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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 220 277
Rank change year-on-year +24 +57 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 165 176 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.22% 0.82% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.00% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 131 114
10th Percentile £314 £363 £421
25th Percentile £413 £439 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £511 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% -9.16% +2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £725
90th Percentile £675 £688 £859
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 19
10th Percentile £23.63 £27.78 -
25th Percentile £25.31 £52.59 £19.00
Median hourly rate £28.75 £60.00 £73.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.08% -17.81% +46.00%
75th Percentile £32.24 - £78.00
90th Percentile £36.27 £62.63 £80.40
UK median hourly rate £38.96 £35.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +11.31% -52.05% +46.00%

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 12,235 17,586 20,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.46% 82.35% 89.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,495 10,292 13,879
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 996 2,217 1,273
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.50 £11.84
25th Percentile £16.90 £15.50 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.08 £38.12 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.22% +17.29% +54.76%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.45 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +12 49 £500 -1.96% 486
South East +34 30 £500 -2.15% 367
Midlands -10 29 £463 -26.00% 245
Scotland +17 25 £475 +4.86% 157
North West -2 25 £500 -1.96% 255
Yorkshire -1 19 £463 -14.27% 177
South West +52 18 £563 +25.00% 189
West Midlands -11 15 £580 -9.64% 135
East of England +23 11 £320 -46.68% 171
East Midlands +9 11 £463 -15.91% 109
North East - 5 £500 - 54
Wales +7 3 £257 -53.29% 48
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -
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 (10.91%) Apache Spark
2 17 (10.30%) Apache
2 17 (10.30%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.61%) Luigi
4 1 (0.61%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.21%) Maple
3 1 (0.61%) CATIA
3 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (1.21%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 61 (36.97%) AWS
2 53 (32.12%) Azure
3 39 (23.64%) GCP
4 24 (14.55%) Power Platform
4 24 (14.55%) Snowflake
5 21 (12.73%) Amazon S3
6 19 (11.52%) Serverless
7 18 (10.91%) AWS Lambda
8 17 (10.30%) dbt
9 16 (9.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 8 (4.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (4.24%) Amazon EMR
11 7 (4.24%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (4.24%) GitHub
12 6 (3.64%) Amazon Kinesis
13 5 (3.03%) PaaS
14 4 (2.42%) Collibra
15 3 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 3 (1.82%) Datadog
15 3 (1.82%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.64%) SAN
2 5 (3.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (32.12%) Data Warehouse
2 23 (13.94%) Power BI
3 21 (12.73%) Big Data
4 20 (12.12%) Amazon Redshift
5 18 (10.91%) BigQuery
5 18 (10.91%) Metadata
6 14 (8.48%) Hadoop
7 13 (7.88%) Tableau
8 12 (7.27%) NoSQL
9 10 (6.06%) Data Lake
10 9 (5.45%) Looker
10 9 (5.45%) Oracle Database
10 9 (5.45%) SQL Server
11 8 (4.85%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (4.85%) Delta Lake
12 7 (4.24%) Relational Database
13 6 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (2.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (8.48%) Git
2 9 (5.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (1.82%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.21%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.61%) GitLab
5 1 (0.61%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.91%) Finance
3 18 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 12 (7.27%) Banking
5 6 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.03%) Automotive
6 5 (3.03%) Tech for Good
6 5 (3.03%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.82%) Marketing
7 3 (1.82%) Retail
8 2 (1.21%) Billing
8 2 (1.21%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.21%) Legal
8 2 (1.21%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.61%) Advertising
9 1 (0.61%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 69 (41.82%) Data Engineer
2 25 (15.15%) Architect
3 23 (13.94%) Senior
4 17 (10.30%) Data Architect
4 17 (10.30%) Senior Data Engineer
5 16 (9.70%) Developer
6 12 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (5.45%) Lead
8 6 (3.64%) Analyst
8 6 (3.64%) Azure Data Engineer
8 6 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (3.64%) Consultant
8 6 (3.64%) Data Scientist
8 6 (3.64%) Python Developer
8 6 (3.64%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 6 (3.64%) Snowflake Engineer
9 5 (3.03%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (2.42%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (14.55%) Kafka
2 23 (13.94%) PySpark
3 6 (3.64%) TensorFlow
4 5 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.03%) Pandas
4 5 (3.03%) PyTorch
5 4 (2.42%) NumPy
5 4 (2.42%) React
6 3 (1.82%) Node.js
6 3 (1.82%) OAuth
6 3 (1.82%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (1.82%) scikit-learn
6 3 (1.82%) XGBoost
7 2 (1.21%) Apache NiFi
7 2 (1.21%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.21%) FastAPI
7 2 (1.21%) JDBC
7 2 (1.21%) Loki
7 2 (1.21%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.21%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.45%) Data Structures
3 8 (4.85%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.24%) Algorithms
4 7 (4.24%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.03%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.42%) Replication
8 3 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.21%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.21%) Data Fabric
9 2 (1.21%) IoT
9 2 (1.21%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.21%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.21%) SCADA
9 2 (1.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 1 (0.61%) Culture of Ownership
10 1 (0.61%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.09%) Linux
2 6 (3.64%) Debian
2 6 (3.64%) Ubuntu
3 5 (3.03%) Windows
4 4 (2.42%) Unix
4 4 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (47.27%) ETL
2 59 (35.76%) Analytics
3 57 (34.55%) Data Pipeline
4 48 (29.09%) Data Modelling
5 47 (28.48%) Data Governance
6 45 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (25.45%) Data Science
8 38 (23.03%) Agile
9 37 (22.42%) CI/CD
10 36 (21.82%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (20.61%) Machine Learning
12 32 (19.39%) Data Integration
13 28 (16.97%) Data Security
13 28 (16.97%) DevOps
14 25 (15.15%) Data Analytics
15 24 (14.55%) Artificial Intelligence
16 22 (13.33%) Visualisation
17 21 (12.73%) Computer Science
18 20 (12.12%) Data Ingestion
19 18 (10.91%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 97 (58.79%) Python
2 90 (54.55%) SQL
3 20 (12.12%) Java
4 15 (9.09%) Scala
5 5 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.42%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.82%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.82%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.21%) C#
8 2 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.21%) R
9 1 (0.61%) C++
9 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (17.58%) Degree
2 26 (15.76%) Security Cleared
3 19 (11.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (7.27%) AWS Certification
4 12 (7.27%) SC Cleared
5 9 (5.45%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (3.64%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.42%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.61%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 12 (7.27%) GDPR
3 4 (2.42%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.21%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.61%) NCSC
6 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 11 (6.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (12.73%) Terraform
2 13 (7.88%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.03%) Grafana
4 3 (1.82%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.21%) Ansible
5 2 (1.21%) Kustomize
6 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.61%) Kibana
6 1 (0.61%) logstash
Vendors
1 39 (23.64%) Databricks
2 28 (16.97%) Microsoft
3 22 (13.33%) Google
4 12 (7.27%) Oracle
5 6 (3.64%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.64%) VMware
6 5 (3.03%) SAP
7 4 (2.42%) Foundry
7 4 (2.42%) Informatica
7 4 (2.42%) Palantir
7 4 (2.42%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.21%) Adobe
8 2 (1.21%) Cloudera
8 2 (1.21%) Hitachi
8 2 (1.21%) IBM
8 2 (1.21%) Splunk
8 2 (1.21%) StreamSets
8 2 (1.21%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.61%) Spotify