Data Engineer Contracts in Northern Ireland

Data Engineer
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Northern Ireland is £500, 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 31 18 28
Rank change year-on-year -13 +10 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 1 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.63% 4.03% 2.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 4.23% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £175 £500
Median % change year-on-year +185.71% -65.00% +11.11%
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 147 142 183
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 95.30% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 73 83
10th Percentile £155 £173 £166
25th Percentile £273 £313 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +5.88% +4.62%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £500
90th Percentile £625 £650 £618
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 8
10th Percentile £13.64 - £13.29
25th Percentile £22.50 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £24.18 £15.38 £14.59
Median % change year-on-year +57.22% +5.40% -15.80%
75th Percentile £40.36 £21.00 £15.94
90th Percentile £75.85 £28.54 £16.87
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Northern Ireland

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Northern Ireland

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -15 1 £500 +185.71% 8
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality