Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 89 40 53
Rank change year-on-year -49 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 6 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.71% 0.37% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.39% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
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 £644
90th Percentile £566 - £648
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £588 £588
% change year-on-year -14.89% - -2.08%

All Process & 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 799 254 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 94.00% 94.78% 93.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 160 254
10th Percentile £350 £212 £366
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.28% -4.10% -
75th Percentile £546 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £719
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 13
10th Percentile £14.55 £12.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.27 £12.62 £12.63
Median hourly rate £18.01 £14.85 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +12.21% +24.46%
75th Percentile £23.70 £16.68 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.15 £16.97 £29.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £20.57 £15.50
% change year-on-year +22.28% +32.69% +45.81%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 2 February 2026. 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 -50 6 £475 -24.00% 4
Data Engineering
Yorkshire

Data Engineering
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 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