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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 125 158
Rank change year-on-year -3 +33 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 66 44 43
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.57% 1.07% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.76% 1.27% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 28 32
10th Percentile £273 £419 £451
25th Percentile £350 £466 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £638
90th Percentile £600 £643 £649
England median daily rate £525 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £26.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -59.23% -
England median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -23.08% +56.00%

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 3,747 3,472 4,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.11% 84.44% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,464 1,898 3,007
10th Percentile £250 £300 £285
25th Percentile £369 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £566 £575 £600
90th Percentile £672 £653 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 179 214
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.35 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.48 £18.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £28.65
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +22.16% +34.82%
75th Percentile £36.75 £51.89 £46.18
90th Percentile £66.05 £70.00 £62.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +33.65%

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 17 October 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 17 October 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 -7 35 £425 -12.37% 79
Yorkshire -18 23 £475 -5.00% 36
North East -2 8 £425 -28.87% 15
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 19 (28.79%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (12.12%) Apache
3 6 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.03%) Chatbot
3 2 (3.03%) Maple
Cloud Services
1 26 (39.39%) Azure
2 23 (34.85%) AWS
3 20 (30.30%) GCP
4 14 (21.21%) Power Platform
5 7 (10.61%) Snowflake
6 6 (9.09%) Amazon SageMaker
6 6 (9.09%) Serverless
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (7.58%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (7.58%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (7.58%) dbt
7 5 (7.58%) GitHub
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (6.06%) PaaS
9 3 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 3 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (4.55%) Prefect
10 2 (3.03%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 2 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (3.03%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.21%) Power BI
2 12 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (15.15%) BigQuery
3 10 (15.15%) Data Lake
4 8 (12.12%) Delta Lake
5 7 (10.61%) Big Data
5 7 (10.61%) Tableau
6 6 (9.09%) Looker
7 5 (7.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (7.58%) Hadoop
8 4 (6.06%) DataStage
8 4 (6.06%) Metadata
9 3 (4.55%) Apache Hive
9 3 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (4.55%) HBase
9 3 (4.55%) Snowflake Schema
10 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (3.03%) DynamoDB
10 2 (3.03%) Spark SQL
10 2 (3.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (18.18%) Git
2 6 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.06%) GitLab
3 4 (6.06%) MLflow
4 2 (3.03%) JIRA
4 2 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.12%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.09%) Finance
5 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.55%) Automotive
6 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.03%) Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Legal
8 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (43.94%) Data Engineer
2 9 (13.64%) Architect
2 9 (13.64%) Data Architect
3 8 (12.12%) Analyst
4 7 (10.61%) Lead
5 6 (9.09%) Senior
6 5 (7.58%) AWS Data Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Azure Data Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.55%) BigQuery Architect
8 3 (4.55%) ETL Architect
8 3 (4.55%) GCP Architect
8 3 (4.55%) Hadoop Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Information Architect
8 3 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (25.76%) PySpark
2 5 (7.58%) Flask
2 5 (7.58%) RESTful
3 4 (6.06%) HTML
3 4 (6.06%) Spark Streaming
4 2 (3.03%) Kafka
4 2 (3.03%) pytest
5 1 (1.52%) Django
5 1 (1.52%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.52%) Node.js
5 1 (1.52%) React
5 1 (1.52%) Streamlit
5 1 (1.52%) XGBoost
5 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.06%) Data Fabric
3 4 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.55%) Clustering
4 3 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.03%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (3.03%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.94%) Analytics
2 28 (42.42%) Data Pipeline
3 25 (37.88%) ETL
4 20 (30.30%) CI/CD
5 19 (28.79%) Data Modelling
6 18 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (25.76%) Machine Learning
8 16 (24.24%) Data Science
9 15 (22.73%) AI
10 14 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (19.70%) Data Governance
12 12 (18.18%) Agile
13 11 (16.67%) Data Architecture
13 11 (16.67%) Data Transformation
13 11 (16.67%) DevOps
14 9 (13.64%) Data Integration
14 9 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
14 9 (13.64%) Visualisation
15 8 (12.12%) Data Analytics
15 8 (12.12%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (57.58%) SQL
2 35 (53.03%) Python
3 6 (9.09%) Scala
4 3 (4.55%) PL/SQL
4 3 (4.55%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.03%) Bicep
6 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.55%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.03%) Degree
4 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) CBAP
5 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.52%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.55%) GDPR
3 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.03%) QA
4 1 (1.52%) GMP
4 1 (1.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Docker
2 3 (4.55%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (16.67%) Terraform
2 7 (10.61%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.55%) Ansible
3 3 (4.55%) Hadoop YARN
3 3 (4.55%) Puppet
4 2 (3.03%) Control-M
5 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (33.33%) Databricks
2 11 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 10 (15.15%) Google
4 4 (6.06%) Informatica
4 4 (6.06%) Talend
5 3 (4.55%) Hitachi
6 2 (3.03%) Oracle
6 2 (3.03%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.52%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.52%) SAP