Data Engineering Contracts in South Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 54 54
Rank change year-on-year +9 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.80% 0.44% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.49% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £519 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 -
90th Percentile £633 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £605 £488
% change year-on-year -9.09% +24.10% -18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 356 409 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.44% 89.50% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 322
10th Percentile £219 £316 £300
25th Percentile £385 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £663
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 14 38
10th Percentile - £10.90 -
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.64 £9.80
Median hourly rate £18.21 £17.62 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +65.71% -36.54%
75th Percentile £18.41 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £18.47 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in South Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering in South Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in South Yorkshire

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +6 3 £575 -8.00% 11
Data Engineering
Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Google Compute Engine
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Google