Data Engineering Contracts in England

Data Engineering
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 188 239
Rank change year-on-year -8 +51 -23
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 423 672 835
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.16% 1.39% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.55% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 454 572
10th Percentile £392 £453 £463
25th Percentile £475 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £750 £700
90th Percentile £750 £809 £788
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 4
10th Percentile £30.37 £19.00 £34.89
25th Percentile £33.13 £27.36 £48.78
Median hourly rate £35.00 £73.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.05% +23.73% +57.59%
75th Percentile £60.00 £78.00 £71.29
90th Percentile - £90.00 £83.06
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £54.25 £56.50
% change year-on-year -35.48% -3.98% +103.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Engineering in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Engineering in England

Data Engineering
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 Engineering within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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 -17 261 £585 -6.77% 251
North of England +40 48 £535 -2.73% 35
Midlands +36 40 £585 +7.34% 31
South East +2 38 £550 +4.76% 76
West Midlands +27 27 £642 +18.87% 23
North West +23 27 £510 -7.27% 21
Yorkshire +21 20 £605 +5.22% 8
East Midlands +23 13 £550 -4.35% 8
South West -10 9 £491 -27.22% 29
East of England +4 7 £625 +28.21% 7
North East +11 1 £431 -28.17% 6
Data Engineering
UK

Data Engineering
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 51 (12.06%) Apache Spark
2 39 (9.22%) Apache
3 33 (7.80%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.65%) Confluence
5 6 (1.42%) Tornado
6 3 (0.71%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.24%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.47%) Sketch
3 1 (0.24%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.47%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
2 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 179 (42.32%) Azure
2 134 (31.68%) AWS
3 65 (15.37%) GCP
4 62 (14.66%) Azure Data Factory
5 59 (13.95%) Power Platform
6 44 (10.40%) Serverless
7 41 (9.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 35 (8.27%) Snowflake
9 28 (6.62%) Amazon S3
10 22 (5.20%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
12 18 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
12 18 (4.26%) Azure Functions
12 18 (4.26%) dbt
13 15 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (3.07%) Azure Key Vault
14 13 (3.07%) GitHub
15 12 (2.84%) Amazon Kinesis
15 12 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.02%) Network Security
2 16 (3.78%) TCP/IP
3 15 (3.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 14 (3.31%) SAN
5 5 (1.18%) FTP
6 2 (0.47%) BGP
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.47%) DHCP
6 2 (0.47%) DNS
6 2 (0.47%) HTTP
6 2 (0.47%) OSPF
6 2 (0.47%) SNMP
7 1 (0.24%) AMQP
7 1 (0.24%) DMZ
7 1 (0.24%) Firewall
7 1 (0.24%) Modbus
7 1 (0.24%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (23.64%) Data Warehouse
2 81 (19.15%) Data Lake
3 74 (17.49%) Big Data
4 59 (13.95%) Power BI
5 32 (7.57%) SQL Server
6 30 (7.09%) Azure SQL Database
7 23 (5.44%) BigQuery
8 22 (5.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (4.96%) Flink
10 20 (4.73%) Delta Lake
10 20 (4.73%) Tableau
11 19 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (4.26%) NoSQL
13 15 (3.55%) Hadoop
13 15 (3.55%) Metadata
13 15 (3.55%) Spark SQL
14 13 (3.07%) Relational Database
15 12 (2.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 7 (1.65%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 30 (7.09%) JIRA
2 25 (5.91%) Git
3 5 (1.18%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.71%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.47%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.47%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.24%) Deequ
6 1 (0.24%) MLflow
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 83 (19.62%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (16.31%) Finance
4 39 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 22 (5.20%) Banking
6 19 (4.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (3.31%) Marketing
7 14 (3.31%) Retail
8 10 (2.36%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (1.42%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (0.95%) Front Office
11 4 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.95%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.71%) Advertising
12 3 (0.71%) Back Office
12 3 (0.71%) Electronics
12 3 (0.71%) Law
13 2 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 206 (48.70%) Data Engineer
2 56 (13.24%) Developer
3 50 (11.82%) Azure Engineer
4 46 (10.87%) Senior
5 43 (10.17%) Lead
6 39 (9.22%) Azure Data Engineer
7 32 (7.57%) Python Developer
7 32 (7.57%) Senior Data Engineer
8 27 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
9 24 (5.67%) Analyst
9 24 (5.67%) Architect
10 23 (5.44%) AWS Data Engineer
11 20 (4.73%) Lead Data Engineer
12 19 (4.49%) Data Architect
13 16 (3.78%) Consultant
14 12 (2.84%) Python Engineer
15 11 (2.60%) Data Analyst
16 10 (2.36%) Snowflake Data Engineer
17 9 (2.13%) Data Manager
18 8 (1.89%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (15.60%) PySpark
2 47 (11.11%) Kafka
3 19 (4.49%) Apache NiFi
4 13 (3.07%) FastAPI
5 12 (2.84%) Flask
5 12 (2.84%) XML
6 11 (2.60%) React
7 10 (2.36%) .NET
7 10 (2.36%) Node.js
8 9 (2.13%) JSON
8 9 (2.13%) Pandas
8 9 (2.13%) RESTful
9 8 (1.89%) pytest
10 6 (1.42%) Bokeh
10 6 (1.42%) Django
10 6 (1.42%) OAuth
10 6 (1.42%) OAuth2
10 6 (1.42%) PyTorch
11 5 (1.18%) Hugging Face
11 5 (1.18%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 15 (3.55%) Cyber Defence
1 15 (3.55%) Distributed Applications
2 13 (3.07%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.84%) Data Structures
4 11 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 8 (1.89%) Cloud Native
6 7 (1.65%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.18%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.18%) Smart Meter
8 4 (0.95%) FMCG
8 4 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.71%) Biopharmaceutical
9 3 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.71%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (0.71%) Fixed Income
9 3 (0.71%) Market Risk
9 3 (0.71%) NHS
9 3 (0.71%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.71%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (0.71%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.33%) Linux
2 18 (4.26%) Windows
3 16 (3.78%) Unix
4 14 (3.31%) Debian
4 14 (3.31%) Ubuntu
5 13 (3.07%) Android
5 13 (3.07%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (36.64%) Analytics
2 143 (33.81%) Data Pipeline
2 143 (33.81%) ETL
3 141 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 130 (30.73%) Agile
5 89 (21.04%) CI/CD
6 84 (19.86%) DevOps
7 82 (19.39%) Business Intelligence
8 61 (14.42%) Visualisation
9 60 (14.18%) Data Science
10 59 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (13.00%) Data Management
12 52 (12.29%) Data Governance
13 48 (11.35%) Data Integration
14 45 (10.64%) Data Analysis
15 42 (9.93%) Data Visualisation
16 39 (9.22%) Software Engineering
17 35 (8.27%) Data Architecture
18 34 (8.04%) Computer Science
18 34 (8.04%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 227 (53.66%) Python
2 221 (52.25%) SQL
3 40 (9.46%) Java
4 33 (7.80%) Scala
5 19 (4.49%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.31%) C#
6 14 (3.31%) T-SQL
7 13 (3.07%) TypeScript
8 9 (2.13%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.13%) R
9 5 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.95%) Perl
11 3 (0.71%) C++
11 3 (0.71%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.47%) Go
12 2 (0.47%) Groovy
12 2 (0.47%) XPath
12 2 (0.47%) XQuery
13 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 95 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 75 (17.73%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.69%) Degree
4 25 (5.91%) DV Cleared
5 24 (5.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.89%) Azure Certification
6 8 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.47%) CCDP
7 2 (0.47%) CCNP
7 2 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.47%) IBM Certification
7 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.47%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (13.95%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.55%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (1.42%) GDPR
4 5 (1.18%) QA
5 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.47%) IFRS
5 2 (0.47%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.47%) SLA
5 2 (0.47%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.24%) GRC
6 1 (0.24%) GxP
System Software
1 22 (5.20%) Docker
2 3 (0.71%) HDFS
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 27 (6.38%) Terraform
2 26 (6.15%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.71%) Ansible
4 1 (0.24%) Grafana
4 1 (0.24%) Kibana
4 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.24%) Matomo
4 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 102 (24.11%) Databricks
2 52 (12.29%) Microsoft
3 27 (6.38%) Google
4 24 (5.67%) Red Hat
5 21 (4.96%) Oracle
6 14 (3.31%) Informatica
6 14 (3.31%) VMware
7 12 (2.84%) SAP
8 10 (2.36%) Foundry
8 10 (2.36%) Palantir
8 10 (2.36%) Talend
9 7 (1.65%) Ab Initio
10 5 (1.18%) Confluent
11 4 (0.95%) IBM
12 3 (0.71%) OpenAI
13 2 (0.47%) Arista
13 2 (0.47%) ESRI
13 2 (0.47%) Palo Alto
13 2 (0.47%) SnapLogic
13 2 (0.47%) Zscaler