Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Data Engineering
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 2.35% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £344 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £382 - -
75th Percentile £406 - -
90th Percentile £420 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £44.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £34.48 £35.00
% change year-on-year +103.02% -1.49% -52.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 174 171 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 81.69% 91.94% 77.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 107 62
10th Percentile £250 £183 £167
25th Percentile £374 £306 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +31.25%
75th Percentile £600 £551 £625
90th Percentile £694 £610 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 29
10th Percentile - £14.14 -
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.78 £12.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £19.25 £21.10
Median % change year-on-year +37.66% -8.77% +51.69%
75th Percentile £49.13 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £53.75 £28.71 £31.88
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +1.39%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 10 June 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
County Antrim - 3 £382 - 7
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (40.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Integration Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Integration Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Integration Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) CRM
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) API Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) R
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle