Data Engineering Contracts in West Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 50 61 90
Rank change year-on-year +11 +29 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 12 16 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.19% 1.60% 1.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.83% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 6
10th Percentile £413 £431 £419
25th Percentile £425 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £588 £488
Median % change year-on-year -12.77% +20.51% -17.02%
75th Percentile £616 £615 £613
90th Percentile £700 £629 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £605 £488
% change year-on-year -9.09% +24.10% -18.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 502 875 1,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 91.61% 87.59% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 513 1,023
10th Percentile £263 £300 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £644 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 16
10th Percentile £20.11 £11.91 £12.58
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.15 £15.10
Median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%
75th Percentile £41.50 £15.20 £65.31
90th Percentile £99.93 £41.35 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
% change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in West Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in West Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in West Yorkshire

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds +2 11 £475 -21.49% 26
Data Engineering
Yorkshire

Data Engineering
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 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) GCP
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) Google Compute Engine
3 3 (25.00%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (8.33%) Collibra
4 1 (8.33%) dbt
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) BigQuery
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Looker
3 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Administrator
3 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) GCP Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) Node.js
1 1 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (8.33%) PyTorch
1 1 (8.33%) TensorFlow
1 1 (8.33%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Analytics
2 7 (58.33%) Data Science
3 5 (41.67%) ETL
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (8.33%) Data Security
6 1 (8.33%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (8.33%) Dimensional Modelling
6 1 (8.33%) Migration
6 1 (8.33%) Monte Carlo Method
6 1 (8.33%) Predictive Modelling
6 1 (8.33%) Use Case
6 1 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Scala
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Databricks
1 7 (58.33%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk