Data Engineering Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 241 257
Rank change year-on-year +56 +16 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 157 161 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.23% 0.78% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.36% 0.91% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 131 149
10th Percentile £318 £400 £413
25th Percentile £419 £453 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% +2.23% -2.18%
75th Percentile £550 £636 £650
90th Percentile £675 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 15
10th Percentile £21.31 £26.05 -
25th Percentile £22.55 £37.78 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.43 £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.62% +71.43% -38.05%
75th Percentile £28.60 - £75.63
90th Percentile £29.38 £64.38 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.43 £35.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year -27.34% -35.48% -3.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the UK excluding London

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +23 46 £500 -3.85% 103
South East +29 29 £500 -9.09% 203
North West +26 29 £488 -4.41% 55
Scotland +25 27 £475 +4.86% 29
South West +56 19 £613 +24.68% 48
Midlands 0 19 £488 -13.95% 51
Yorkshire +3 15 £550 -9.09% 36
West Midlands +2 13 £500 -22.10% 29
East of England +34 11 £373 -28.92% 32
Wales +8 8 £236 -62.24% 7
East Midlands 0 6 £475 -13.64% 19
North East 0 2 £475 +12.29% 12
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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 18 (11.46%) Apache Spark
2 17 (10.83%) Apache
3 14 (8.92%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.91%) nginx
4 3 (1.91%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.64%) Confluence
5 1 (0.64%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.64%) Luigi
Applications
1 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.64%) CATIA
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (31.21%) Azure
2 47 (29.94%) AWS
3 31 (19.75%) GCP
4 22 (14.01%) Power Platform
5 21 (13.38%) Snowflake
6 19 (12.10%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (10.83%) dbt
8 16 (10.19%) Serverless
9 14 (8.92%) Amazon S3
10 13 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.73%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (4.46%) GitHub
12 7 (4.46%) PaaS
13 5 (3.18%) OpenShift
14 4 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (2.55%) Google Compute Engine
15 3 (1.91%) AWS Data Pipeline
15 3 (1.91%) AWS Step Functions
15 3 (1.91%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.27%) SAN
1 2 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (31.21%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (15.29%) Big Data
3 23 (14.65%) Metadata
4 20 (12.74%) Power BI
5 18 (11.46%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (11.46%) Data Lake
6 17 (10.83%) BigQuery
7 15 (9.55%) Hadoop
8 14 (8.92%) Tableau
9 12 (7.64%) SQL Server
10 8 (5.10%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (4.46%) Looker
11 7 (4.46%) NoSQL
12 6 (3.82%) Metadata Repository
13 5 (3.18%) Oracle Database
14 4 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (2.55%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (2.55%) MongoDB
14 4 (2.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (7.01%) Git
2 6 (3.82%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.82%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.18%) GitLab
4 3 (1.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.91%) JIRA
4 3 (1.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.64%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.64%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (21.02%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.74%) Public Sector
3 18 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.46%) Finance
4 11 (7.01%) Banking
5 5 (3.18%) Tech for Good
5 5 (3.18%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.55%) Automotive
7 3 (1.91%) Marketing
7 3 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.91%) Retail
7 3 (1.91%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.27%) Billing
8 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.27%) Legal
8 2 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Law
9 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 72 (45.86%) Data Engineer
2 20 (12.74%) Architect
3 19 (12.10%) Senior
4 14 (8.92%) Developer
4 14 (8.92%) Senior Data Engineer
5 13 (8.28%) Data Architect
6 10 (6.37%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (5.73%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (5.73%) Lead
8 8 (5.10%) Data Scientist
9 7 (4.46%) Azure Data Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Consultant
10 5 (3.18%) Snowflake Data Engineer
10 5 (3.18%) Snowflake Engineer
11 4 (2.55%) Analyst
11 4 (2.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (2.55%) AWS Data Engineer
11 4 (2.55%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (2.55%) GCP Architect
11 4 (2.55%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.56%) PySpark
2 15 (9.55%) Kafka
3 7 (4.46%) Pandas
4 6 (3.82%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.82%) NumPy
5 5 (3.18%) TensorFlow
6 4 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (2.55%) PyTorch
6 4 (2.55%) React
6 4 (2.55%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.91%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.91%) Node.js
7 3 (1.91%) REST
7 3 (1.91%) YAML
8 2 (1.27%) .NET
8 2 (1.27%) ADO
8 2 (1.27%) Apache NiFi
8 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.27%) JDBC
8 2 (1.27%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.37%) Algorithms
2 8 (5.10%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.10%) Data Structures
3 7 (4.46%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.46%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.18%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.55%) Replication
6 2 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.27%) NHS
6 2 (1.27%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.64%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (0.64%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.64%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.64%) IoT
7 1 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.37%) Linux
2 2 (1.27%) Debian
2 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
2 2 (1.27%) Unix
3 1 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (43.31%) ETL
2 61 (38.85%) Analytics
3 57 (36.31%) Data Pipeline
4 40 (25.48%) Data Modelling
4 40 (25.48%) Data Science
5 37 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (21.66%) CI/CD
7 33 (21.02%) Agile
7 33 (21.02%) Data Governance
8 30 (19.11%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (18.47%) Machine Learning
10 25 (15.92%) Data Analytics
10 25 (15.92%) Data Integration
10 25 (15.92%) DevOps
11 24 (15.29%) Decision-Making
12 21 (13.38%) Data Ingestion
12 21 (13.38%) Data Security
12 21 (13.38%) Visualisation
13 20 (12.74%) Artificial Intelligence
13 20 (12.74%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 91 (57.96%) Python
2 87 (55.41%) SQL
3 14 (8.92%) Java
4 13 (8.28%) Scala
5 6 (3.82%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.55%) C#
6 4 (2.55%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.55%) R
6 4 (2.55%) T-SQL
7 3 (1.91%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.64%) ANSI SQL
8 1 (0.64%) C++
8 1 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 24 (15.29%) Degree
2 23 (14.65%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.37%) Azure Certification
5 9 (5.73%) AWS Certification
5 9 (5.73%) DV Cleared
5 9 (5.73%) SC Cleared
6 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.55%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.64%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (20.38%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.46%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.46%) GDPR
3 4 (2.55%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.27%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.64%) QA
System Software
1 14 (8.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.64%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (13.38%) Terraform
2 12 (7.64%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.46%) Grafana
4 3 (1.91%) Ansible
4 3 (1.91%) HAProxy
4 3 (1.91%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.64%) Kibana
5 1 (0.64%) logstash
Vendors
1 43 (27.39%) Databricks
2 28 (17.83%) Microsoft
3 20 (12.74%) Google
4 8 (5.10%) Oracle
5 4 (2.55%) Cloudera
5 4 (2.55%) Foundry
5 4 (2.55%) Palantir
5 4 (2.55%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.55%) SAP
6 3 (1.91%) Splunk
7 2 (1.27%) Adobe
7 2 (1.27%) Brio
7 2 (1.27%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.27%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.27%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.27%) VMware
8 1 (0.64%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.64%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.64%) Spotify