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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 121 153
Rank change year-on-year -6 +32 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 113 45 40
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.93% 1.40% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 1.55% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 26 34
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £413 £427 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.91% -10.43%
75th Percentile £535 £609 £611
90th Percentile £591 £694 £631
England median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
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 5,041 2,903 4,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.94% 90.46% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,244 1,870 2,574
10th Percentile £282 £263 £283
25th Percentile £393 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £556 £575 £585
90th Percentile £645 £650 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 157 360
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.96 £11.00
25th Percentile £22.85 £19.00 £12.53
Median hourly rate £45.46 £28.75 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year +58.12% +59.24% -38.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £50.00 £44.24
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.49 £51.91
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -13 49 £471 -0.79% 59
Yorkshire -28 43 £475 -17.39% 40
North East +6 21 £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 28 (24.78%) Apache Spark
2 15 (13.27%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (6.19%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) SAP ECC
1 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 44 (38.94%) Azure
2 39 (34.51%) AWS
3 20 (17.70%) GCP
4 18 (15.93%) dbt
5 16 (14.16%) Power Platform
6 14 (12.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 14 (12.39%) OpenShift
7 9 (7.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (7.96%) Serverless
8 8 (7.08%) Snowflake
9 7 (6.19%) Amazon S3
9 7 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.31%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (5.31%) Prefect
11 4 (3.54%) GitHub
11 4 (3.54%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
13 2 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 2 (1.77%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (1.77%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.47%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (13.27%) Hadoop
3 14 (12.39%) Data Lake
4 12 (10.62%) Big Data
5 11 (9.73%) NoSQL
6 10 (8.85%) Delta Lake
6 10 (8.85%) Power BI
7 8 (7.08%) SQL Server
8 7 (6.19%) Data Vault
9 5 (4.42%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.42%) Metadata
9 5 (4.42%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (3.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (3.54%) Spark SQL
11 3 (2.65%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (2.65%) MySQL
12 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
12 2 (1.77%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (13.27%) Git
2 4 (3.54%) GitLab
2 4 (3.54%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.65%) JIRA
4 2 (1.77%) MLflow
5 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 28 (24.78%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.70%) Public Sector
3 19 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.85%) Finance
5 9 (7.96%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Banking
6 2 (1.77%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.77%) Law
7 1 (0.88%) Advertising
7 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.88%) Legal
7 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.88%) Retail
7 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 74 (65.49%) Data Engineer
2 18 (15.93%) Lead
3 12 (10.62%) Lead Data Engineer
4 10 (8.85%) Senior
5 7 (6.19%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Senior Data Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) AWS Data Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Analyst
7 5 (4.42%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Data Scientist
7 5 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Python Data Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) Python Engineer
9 3 (2.65%) Business Analyst
9 3 (2.65%) Consultant
9 3 (2.65%) Developer
9 3 (2.65%) Lead Consultant
9 3 (2.65%) Snowflake Data Engineer
9 3 (2.65%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (24.78%) Kafka
2 12 (10.62%) PySpark
3 7 (6.19%) Apache Avro
3 7 (6.19%) JSON
3 7 (6.19%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (6.19%) Protocol Buffers
4 5 (4.42%) XGBoost
5 4 (3.54%) FHIR
6 3 (2.65%) Pandas
7 2 (1.77%) LangChain
7 2 (1.77%) Quarkus
7 2 (1.77%) React
7 2 (1.77%) REST
7 2 (1.77%) RESTful
8 1 (0.88%) Apache Beam
8 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.88%) JWT
8 1 (0.88%) OAuth
8 1 (0.88%) PyArrow
8 1 (0.88%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.08%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.19%) NHS
3 6 (5.31%) Clustering
3 6 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (4.42%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.65%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.65%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.65%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.77%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.77%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.88%) Life Science
7 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.88%) Replication
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (58.41%) Analytics
2 58 (51.33%) Data Pipeline
3 54 (47.79%) ETL
4 45 (39.82%) CI/CD
4 45 (39.82%) Data Modelling
5 31 (27.43%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (26.55%) Agile
7 26 (23.01%) Data Governance
8 24 (21.24%) Business Intelligence
9 22 (19.47%) Data Science
9 22 (19.47%) DevOps
10 20 (17.70%) Machine Learning
11 18 (15.93%) AI
12 16 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (12.39%) Observability
13 14 (12.39%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (12.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (11.50%) Validation
15 12 (10.62%) Data Integration
16 10 (8.85%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 66 (58.41%) Python
2 52 (46.02%) SQL
3 6 (5.31%) PL/SQL
4 5 (4.42%) Java
5 3 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.77%) Bicep
6 2 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.88%) C#
7 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 20 (17.70%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.31%) Degree
4 3 (2.65%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (26.55%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.19%) GDPR
3 2 (1.77%) HL7
3 2 (1.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.88%) GRC
4 1 (0.88%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (0.88%) NCSC
4 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (9.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (16.81%) Kubernetes
2 16 (14.16%) Terraform
3 9 (7.96%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.77%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (23.01%) Databricks
2 16 (14.16%) Splunk
3 14 (12.39%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.42%) Google
5 2 (1.77%) Brio
5 2 (1.77%) SAP
6 1 (0.88%) Foundry
6 1 (0.88%) Informatica
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle
6 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.88%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.88%) Talend