Data Engineer Contracts in Sheffield

Data Engineer
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Sheffield is £475, 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 34 48 51
Rank change year-on-year +14 +3 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 16 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 5.02% 1.85% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 5.50% 2.06% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 2
10th Percentile £327 £400 £655
25th Percentile £400 £513 £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £606 £540 £688
90th Percentile £648 £554 £695
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £260 £675
% change year-on-year +82.69% -61.48% +12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Sheffield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 Sheffield with a recognized job title 291 340 445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 89.71% 98.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 210 311
10th Percentile £220 £360 £363
25th Percentile £381 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £481 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -12.50% +10.00%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £675
90th Percentile £641 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £470 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile - £10.90 £11.10
25th Percentile £18.10 £11.33 £11.25
Median hourly rate £18.35 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -16.58% +24.15% +8.21%
75th Percentile £18.50 £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.51 - £33.00
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.35 £13.60 £17.72
% change year-on-year +34.99% -23.28% +0.45%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Sheffield

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Sheffield

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Sheffield

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield

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 Sheffield region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Data Protection
2 9 (56.25%) Python
2 9 (56.25%) Commvault
2 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
3 8 (50.00%) Oracle
4 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database
4 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (31.25%) Ansible
5 5 (31.25%) SQL
5 5 (31.25%) Financial Institution
5 5 (31.25%) Data Management
6 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
6 4 (25.00%) Docker
6 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
6 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
6 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (25.00%) OCI
6 4 (25.00%) Banking
7 3 (18.75%) GCP
7 3 (18.75%) Flink
7 3 (18.75%) Data Lineage
7 3 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (18.75%) Change Management
7 3 (18.75%) Apache
7 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
7 3 (18.75%) ETL
7 3 (18.75%) Workflow Management

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Apache
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) OCI
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Oracle Database
2 3 (18.75%) Flink
3 2 (12.50%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Vagrant
2 1 (6.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Financial Institution
3 4 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Digital Healthcare
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Data Protection
2 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (31.25%) Data Management
5 4 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Change Management
6 3 (18.75%) Data Lineage
6 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) ETL
6 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
6 3 (18.75%) Workflow
6 3 (18.75%) Workflow Management
7 1 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
7 1 (6.25%) Data Engineering
7 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 5 (31.25%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (6.25%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (12.50%) Puppet
4 1 (6.25%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Commvault
2 8 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (18.75%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Veritas