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 8 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 175 204
Rank change year-on-year +31 +29 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 191 186 283
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.87% 1.28% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 1.46% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 138 204
10th Percentile £406 £350 £450
25th Percentile £463 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £738 £625 £725
90th Percentile £838 £738 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -4.55% -12.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 9
10th Percentile £24.00 - £18.60
25th Percentile £26.25 £35.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.75 £19.49
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +114.21% -2.11%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.56 £20.47
90th Percentile £58.00 £64.38 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £38.96 £35.00 £73.00
% change year-on-year +11.31% -52.05% +46.00%

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 9,347 12,702 21,816
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.74% 87.36% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,334 8,549 15,395
10th Percentile £325 £325 £359
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 549 528
10th Percentile £12.73 £14.98 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.00 £25.99
Median hourly rate £34.83 £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.06% -19.05% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.10 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £39.92
% change year-on-year -32.93% -6.05% +53.52%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 29 (15.18%) Apache Spark
2 28 (14.66%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (13.61%) Apache
4 5 (2.62%) Confluence
5 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.52%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) Maple
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Aladdin
1 4 (2.09%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (0.52%) SAP PM
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 99 (51.83%) Azure
2 85 (44.50%) AWS
3 38 (19.90%) Power Platform
4 34 (17.80%) dbt
5 32 (16.75%) GCP
6 30 (15.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (15.18%) Serverless
8 27 (14.14%) AWS Lambda
9 26 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (13.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 22 (11.52%) Snowflake
11 20 (10.47%) GitHub
12 16 (8.38%) Amazon S3
13 15 (7.85%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (6.81%) Amazon ECS
14 13 (6.81%) OpenShift
15 9 (4.71%) Azure Machine Learning
16 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Purview
17 7 (3.66%) Collibra
18 6 (3.14%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.52%) DNS
1 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (0.52%) SAN
1 1 (0.52%) SSL
1 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (18.85%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (18.32%) Power BI
3 33 (17.28%) Data Lake
4 24 (12.57%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (10.99%) Big Data
6 19 (9.95%) Dremio
7 18 (9.42%) Apache Iceberg
8 15 (7.85%) Delta Lake
8 15 (7.85%) Metadata
9 13 (6.81%) Apache Arrow
9 13 (6.81%) Apache Ignite
10 12 (6.28%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (6.28%) Tableau
11 11 (5.76%) BigQuery
11 11 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (4.71%) NoSQL
12 9 (4.71%) Relational Database
13 7 (3.66%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (3.66%) MongoDB
13 7 (3.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (6.81%) Artifactory
2 12 (6.28%) Git
3 7 (3.66%) JIRA
4 6 (3.14%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.09%) MLflow
6 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (1.05%) Terragrunt
6 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.52%) GitLab
7 1 (0.52%) PROIV
7 1 (0.52%) Robot Framework
General
1 62 (32.46%) Finance
2 54 (28.27%) Social Skills
3 38 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.57%) Banking
5 23 (12.04%) Front Office
6 18 (9.42%) Public Sector
7 10 (5.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (5.24%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.62%) Retail
9 4 (2.09%) Automotive
9 4 (2.09%) Marketing
9 4 (2.09%) Military
9 4 (2.09%) Tech for Good
9 4 (2.09%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.05%) Local Government
10 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Law
11 1 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 105 (54.97%) Data Engineer
2 25 (13.09%) Azure Engineer
3 24 (12.57%) Azure Data Engineer
4 21 (10.99%) Lead
5 20 (10.47%) Python Engineer
5 20 (10.47%) Senior
6 19 (9.95%) Architect
6 19 (9.95%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (7.85%) Senior Data Engineer
8 14 (7.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (6.81%) AWS DevOps
9 13 (6.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (6.28%) Developer
11 10 (5.24%) Lead Data Engineer
12 9 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (4.19%) Data Architect
14 7 (3.66%) Analyst
14 7 (3.66%) Python Data Engineer
15 6 (3.14%) AWS Data Engineer
16 5 (2.62%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.94%) PySpark
2 26 (13.61%) Kafka
3 13 (6.81%) J2EE
4 8 (4.19%) Pandas
5 7 (3.66%) NumPy
6 6 (3.14%) Play Framework
6 6 (3.14%) React
6 6 (3.14%) TensorFlow
7 5 (2.62%) JSON
7 5 (2.62%) Plotly
8 4 (2.09%) Jinja
8 4 (2.09%) PyTorch
8 4 (2.09%) scikit-learn
8 4 (2.09%) SciPy
9 3 (1.57%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.57%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (1.57%) Dapper ORM
9 3 (1.57%) Entity Framework
9 3 (1.57%) LINQ
9 3 (1.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.33%) Cloud Native
2 10 (5.24%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.66%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.14%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.62%) Reinsurance
5 5 (2.62%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.57%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.05%) FMCG
8 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.05%) NHS
8 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.05%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.52%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.14%) Linux
2 2 (1.05%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Android
3 1 (0.52%) Debian
3 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.52%) Windows
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (44.50%) ETL
2 74 (38.74%) Analytics
3 69 (36.13%) DevOps
4 68 (35.60%) Data Pipeline
5 64 (33.51%) Data Modelling
6 62 (32.46%) CI/CD
7 59 (30.89%) Agile
8 54 (28.27%) Business Intelligence
9 45 (23.56%) Data Science
10 42 (21.99%) Artificial Intelligence
10 42 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
11 41 (21.47%) Data Governance
12 40 (20.94%) Machine Learning
13 35 (18.32%) Data Integration
14 31 (16.23%) Visualisation
15 28 (14.66%) Data Ingestion
16 25 (13.09%) Data Analytics
16 25 (13.09%) Data Visualisation
16 25 (13.09%) Software Engineering
17 24 (12.57%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 118 (61.78%) Python
2 102 (53.40%) SQL
3 31 (16.23%) Java
4 24 (12.57%) Scala
5 13 (6.81%) Go
6 5 (2.62%) R
7 4 (2.09%) Bicep
7 4 (2.09%) C#
7 4 (2.09%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.09%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.05%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.52%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (13.09%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.99%) SC Cleared
3 16 (8.38%) Degree
4 11 (5.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (4.71%) AWS Certification
6 7 (3.66%) Azure Certification
7 6 (3.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 3 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.05%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.52%) PhD
10 1 (0.52%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (23.04%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.71%) GDPR
3 5 (2.62%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.62%) QA
4 4 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.09%) NIST
5 2 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.52%) GRC
System Software
1 28 (14.66%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 33 (17.28%) Terraform
2 24 (12.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.52%) Ansible
3 1 (0.52%) Demisto
3 1 (0.52%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 69 (36.13%) Databricks
2 31 (16.23%) Microsoft
3 16 (8.38%) Google
3 16 (8.38%) Oracle
4 9 (4.71%) Informatica
5 6 (3.14%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.57%) Cloudera
6 3 (1.57%) Foundry
6 3 (1.57%) Hitachi
6 3 (1.57%) Palantir
6 3 (1.57%) SAP
6 3 (1.57%) Talend
7 2 (1.05%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.05%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.05%) MicroStrategy
7 2 (1.05%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.05%) Murex
8 1 (0.52%) Intel
8 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.52%) Sage