Data Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in West Yorkshire is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2025.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 59 72
Rank change year-on-year +1 +13 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 7 12 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.23% 1.24% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.28% 1.34% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 13
10th Percentile £405 £426 £441
25th Percentile £411 £438 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £488 £559 £693
90th Percentile £519 £599 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £475 £650
% change year-on-year -5.26% -26.92% +18.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 549 898 1,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.49% 92.67% 97.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 362 553 1,027
10th Percentile £264 £289 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £625
90th Percentile £600 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 29 18
10th Percentile - £11.75 £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.53 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.14 £15.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +42.84% -25.30% +13.70%
75th Percentile £30.10 £48.75 £50.44
90th Percentile £34.43 £53.75 £65.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £15.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +37.03% -27.91% +17.81%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in West Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Leeds +3 7 £450 -10.00% 19
Data Engineer
Yorkshire

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 2 June 2025, 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 West Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) ETL
3 3 (42.86%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) Kafka
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Validation
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Agile
5 1 (14.29%) Banking
5 1 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (14.29%) Google
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 1 (14.29%) Data Integration
5 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) Git
5 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (14.29%) JDBC
5 1 (14.29%) T-SQL

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Flink
2 1 (14.29%) Looker
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Apache Beam
2 1 (14.29%) JDBC
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ETL
2 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Code Optimisation
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (14.29%) Dependency Management
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (14.29%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce