Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Solihull

Data Engineering
West Midlands > Solihull

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Solihull requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 18 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Solihull 1.85% 4.84% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 5.17% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £517 £301 -
25th Percentile £526 £303 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £310 -
Median % change year-on-year +79.03% - -
75th Percentile £596 £323 -
90th Percentile £614 £327 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £431 £629
% change year-on-year +10.21% -31.52% +11.89%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Solihull

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 Solihull.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 58 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Solihull 83.33% 93.55% 78.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 37 49
10th Percentile £388 £220 £269
25th Percentile £413 £359 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.22% +20.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £513 £588 £430
90th Percentile £598 £605 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £24.00 - -
25th Percentile £25.58 - £15.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £37.46 - £17.00
90th Percentile £40.03 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +51.07% +18.42% -24.38%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Solihull

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Solihull

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Solihull

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

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

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Solihull 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DataOps
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Bicep
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks