Data Analytics Engineer Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Data Analytics Engineer
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The median Data Analytics Engineer daily rate in Staffordshire is £431, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analytics Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 2.33% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.74% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £417 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 - -
75th Percentile £442 - -
90th Percentile £447 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £431 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Staffordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Staffordshire. 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 Staffordshire with a recognized job title 73 60 93
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.88% 95.24% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 35 60
10th Percentile £180 £140 £274
25th Percentile £272 £150 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £375 £386
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -2.91% -11.71%
75th Percentile £430 £488 £488
90th Percentile £575 £538 £575
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -0.51% +2.63% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 15
10th Percentile £16.30 £12.25 -
25th Percentile £19.50 £16.38 £14.71
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.00 £25.96
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -30.65% +7.03%
75th Percentile £56.13 £20.24 £41.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £25.52 £51.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.30 £18.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +46.13% -18.18% +15.79%

Data Analytics Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Data Analytics Engineer job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Data Analytics Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analytics Engineer within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 5 April 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
Uttoxeter - 2 £431 -
Data Analytics Engineer
West Midlands

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire

For the 6 months to 5 April 2026, Data Analytics 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 Staffordshire region featuring Data Analytics Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
1 2 (100.00%) Spark SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform

Data Analytics Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Delta Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Spark SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
2 1 (50.00%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Change Data Capture
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Data Lineage
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft