Data Engineer Contracts in the North West

Data Engineer
England > North West

The median Data Engineer daily rate in the North West is £425 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 93 94 120
Rank change year-on-year +1 +26 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 49 67 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.84% 2.18% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.94% 2.30% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 54 49
10th Percentile £170 £402 £351
25th Percentile £322 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £515 £675 £588
90th Percentile £550 £700 £703
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £18.62
Median hourly rate £67.50 - £19.25
75th Percentile £68.75 - £19.87
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £75.50 £45.20
% change year-on-year -10.60% +67.04% +18.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 the North West with a recognized job title 2,525 2,915 3,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 94.95% 96.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,640 2,070 2,834
10th Percentile £276 £300 £213
25th Percentile £390 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +13.10%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £569
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 124 179
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.58 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.50 £19.22 £15.51
Median hourly rate £27.75 £30.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.14% +22.16% +38.45%
75th Percentile £46.91 £48.91 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.70 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Engineer in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Data Engineer in the North West

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Manchester +6 25 £456 -8.75% 26
Cheshire +11 15 £403 -15.26% 2
Lancashire +8 3 £500 -28.57% 1
Merseyside -5 3 £375 -42.31% 4
Data Engineer
England

Data Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

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 North West region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (46.94%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (42.86%) ETL
3 19 (38.78%) SQL
4 17 (34.69%) Python
5 16 (32.65%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (30.61%) AWS
7 14 (28.57%) Data Modelling
8 13 (26.53%) Azure
8 13 (26.53%) Data Engineering
9 12 (24.49%) Java
10 10 (20.41%) Apache Spark
10 10 (20.41%) Data Lake
11 9 (18.37%) Migration
11 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
12 8 (16.33%) Snowflake
12 8 (16.33%) CI/CD
12 8 (16.33%) Data Management
12 8 (16.33%) Data Integration
12 8 (16.33%) Analytics
13 7 (14.29%) Big Data
13 7 (14.29%) Data Quality
13 7 (14.29%) Amazon S3
13 7 (14.29%) Databricks
13 7 (14.29%) Agile
13 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
14 6 (12.24%) Data Security
14 6 (12.24%) Manufacturing
14 6 (12.24%) Apache
14 6 (12.24%) AWS Lambda

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (20.41%) Apache Spark
2 6 (12.24%) Apache
3 5 (10.20%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.04%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Oracle 11i
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.61%) AWS
2 13 (26.53%) Azure
3 8 (16.33%) Snowflake
4 7 (14.29%) Amazon S3
5 6 (12.24%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (12.24%) Serverless
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon EMR
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon SQS
6 5 (10.20%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
7 4 (8.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.08%) GCP
8 2 (4.08%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
9 1 (2.04%) GitHub
9 1 (2.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) Structured Cabling
2 5 (10.20%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (32.65%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (20.41%) Data Lake
3 7 (14.29%) Big Data
4 5 (10.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (10.20%) MySQL
4 5 (10.20%) Power BI
5 4 (8.16%) Hadoop
6 3 (6.12%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (6.12%) HBase
6 3 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 3 (6.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (6.12%) Tableau
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (4.08%) BigQuery
8 1 (2.04%) Azkaban
8 1 (2.04%) Metadata
8 1 (2.04%) Navicat
8 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.04%) Spark SQL
8 1 (2.04%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Git
1 5 (10.20%) JIRA
2 1 (2.04%) RStudio
General
1 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.24%) Manufacturing
2 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.20%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (6.12%) Local Government
5 2 (4.08%) Finance
6 1 (2.04%) Advertising
6 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) JSON
1 5 (10.20%) XML
2 4 (8.16%) Kafka
2 4 (8.16%) PySpark
3 2 (4.08%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.04%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) Data Pipeline
2 21 (42.86%) ETL
3 14 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 13 (26.53%) Data Engineering
5 9 (18.37%) Migration
6 8 (16.33%) Analytics
6 8 (16.33%) CI/CD
6 8 (16.33%) Data Integration
6 8 (16.33%) Data Management
7 7 (14.29%) Agile
7 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (12.24%) Data Security
8 6 (12.24%) Data-Driven Decision Making
9 5 (10.20%) Containerisation
9 5 (10.20%) Data Ingestion
9 5 (10.20%) Data Transformation
9 5 (10.20%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (10.20%) Scrum
9 5 (10.20%) Software Engineering
9 5 (10.20%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.78%) SQL
2 17 (34.69%) Python
3 12 (24.49%) Java
4 5 (10.20%) C#
4 5 (10.20%) Scala
5 2 (4.08%) Perl
6 1 (2.04%) Bash
6 1 (2.04%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (10.20%) Terraform
2 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Databricks
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Informatica
2 5 (10.20%) Talend
3 2 (4.08%) Google
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle
4 1 (2.04%) Facebook
4 1 (2.04%) Isilon
4 1 (2.04%) Micro Focus
4 1 (2.04%) Novell
4 1 (2.04%) OpenText
4 1 (2.04%) SAP
4 1 (2.04%) Teradata
4 1 (2.04%) Twitter
4 1 (2.04%) VMware