Data Engineering Contracts in Northamptonshire

Data Engineering
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 22 35
Rank change year-on-year -1 +13 -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.05% 1.53% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 1.71% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £390 £506 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.41% +13.89% -
75th Percentile £436 £519 -
90th Percentile £450 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £475 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -13.64% -4.35% -13.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.78% 89.29% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 127 163
10th Percentile £269 £292 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 £14.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £51.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Northamptonshire

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Northamptonshire

Data Engineering
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 Engineering 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 - 3 £413 - 10
Data Engineering
East Midlands

Data Engineering
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 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 1 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (33.33%) HBase
2 1 (33.33%) Impala
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Automotive
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Scala Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (66.67%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lineage
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Data Security
2 2 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Scala
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 1 (33.33%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Hitachi