Data Engineer Contracts in Yorkshire

Data Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Yorkshire is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 January 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
24 Jan 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 84 93
Rank change year-on-year +26 +9 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 23 22 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.31% 1.22% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.53% 1.31% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 18 25
10th Percentile £375 £246 £383
25th Percentile £413 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £597 £640
90th Percentile £700 £626 £658
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -

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 910 1,685 2,470
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.46% 93.51% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 1,073 1,651
10th Percentile £213 £227 £213
25th Percentile £356 £375 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -8.65% +12.43%
75th Percentile £567 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 47 40
10th Percentile £14.64 £11.11 £11.15
25th Percentile £17.08 £12.53 £15.21
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.06 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +31.93% -21.59% +28.21%
75th Percentile £38.75 £23.75 £40.22
90th Percentile £42.30 £53.75 £64.38
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.98% +9.86% +66.67%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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
West Yorkshire +18 16 £463 -13.95% 16
South Yorkshire +18 5 £550 +57.14% 7
North Yorkshire +7 2 £400 - 4
Data Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 January 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 9 (39.13%) Python
2 8 (34.78%) Databricks
3 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 7 (30.43%) ETL
3 7 (30.43%) Azure
4 6 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
6 4 (17.39%) GCP
6 4 (17.39%) AWS
6 4 (17.39%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (17.39%) Data Protection
7 3 (13.04%) Google
7 3 (13.04%) Smartphone
7 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (13.04%) Data Engineering
7 3 (13.04%) Apache Spark
7 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
8 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
8 2 (8.70%) dbt
8 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (8.70%) Data Architecture
8 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (8.70%) Power BI
8 2 (8.70%) Terraform
8 2 (8.70%) Data Ingestion
8 2 (8.70%) Apache
8 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
8 2 (8.70%) Client/Server

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 3 (13.04%) Apache Spark
2 2 (8.70%) Apache
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) AWS
2 4 (17.39%) GCP
3 2 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (8.70%) dbt
3 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Google Compute Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) BGP
1 1 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (4.35%) Firewall
1 1 (4.35%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
1 1 (4.35%) OSPF
1 1 (4.35%) VLAN
1 1 (4.35%) VPN
1 1 (4.35%) VXLAN
1 1 (4.35%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) Big Data
1 2 (8.70%) Power BI
2 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.35%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) Metadata
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
1 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (13.04%) Smartphone
3 2 (8.70%) Client/Server
3 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (8.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.35%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.35%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) ETL
2 6 (26.09%) Data Pipeline
3 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
4 4 (17.39%) Data Protection
5 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (13.04%) Data Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.70%) Analytics
6 2 (8.70%) Data Architecture
6 2 (8.70%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (8.70%) DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.35%) Change Management
7 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (4.35%) Data Management
7 1 (4.35%) Data Modelling
7 1 (4.35%) Data Transformation
7 1 (4.35%) Dependency Management
7 1 (4.35%) Network Management
7 1 (4.35%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 7 (30.43%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) C
3 1 (4.35%) Scala
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.35%) CCNA
1 1 (4.35%) CCNP
1 1 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (4.35%) Degree
1 1 (4.35%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) GDPR
1 1 (4.35%) HL7
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Databricks
2 3 (13.04%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Aruba
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Juniper
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Snow