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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 123 124
Rank change year-on-year +17 +1 +27
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 176 58 44
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.31% 1.48% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.78% 1.66% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 35 31
10th Percentile £363 £335 £419
25th Percentile £403 £409 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £541 £544 £585
90th Percentile £600 £600 £613
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £67.30 - -
25th Percentile £70.75 - -
Median hourly rate £78.83 - £26.50
75th Percentile £88.13 - -
90th Percentile £89.25 - -
England median hourly rate £69.50 £52.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +32.38% -12.50% -23.08%

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 6,337 3,488 3,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.14% 88.96% 83.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,749 2,253 2,028
10th Percentile £313 £268 £312
25th Percentile £405 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £686
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 518 195 182
10th Percentile £15.47 £13.04 £12.55
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.41 £17.81
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -35.34% +27.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £38.38 £51.90
90th Percentile £79.13 £72.08 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 8 September 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 8 September 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 8 September 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 +22 85 £475 - 37
North West -28 57 £513 +7.89% 143
North East -10 36 £425 -20.93% 27
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 39 (22.16%) Apache Spark
2 26 (14.77%) Apache
3 22 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (9.09%) Jupyter
5 5 (2.84%) SAS
6 4 (2.27%) Confluence
6 4 (2.27%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (1.14%) nginx
8 1 (0.57%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.57%) SAP ECC
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 79 (44.89%) Azure
2 72 (40.91%) AWS
3 33 (18.75%) Power Platform
4 29 (16.48%) GCP
5 18 (10.23%) Snowflake
6 17 (9.66%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (8.52%) dbt
8 14 (7.95%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (6.25%) Serverless
10 10 (5.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 9 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (3.98%) Azure AI
12 7 (3.98%) Google Analytics
13 6 (3.41%) Amazon EMR
13 6 (3.41%) Azure Databricks
13 6 (3.41%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (3.41%) GitHub
13 6 (3.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 6 (3.41%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.27%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (15.34%) Metadata
1 27 (15.34%) Power BI
2 25 (14.20%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (10.23%) BigQuery
4 14 (7.95%) Big Data
4 14 (7.95%) SQL Server
5 11 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 11 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 10 (5.68%) Semantic Layer
7 9 (5.11%) Looker
8 7 (3.98%) Snowflake Schema
8 7 (3.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (3.41%) Data Vault
9 6 (3.41%) Delta Lake
10 5 (2.84%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (2.84%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.27%) Hadoop
11 4 (2.27%) Star Schema
11 4 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (10.80%) GitLab
2 17 (9.66%) Git
3 9 (5.11%) JIRA
4 1 (0.57%) MLflow
4 1 (0.57%) Toad
General
1 49 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 42 (23.86%) Public Sector
3 31 (17.61%) Finance
4 29 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.25%) Banking
6 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (1.70%) Law
6 3 (1.70%) Social Science
7 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Legal
7 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.14%) Retail
8 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.57%) Marketing
8 1 (0.57%) Military
8 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (40.91%) Data Engineer
2 25 (14.20%) Senior
3 19 (10.80%) Lead
4 12 (6.82%) Senior Data Engineer
5 11 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
5 11 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (6.25%) Developer
5 11 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (4.55%) Architect
6 8 (4.55%) Data Architect
7 7 (3.98%) Analyst
7 7 (3.98%) Snowflake Engineer
8 6 (3.41%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 5 (2.84%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 5 (2.84%) Consultant
9 5 (2.84%) Senior Architect
9 5 (2.84%) Senior Data Architect
9 5 (2.84%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 4 (2.27%) Administrator
10 4 (2.27%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (25.00%) Terraform
2 22 (12.50%) PySpark
3 19 (10.80%) Kafka
4 8 (4.55%) REST
5 5 (2.84%) Quarkus
5 5 (2.84%) React
6 3 (1.70%) JSON
7 2 (1.14%) Pandas
8 1 (0.57%) .NET
8 1 (0.57%) CSS
8 1 (0.57%) JWT
8 1 (0.57%) OAuth
8 1 (0.57%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.57%) SOAP
8 1 (0.57%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 23 (13.07%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.11%) AI Agents
3 8 (4.55%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.84%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.84%) Distributed Computing
4 5 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.70%) Blog
6 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (1.70%) NHS
7 2 (1.14%) BYOD
7 2 (1.14%) Clustering
7 2 (1.14%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.14%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.14%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.14%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.84%) Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.57%) Unix
2 1 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (45.45%) Analytics
2 76 (43.18%) Data Pipeline
3 68 (38.64%) CI/CD
4 51 (28.98%) DevOps
5 50 (28.41%) Data Modelling
6 48 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (25.57%) AI
7 45 (25.57%) ETL
8 36 (20.45%) Agile
9 33 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (18.18%) Data Governance
10 32 (18.18%) Migration
11 30 (17.05%) Data Integration
12 28 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (14.77%) Cybersecurity
14 25 (14.20%) Validation
15 24 (13.64%) Machine Learning
16 23 (13.07%) Data Architecture
16 23 (13.07%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 101 (57.39%) Python
2 74 (42.05%) SQL
3 17 (9.66%) Java
4 8 (4.55%) C#
5 7 (3.98%) Kusto Query Language
6 6 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.27%) Bash
7 4 (2.27%) Scala
8 3 (1.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.70%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.57%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (24.43%) Security Cleared
2 40 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.55%) Degree
5 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (32.39%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.82%) GDPR
3 6 (3.41%) QA
4 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.14%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (14.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.95%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.27%) Grafana
3 2 (1.14%) Ansible
3 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
4 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 42 (23.86%) Databricks
2 31 (17.61%) Microsoft
3 17 (9.66%) Google
4 10 (5.68%) Trend Micro
5 9 (5.11%) Foundry
6 6 (3.41%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.84%) Informatica
7 5 (2.84%) Palantir
8 3 (1.70%) Splunk
9 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.14%) MuleSoft
9 2 (1.14%) Remedy
9 2 (1.14%) SAP
10 1 (0.57%) Adobe
10 1 (0.57%) EXASOL
10 1 (0.57%) Guidewire
10 1 (0.57%) IBM
10 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.57%) Oracle
10 1 (0.57%) Red Hat