Data Engineering Contracts in Yorkshire

Data Engineering
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 77 80 108
Rank change year-on-year +3 +28 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 15 20 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.47% 1.18% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.37% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 6
10th Percentile £413 £434 £419
25th Percentile £463 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +24.10% -18.75%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £613
90th Percentile £663 £639 £644
England median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 940 1,459 2,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.43% 86.38% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 586 875 1,388
10th Percentile £246 £265 £296
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £550 £577 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 64 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.30 -
25th Percentile £17.12 £12.15 £9.80
Median hourly rate £21.24 £13.50 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +57.33% +27.00% -39.74%
75th Percentile £27.10 £22.00 £20.19
90th Percentile £80.10 £53.75 £56.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Data Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Yorkshire

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Yorkshire

Data Engineering
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 Engineering 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
West Yorkshire +11 12 £513 -12.77% 24
South Yorkshire +9 3 £575 -8.00% 4
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
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 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Google Compute Engine
3 3 (20.00%) PaaS
4 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (6.67%) Collibra
5 1 (6.67%) dbt
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.67%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) Power BI
3 1 (6.67%) Looker
3 1 (6.67%) Tableau
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) Administrator
2 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) GCP Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Platform Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Python Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Python Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Kafka
1 1 (6.67%) Node.js
1 1 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
1 1 (6.67%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Analytics
1 9 (60.00%) Data Science
2 7 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
2 7 (46.67%) ETL
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
6 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (13.33%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (13.33%) Visualisation
7 1 (6.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
7 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (6.67%) Observability
7 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Databricks
2 8 (53.33%) Google
3 1 (6.67%) Splunk