Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 36 51
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 18 10 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.34% 2.93% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.59% 3.38% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 3
10th Percentile £308 £425 £330
25th Percentile £463 £428 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £531 £350
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +51.79% -44.00%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £513
90th Percentile £530 £738 £595
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +3.09% -7.62% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 694 296 401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.13% 86.80% 90.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 177 252
10th Percentile £315 £208 £350
25th Percentile £400 £363 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £538 £595 £614
90th Percentile £622 £675 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £14.98 £12.79 £16.01
25th Percentile £16.68 £14.35 £19.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.10 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.76% -19.58% +18.42%
75th Percentile £22.33 £20.38 £27.50
90th Percentile £24.02 £21.05 £38.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.75 £23.34 £21.31
% change year-on-year +14.61% +9.53% +0.28%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in South Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in South Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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
Sheffield -38 18 £513 -3.53% 2
Data Engineer
Yorkshire

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) Ansible
2 8 (44.44%) Backlog Refinement
2 8 (44.44%) Commvault
2 8 (44.44%) Configuration Management
2 8 (44.44%) Confluence
2 8 (44.44%) Data Protection
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
2 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 8 (44.44%) NetBackup
2 8 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 8 (44.44%) Scrum
2 8 (44.44%) Sprint Retrospective
2 8 (44.44%) Test Automation
2 8 (44.44%) User Stories
3 7 (38.89%) Bash
3 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (38.89%) CloudBees
3 7 (38.89%) GitLab
3 7 (38.89%) Java
3 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
3 7 (38.89%) Veritas
4 6 (33.33%) Data Collection
4 6 (33.33%) Data Mining
4 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 6 (33.33%) Scala
4 6 (33.33%) SQL
5 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
5 5 (27.78%) Power BI
5 5 (27.78%) Power Platform

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 8 (44.44%) Confluence
2 4 (22.22%) Apache Pig
3 2 (11.11%) Apache
3 2 (11.11%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) CloudBees
2 5 (27.78%) Power Platform
3 2 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) AWS
4 1 (5.56%) Cohesity
4 1 (5.56%) Collibra
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Data Mining
2 5 (27.78%) Power BI
3 4 (22.22%) Apache Hive
3 4 (22.22%) Hadoop
4 2 (11.11%) OLTP
5 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.56%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (5.56%) DataStage
5 1 (5.56%) DB2
5 1 (5.56%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (5.56%) Metadata
5 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 7 (38.89%) GitLab
2 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
1 2 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (5.56%) REST
2 1 (5.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 6 (33.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Backlog Refinement
1 8 (44.44%) Configuration Management
1 8 (44.44%) Data Protection
1 8 (44.44%) DevOps
1 8 (44.44%) Scrum
1 8 (44.44%) Sprint Retrospective
1 8 (44.44%) Test Automation
1 8 (44.44%) User Stories
2 7 (38.89%) CI/CD
3 6 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 6 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 4 (22.22%) Data Munging
4 4 (22.22%) Data Science
4 4 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 4 (22.22%) Linear Algebra
4 4 (22.22%) Naive Bayes
4 4 (22.22%) Statistics
4 4 (22.22%) Support Vector Machines
4 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) Bash
2 7 (38.89%) Java
3 6 (33.33%) Scala
3 6 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
1 8 (44.44%) NetBackup
2 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Commvault
1 8 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 7 (38.89%) Veritas
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 4 (22.22%) Splunk
5 1 (5.56%) Informatica
5 1 (5.56%) Oracle
5 1 (5.56%) Palantir