Data Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 147 166
Rank change year-on-year +14 +19 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 331 382 469
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.62% 1.63% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 1.73% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 295 332
10th Percentile £167 £405 £325
25th Percentile £199 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.45% +2.80% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £603
90th Percentile £630 £683 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 3 7
10th Percentile £37.50 £37.50 £34.45
25th Percentile £58.75 £39.75 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £43.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.41% -3.33% +83.67%
75th Percentile £80.00 £59.63 £45.10
90th Percentile - £69.30 £50.62
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £64.00 £45.10
% change year-on-year -0.39% +41.91% +55.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in the UK excluding London

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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
North of England +11 79 £445 -15.24% 52
South West +16 67 £513 -6.82% 27
South East -8 61 £500 - 29
North West -1 49 £425 -17.07% 34
Midlands +29 42 £463 -15.91% 37
East of England +35 37 £185 -65.58% 21
Scotland +9 32 £453 -6.60% 18
Yorkshire +16 30 £475 -19.15% 13
West Midlands +9 30 £513 -6.82% 29
East Midlands +28 12 £425 -5.56% 8
Wales +21 7 £200 -61.63% 21
Northern Ireland +7 6 £175 -65.00% 13
Data Engineer
UK

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 124 (37.46%) SQL
2 107 (32.33%) Python
3 96 (29.00%) Azure
4 94 (28.40%) ETL
5 74 (22.36%) Data Modelling
6 70 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
7 67 (20.24%) Migration
8 66 (19.94%) AWS
8 66 (19.94%) Data Pipeline
9 60 (18.13%) Power Platform
9 60 (18.13%) Data Engineering
9 60 (18.13%) Power BI
9 60 (18.13%) Security Cleared
10 58 (17.52%) Data Warehouse
11 54 (16.31%) Analytics
12 53 (16.01%) Data Migration
13 50 (15.11%) Azure Data Factory
14 48 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
15 45 (13.60%) SC Cleared
16 43 (12.99%) Databricks
17 41 (12.39%) Data Lake
18 39 (11.78%) Social Skills
19 38 (11.48%) DevOps
20 37 (11.18%) Micro Focus
21 33 (9.97%) Java
22 31 (9.37%) Agile
22 31 (9.37%) CI/CD
23 29 (8.76%) Data Analysis
23 29 (8.76%) Tableau
24 28 (8.46%) Data Quality

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (6.34%) Apache Spark
2 18 (5.44%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (3.93%) Apache
4 5 (1.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.30%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) ENOVIA
1 3 (0.91%) SAP PLM
1 3 (0.91%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 96 (29.00%) Azure
2 66 (19.94%) AWS
3 60 (18.13%) Power Platform
4 50 (15.11%) Azure Data Factory
5 25 (7.55%) Snowflake
6 24 (7.25%) Serverless
7 22 (6.65%) Amazon S3
7 22 (6.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 21 (6.34%) GCP
9 18 (5.44%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (4.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (3.32%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (3.32%) AWS CodePipeline
12 10 (3.02%) dbt
12 10 (3.02%) OpenShift
13 9 (2.72%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (2.42%) GitHub
15 7 (2.11%) Amazon EMR
16 6 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.55%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (1.51%) FTP
2 5 (1.51%) VLAN
3 4 (1.21%) Firewall
4 3 (0.91%) Wireless
5 2 (0.60%) 3G
5 2 (0.60%) 4G
5 2 (0.60%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (0.60%) DMZ
5 2 (0.60%) Network Security
5 2 (0.60%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) 2G
6 1 (0.30%) 5G
6 1 (0.30%) DNS
6 1 (0.30%) GPRS
6 1 (0.30%) RNC
6 1 (0.30%) VoLTE
6 1 (0.30%) VoWiFi
6 1 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (18.13%) Power BI
2 58 (17.52%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (12.39%) Data Lake
4 29 (8.76%) Tableau
5 28 (8.46%) SQL Server
6 20 (6.04%) Relational Database
7 19 (5.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 16 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (4.53%) Big Data
10 14 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (3.93%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 13 (3.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 12 (3.63%) NoSQL
13 11 (3.32%) BigQuery
14 10 (3.02%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (3.02%) Metadata
15 8 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
15 8 (2.42%) MySQL
16 7 (2.11%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 17 (5.14%) Git
2 13 (3.93%) JIRA
3 9 (2.72%) GitLab
4 4 (1.21%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.91%) Mercurial
6 2 (0.60%) Gradle
7 1 (0.30%) Ant
7 1 (0.30%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.30%) ERwin
7 1 (0.30%) JUnit
7 1 (0.30%) Maven
7 1 (0.30%) RStudio
General
1 48 (14.50%) Analytical Skills
2 39 (11.78%) Social Skills
3 28 (8.46%) Public Sector
4 19 (5.74%) Finance
5 13 (3.93%) Manufacturing
6 11 (3.32%) Aerospace
6 11 (3.32%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.11%) Banking
8 5 (1.51%) Marketing
8 5 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.21%) Aviation
9 4 (1.21%) Electronics
9 4 (1.21%) Local Government
9 4 (1.21%) Military
10 3 (0.91%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.60%) Retail
12 1 (0.30%) Advertising
12 1 (0.30%) Mandarin Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.14%) PySpark
2 13 (3.93%) AWS CDK
3 10 (3.02%) Kafka
3 10 (3.02%) XML
4 9 (2.72%) REST
5 7 (2.11%) Pandas
6 6 (1.81%) JSON
7 4 (1.21%) Flask
7 4 (1.21%) NumPy
7 4 (1.21%) OpenID
7 4 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.21%) PostGIS
8 3 (0.91%) ADO
8 3 (0.91%) ODBC
8 3 (0.91%) React
8 3 (0.91%) SciPy
9 1 (0.30%) .NET
9 1 (0.30%) JDBC
9 1 (0.30%) Node.js
9 1 (0.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (3.93%) Fibre Optics
2 10 (3.02%) Replication
3 9 (2.72%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.81%) Data Structures
5 6 (1.81%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.51%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.51%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.21%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.21%) NHS
7 4 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.21%) Smart Meter
8 3 (0.91%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.91%) Driving Licence
8 3 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (0.91%) Social Media
9 2 (0.60%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.60%) IoT
9 2 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.23%) Linux
1 14 (4.23%) Windows
2 6 (1.81%) Unix
3 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (28.40%) ETL
2 74 (22.36%) Data Modelling
3 70 (21.15%) Business Intelligence
4 67 (20.24%) Migration
5 66 (19.94%) Data Pipeline
6 60 (18.13%) Data Engineering
7 54 (16.31%) Analytics
8 53 (16.01%) Data Migration
9 38 (11.48%) DevOps
10 31 (9.37%) Agile
10 31 (9.37%) CI/CD
11 29 (8.76%) Data Analysis
12 28 (8.46%) Data Integration
13 26 (7.85%) DevSecOps
14 24 (7.25%) Problem-Solving
15 21 (6.34%) Scrum
16 20 (6.04%) Data Management
16 20 (6.04%) Data Transformation
17 19 (5.74%) Visualisation
18 18 (5.44%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 124 (37.46%) SQL
2 107 (32.33%) Python
3 33 (9.97%) Java
4 22 (6.65%) Scala
5 15 (4.53%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.02%) C#
7 5 (1.51%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.51%) R
7 5 (1.51%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.21%) Perl
8 4 (1.21%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.91%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.60%) Bash
10 2 (0.60%) C
10 2 (0.60%) C++
10 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.60%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.30%) HiveQL
Qualifications
1 60 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 45 (13.60%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.74%) Degree
4 14 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.91%) CISSP
7 3 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.60%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.60%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.60%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.30%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.46%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.14%) QA
3 5 (1.51%) GDPR
4 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.30%) GxP
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (3.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.60%) HDFS
3 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (4.53%) Terraform
2 11 (3.32%) Ansible
3 7 (2.11%) Grafana
4 6 (1.81%) Kubernetes
4 6 (1.81%) Puppet
5 5 (1.51%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.60%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 43 (12.99%) Databricks
2 37 (11.18%) Micro Focus
3 24 (7.25%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.23%) Informatica
5 13 (3.93%) Oracle
6 10 (3.02%) Talend
7 9 (2.72%) Veritas
8 6 (1.81%) SAP
9 5 (1.51%) Ab Initio
9 5 (1.51%) Google
9 5 (1.51%) Twitter
10 3 (0.91%) JD Edwards
11 2 (0.60%) CheckPoint
11 2 (0.60%) Cisco
11 2 (0.60%) Cloudera
11 2 (0.60%) Commvault
11 2 (0.60%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.60%) IBM
11 2 (0.60%) Juniper
11 2 (0.60%) Sage