Data Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 94 90
Rank change year-on-year +20 -4 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 30 33 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.78% 1.43% 1.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 1.50% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 27
10th Percentile £163 £425 £300
25th Percentile £170 £481 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +18.18% +20.55%
75th Percentile £540 £675 £644
90th Percentile £578 £700 £693
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 1,545 2,202 2,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.58% 95.49% 97.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 960 1,502 1,932
10th Percentile £232 £260 £204
25th Percentile £375 £420 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 27 101
10th Percentile £11.24 £12.00 £10.70
25th Percentile £12.25 £16.50 £12.00
Median hourly rate £14.25 £22.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.23% +25.71% -7.89%
75th Percentile £23.75 £54.07 £22.40
90th Percentile £51.25 £70.00 £26.50
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

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 29 April 2024.

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 29 April 2024. 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 +7 12 £260 -61.48% 5
West Yorkshire +11 10 £500 -23.08% 9
North Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
Humberside - 1 £160 -
East Yorkshire - 1 £160 - 1
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 10 (33.33%) SQL
3 10 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 9 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
4 9 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 8 (26.67%) Analytics
5 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (23.33%) Python
6 7 (23.33%) Data Engineering
7 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
7 6 (20.00%) Windows
7 6 (20.00%) Linux
7 6 (20.00%) ETL
7 6 (20.00%) Replication
7 6 (20.00%) Service Delivery
7 6 (20.00%) Change Management
7 6 (20.00%) Data Protection
7 6 (20.00%) Puppet
8 5 (16.67%) VLAN
8 5 (16.67%) Data Integration
8 5 (16.67%) Ansible
8 5 (16.67%) NetBackup
8 5 (16.67%) Veritas
8 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (16.67%) Data Lake
8 5 (16.67%) Databricks
9 4 (13.33%) Data Centre

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 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (10.00%) GCP
5 2 (6.67%) AWS
5 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) VLAN
2 2 (6.67%) Wireless
3 1 (3.33%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) Data Lake
1 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (13.33%) Tableau
3 2 (6.67%) BigQuery
3 2 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
3 2 (6.67%) Metadata
3 2 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (6.67%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (3.33%) Big Data
4 1 (3.33%) Flink
4 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.00%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Health Technology
5 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) Kafka
1 1 (3.33%) PySpark
1 1 (3.33%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Replication
2 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.33%) NHS
3 2 (6.67%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 9 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
3 8 (26.67%) Analytics
4 7 (23.33%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (23.33%) Data Engineering
5 6 (20.00%) Change Management
5 6 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 6 (20.00%) ETL
5 6 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 5 (16.67%) Data Integration
7 4 (13.33%) Data Extraction
8 3 (10.00%) Open Source
8 3 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (6.67%) Actionable Insight
9 2 (6.67%) Data Governance
9 2 (6.67%) Data Strategy
9 2 (6.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 2 (6.67%) Decision-Making
9 2 (6.67%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) Puppet
2 5 (16.67%) Ansible
2 5 (16.67%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Databricks
1 5 (16.67%) Veritas
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.67%) Google
4 1 (3.33%) Brio
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle