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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 35 47
Rank change year-on-year -50 +12 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.76% 0.43% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.45% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £393 - -
25th Percentile £438 £613 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - +2.46%
75th Percentile £516 £638 £638
90th Percentile £566 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -24.00% - +2.46%

All Process & 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 748 223 367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 94.56% 95.30% 94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 136 225
10th Percentile £350 £220 £368
25th Percentile £413 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.51% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £540 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £504 £525
% change year-on-year -3.28% -4.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 9
10th Percentile £14.44 £12.10 -
25th Percentile £15.34 £12.62 £10.90
Median hourly rate £19.34 £14.85 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -34.02% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile - £16.97 £25.25
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.01 £14.85 £13.23
% change year-on-year +21.29% +12.21% +24.46%

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 2 February 2026.

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 3 (50.00%) Apache
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 3 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (50.00%) HBase
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Spark SQL
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Hadoop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Banking Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Spark Streaming
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Avro
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (16.67%) Protocol Buffers
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Analytics
2 5 (83.33%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (66.67%) Data Analytics
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 3 (50.00%) Data Security
5 2 (33.33%) Data Governance
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Use Case
5 2 (33.33%) Validation
5 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
6 1 (16.67%) AI Transformation
6 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
6 1 (16.67%) Data Collection
6 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
6 1 (16.67%) Observability
6 1 (16.67%) RBAC
6 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Hadoop YARN
1 3 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk