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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 105 127
Rank change year-on-year +7 +22 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 27 28 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.39% 1.06% 0.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.23% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 18
10th Percentile £350 £419 £415
25th Percentile £450 £466 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £548
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -6.85% +9.50%
75th Percentile £531 £585 £694
90th Percentile £580 £599 £725
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
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 £27.50 £41.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year -34.13% -44.33% +21.95%

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 1,750 2,271 2,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.30% 85.70% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 1,445 1,933
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £388 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 255 138
10th Percentile £17.01 £10.97 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.50 £22.44
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.00 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -25.75% +51.88%
75th Percentile £62.25 £46.18 £48.56
90th Percentile £84.73 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

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 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 23 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 +15 11 £500 +4.71% 170
Cheshire -11 6 £350 -31.37% 90
Cumbria - 5 - -
Merseyside - 4 £488 - 38
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 2 (7.41%) Apache Spark
1 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 9 (33.33%) Azure
3 6 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
5 4 (14.81%) dbt
5 4 (14.81%) GCP
6 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Metadata
2 7 (25.93%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (22.22%) Hadoop
3 6 (22.22%) Tableau
4 5 (18.52%) Power BI
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (11.11%) Big Data
6 3 (11.11%) Delta Lake
6 3 (11.11%) Dremio
6 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (7.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (7.41%) BigQuery
7 2 (7.41%) Data Mining
7 2 (7.41%) Data Vault
7 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
8 1 (3.70%) MySQL
8 1 (3.70%) Parquet
8 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) Visual Studio
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Data Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Architect
2 3 (11.11%) Data Architect
2 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Data Analytics Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Information Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Senior
3 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Associate Director
4 1 (3.70%) Data Scientist
4 1 (3.70%) SAP Architect
4 1 (3.70%) SAP Data Architect
4 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) PySpark
2 3 (11.11%) Kafka
3 2 (7.41%) ADO
4 1 (3.70%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (3.70%) Shiny
4 1 (3.70%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 5 (18.52%) Algorithms
3 3 (11.11%) Data Structures
4 2 (7.41%) Data Fabric
4 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (3.70%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Data Pipeline
2 9 (33.33%) Data Management
2 9 (33.33%) ETL
3 8 (29.63%) Analytics
3 8 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (29.63%) Data Modelling
3 8 (29.63%) Data Science
3 8 (29.63%) Decision-Making
3 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (22.22%) Visualisation
5 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence
5 5 (18.52%) Data Transformation
5 5 (18.52%) Information Retrieval
5 5 (18.52%) Mathematics
5 5 (18.52%) Pattern Recognition
5 5 (18.52%) Statistical Modelling
5 5 (18.52%) Statistics
6 4 (14.81%) Data Governance
6 4 (14.81%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) SQL
2 10 (37.04%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.70%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) Degree
2 6 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 3 (11.11%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Databricks
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Ariba
4 1 (3.70%) Brio
4 1 (3.70%) SAP