Data Engineer Contracts in Northamptonshire

Data Engineer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Northamptonshire is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 19 36
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 8 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 5.48% 3.06% 0.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.93% 3.24% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 1
10th Percentile £330 £438 -
25th Percentile £365 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.89% +163.16%
75th Percentile £430 £519 -
90th Percentile £453 £523 -
East Midlands median daily rate £399 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -11.39% - -2.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 135 185 221
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.39% 91.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 138 171
10th Percentile £271 £265 £205
25th Percentile £358 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £433 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +8.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £537 £500
90th Percentile £575 £621 £573
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +9.02% -8.89% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 10
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £14.19
25th Percentile £21.56 £12.37 £17.82
Median hourly rate £32.25 £14.00 £19.02
Median % change year-on-year +130.36% -26.37% -17.33%
75th Percentile £45.06 £35.00 £26.33
90th Percentile £51.03 £57.88 £35.30
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.36
% change year-on-year +32.60% -14.05% +19.03%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Northamptonshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Northamptonshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Northamptonshire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire 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
Northampton -1 5 £375 -25.00% 11
Corby - 1 - -
Data Engineer
East Midlands

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Northamptonshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 3 (37.50%) Apache Hive
3 3 (37.50%) HBase
3 3 (37.50%) Big Data
3 3 (37.50%) Java
3 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
3 3 (37.50%) Hadoop
3 3 (37.50%) Impala
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
4 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (25.00%) Scala
5 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 1 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (12.50%) Data Governance
5 1 (12.50%) Kafka
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (37.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Apache Hive
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Hadoop
1 3 (37.50%) HBase
1 3 (37.50%) Impala
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (12.50%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
1 1 (12.50%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Anti-Money Laundering
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lineage
4 1 (12.50%) Data Security
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) KYC
4 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certification
1 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Salesforce