Data Engineering Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 79 106
Rank change year-on-year -8 +27 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 15 27 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.07% 1.43% 1.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.71% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 20
10th Percentile £306 £263 £411
25th Percentile £336 £513 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £642 £540
Median % change year-on-year -32.85% +18.87% +25.58%
75th Percentile £640 £850 £609
90th Percentile £700 £863 £656
England median daily rate £550 £575 £625
% change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £30.37 -
England median hourly rate £28.75 £41.75 £73.00
% change year-on-year -31.14% -42.81% +18.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,238 1,579 2,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.68% 83.68% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 1,054 1,364
10th Percentile £195 £272 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 114 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.03 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.30% +24.64%
75th Percentile £24.22 £40.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £47.50
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the West Midlands

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Birmingham +12 6 £506 -32.60% 19
Coventry - 4 £375 - 3
Solihull - 2 £310 - 2
Warwickshire -6 1 £725 - 7
Shropshire - 1 - - 6
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
3 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) Collibra
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (6.67%) Datadog
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.67%) SuccessFactors
5 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (26.67%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (20.00%) Big Data
2 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (13.33%) Data Lake
3 2 (13.33%) Delta Lake
3 2 (13.33%) GIS
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (6.67%) Flink
4 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.67%) Metadata
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Migration Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Lead Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Migration Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Big Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) GCP Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) PySpark
3 1 (6.67%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.67%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (13.33%) IoT
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) SCADA
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) ETL
2 7 (46.67%) Analytics
2 7 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
3 6 (40.00%) Data Governance
3 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (33.33%) Data Security
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (20.00%) Data Mapping
6 3 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 3 (20.00%) DevOps
6 3 (20.00%) Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (13.33%) Scala
4 1 (6.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (6.67%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Kibana
2 1 (6.67%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Databricks
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) SAP
4 2 (13.33%) Informatica
4 2 (13.33%) Oracle
5 1 (6.67%) Google
5 1 (6.67%) Splunk
5 1 (6.67%) Virgin Media