Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Data Engineer
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Nottingham is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 2.52% - 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.80% - 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £423 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £450
75th Percentile £661 - £475
90th Percentile £771 - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £525 - £450

All Contract IT Job Roles
Nottingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Nottingham. 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 Nottingham with a recognized job title 214 119 130
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.92% 90.84% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 73 84
10th Percentile £190 £185 £288
25th Percentile £369 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +5.56% -13.46%
75th Percentile £587 £510 £588
90th Percentile £654 £555 £663
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £450 £470 £450
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 1 13
10th Percentile £12.95 - £12.73
25th Percentile £14.25 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.35 £12.92 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year +26.55% -9.46% -12.48%
75th Percentile - - £15.50
90th Percentile £17.87 - £18.00
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £22.71 £14.27
% change year-on-year -28.01% +59.15% -12.48%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Nottingham.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Nottingham

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Nottingham over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Nottingham

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham

For the 6 months to 15 March 2026, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Nottingham region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Databricks
2 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 4 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
4 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 2 (33.33%) Power BI
4 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (33.33%) PySpark
5 1 (16.67%) Apache
5 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
5 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (16.67%) Data Lake

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Matillion
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Delta Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (16.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Modelling
1 4 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Runbook
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Databricks