Data Engineering Contracts in the North of England

Data Engineering
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 171 198
Rank change year-on-year +37 +27 -56
Contract jobs citing Data Engineering 49 42 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.06% 0.75% 0.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 0.82% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 24 34
10th Percentile £419 £421 £400
25th Percentile £450 £500 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £659
90th Percentile £638 £725 £745
England median daily rate £575 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +92.86% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.75 £73.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -42.81% +18.70% +64.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,937 5,092 6,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.36% 90.48% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,416 3,501 4,644
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 365 203 265
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.36 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £27.70 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% +45.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £43.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £63.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineering in the North of England

Data Engineering
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 20 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
North West +17 27 £510 -6.85% 27
Yorkshire +26 21 £600 +4.35% 10
North East +11 1 £431 -28.17% 5
Data Engineering
England

Data Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 13 (26.53%) Apache
2 12 (24.49%) Apache Spark
3 7 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.86%) AWS
2 15 (30.61%) Azure
3 9 (18.37%) GCP
3 9 (18.37%) Power Platform
4 8 (16.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (14.29%) Snowflake
6 6 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (12.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 6 (12.24%) Serverless
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon EMR
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon S3
7 5 (10.20%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Data Pipeline
8 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.08%) CloudBees
8 2 (4.08%) Google Compute Engine
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) FTP
2 1 (2.04%) AMQP
2 1 (2.04%) DMZ
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) Modbus
2 1 (2.04%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.73%) Data Lake
2 11 (22.45%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (18.37%) Big Data
3 9 (18.37%) Power BI
4 7 (14.29%) BigQuery
5 6 (12.24%) Flink
5 6 (12.24%) Hadoop
5 6 (12.24%) Tableau
6 4 (8.16%) SQL Server
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (6.12%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (6.12%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (6.12%) HBase
7 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 3 (6.12%) MySQL
7 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
7 3 (6.12%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (6.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
8 2 (4.08%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) JIRA
3 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (24.49%) Pharmaceutical
1 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Manufacturing
4 5 (10.20%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.08%) Finance
6 2 (4.08%) Health Technology
7 1 (2.04%) Advertising
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
7 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 10 (20.41%) Developer
3 6 (12.24%) Data Manager
3 6 (12.24%) Product Manager
3 6 (12.24%) Python Developer
3 6 (12.24%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Snowflake Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Lead
4 5 (10.20%) Senior
4 5 (10.20%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Data Integration Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Integration Developer
6 2 (4.08%) SSIS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 6 (12.24%) Flask
2 6 (12.24%) JSON
2 6 (12.24%) XML
3 5 (10.20%) Kafka
4 1 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.04%) Node.js
4 1 (2.04%) PySpark
4 1 (2.04%) Web Services
4 1 (2.04%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Product Ownership
2 5 (10.20%) Reference Data
3 3 (6.12%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) IoT
4 1 (2.04%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) PKI
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.04%) Linux
1 1 (2.04%) Windows
1 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (55.10%) Data Modelling
2 25 (51.02%) Data Pipeline
2 25 (51.02%) ETL
3 17 (34.69%) CI/CD
4 16 (32.65%) Agile
5 15 (30.61%) Data Governance
6 13 (26.53%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (22.45%) Analytics
7 11 (22.45%) Data Ingestion
7 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (20.41%) Containerisation
8 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (18.37%) TDD
9 9 (18.37%) Visualisation
10 8 (16.33%) Data Science
10 8 (16.33%) Data Visualisation
10 8 (16.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 8 (16.33%) Roadmaps
11 7 (14.29%) Product Management
11 7 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 29 (59.18%) Python
2 28 (57.14%) SQL
3 9 (18.37%) Java
4 5 (10.20%) C#
4 5 (10.20%) Scala
5 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.08%) Groovy
6 2 (4.08%) Perl
7 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (16.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) QA
System Software
1 13 (26.53%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (24.49%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) Ansible
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Google
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Databricks
2 5 (10.20%) Informatica
2 5 (10.20%) Talend
3 1 (2.04%) Anaplan
3 1 (2.04%) Brio
3 1 (2.04%) Facebook
3 1 (2.04%) SAP
3 1 (2.04%) Twitter