Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Nottingham

Data Engineering
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Nottingham 0.88% - 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% - 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £618 - £473
25th Percentile £645 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £706 - £600
75th Percentile £783 - £663
90th Percentile £819 - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £706 - £600

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 172 129 115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 75.77% 90.21% 82.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 70 73
10th Percentile £190 £302 £315
25th Percentile £376 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -15.29%
75th Percentile £574 £530 £600
90th Percentile £655 £551 £673
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £415 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -17.00% +11.11% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 1 10
10th Percentile £12.95 - £13.50
25th Percentile £14.96 - £14.72
Median hourly rate £16.35 £16.11 £16.36
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -1.50% +38.60%
75th Percentile £16.50 - £18.56
90th Percentile £17.87 - £26.50
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £14.96 £16.36
% change year-on-year +9.29% -8.53% +38.60%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Nottingham over the 6 months to 3 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Nottingham

Data Engineering
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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Matillion
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks