Data Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 92 86
Rank change year-on-year -13 -6 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 331 662 1,336
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.15% 2.54% 3.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.30% 2.67% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 496 987
10th Percentile £350 £425 £412
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +6.08%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £730 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £49.44 £39.75 £17.95
25th Percentile £53.46 £48.13 £18.62
Median hourly rate £62.36 £64.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% +41.59% +31.97%
75th Percentile £66.64 £78.38 £65.77
90th Percentile £67.91 £86.25 £73.56
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year +1.56% +41.59% -5.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,386 24,802 42,601
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.54% 95.34% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,612 17,511 30,752
10th Percentile £325 £358 £355
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 576 607
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £12.85
25th Percentile £22.68 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Data Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Engineer.

Data Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Data Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Engineer.

Data Engineer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Engineer over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Data Engineer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 171 (51.66%) SQL
2 166 (50.15%) Python
3 143 (43.20%) Azure
4 127 (38.37%) ETL
5 121 (36.56%) Analytics
6 112 (33.84%) Data Engineering
7 104 (31.42%) Data Pipeline
8 95 (28.70%) Data Modelling
9 94 (28.40%) Data Warehouse
10 88 (26.59%) AWS
11 86 (25.98%) Business Intelligence
12 79 (23.87%) Databricks
13 74 (22.36%) Agile
14 71 (21.45%) Social Skills
15 62 (18.73%) Azure Data Factory
16 59 (17.82%) Data Lake
16 59 (17.82%) Data Quality
17 58 (17.52%) Finance
18 51 (15.41%) DevOps
19 50 (15.11%) Security Cleared
20 49 (14.80%) PySpark
21 47 (14.20%) CI/CD
22 46 (13.90%) Power Platform
22 46 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
22 46 (13.90%) Power BI
23 43 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
24 42 (12.69%) SC Cleared
25 39 (11.78%) Data Integration
26 38 (11.48%) Public Sector
27 36 (10.88%) Migration

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 26 (7.85%) Apache Spark
2 23 (6.95%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.72%) Apache
4 8 (2.42%) Confluence
5 4 (1.21%) Luigi
6 1 (0.30%) SAS
6 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.60%) MIS ActiveH
1 2 (0.60%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.60%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 143 (43.20%) Azure
2 88 (26.59%) AWS
3 62 (18.73%) Azure Data Factory
4 46 (13.90%) Power Platform
5 33 (9.97%) GCP
5 33 (9.97%) Serverless
5 33 (9.97%) Snowflake
6 29 (8.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 27 (8.16%) dbt
8 21 (6.34%) Amazon S3
8 21 (6.34%) AWS Lambda
9 16 (4.83%) Amazon Kinesis
9 16 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (4.83%) GitHub
10 10 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (3.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 9 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (2.42%) AWS Step Functions
12 8 (2.42%) Azure Functions
13 7 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.21%) VLAN
2 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (28.40%) Data Warehouse
2 59 (17.82%) Data Lake
3 46 (13.90%) Power BI
4 36 (10.88%) SQL Server
5 31 (9.37%) Big Data
6 30 (9.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 22 (6.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 21 (6.34%) BigQuery
9 17 (5.14%) Tableau
10 16 (4.83%) Metadata
11 14 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
12 11 (3.32%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (2.72%) Relational Database
14 8 (2.42%) Delta Lake
14 8 (2.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
15 7 (2.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 6 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (1.81%) Data Mining
16 6 (1.81%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 25 (7.55%) JIRA
2 17 (5.14%) Git
3 9 (2.72%) GitLab
4 7 (2.11%) MLflow
5 3 (0.91%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.60%) RStudio
7 1 (0.30%) Deequ
7 1 (0.30%) Gradle
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 71 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.52%) Finance
3 46 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.14%) Banking
6 8 (2.42%) Front Office
6 8 (2.42%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.11%) Marketing
8 4 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.21%) Retail
9 3 (0.91%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.91%) Law
10 2 (0.60%) Czech Language
10 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.30%) Advertising
11 1 (0.30%) Local Government
11 1 (0.30%) Military
11 1 (0.30%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (14.80%) PySpark
2 20 (6.04%) Kafka
3 9 (2.72%) Pandas
4 5 (1.51%) .NET
4 5 (1.51%) AWS CDK
4 5 (1.51%) REST
5 3 (0.91%) .NET Core
5 3 (0.91%) Apache Avro
5 3 (0.91%) GraphQL
5 3 (0.91%) gRPC
5 3 (0.91%) JSON
5 3 (0.91%) NumPy
5 3 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.91%) Protocol Buffers
5 3 (0.91%) PyTorch
5 3 (0.91%) SOAP
5 3 (0.91%) TensorFlow
5 3 (0.91%) YAML
6 2 (0.60%) Middleware
6 2 (0.60%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (2.42%) Replication
3 6 (1.81%) Derivative
4 5 (1.51%) Algorithms
4 5 (1.51%) NHS
4 5 (1.51%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.21%) Onboarding
6 3 (0.91%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (0.60%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.60%) Social Media
8 1 (0.30%) CMDB
8 1 (0.30%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.30%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.30%) IoT
8 1 (0.30%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (3.93%) Linux
2 4 (1.21%) Unix
2 4 (1.21%) Windows
3 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (38.37%) ETL
2 121 (36.56%) Analytics
3 112 (33.84%) Data Engineering
4 104 (31.42%) Data Pipeline
5 95 (28.70%) Data Modelling
6 86 (25.98%) Business Intelligence
7 74 (22.36%) Agile
8 51 (15.41%) DevOps
9 47 (14.20%) CI/CD
10 43 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
11 39 (11.78%) Data Integration
12 36 (10.88%) Migration
13 34 (10.27%) Visualisation
14 32 (9.67%) Data Governance
15 27 (8.16%) Data Management
15 27 (8.16%) Data Science
16 25 (7.55%) Data Visualisation
17 24 (7.25%) Data Analysis
18 23 (6.95%) Data Migration
19 22 (6.65%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 171 (51.66%) SQL
2 166 (50.15%) Python
3 35 (10.57%) Java
3 35 (10.57%) Scala
4 11 (3.32%) C#
5 10 (3.02%) T-SQL
6 8 (2.42%) Bicep
6 8 (2.42%) R
7 6 (1.81%) Bash
7 6 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.81%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.81%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.81%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.51%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.91%) Perl
10 2 (0.60%) Ruby
11 1 (0.30%) C++
11 1 (0.30%) HiveQL
11 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.30%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 50 (15.11%) Security Cleared
2 42 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.23%) Degree
4 13 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.81%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.21%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.21%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (17.82%) Data Quality
2 8 (2.42%) QA
3 3 (0.91%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.60%) IFRS
4 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
4 2 (0.60%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.30%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.30%) GDPR
5 1 (0.30%) GxP
System Software
1 20 (6.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (9.97%) Terraform
2 15 (4.53%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.93%) Ansible
4 5 (1.51%) Grafana
5 4 (1.21%) NetBackup
5 4 (1.21%) Puppet
6 1 (0.30%) Matomo
6 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 79 (23.87%) Databricks
2 28 (8.46%) Microsoft
3 25 (7.55%) Oracle
4 10 (3.02%) Informatica
5 7 (2.11%) Google
6 6 (1.81%) Veritas
7 5 (1.51%) Talend
8 4 (1.21%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.91%) JD Edwards
10 2 (0.60%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.60%) Cloudera
10 2 (0.60%) Commvault
10 2 (0.60%) Facebook
10 2 (0.60%) NEC
10 2 (0.60%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.60%) QAD
10 2 (0.60%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.60%) Twitter
11 1 (0.30%) Denodo
11 1 (0.30%) ServiceNow