Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

Data Engineering
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 48 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.72% 0.57% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.62% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £582 -
25th Percentile £463 £587 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £602 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.10% - -
75th Percentile £544 £623 -
90th Percentile £578 £632 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £602 £650
% change year-on-year -21.10% -7.38% +6.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 666 324 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 96.10% 92.05% 95.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 181 220
10th Percentile £316 £230 £386
25th Percentile £402 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £538 £598 £650
90th Percentile £624 £665 £726
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -6.80% -6.36% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile £14.31 £13.14 £19.10
25th Percentile - £15.22 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -11.11% +36.36%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.50 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £28.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £14.85 £22.50
% change year-on-year +1.04% -34.02% +60.71%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Sheffield over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Sheffield

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 4 (80.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (60.00%) Apache
2 3 (60.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (60.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (60.00%) HBase
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) DataStage
3 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Spark SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spark Streaming
2 2 (40.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
1 5 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Data Analytics
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (20.00%) Data Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (20.00%) Data Collection
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Scala
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (60.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica
2 1 (20.00%) Talend