Data Engineer Contracts in Northamptonshire

Data Engineer
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in Northamptonshire is £356, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 4 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 1.67% - 3.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% - 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £291 - £551
25th Percentile £333 - £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 - £585
75th Percentile £367 - £590
90th Percentile £387 - £593
East Midlands median daily rate £356 - £580
% change year-on-year - - +36.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 221 175 276
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 92.11% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 136 218
10th Percentile £340 £213 £189
25th Percentile £360 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.99% +0.53% +12.03%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £538
90th Percentile £575 £606 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £443 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -6.74% +2.70% +14.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 15
10th Percentile - £11.46 £15.10
25th Percentile £11.83 £11.83 £16.25
Median hourly rate £12.22 £17.50 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -30.17% -6.67% +3.94%
75th Percentile £15.78 £23.73 £35.00
90th Percentile £21.49 £24.60 £37.13
East Midlands median hourly rate £24.18 £18.16 £17.13
% change year-on-year +33.13% +6.06% +17.66%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in Northamptonshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in Northamptonshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Engineer in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in Northamptonshire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Northampton - 3 £356 - 5
Data Engineer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 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 Northamptonshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) PLM
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) SQL

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Power Query
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Data Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) ERP
2 1 (25.00%) PLM
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle