Data Engineer Contracts in Birmingham

Data Engineer
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Birmingham is £398 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 46 65
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 12 30 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.62% 3.36% 2.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 3.48% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 24 21
10th Percentile £277 £428 £408
25th Percentile £310 £525 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year -32.34% +17.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £453 £609 £561
90th Percentile £541 £650 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £575 £531
% change year-on-year -18.48% +8.24% +18.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.50 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £35.44 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 696 862 1,249
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 96.64% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 564 902
10th Percentile £250 £263 £225
25th Percentile £338 £375 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £480 £500 £483
% change year-on-year -4.00% +3.57% +13.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 35 21
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.20 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.63 £13.10 £13.75
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.77 £20.00 £17.24
% change year-on-year -1.15% +16.01% +13.50%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Birmingham over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Birmingham

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 Birmingham region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Power BI
3 3 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) ETL
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) C
4 2 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (16.67%) Java
4 2 (16.67%) Databricks
4 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
4 2 (16.67%) Onboarding

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (8.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Ant
1 1 (8.33%) Gradle
1 1 (8.33%) JUnit
1 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 3 (25.00%) ETL
3 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (8.33%) Analytics
4 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Data Privacy
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (8.33%) Machine Learning
4 1 (8.33%) Security Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) C
3 2 (16.67%) C++
3 2 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (8.33%) Scala
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Cognos
2 1 (8.33%) Informatica
2 1 (8.33%) JD Edwards
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Salesforce