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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2024.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 182 174
Rank change year-on-year +70 -8 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 335 255 451
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.20% 1.28% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 1.37% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 205 328
10th Percentile £317 £396 £409
25th Percentile £417 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £588
90th Percentile £641 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 15
10th Percentile £25.14 £31.33 £17.05
25th Percentile £25.21 £36.69 £35.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £49.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.92% -18.33% +84.62%
75th Percentile £27.91 £58.69 £66.88
90th Percentile £28.19 £62.48 £91.00
UK median hourly rate £50.50 £61.43 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.79% +2.38% +71.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 14,053 18,642 27,811
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 93.60% 95.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,336 12,180 19,575
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £363 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £594
90th Percentile £676 £688 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 1,217 1,343
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £20.26 £18.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £32.50 £45.00 £24.58
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +83.08% +40.46%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £44.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.35% +48.33% +50.00%

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 13 December 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
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 13 December 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 +71 89 £450 -10.00% 77
South East +30 75 £550 -2.22% 32
Midlands +32 67 £490 -4.39% 37
West Midlands +30 60 £500 -4.76% 24
North West +47 46 £445 -11.00% 46
Scotland +30 36 £441 -11.75% 21
Yorkshire +35 31 £485 -7.62% 13
South West +18 30 £494 -5.95% 20
Wales +23 24 £500 +5.26% 3
East of England +26 18 £320 -40.47% 13
North East -7 12 £390 -13.53% 19
East Midlands +7 7 £356 -29.68% 11
Northern Ireland - 2 £498 - 8
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 December 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.

1 145 (43.28%) SQL
2 137 (40.90%) Python
3 124 (37.01%) Azure
4 109 (32.54%) ETL
5 86 (25.67%) Databricks
6 71 (21.19%) Analytics
7 69 (20.60%) Data Pipeline
8 67 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 66 (19.70%) AWS
10 63 (18.81%) Security Cleared
10 63 (18.81%) Data Modelling
10 63 (18.81%) Data Engineering
11 62 (18.51%) Azure Data Factory
12 60 (17.91%) Agile
13 56 (16.72%) SC Cleared
14 55 (16.42%) DevOps
15 53 (15.82%) Data Warehouse
16 52 (15.52%) PySpark
17 49 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
18 48 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
19 44 (13.13%) Data Lake
20 42 (12.54%) Power Platform
21 41 (12.24%) Power BI
22 39 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
23 37 (11.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
23 37 (11.04%) Data Governance
24 36 (10.75%) Data Integration
25 35 (10.45%) Migration
26 33 (9.85%) Data Quality
26 33 (9.85%) Social Skills

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 23 (6.87%) Apache Spark
2 21 (6.27%) Apache
2 21 (6.27%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.69%) SAS
4 5 (1.49%) Confluence
4 5 (1.49%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.19%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.30%) MTS
7 1 (0.30%) R Markdown
Applications
1 7 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 124 (37.01%) Azure
2 66 (19.70%) AWS
3 62 (18.51%) Azure Data Factory
4 42 (12.54%) Power Platform
5 37 (11.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 28 (8.36%) GCP
7 25 (7.46%) Snowflake
8 22 (6.57%) Serverless
9 21 (6.27%) Amazon S3
10 20 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
11 19 (5.67%) dbt
11 19 (5.67%) GitHub
12 14 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
14 8 (2.39%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (2.39%) AWS CodePipeline
14 8 (2.39%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (2.09%) Azure Functions
16 6 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
16 6 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.99%) Firewall
1 10 (2.99%) VPN
2 9 (2.69%) DMZ
2 9 (2.69%) Structured Cabling
3 8 (2.39%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (2.09%) BGP
5 5 (1.49%) Network Security
6 4 (1.19%) OSPF
6 4 (1.19%) SMS
6 4 (1.19%) Wireless
7 3 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (0.90%) DNS
7 3 (0.90%) FTP
7 3 (0.90%) LAN
7 3 (0.90%) Multicast
7 3 (0.90%) VLAN
8 2 (0.60%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.60%) IPsec
8 2 (0.60%) MPLS
8 2 (0.60%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.82%) Data Warehouse
2 44 (13.13%) Data Lake
3 41 (12.24%) Power BI
4 26 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (6.57%) Big Data
6 15 (4.48%) Hadoop
6 15 (4.48%) SQL Server
7 14 (4.18%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (4.18%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (3.58%) Tableau
9 11 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (3.28%) BigQuery
9 11 (3.28%) Relational Database
10 10 (2.99%) Metadata
11 9 (2.69%) Looker
11 9 (2.69%) MongoDB
11 9 (2.69%) MySQL
12 8 (2.39%) Apache Hive
13 7 (2.09%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.09%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 28 (8.36%) Git
2 20 (5.97%) GitLab
3 14 (4.18%) JIRA
4 10 (2.99%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.19%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.60%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.30%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (11.64%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (9.85%) Social Skills
3 31 (9.25%) Finance
4 27 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 25 (7.46%) Banking
6 9 (2.69%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.79%) Investment Banking
7 6 (1.79%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.49%) Marketing
9 4 (1.19%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.19%) Electronics
9 4 (1.19%) Retail
10 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Local Government
11 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.60%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.30%) Automotive
12 1 (0.30%) Czech Language
12 1 (0.30%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (15.52%) PySpark
2 19 (5.67%) Kafka
3 11 (3.28%) REST
4 8 (2.39%) AWS CDK
4 8 (2.39%) Pandas
5 5 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (1.49%) Regular Expression
6 4 (1.19%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (1.19%) NumPy
6 4 (1.19%) Spring
6 4 (1.19%) Spring Boot
7 3 (0.90%) PostGIS
7 3 (0.90%) React
8 2 (0.60%) .NET
8 2 (0.60%) ADO
8 2 (0.60%) Flask
8 2 (0.60%) Gherkin
8 2 (0.60%) HTML
8 2 (0.60%) JSON
8 2 (0.60%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.78%) Data Centre
2 14 (4.18%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.28%) Smartphone
4 9 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.09%) Data Structures
6 6 (1.79%) Fibre Optics
7 5 (1.49%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.19%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.19%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.90%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.90%) Life Science
9 3 (0.90%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.90%) Mashup
9 3 (0.90%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.90%) Video\Live Streaming
10 2 (0.60%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.60%) CMDB
10 2 (0.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.19%) Unix
2 3 (0.90%) Linux
3 2 (0.60%) Windows
4 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (32.54%) ETL
2 71 (21.19%) Analytics
3 69 (20.60%) Data Pipeline
4 67 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 63 (18.81%) Data Engineering
5 63 (18.81%) Data Modelling
6 60 (17.91%) Agile
7 55 (16.42%) DevOps
8 49 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
9 48 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (11.04%) Data Governance
11 36 (10.75%) Data Integration
12 35 (10.45%) Migration
13 28 (8.36%) Data Transformation
14 26 (7.76%) Data Management
15 24 (7.16%) Data Science
15 24 (7.16%) Machine Learning
15 24 (7.16%) Scrum
16 23 (6.87%) Data Migration
17 21 (6.27%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 145 (43.28%) SQL
2 137 (40.90%) Python
3 29 (8.66%) Java
4 13 (3.88%) PL/SQL
5 11 (3.28%) Scala
5 11 (3.28%) T-SQL
6 8 (2.39%) R
7 4 (1.19%) HiveQL
8 3 (0.90%) Bash
8 3 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.60%) C#
9 2 (0.60%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.60%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.30%) ANSI SQL
10 1 (0.30%) C
10 1 (0.30%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.30%) Ruby
10 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 63 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 56 (16.72%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.37%) Degree
4 9 (2.69%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.90%) JNCIP
8 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.60%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.60%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.60%) JNCIA
8 2 (0.60%) JNCIS
8 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.30%) CCNA
9 1 (0.30%) CCNP
9 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.30%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.39%) QA
3 7 (2.09%) GDPR
4 6 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.60%) GxP
5 2 (0.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) HL7
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.30%) NIST
6 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (2.99%) Docker
2 5 (1.49%) HDFS
3 3 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.90%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 22 (6.57%) Terraform
2 10 (2.99%) Grafana
3 9 (2.69%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.49%) Ansible
4 5 (1.49%) Kibana
4 5 (1.49%) logstash
5 2 (0.60%) Oozie
6 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 86 (25.67%) Databricks
2 30 (8.96%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.46%) Oracle
4 16 (4.78%) Cisco
5 14 (4.18%) Informatica
6 11 (3.28%) Talend
7 9 (2.69%) Atlassian
7 9 (2.69%) Google
7 9 (2.69%) Juniper
8 7 (2.09%) F5
9 6 (1.79%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.79%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.49%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.19%) Denodo
11 4 (1.19%) SAP
12 3 (0.90%) Aruba
12 3 (0.90%) Blue Coat
12 3 (0.90%) McAfee
12 3 (0.90%) Meraki
12 3 (0.90%) VMware