Data Engineering Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Engineering
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 129 159 191
Rank change year-on-year +30 +32 -28
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 200 202 333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.02% 1.32% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 1.50% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 146 245
10th Percentile £412 £338 £450
25th Percentile £462 £453 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -6.52% +1.68%
75th Percentile £838 £629 £700
90th Percentile - £700 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 9
10th Percentile £21.78 - £18.60
25th Percentile £22.00 £35.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.22 £42.31 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -40.40% +117.06% -52.91%
75th Percentile £38.75 £55.13 £20.47
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.50 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £25.43 £35.00 £54.25
% change year-on-year -27.34% -35.48% -3.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Engineering
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Engineering trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Engineering.

Data Engineering daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Engineering daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Engineering.

Data Engineering hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Engineering over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Engineering hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Engineering
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 46 (23.00%) Apache Airflow
1 46 (23.00%) Apache Spark
2 41 (20.50%) Apache
3 8 (4.00%) Confluence
4 1 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 115 (57.50%) AWS
2 93 (46.50%) Azure
3 50 (25.00%) dbt
4 43 (21.50%) Serverless
5 41 (20.50%) AWS Lambda
6 38 (19.00%) GCP
7 35 (17.50%) Power Platform
8 29 (14.50%) OpenShift
9 28 (14.00%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (11.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (10.00%) Snowflake
12 16 (8.00%) Amazon S3
12 16 (8.00%) GitHub
13 12 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (6.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (5.50%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (4.50%) Azure Machine Learning
15 9 (4.50%) Dagster
16 6 (3.00%) Amazon EMR
16 6 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (22.50%) Amazon Athena
2 41 (20.50%) Dremio
3 40 (20.00%) Apache Iceberg
4 39 (19.50%) Data Lake
5 36 (18.00%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (17.00%) Power BI
7 28 (14.00%) Apache Arrow
7 28 (14.00%) Apache Ignite
8 22 (11.00%) Big Data
9 17 (8.50%) Tableau
10 12 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (6.00%) Metadata
11 11 (5.50%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (4.50%) NoSQL
13 8 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (4.00%) SQL Server
13 8 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (3.50%) MongoDB
14 7 (3.50%) Neo4j
14 7 (3.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 28 (14.00%) Artifactory
2 7 (3.50%) Git
2 7 (3.50%) JIRA
2 7 (3.50%) MLflow
3 4 (2.00%) GitLab
3 4 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (1.00%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.50%) Robot Framework
General
1 75 (37.50%) Finance
2 45 (22.50%) Front Office
3 44 (22.00%) Social Skills
4 38 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (14.00%) Banking
6 25 (12.50%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.50%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.00%) Marketing
8 6 (3.00%) Retail
9 5 (2.50%) Retail Banking
9 5 (2.50%) Tech for Good
10 4 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.50%) Military
11 3 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.00%) Law
13 1 (0.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 117 (58.50%) Data Engineer
2 42 (21.00%) Python Engineer
3 39 (19.50%) AWS Engineer
4 33 (16.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 30 (15.00%) AWS DevOps
5 30 (15.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 23 (11.50%) Lead
7 17 (8.50%) Senior
8 14 (7.00%) Azure Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Python Data Engineer
9 13 (6.50%) Senior Data Engineer
10 11 (5.50%) Azure Data Engineer
11 10 (5.00%) Architect
12 9 (4.50%) Data Scientist
12 9 (4.50%) Developer
12 9 (4.50%) Lead Data Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
13 8 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
14 6 (3.00%) Analyst
15 4 (2.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (28.50%) PySpark
2 41 (20.50%) Kafka
3 28 (14.00%) J2EE
4 15 (7.50%) Pandas
5 14 (7.00%) NumPy
6 10 (5.00%) Plotly
6 10 (5.00%) TensorFlow
7 9 (4.50%) SciPy
8 8 (4.00%) scikit-learn
9 7 (3.50%) PyTorch
9 7 (3.50%) React
10 6 (3.00%) Play Framework
10 6 (3.00%) REST
11 4 (2.00%) FHIR
11 4 (2.00%) JSON
11 4 (2.00%) SOAP
12 3 (1.50%) .NET
13 2 (1.00%) AngularJS
13 2 (1.00%) AWS CDK
13 2 (1.00%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.50%) Algorithms
2 6 (3.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (3.00%) Data Structures
2 6 (3.00%) Greenfield Project
2 6 (3.00%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (2.00%) Marketing Technology
3 4 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 3 (1.50%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.00%) FMCG
5 2 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.50%) Clustering
6 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.50%) IoT
6 1 (0.50%) Life Science
6 1 (0.50%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.50%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.50%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (39.50%) Analytics
2 69 (34.50%) Agile
3 68 (34.00%) Data Pipeline
4 65 (32.50%) DevOps
5 64 (32.00%) CI/CD
5 64 (32.00%) ETL
6 51 (25.50%) Data Modelling
7 50 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
8 49 (24.50%) Data Science
8 49 (24.50%) Software Engineering
9 41 (20.50%) Asset Management
9 41 (20.50%) Machine Learning
9 41 (20.50%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (17.00%) Data Integration
11 33 (16.50%) Artificial Intelligence
11 33 (16.50%) Data Governance
12 32 (16.00%) Visualisation
13 29 (14.50%) Open Source
14 28 (14.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (13.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 131 (65.50%) Python
2 91 (45.50%) SQL
3 48 (24.00%) Java
4 28 (14.00%) Go
5 20 (10.00%) Scala
6 8 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 7 (3.50%) R
7 7 (3.50%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.00%) C#
8 2 (1.00%) C++
9 1 (0.50%) ANSI SQL
9 1 (0.50%) Bash
9 1 (0.50%) Ruby
9 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (12.00%) Degree
2 22 (11.00%) Security Cleared
3 19 (9.50%) SC Cleared
4 14 (7.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 6 (3.00%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.50%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (19.50%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.00%) GDPR
4 4 (2.00%) QA
5 2 (1.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 46 (23.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 44 (22.00%) Kubernetes
2 43 (21.50%) Terraform
3 2 (1.00%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.50%) Ansible
4 1 (0.50%) Grafana
4 1 (0.50%) Oozie
Vendors
1 57 (28.50%) Databricks
2 24 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 17 (8.50%) Google
4 10 (5.00%) Oracle
5 8 (4.00%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.50%) Informatica
7 2 (1.00%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.00%) Cribl.io
7 2 (1.00%) Foundry
7 2 (1.00%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.00%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.00%) NVIDIA
7 2 (1.00%) Palantir
7 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.50%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.50%) Remedy
8 1 (0.50%) Talend
8 1 (0.50%) Tealium