) Python
2 62 (38.51%) SQL
3 10 (6.21%) Java
4 3 (1.86%) C#
4 3 (1.86%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.86%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (1.86%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.62%) Bicep
5 1 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.62%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.62%) Scala
5 1 (0.62%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (25.47%) Security Cleared
2 36 (22.36%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.97%) Degree
5 3 (1.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.24%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.62%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (24.22%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.35%) GDPR
3 2 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (1.24%) QA
3 2 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.24%) SLA
4 1 (0.62%) GRC
4 1 (0.62%) HL7
4 1 (0.62%) Solvency II
System Software
1 21 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (19.88%) Terraform
2 15 (9.32%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.62%) Grafana
4 1 (0.62%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 37 (22.98%) Databricks
2 19 (11.80%) Microsoft
3 17 (10.56%) Splunk
4 9 (5.59%) Google
4 9 (5.59%) Trend Micro
5 5 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.48%) Foundry
7 3 (1.86%) Informatica
7 3 (1.86%) Palantir
8 2 (1.24%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.24%) SAP
9 1 (0.62%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.62%) EXASOL
9 1 (0.62%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.62%) IBM
9 1 (0.62%) Oracle
9 1 (0.62%) Talend