Data Engineering Contracts in the Midlands

Data Engineering
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 138 179
Rank change year-on-year +42 +41 -35
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 39 22 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.45% 0.68% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.77% 0.77% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 19 15
10th Percentile £294 £410 £391
25th Percentile £531 £488 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.18% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £728 £625 £663
90th Percentile £850 £662 £850
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £22.59 - -
25th Percentile £23.89 - -
Median hourly rate £26.05 - -
75th Percentile £28.21 - -
90th Percentile £29.51 - -
England median hourly rate £41.75 £75.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -44.33% +21.95% +64.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,203 2,852 4,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.87% 87.94% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,485 2,002 3,238
10th Percentile £233 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £369 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +5.26% +14.46%
75th Percentile £595 £597 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 101 147
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.50 £10.61
25th Percentile £13.60 £15.00 £13.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.68% +28.06% +16.67%
75th Percentile £32.53 £40.25 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £57.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +8.70%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineering in the Midlands

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 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
West Midlands +31 26 £634 +15.23% 26
East Midlands +17 13 £550 -4.35% 10
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (5.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (15.38%) Azure
2 5 (12.82%) Google Analytics
3 4 (10.26%) AWS
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon SageMaker
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.56%) dbt
5 1 (2.56%) GCP
5 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (35.90%) Intrusion Detection
1 14 (35.90%) Network Security
2 5 (12.82%) SAN
2 5 (12.82%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) Big Data
2 5 (12.82%) Data Lake
2 5 (12.82%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.56%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.56%) DB2
5 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.56%) OLAP
5 1 (2.56%) OLTP
5 1 (2.56%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.56%) Power BI
5 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Git
3 1 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 15 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.13%) Retail
5 1 (2.56%) Back Office
5 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.56%) Police
5 1 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Data Engineer
1 6 (15.38%) Developer
2 5 (12.82%) Python Developer
3 4 (10.26%) Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Analytics Consultant
4 3 (7.69%) Consultant
4 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Data Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Head of Analytics
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Python Developer
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Data Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Data Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.90%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.56%) BREW
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) RESTful
2 1 (2.56%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (35.90%) Cyber Defence
1 14 (35.90%) Distributed Applications
2 8 (20.51%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.69%) FMCG
3 3 (7.69%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (43.59%) Linux
2 12 (30.77%) Android
2 12 (30.77%) Apple iOS
2 12 (30.77%) Unix
2 12 (30.77%) Windows
3 5 (12.82%) Debian
3 5 (12.82%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Analytics
2 20 (51.28%) Data Management
2 20 (51.28%) Data Pipeline
3 14 (35.90%) Actionable Insight
3 14 (35.90%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (35.90%) Data Modelling
3 14 (35.90%) Information Security
3 14 (35.90%) Security Architecture
3 14 (35.90%) SIEM
4 13 (33.33%) Security Operations
5 12 (30.77%) Kalman Filter
6 11 (28.21%) Data Analysis
7 8 (20.51%) Agile
8 6 (15.38%) Data Analytics
8 6 (15.38%) ETL
9 5 (12.82%) Change Management
9 5 (12.82%) Configuration Management
9 5 (12.82%) ITIL
9 5 (12.82%) Logical Data Model
9 5 (12.82%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) Python
2 9 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (5.13%) R
4 1 (2.56%) Java
4 1 (2.56%) MATLAB
4 1 (2.56%) Scala
4 1 (2.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (46.15%) DV Cleared
1 18 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 8 (20.51%) Degree
3 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (35.90%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (38.46%) Red Hat
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.82%) Google
3 5 (12.82%) VMware
4 4 (10.26%) Databricks
5 2 (5.13%) Oracle
5 2 (5.13%) Sage
6 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.56%) Informatica