Data Engineer Contracts in South Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median Data Engineer daily rate in South Yorkshire is £513, 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 44 46 57
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Data Engineer 10 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.24% 1.05% 2.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.62% 1.15% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 5
10th Percentile - £395 £518
25th Percentile £425 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £663
90th Percentile £738 £605 £730
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.62% - +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 South Yorkshire with a recognized job title 382 349 596
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.65% 91.36% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 230 439
10th Percentile £216 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £600
90th Percentile £650 £727 £689
Yorkshire median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 14
10th Percentile £13.14 £15.27 £9.50
25th Percentile £15.22 £18.31 £12.44
Median hourly rate £20.00 £20.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +6.58% +19.80%
75th Percentile £21.50 £29.13 £20.54
90th Percentile - £40.63 £28.35
Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.34 £21.31 £20.00
% change year-on-year +9.53% +6.55% +14.29%

Data Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Engineer in South Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Data Engineer in South Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Engineer in South Yorkshire

Data Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +3 10 £513 +2.50% 2
Data Engineer
Yorkshire

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

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 South Yorkshire region featuring Data Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 5 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (40.00%) Azure
4 4 (40.00%) Finance
4 4 (40.00%) Java
4 4 (40.00%) Databricks
4 4 (40.00%) GitHub
4 4 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
5 3 (30.00%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (30.00%) Analytics
5 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) GCP
5 3 (30.00%) Data Vault
5 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) Workflow
5 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
5 3 (30.00%) Mashup
5 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (20.00%) Network Security
6 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (20.00%) Git

Data Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) GitHub
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Vault
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (30.00%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Mashup
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (10.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 5 (50.00%) ETL
3 4 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 3 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (30.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (30.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
4 3 (30.00%) Workflow
5 2 (20.00%) Data Analytics
5 2 (20.00%) Data Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (10.00%) Log Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Bash
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat