Data Engineering Contracts in the North West

Data Engineering
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 117 128
Rank change year-on-year +26 +11 +29
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 29 20 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.47% 0.73% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 0.84% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 20
10th Percentile £398 £408 £417
25th Percentile £427 £490 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £510 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -11.30% +22.34%
75th Percentile £534 £585 £681
90th Percentile £626 £600 £725
England median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £22.59 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £25.43 £67.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.33% +92.86% -
75th Percentile £28.75 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £29.50 - -
England median hourly rate £26.47 £38.65 £73.00
% change year-on-year -31.53% -47.05% +29.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the North West

Data Engineering
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 Engineering 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 +23 16 £475 -6.86% 36
Cumbria - 5 - -
Merseyside - 4 £488 - 3
Cheshire -6 3 £513 +0.49% 13
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 4 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (6.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.45%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (24.14%) dbt
4 6 (20.69%) Power Platform
4 6 (20.69%) Snowflake
5 4 (13.79%) GCP
6 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Functions
7 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (6.90%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Metadata
2 7 (24.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 7 (24.14%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (24.14%) Tableau
3 6 (20.69%) Power BI
4 5 (17.24%) BigQuery
4 5 (17.24%) Hadoop
5 3 (10.34%) Big Data
5 3 (10.34%) Delta Lake
5 3 (10.34%) Dremio
5 3 (10.34%) Looker
5 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (6.90%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (6.90%) Data Mining
6 2 (6.90%) Data Vault
6 2 (6.90%) MySQL
6 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
6 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.45%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Git
1 5 (17.24%) Visual Studio
2 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
3 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (3.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Data Engineer
2 3 (10.34%) Developer
3 2 (6.90%) Architect
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (6.90%) Data Architect
3 2 (6.90%) Senior
3 2 (6.90%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Analyst
4 1 (3.45%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (3.45%) Associate Director
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Data Scientist
4 1 (3.45%) Principal Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Principal Data Architect
4 1 (3.45%) SAP Architect
4 1 (3.45%) SAP Data Architect
4 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) PySpark
2 3 (10.34%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) ADO
4 1 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.45%) Shiny
4 1 (3.45%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Management Information System
2 5 (17.24%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (3.45%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Data Pipeline
2 12 (41.38%) ETL
3 10 (34.48%) Analytics
3 10 (34.48%) Data Modelling
3 10 (34.48%) Decision-Making
4 9 (31.03%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (31.03%) Data Science
5 8 (27.59%) Data Management
5 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (24.14%) Visualisation
7 6 (20.69%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (20.69%) Data Transformation
8 5 (17.24%) Information Retrieval
8 5 (17.24%) Mathematics
8 5 (17.24%) Pattern Recognition
8 5 (17.24%) Statistical Modelling
8 5 (17.24%) Statistics
9 4 (13.79%) Data Analytics
9 4 (13.79%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 4 (13.79%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) SQL
2 12 (41.38%) Python
3 3 (10.34%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Databricks
2 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Brio
3 2 (6.90%) Google
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Ariba
4 1 (3.45%) Hitachi
4 1 (3.45%) Pega