Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in North Yorkshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 0.90% - 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% - 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £588 £588
% change year-on-year -14.89% - -2.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North Yorkshire

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 North Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89 56 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire 80.18% 70.00% 78.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 24 89
10th Percentile £153 £229 £147
25th Percentile £217 £300 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% - -1.73%
75th Percentile £503 £572 £500
90th Percentile £725 £638 £582
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 8
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.65 £11.21
25th Percentile £20.90 £16.25 £11.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.71% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £51.06 £18.75 £19.56
90th Percentile £57.03 - £22.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £20.57 £15.50
% change year-on-year +22.28% +32.69% +45.81%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in North Yorkshire.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in North Yorkshire citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 February 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
York - 1 £550 - 2
Data Engineering
Yorkshire

Data Engineering
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL