Data Engineering Contracts

Data Engineering
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 211 205 216
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 495 781 1,229
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.14% 1.31% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.32% 1.45% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 526 842
10th Percentile £375 £453 £457
25th Percentile £463 £513 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £539 £550
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 6
10th Percentile £30.63 £19.00 £22.77
25th Percentile £31.25 £19.37 £33.35
Median hourly rate £35.00 £54.25 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.48% -3.98% +47.21%
75th Percentile £57.56 £75.69 £62.69
90th Percentile £60.00 £78.00 £77.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £35.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year +71.43% -38.05% +19.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the UK

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the UK

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the UK

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineering.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the UK

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineering in the UK

Data Engineering
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England -6 423 £560 -6.67% 317
London -14 257 £586 -6.57% 184
Work from Home +28 203 £550 -6.38% 171
UK excluding London +18 159 £550 +2.04% 134
South East +3 46 £550 +4.76% 28
North of England +25 42 £533 -3.18% 40
Midlands +20 39 £583 +7.96% 24
West Midlands +17 25 £642 +18.87% 14
Yorkshire +21 21 £600 +23.08% 6
North West +6 19 £510 -11.30% 27
Scotland +29 15 £453 -7.55% 11
East Midlands +28 14 £550 -4.35% 10
South West +6 9 £491 -25.43% 15
East of England +13 7 £525 +7.69% 10
North East +20 2 £423 -32.32% 7
Wales +13 1 £625 - 7

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 49 (9.90%) Apache Spark
2 47 (9.49%) Apache Airflow
3 40 (8.08%) Apache
4 9 (1.82%) Confluence
5 6 (1.21%) Tornado
6 5 (1.01%) SharePoint
7 3 (0.61%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.20%) Sketch
3 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Utilities
2 1 (0.20%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 200 (40.40%) Azure
2 165 (33.33%) AWS
3 71 (14.34%) GCP
4 61 (12.32%) Power Platform
5 57 (11.52%) Azure Data Factory
6 53 (10.71%) Snowflake
7 43 (8.69%) Serverless
8 34 (6.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 32 (6.46%) Amazon S3
10 26 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (4.24%) GitHub
13 20 (4.04%) dbt
14 18 (3.64%) Amazon EMR
15 15 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (3.03%) Azure Functions
16 14 (2.83%) Azure Key Vault
17 13 (2.63%) Amazon Kinesis
17 13 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
17 13 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.04%) TCP/IP
2 18 (3.64%) SAN
3 17 (3.43%) Network Security
4 15 (3.03%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (1.01%) FTP
6 2 (0.40%) AMQP
6 2 (0.40%) BGP
6 2 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.40%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.40%) DHCP
6 2 (0.40%) DMZ
6 2 (0.40%) DNS
6 2 (0.40%) Firewall
6 2 (0.40%) HTTP
6 2 (0.40%) Modbus
6 2 (0.40%) MQTT
6 2 (0.40%) OSPF
6 2 (0.40%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (22.63%) Data Warehouse
2 83 (16.77%) Data Lake
3 74 (14.95%) Big Data
4 61 (12.32%) Power BI
5 32 (6.46%) SQL Server
6 27 (5.45%) BigQuery
7 25 (5.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (5.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 22 (4.44%) Flink
9 21 (4.24%) Metadata
10 20 (4.04%) Tableau
11 19 (3.84%) Delta Lake
12 18 (3.64%) NoSQL
12 18 (3.64%) Spark SQL
13 16 (3.23%) Hadoop
14 15 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
15 13 (2.63%) Relational Database
16 9 (1.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 9 (1.82%) Star Schema
17 8 (1.62%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 36 (7.27%) JIRA
2 27 (5.45%) Git
3 6 (1.21%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.61%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.40%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.40%) GitLab
5 2 (0.40%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.40%) MLflow
5 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.20%) Deequ
6 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 94 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 80 (16.16%) Analytical Skills
3 72 (14.55%) Finance
4 48 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.44%) Banking
6 14 (2.83%) Marketing
6 14 (2.83%) Pharmaceutical
6 14 (2.83%) Retail
7 13 (2.63%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.62%) Legal
8 8 (1.62%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.01%) Law
9 5 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (0.81%) Back Office
10 4 (0.81%) Electronics
10 4 (0.81%) Front Office
10 4 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (0.81%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.61%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 257 (51.92%) Data Engineer
2 63 (12.73%) Developer
3 58 (11.72%) Azure Engineer
3 58 (11.72%) Senior
4 50 (10.10%) Lead
5 44 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
6 43 (8.69%) Azure Data Engineer
7 40 (8.08%) Senior Data Engineer
8 37 (7.47%) Python Developer
9 33 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
10 30 (6.06%) Architect
11 25 (5.05%) Lead Data Engineer
12 23 (4.65%) Data Architect
13 21 (4.24%) Analyst
14 17 (3.43%) Consultant
15 16 (3.23%) Snowflake Data Engineer
16 15 (3.03%) Python Engineer
17 12 (2.42%) Cloud Engineer
18 10 (2.02%) Platform Engineer
19 9 (1.82%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (13.13%) PySpark
2 57 (11.52%) Kafka
3 21 (4.24%) Apache NiFi
4 16 (3.23%) .NET
5 15 (3.03%) XML
6 14 (2.83%) FastAPI
7 12 (2.42%) Flask
7 12 (2.42%) Pandas
8 11 (2.22%) JSON
8 11 (2.22%) RESTful
9 10 (2.02%) Node.js
9 10 (2.02%) PyTorch
9 10 (2.02%) React
10 9 (1.82%) pytest
11 8 (1.62%) TensorFlow
12 7 (1.41%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.21%) ASP.NET
13 6 (1.21%) Django
13 6 (1.21%) OAuth
13 6 (1.21%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
2 12 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (2.22%) Data Structures
3 11 (2.22%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.22%) Product Ownership
4 9 (1.82%) Algorithms
4 9 (1.82%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.21%) Distributed Computing
6 5 (1.01%) Market Risk
6 5 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
6 5 (1.01%) Smart Meter
6 5 (1.01%) Virtual Team
7 3 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.61%) Fixed Income
7 3 (0.61%) FMCG
7 3 (0.61%) NHS
7 3 (0.61%) Reference Data
7 3 (0.61%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 38 (7.68%) Linux
2 19 (3.84%) Windows
3 18 (3.64%) Debian
3 18 (3.64%) Ubuntu
4 17 (3.43%) Unix
5 13 (2.63%) Android
5 13 (2.63%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (34.34%) Analytics
2 163 (32.93%) Data Modelling
3 162 (32.73%) ETL
4 151 (30.51%) Data Pipeline
5 140 (28.28%) Agile
6 102 (20.61%) Business Intelligence
7 97 (19.60%) DevOps
8 86 (17.37%) CI/CD
9 75 (15.15%) Data Science
9 75 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (13.94%) Visualisation
11 58 (11.72%) Data Integration
11 58 (11.72%) Data Management
12 57 (11.52%) Data Governance
13 56 (11.31%) Data Analysis
14 45 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
14 45 (9.09%) Machine Learning
14 45 (9.09%) Software Engineering
15 44 (8.89%) Computer Science
16 36 (7.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 265 (53.54%) Python
2 245 (49.49%) SQL
3 56 (11.31%) Java
4 49 (9.90%) Scala
5 20 (4.04%) C#
6 19 (3.84%) JavaScript
7 14 (2.83%) T-SQL
8 13 (2.63%) TypeScript
9 11 (2.22%) PowerShell
9 11 (2.22%) R
10 7 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (1.01%) Perl
12 4 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 3 (0.61%) C++
14 2 (0.40%) Go
14 2 (0.40%) Groovy
14 2 (0.40%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.40%) XPath
14 2 (0.40%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 119 (24.04%) Security Cleared
2 98 (19.80%) SC Cleared
3 39 (7.88%) Degree
4 32 (6.46%) DV Cleared
5 21 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.62%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.62%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.40%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.40%) CCDP
8 2 (0.40%) CCNP
8 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.40%) IBM Certification
8 2 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.40%) PhD
9 1 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
3 7 (1.41%) QA
4 5 (1.01%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.01%) GDPR
5 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.40%) IFRS
5 2 (0.40%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.20%) GRC
6 1 (0.20%) GxP
6 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 37 (7.47%) Docker
2 3 (0.61%) HDFS
3 1 (0.20%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 42 (8.48%) Kubernetes
2 38 (7.68%) Terraform
3 4 (0.81%) Grafana
4 3 (0.61%) Ansible
5 1 (0.20%) Kibana
5 1 (0.20%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.20%) Matomo
5 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 114 (23.03%) Databricks
2 61 (12.32%) Microsoft
3 34 (6.87%) Google
4 31 (6.26%) Oracle
5 28 (5.66%) Red Hat
6 18 (3.64%) VMware
7 17 (3.43%) SAP
8 16 (3.23%) Informatica
9 14 (2.83%) Talend
10 10 (2.02%) Foundry
10 10 (2.02%) Palantir
11 5 (1.01%) Ab Initio
11 5 (1.01%) Confluent
12 4 (0.81%) IBM
13 2 (0.40%) Aruba
13 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.40%) Cadence
13 2 (0.40%) Cisco
13 2 (0.40%) Cloudera
13 2 (0.40%) ESRI