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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 89 92
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 22 15 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.48% 0.97% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.17% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 12
10th Percentile £259 £445 £543
25th Percentile £306 £468 £595
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £495 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% -20.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £566 £644
90th Percentile £644 £598 £763
England median daily rate £525 £588 £625
% change year-on-year -10.64% -6.00% +4.17%

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 1,370 1,286 1,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 92.13% 83.56% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 792 1,188
10th Percentile £263 £300 £275
25th Percentile £375 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £625
90th Percentile £618 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 49 31
10th Percentile £16.58 - £12.00
25th Percentile £18.39 £12.15 £17.11
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +6.28%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £34.04 £36.75 £44.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -6 14 £563 +14.80% 22
South Yorkshire -3 8 £360 -37.82% 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 5 (22.73%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.09%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Maple
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) GCP
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 6 (27.27%) AWS
4 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
5 4 (18.18%) PaaS
6 3 (13.64%) GitHub
6 3 (13.64%) Snowflake
7 2 (9.09%) dbt
7 2 (9.09%) Google Compute Engine
8 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
8 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (4.55%) Collibra
8 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (31.82%) BigQuery
2 6 (27.27%) Delta Lake
3 5 (22.73%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (22.73%) Looker
3 5 (22.73%) Power BI
3 5 (22.73%) Tableau
4 4 (18.18%) Data Lake
4 4 (18.18%) DataStage
5 2 (9.09%) Star Schema
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.55%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Data Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Data Visualisation Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Engineering Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Report Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Analytics Architect
5 1 (4.55%) GCP Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) GCP Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Data Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) PySpark
2 1 (4.55%) Kafka
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.55%) PyTorch
2 1 (4.55%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.55%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
1 3 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.55%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Analytics
2 11 (50.00%) ETL
3 7 (31.82%) Data Governance
4 6 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 6 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (27.27%) Data Science
5 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (22.73%) Data Analytics
5 5 (22.73%) Data Integration
5 5 (22.73%) Data Visualisation
5 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (22.73%) Visualisation
6 4 (18.18%) Agile
6 4 (18.18%) Data Architecture
6 4 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 4 (18.18%) Data Transformation
6 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
6 4 (18.18%) Machine Learning
7 3 (13.64%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 16 (72.73%) SQL
2 11 (50.00%) Python
3 6 (27.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) NCSC
2 1 (4.55%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (63.64%) Databricks
2 8 (36.36%) Google
3 4 (18.18%) Informatica
3 4 (18.18%) Talend
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.55%) SAP
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk