Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Data Engineering
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 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 34 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.75% - 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% - 3.76%
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 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -12.78% -6.82% -4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 205 138 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 77.36% 87.34% 78.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 75 81
10th Percentile £174 £313 £325
25th Percentile £200 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £530 £600
90th Percentile £650 £554 £725
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.18% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 4 10
10th Percentile £12.95 - £13.50
25th Percentile £14.96 £13.81 £14.72
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.96 £16.36
Median % change year-on-year +9.29% -8.53% +38.60%
75th Percentile £16.75 £20.52 £18.56
90th Percentile £17.87 £28.46 £26.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -16.13% +28.57% +3.98%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Nottinghamshire

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 3 March 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
Nottingham - 2 £706 - 8
Data Engineering
East Midlands

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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