Data Analytics Engineer Contracts in the North West

Data Analytics Engineer
England > North West

The median Data Analytics Engineer daily rate in the North West is £528, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 - 156
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analytics Engineer 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% - 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £513 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 - -
75th Percentile £543 - -
90th Percentile £544 - -
England median daily rate £513 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -14.58% +14.29% -34.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +62.50% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 1,821 2,603 3,030
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.48% 94.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,205 1,698 2,172
10th Percentile £250 £281 £300
25th Percentile £378 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £652 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 266 133
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%
75th Percentile £59.24 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £83.41 £63.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Data Analytics Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Data Analytics Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics Engineer in the North West

Data Analytics Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics Engineer in the North West

Data Analytics Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analytics Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Manchester - 2 £525 -
Lancashire - 1 £530 -
Data Analytics Engineer
England

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analytics Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North West region featuring Data Analytics Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Dremio
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Kafka
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (33.33%) BigQuery

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Dremio
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Information Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Virgin Media