Data Engineer Contracts in Telford

Data Engineer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Telford is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 8 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 7.41% - 3.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 7.84% - 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 4
10th Percentile £370 - £545
25th Percentile £449 - £553
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - £565
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.63%
75th Percentile £465 - £573
90th Percentile £474 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £460 - £565
% change year-on-year - - +4.63%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 102 98 137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 83.76% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 68 107
10th Percentile £390 £346 £412
25th Percentile £450 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% -4.69% +7.60%
75th Percentile £538 £536 £553
90th Percentile £541 £538 £595
Shropshire median daily rate £493 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -1.40% -7.06% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -72.73% +378.26%
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £12.18 £15.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.80% -72.73% +323.08%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Telford.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Telford

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Telford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Telford.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Telford

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Telford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Telford

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Telford.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Telford

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Telford region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) SQL
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
1 4 (50.00%) Confluence
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Data Transformation
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
2 3 (37.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
2 3 (37.50%) Unix
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (37.50%) IBM
2 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Denodo
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
4 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (12.50%) QAD
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Python

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (37.50%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Data Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (12.50%) Data Science
4 1 (12.50%) Prototyping
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) PL/SQL
2 3 (37.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian
1 3 (37.50%) IBM
2 2 (25.00%) Denodo
3 1 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) QAD