Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in North Yorkshire is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 1.66% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £452 - -
25th Percentile £455 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £468 - -
90th Percentile £472 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% -25.38%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in North Yorkshire. 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 North Yorkshire with a recognized job title 162 76 116
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.50% 88.37% 85.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 35 69
10th Percentile £200 £144 £178
25th Percentile £413 £178 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £363 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.10% -27.50% +28.21%
75th Percentile £594 £556 £700
90th Percentile £747 £600 £850
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 12 13
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.26 -
25th Percentile £15.13 £17.67 £13.50
Median hourly rate £23.33 £18.67 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.94% +6.70% -20.45%
75th Percentile £23.35 £24.18 £20.74
90th Percentile £27.86 £25.15 £39.40
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £21.00
% change year-on-year +16.40% +5.43% +5.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in North Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in North Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Skipton - 2 £468 - 3
Data Engineer
Yorkshire

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 22 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 3 August 2026, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) SQL

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Security
3 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks