Data Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 70 94
Rank change year-on-year +4 +24 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 26 30 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.56% 1.78% 1.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.71% 1.94% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 25 19
10th Percentile £355 £163 £425
25th Percentile £400 £170 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -26.92% +18.18%
75th Percentile £500 £540 £675
90th Percentile £638 £578 £700
England median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 959 1,546 2,201
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 91.53% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 962 1,502
10th Percentile £224 £233 £260
25th Percentile £358 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £629 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 65 27
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.23 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.25 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%
75th Percentile £22.14 £23.75 £54.07
90th Percentile £80.10 £51.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings that featured Data Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Engineer within the 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
South Yorkshire +12 16 £475 +82.69% 2
West Yorkshire +12 7 £463 -7.50% 22
North Yorkshire +9 2 £400 - 3
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (42.31%) SQL
4 10 (38.46%) Finance
4 10 (38.46%) Data Protection
4 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
5 9 (34.62%) Data Pipeline
5 9 (34.62%) Commvault
6 8 (30.77%) Oracle
7 7 (26.92%) Azure
7 7 (26.92%) ETL
8 6 (23.08%) Apache
8 6 (23.08%) Oracle Database
8 6 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (23.08%) GCP
9 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
9 5 (19.23%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
9 5 (19.23%) Ansible
9 5 (19.23%) Docker
9 5 (19.23%) Data Quality
9 5 (19.23%) Data Management
9 5 (19.23%) Google
9 5 (19.23%) Financial Institution
9 5 (19.23%) Banking
10 4 (15.38%) Workflow
10 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
10 4 (15.38%) AWS
10 4 (15.38%) OCI
10 4 (15.38%) Databricks

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 6 (23.08%) Apache
2 5 (19.23%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 2 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (26.92%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) GCP
3 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) OCI
4 3 (11.54%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.85%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 1 (3.85%) dbt
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle Database
2 4 (15.38%) Flink
3 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (7.69%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (7.69%) Power BI
4 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.85%) Big Data
4 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (3.85%) Looker
4 1 (3.85%) Metadata
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
2 1 (3.85%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Vagrant
2 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Banking
2 5 (19.23%) Financial Institution
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Digital Healthcare
3 2 (7.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Kafka
1 2 (7.69%) PySpark
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Beam
2 1 (3.85%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
2 1 (3.85%) JDBC
2 1 (3.85%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Client/Server
1 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (38.46%) Data Protection
3 9 (34.62%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (26.92%) ETL
5 6 (23.08%) Performance Tuning
6 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
6 5 (19.23%) Data Management
7 4 (15.38%) Workflow
8 3 (11.54%) Agile
8 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (11.54%) Change Management
8 3 (11.54%) Data Engineering
8 3 (11.54%) Data Lineage
8 3 (11.54%) Data Modelling
8 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
8 3 (11.54%) Visualisation
8 3 (11.54%) Workflow Management
9 2 (7.69%) Collaborative Working
9 2 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 2 (7.69%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 11 (42.31%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.85%) Degree
1 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (3.85%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Ansible
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.69%) Puppet
3 1 (3.85%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Commvault
2 8 (30.77%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) Google
4 4 (15.38%) Databricks
5 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.85%) Splunk
5 1 (3.85%) Veritas