Data Engineer Contracts in England

Data Engineer
UK > England

The median Data Engineer daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 115 122
Rank change year-on-year +12 +7 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 802 1,082 1,574
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.20% 2.25% 2.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.38% 2.37% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 832 1,129
10th Percentile £233 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £671
90th Percentile £688 £738 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 5 15
10th Percentile £37.50 - £22.27
25th Percentile £49.25 £62.00 £44.63
Median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +67.04% +18.95%
75th Percentile £80.00 £82.50 £55.75
90th Percentile - £87.00 £64.16
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £75.50 £45.20
% change year-on-year -13.91% +67.04% +20.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,742 45,591 67,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,367 32,416 47,845
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,431 1,343 1,853
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.39 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.40 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineer in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineer in England

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +12 485 £525 -8.70% 208
North of England +6 79 £445 -15.24% 51
South West +12 65 £500 -9.09% 32
North West +1 49 £425 -17.07% 35
South East -20 46 £463 -7.50% 24
Midlands +27 41 £450 -18.18% 36
East of England +32 37 £185 -65.58% 17
West Midlands +21 31 £513 -6.82% 28
Yorkshire +13 30 £475 -9.52% 11
East Midlands +19 10 £425 -5.56% 8
Data Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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 England region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 392 (48.88%) SQL
2 372 (46.38%) Python
3 316 (39.40%) Azure
4 281 (35.04%) ETL
5 246 (30.67%) Data Pipeline
6 235 (29.30%) Data Modelling
7 220 (27.43%) AWS
8 207 (25.81%) Data Engineering
9 182 (22.69%) Analytics
10 172 (21.45%) Data Warehouse
11 166 (20.70%) Databricks
12 151 (18.83%) Security Cleared
13 141 (17.58%) Azure Data Factory
14 137 (17.08%) Business Intelligence
15 126 (15.71%) SC Cleared
15 126 (15.71%) Social Skills
16 122 (15.21%) Data Lake
17 114 (14.21%) Power Platform
17 114 (14.21%) Power BI
18 111 (13.84%) Data Quality
19 110 (13.72%) Finance
20 108 (13.47%) DevOps
21 105 (13.09%) PySpark
22 103 (12.84%) Agile
23 102 (12.72%) Migration
24 98 (12.22%) Serverless
25 95 (11.85%) CI/CD
26 93 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
27 79 (9.85%) SQL Server
27 79 (9.85%) Public Sector

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 70 (8.73%) Apache Spark
2 57 (7.11%) Apache Airflow
3 56 (6.98%) Apache
4 8 (1.00%) Confluence
5 4 (0.50%) Luigi
5 4 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.37%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.37%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.25%) SAS
8 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.25%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (0.37%) ENOVIA
1 3 (0.37%) SAP PLM
1 3 (0.37%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.25%) MIS ActiveH
2 2 (0.25%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.12%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.12%) Shopify
3 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 316 (39.40%) Azure
2 220 (27.43%) AWS
3 141 (17.58%) Azure Data Factory
4 114 (14.21%) Power Platform
5 98 (12.22%) Serverless
6 70 (8.73%) AWS Lambda
7 61 (7.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 61 (7.61%) GCP
8 59 (7.36%) Amazon S3
9 56 (6.98%) Snowflake
10 36 (4.49%) dbt
11 34 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (4.11%) Amazon Kinesis
13 30 (3.74%) AWS Step Functions
14 21 (2.62%) GitHub
15 20 (2.49%) Amazon EC2
15 20 (2.49%) Amazon MSK
16 19 (2.37%) Amazon EMR
16 19 (2.37%) Azure Functions
17 17 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.24%) Structured Cabling
2 6 (0.75%) Internet
3 5 (0.62%) Firewall
3 5 (0.62%) FTP
3 5 (0.62%) VLAN
4 4 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (0.50%) Wireless
5 3 (0.37%) BGP
5 3 (0.37%) DMZ
5 3 (0.37%) Network Security
5 3 (0.37%) VPN
6 2 (0.25%) 3G
6 2 (0.25%) 4G
6 2 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (0.25%) DHCP
6 2 (0.25%) DNS
6 2 (0.25%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.25%) LAN
6 2 (0.25%) OSPF
6 2 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (21.45%) Data Warehouse
2 122 (15.21%) Data Lake
3 114 (14.21%) Power BI
4 79 (9.85%) SQL Server
5 78 (9.73%) Big Data
6 55 (6.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 51 (6.36%) Tableau
8 45 (5.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 43 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
10 41 (5.11%) Relational Database
11 37 (4.61%) BigQuery
12 36 (4.49%) NoSQL
13 32 (3.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 29 (3.62%) Parquet
15 28 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
16 27 (3.37%) Flink
17 22 (2.74%) DynamoDB
17 22 (2.74%) Metadata
18 20 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
19 18 (2.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 45 (5.61%) Git
2 25 (3.12%) JIRA
3 12 (1.50%) GitLab
4 6 (0.75%) Bitbucket
4 6 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.75%) MLflow
5 4 (0.50%) Deequ
6 3 (0.37%) Mercurial
7 2 (0.25%) Ant
7 2 (0.25%) Gradle
7 2 (0.25%) JUnit
7 2 (0.25%) Maven
7 2 (0.25%) RStudio
7 2 (0.25%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.25%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.25%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.12%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.12%) ERwin
8 1 (0.12%) kappa
8 1 (0.12%) Visual Studio
General
1 126 (15.71%) Social Skills
2 110 (13.72%) Finance
3 93 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 34 (4.24%) Banking
6 13 (1.62%) Investment Banking
6 13 (1.62%) Manufacturing
7 11 (1.37%) Aerospace
7 11 (1.37%) Marketing
7 11 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
7 11 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (1.12%) Front Office
8 9 (1.12%) Retail
8 9 (1.12%) Telecoms
9 4 (0.50%) Aviation
9 4 (0.50%) Electronics
9 4 (0.50%) Financial Institution
9 4 (0.50%) Local Government
10 3 (0.37%) Multimedia
10 3 (0.37%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (13.09%) PySpark
2 73 (9.10%) Kafka
3 32 (3.99%) JSON
4 26 (3.24%) Apache Avro
5 21 (2.62%) Pandas
6 13 (1.62%) NumPy
6 13 (1.62%) REST
7 12 (1.50%) XML
8 9 (1.12%) .NET
8 9 (1.12%) ARM Templates
8 9 (1.12%) YAML
9 6 (0.75%) ODBC
9 6 (0.75%) SOAP
9 6 (0.75%) Spark Streaming
9 6 (0.75%) Web Services
10 5 (0.62%) Flask
10 5 (0.62%) GraphQL
10 5 (0.62%) JSON Schema
10 5 (0.62%) Node.js
10 5 (0.62%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 18 (2.24%) Algorithms
1 18 (2.24%) Data Structures
2 14 (1.75%) Onboarding
2 14 (1.75%) Product Ownership
3 13 (1.62%) Fibre Optics
4 11 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 8 (1.00%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.00%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (0.87%) Cloud Native
8 6 (0.75%) Replication
8 6 (0.75%) Social Media
9 5 (0.62%) Derivative
9 5 (0.62%) NHS
10 4 (0.50%) Blockchain
10 4 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (0.50%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.50%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 25 (3.12%) Linux
2 15 (1.87%) Windows
3 14 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (35.04%) ETL
2 246 (30.67%) Data Pipeline
3 235 (29.30%) Data Modelling
4 207 (25.81%) Data Engineering
5 182 (22.69%) Analytics
6 137 (17.08%) Business Intelligence
7 108 (13.47%) DevOps
8 103 (12.84%) Agile
9 102 (12.72%) Migration
10 95 (11.85%) CI/CD
11 76 (9.48%) Data Migration
12 71 (8.85%) Data Integration
13 66 (8.23%) Problem-Solving
14 62 (7.73%) Data Governance
15 53 (6.61%) Data Management
16 51 (6.36%) Data Science
17 50 (6.23%) Data Transformation
18 48 (5.99%) Data Ingestion
18 48 (5.99%) Visualisation
19 42 (5.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 392 (48.88%) SQL
2 372 (46.38%) Python
3 78 (9.73%) Java
4 59 (7.36%) Scala
5 35 (4.36%) T-SQL
6 33 (4.11%) C#
7 14 (1.75%) PowerShell
8 11 (1.37%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.37%) R
9 9 (1.12%) Bicep
10 8 (1.00%) Bash
11 7 (0.87%) C++
11 7 (0.87%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.75%) Perl
13 5 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.50%) Go
15 3 (0.37%) C
15 3 (0.37%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.25%) MATLAB
16 2 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 151 (18.83%) Security Cleared
2 126 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 43 (5.36%) Degree
4 28 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.25%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.87%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.25%) CISSP
12 2 (0.25%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.25%) IBM Certification
12 2 (0.25%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.12%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.12%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (13.84%) Data Quality
2 26 (3.24%) QA
3 9 (1.12%) GDPR
4 8 (1.00%) SLA
5 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS
5 2 (0.25%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.25%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.12%) GxP
System Software
1 20 (2.49%) Docker
2 3 (0.37%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) Apache Flume
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 62 (7.73%) Terraform
2 31 (3.87%) Kubernetes
3 10 (1.25%) Ansible
4 6 (0.75%) Puppet
5 5 (0.62%) NetBackup
6 4 (0.50%) Argo
7 3 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.25%) Grafana
8 2 (0.25%) Podman
8 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.12%) Ganglia
9 1 (0.12%) Kubeflow
9 1 (0.12%) Matomo
9 1 (0.12%) NetMRI
Vendors
1 166 (20.70%) Databricks
2 65 (8.10%) Microsoft
3 39 (4.86%) Oracle
4 37 (4.61%) Micro Focus
5 26 (3.24%) Informatica
6 22 (2.74%) Google
7 12 (1.50%) SAP
7 12 (1.50%) Talend
8 8 (1.00%) Splunk
9 6 (0.75%) Adobe
9 6 (0.75%) Veritas
10 5 (0.62%) Ab Initio
10 5 (0.62%) Cisco
10 5 (0.62%) Twitter
11 4 (0.50%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.50%) Sage
11 4 (0.50%) Salesforce
12 3 (0.37%) Cloudera
12 3 (0.37%) Nexthink
12 3 (0.37%) Palantir