Data Engineering Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

Data Engineering
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 1.45% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £631 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 - -
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £580 £642
% change year-on-year -14.22% -9.64% +16.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 111 48 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 80.43% 96.00% 82.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 40 57
10th Percentile £163 £159 £213
25th Percentile £313 £509 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £619 £734 £575
90th Percentile £669 £900 £613
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -0.62% -3.40% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 10
10th Percentile £19.21 £13.01 £10.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.36 £10.72
Median hourly rate £25.00 £17.16 £20.74
Median % change year-on-year +45.73% -17.27% +22.44%
75th Percentile £50.50 £33.73 £63.13
90th Percentile £77.50 £62.69 £72.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £22.28 £22.50
% change year-on-year +52.59% -1.00% -4.70%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Data Engineering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 20 June 2026. 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
Redditch - 2 £638 -
Data Engineering
West Midlands

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
General
1 2 (100.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks