Data Engineering Contracts in the North West

Data Engineering
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 130 160
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 -45
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 20 28 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.72% 0.87% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.96% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 15
10th Percentile £394 £416 £355
25th Percentile £479 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +26.32% -
75th Percentile £585 £688 £613
90th Percentile £600 £725 £733
England median daily rate £560 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -6.67% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £38.65 £73.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% +29.20% +21.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,400 2,922 3,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.42% 90.97% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,555 2,080 2,592
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £410 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 149 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.73 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.16 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £54.00 £65.15 £59.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 23 April 2024. 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 +6 10 £500 -13.04% 25
Cheshire +12 9 £510 - 2
Lancashire +5 1 £600 - 4
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 10 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (25.00%) Apache
2 5 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) AWS
2 6 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (30.00%) Serverless
2 6 (30.00%) Snowflake
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon EMR
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 5 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (20.00%) Azure
4 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (10.00%) GCP
7 1 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 7 (35.00%) Big Data
3 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (20.00%) Hadoop
4 4 (20.00%) Power BI
5 3 (15.00%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (15.00%) HBase
5 3 (15.00%) MySQL
6 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (10.00%) Tableau
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
7 1 (5.00%) Delta Lake
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (40.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Advertising
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Data Manager
4 3 (15.00%) Product Manager
4 3 (15.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Business Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Product Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) JSON
1 5 (25.00%) XML
2 3 (15.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
1 3 (15.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) ETL
2 12 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (55.00%) Data Modelling
4 10 (50.00%) Agile
5 6 (30.00%) Analytics
5 6 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (25.00%) Data Management
6 5 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 5 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (25.00%) OO
6 5 (25.00%) OOP
6 5 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (25.00%) Scrum
6 5 (25.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
7 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Python
2 9 (45.00%) Java
2 9 (45.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) C#
4 3 (15.00%) Scala
5 2 (10.00%) Perl
6 1 (5.00%) R
6 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Informatica
1 5 (25.00%) Talend
2 2 (10.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Google
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Anaplan
3 1 (5.00%) Facebook
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Twitter