Data Engineering Contracts in Birmingham

Data Engineering
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Data Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Engineering over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 66 82
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 6 12 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.80% 1.35% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.56% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 5
10th Percentile £403 £400 £423
25th Percentile £463 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £438
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +25.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £750 £606 £575
90th Percentile £825 £650 -
West Midlands median daily rate £634 £550 £430
% change year-on-year +15.23% +27.91% -9.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Data Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 610 770 1,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 80.90% 86.61% 91.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 506 858
10th Percentile £235 £263 £250
25th Percentile £375 £398 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +1.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £703 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £495
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 33 18
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.10 £12.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.71 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.57% +20.03% +1.47%
75th Percentile £47.13 £28.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
% change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in Birmingham

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in Birmingham

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Birmingham over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in Birmingham

Data Engineering
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 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) dbt
3 1 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) OLAP
2 1 (16.67%) OLTP
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle OLAP
2 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Head of Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) FMCG
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 2 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Data Management
2 2 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Line Management
2 2 (33.33%) Logistics
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Supplier Management
3 1 (16.67%) Architectural Design
3 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) DataOps
3 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
3 1 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Informatica
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle