Data Engineer Contract Job Trends in Telford

Data Engineer
Shropshire > Telford

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Telford is £515, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 20 17
Rank change year-on-year -15 -3 +62
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 8 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 4.44% 5.19% 2.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.97% 6.06% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £385 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.66%
75th Percentile £533 - £550
90th Percentile £539 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £515 - £500
% change year-on-year - - -5.66%

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 161 66 42
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.44% 85.71% 97.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 57 26
10th Percentile £325 £243 £248
25th Percentile £409 £338 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% +0.83% -9.35%
75th Percentile £537 £524 £547
90th Percentile £545 £567 £588
Shropshire median daily rate £500 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +8.11% -2.63% -9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £18.68 £23.60 -
% change year-on-year -20.85% - -

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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 Telford.

Data Engineer job vacancy trend in Telford

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Telford

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Telford over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Telford

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Telford.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Engineer job vacancies in Telford

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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 Telford region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
1 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Pentaho
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
3 4 (50.00%) Talend
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) SAS
3 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Git
3 4 (50.00%) Denodo
3 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
4 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) JIRA
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (37.50%) Data Virtualisation
4 3 (37.50%) Docker
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Data Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Business Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 4 (50.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Pentaho
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) HDInsight
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) IoT
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) ETL
2 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Business Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (37.50%) Data Analytics
4 3 (37.50%) Data Integration
4 3 (37.50%) Data Virtualisation
4 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 1 (12.50%) Data Management
5 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Denodo
2 4 (50.00%) Talend
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Databricks
4 1 (12.50%) Informatica