Data Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Data Engineering
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 133 159
Rank change year-on-year +7 +26 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 52 48 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.39% 1.00% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.19% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 31
10th Percentile £325 £415 £425
25th Percentile £413 £444 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -15.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £563 £585 £663
90th Percentile £638 £603 £725
England median daily rate £525 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -8.70% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £23.25 - -
25th Percentile £24.38 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £67.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.26% +92.86% -
75th Percentile £29.38 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £29.75 - -
England median hourly rate £38.96 £48.50 £75.50
% change year-on-year -19.67% -35.76% +51.00%

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 3,333 4,028 5,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.12% 84.09% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,150 2,401 3,391
10th Percentile £268 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £495 £503
Median % change year-on-year -5.86% -1.49% +0.50%
75th Percentile £556 £581 £600
90th Percentile £650 £665 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 377 218
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.11 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.53 £12.55 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.04 £21.00 £22.84
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -8.06% +17.90%
75th Percentile £49.69 £46.18 £43.68
90th Percentile £76.88 £64.89 £55.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend 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 6 July 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 +3 25 £500 -1.96% 181
Yorkshire +9 22 £463 -6.57% 133
North East - 5 £500 - 39
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (13.46%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.77%) Apache
2 3 (5.77%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Maple
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (42.31%) GCP
2 21 (40.38%) AWS
3 18 (34.62%) Azure
4 10 (19.23%) Power Platform
5 7 (13.46%) dbt
6 6 (11.54%) Snowflake
7 5 (9.62%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (7.69%) PaaS
9 3 (5.77%) GitHub
9 3 (5.77%) Google Compute Engine
9 3 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (1.92%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (1.92%) AWS Data Pipeline
10 1 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.92%) Collibra
10 1 (1.92%) Google Analytics
10 1 (1.92%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (1.92%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (23.08%) BigQuery
3 10 (19.23%) Power BI
4 9 (17.31%) Delta Lake
5 8 (15.38%) Tableau
6 7 (13.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 7 (13.46%) Metadata
7 6 (11.54%) Data Lake
7 6 (11.54%) Hadoop
7 6 (11.54%) Looker
8 4 (7.69%) Big Data
8 4 (7.69%) DataStage
9 3 (5.77%) Dremio
9 3 (5.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (3.85%) Data Mining
10 2 (3.85%) Data Vault
10 2 (3.85%) NoSQL
10 2 (3.85%) Star Schema
11 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (1.92%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Git
2 3 (5.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (5.77%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (40.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 4 (7.69%) Banking
3 4 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.85%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.92%) Automotive
5 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Legal
5 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (36.54%) Data Engineer
2 10 (19.23%) Architect
3 7 (13.46%) Data Architect
4 3 (5.77%) Analyst
4 3 (5.77%) Developer
4 3 (5.77%) GCP Architect
4 3 (5.77%) Senior
4 3 (5.77%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Administrator
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Data Analyst
5 2 (3.85%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (3.85%) Data Visualisation Specialist
5 2 (3.85%) Engineering Specialist
5 2 (3.85%) Information Architect
5 2 (3.85%) Lead
5 2 (3.85%) Report Specialist
6 1 (1.92%) Data Analytics Architect
6 1 (1.92%) ETL Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (21.15%) PySpark
2 4 (7.69%) Kafka
3 2 (3.85%) XGBoost
4 1 (1.92%) ADO
4 1 (1.92%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (1.92%) Node.js
4 1 (1.92%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.92%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 4 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.85%) Data Fabric
3 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.92%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.92%) Linux
1 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (48.08%) ETL
2 22 (42.31%) Analytics
3 21 (40.38%) Data Pipeline
4 16 (30.77%) Data Modelling
4 16 (30.77%) Data Science
5 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (23.08%) Data Governance
7 11 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (19.23%) Machine Learning
9 9 (17.31%) Data Transformation
9 9 (17.31%) Decision-Making
9 9 (17.31%) Visualisation
10 8 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (13.46%) Agile
11 7 (13.46%) Data Analytics
11 7 (13.46%) Data Integration
12 6 (11.54%) CI/CD
12 6 (11.54%) Data Architecture
12 6 (11.54%) Data Protection
12 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (55.77%) SQL
2 26 (50.00%) Python
3 8 (15.38%) Scala
4 3 (5.77%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) Degree
3 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (21.15%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.92%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Databricks
2 13 (25.00%) Google
3 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.69%) Informatica
4 4 (7.69%) Talend
5 1 (1.92%) Hitachi
5 1 (1.92%) SAP
5 1 (1.92%) Splunk